Anti-Olympic Festival and March disrupt Torch Relay send-off

Video produced by Victoria Indymedia in co-operation with B Channel News, Vancouver Media Co-op and subMedia.TV
No2010 Victoria calls event “a victory for rights and justice”
From No2010Victoria:
Victoria, Coast Salish Territories, November 1, 2009 – Over 400
people gathered to oppose the 2010 Olympic Torch Relay in Victoria on
Friday, October 30th at an “Anti-Olympics Festival” and “Zombie
March” organized [...]

Media Analysis of Homeless Encampment “Sweeps”

(The following is a short excerpt from an excellent report that just came my way.
Check it out at http://faculty.washington.edu/stygall/homelessmediacoveragegroup
Seeing the Homeless
by George Dillion, English Professor, University of Washington
If an individual or organization decides to portray homelessness as urban blight and contagion—as the dump come to your door—a common tactic is to shoot garbage-scapes with a [...]

Several arrested as police clear out Nickelsville

By Lindsay Cohen & KOMO Staff
SEATTLE — About a dozen people were arrested Wednesday afternoon for refusing to leave the Nickelsville homeless encampment at a park in West Seattle.
The homeless residents set up camp at Terminal 107 Park on West Marginal Way in July, despite warnings that they would not be allowed to stay.
Officials [...]

Road protestors deliver pants petition to council

About 350 pairs of pants will be handed over to councillors in Derbyshire by campaigners against plans to build a road through greenbelt.
Protest group Green Squeeze is opposing plans to develop the Stanton Ironworks site at Ilkeston and build a five-mile access road at Stanton, near Risley.
They hung underwear bearing protest messages in the field [...]

Pittsburgh March for Jobs Against the G20

-from Bail Out the People Movement
Occupants of the Bail Out the People Movement Tent City will be marching from Freedom Corner (the intersection of Centre Avenue and Crawford Street) to the Mellon Corporation Headquarters (500 Grant Street) at 4:30 to demand a national moratorium on foreclosures and evictions. Participants in [...]

Bury my heart at Main and Hastings

by Zoe Blunt
Olympic Games and Murdered Women
The Downtown Eastside of Vancouver – Canada’s poorest urban neighbourhood – hosts the world at the Olympic Games in February. The people in this old Skid Row don’t have much in terms of material things, but they have more than their share of murder and mayhem. As many as [...]

Halloween anti-Olympic protests will test police vows

By Rod Mickleburgh, The Globe and Mail
The first big test of vows by police and security that protests and civil rights will be respected during the Olympics is headed for normally sedate Victoria.
Under the organizing banner “NOlympic Torch Relay Halloween Convergence,” opponents of the 2010 Winter Games have been meeting and planning for months [...]

Victoria protest group vows to disrupt start of 2010 Olympic torch relay

(the following article was re-edited before going to print with the new headline “Victoria protesters plan anti-Olympic rally at start of 2010 torch relay”, but not before Zoe saw it on their website and called them to make sure they’d read the press release she’d sent. I assume they also might have gotten a chance [...]

Temporary Autonomous Shelter Report: Progress Update

In November of 2008, after the latest of many direct action tent cities was dismantled by city police, a group of homeless people and their housed allies in Victoria, BC formed a committee to investigate the possibility of creating a sanctioned tent-city, or a similar form of legal temporary autonomous shelter.
One of the first steps [...]

P2P Featured in Glossy International Cycling Mag

Pedal to Petal: Sustainable Business Opportunities in Local Backyards
By Steve Carey, Momentum Magazine
In early 2008, Victoria activist Chris Johnson was homeless and looking for work, but he couldn’t find a job that fit his environmental values. At the time, the Capital Regional District was piloting a service where trucks picked up compostable waste and drove [...]