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Where's That Olympic Truce?

2010-02-18T03:12:33Z

Where's That Olympic Truce?
by Derrick OKeefe
"The 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow were boycotted in protest of the Soviet Union's invasion and occupation of Afghanistan. Then - US president Jimmy Carter announced the boycott in February 1980, and Canada and dozens of other countries soon followed suit. Thirty years later it is the United States, Canada and other NATO countries that are occupying Afghanistan...
It's now fair to speculate that the Games have been used even more (…)

- contributions / Canada-Québec, Sports

Olympic Industrial Complex Meets Gold Medal Resistance

2010-02-11T03:20:30Z

Showdown in Vancouver
by Jules Boykoff
...Just behind the slick, smiley-faced facade of Olympic spirit, the Canadian state is flexing its militarized muscles, employing an array of tactics designed to suppress political dissent.
I begin to sense what activist Harsha Walia of No One Is Illegal and The Olympic Resistance Network described as 'the overall militarization of Vancouver and an encroaching police and surveillance state.'
[Please forward and circulate] (…)

- contributions / Canada-Québec, Sports

Native Youth Movement Confront Olympic Torch

2010-01-29T12:43:35Z

Native Youth Movement Confront Olympic Torch in Secwepemc Nation
The Olympic Torch was confronted by Secwepemc and their supporters in the Secwepemc Nation in the invader-settler town of Chase, so-called british kkkolumbia, KKKanada, with the message 'Secwepemc Say No Olympics' and 'Olympic Torch Not Welcome in Secwepemc Nation'
http://mostlywater.org/native_youth...
www.no2010.com

- contributions / Canada-Québec, Sports

The Olympic Torch Should be Put Out!

2010-01-08T10:46:19Z

The Olympic Torch Should be Put Out!
Canada is using the Olympic Torch Relay to hide their terrible human rights record in regard to Indigenous Peoples here in Canada and internationally...
http://mostlywater.org/node/78820
please forward and post widely

- contributions / Canada-Québec, Sports

The Olympic Resistance Network

2010-01-03T09:57:02Z

The Olympic Resistance Network
http://olympicresistance.net/conten...
Why Oppose Canada's 2010 Vancouver-Whistler Olympic Winter Games
Please forward and repost widely. No Games on Stolen Land!

- contributions / Canada-Québec, Sports

Olympic Torch Falls

2009-12-31T02:43:37Z

Olympic Torch Falls in Canada - No Olympics on Stolen Native Land!
http://no2010.com/node/1237

- contributions / Canada-Québec, Sports

Do You Believe? Canada's 2010 'Stolen Land' Olympic Games

2009-11-20T07:41:48Z

by The Dominion
The Olympics are providing cover for an array of actions that would be politically unpalatable under normal circumstances...
http://mostlywater.org/do_you_believe

- contributions / Canada-Québec, Sports

Native Youth Movement: Send the Olympic Torch Back to Europe!

2009-11-03T16:31:57Z

International Native Youth Movement (NYM) Statement:
A Call to Indigenous People and Supporters
Send Olympic Torch back to Europe!
Confront Invasion: Protest 2010 Olympic Torch Relay:
Indigenous Sisters and Brothers of the North, what the Invaders call KKKanada, for the next 106 days the Olympic Torch will run our Great Lands..
http://mostlywater.org/index.php?q=...
www.no2010.com
KKKanada's KKKolonialism is not a game

- contributions / Canada-Québec, Sports

Canadian Grotesque: The Warmongering GG, her Friendly Fascist Fuhrer and the 2010 Winter Games

2009-10-05T06:42:58Z

Jean Rejects Idea of Games-time Truce in Afghanistan
http://www.ctvolympics.ca/news-cent...
"Shortly after signing on as official patron of the Olympic Games for the 2010 Winter Games, Governor General Michaelle Jean rejected a suggestion Monday that a truce be imposed on Canadian military action in Afghanistan for the 17 days of the Olympics. "I think we must build peace in Afghanistan, and that's what our soldiers are trying so hard to achieve..." in her earlier remarks to the truce (…)

- contributions / Canada-Québec, Sports

No 2010 Vancouver, Canada Olympic Games on Stolen Native Lands

2008-12-04T23:47:40Z

A coalition of Indigenous elders, social justice activists, community activists and organizers are voicing opposition to the upcoming Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada.
"We are the poorest peoples in the country. Not because the country is poor, but because the government continues to violate the human rights of the Indigenous peoples, by not recognizing our Aboriginal Title and Treaty Rights."
– http://ipsnorthamerica.net/news.php...
– http://www.no2010.com
NO OLYMPICS ON STOLEN (…)

- contributions / Edito, Discriminations-Minorit., Canada-Québec, Sports