Secret Factories for 2010

VANOC won’t tell sweatshop watchdogs where Olympics gear is made.
By Tom Sandborn TheTyee.ca
Organizers of the 2010 Olympics refuse to tell the public where gear for the games and Olympics-branded products are made, though critics say such secrecy makes it far harder to expose sweatshops in the Olympic supply chain.

St’at’imc Native Youth Movement International Statement: No 2010 Olympics on Native Land!

-from mostlywater.org
(Post Far and Wide)
Statimc Native Youth Movement Warrior Society
St’at’imc Nation, Tsalalh Territory
Re: 2010 Olympics
To Whom It May Concern[:]
Please accept this letter as a declaration of opposition to the upcoming [Vancouver/Whistler] 2010 [Winter] Olympics set to take place within traditional St’at’imc Borders. Many members of our Nation, including children, youth, elders and land users do [...]

RIOT 2010? RIOT NOW! Attacking the Olympics and it’s project: Canada, Greece and Italy

-reposted from anarchistnews.org
The Olympics is not just a worldwide event, it is a project used to accelerate what the bosses are already doing, expanding capitalism, colonization, social control and industrial/technological civilization. The project is the subjugation of our lives to the plans of the bosses, the hyper-expansion of security forces and the exploitation of the [...]

2010 Olympics will spread bed-bug infestation

Will bed bugs bite 2010?
By CHRISTOPHER POLLON, THE TYEE
Bloodsucking bedbugs, tough to eradicate, already infest many buildings in parts of Vancouver. And if the experience of Sydney, Australia, is any guide, the coming Olympics may spread the plague wider here.
Last year, British bed bug exterminator David Cane told the BBC that the 2000 Sydney Olympics [...]

Guelph: Arsonists Hit Developers

-reposted from infoshop news
On the night of Friday April 25th, the same night Mohawk land in Tyendinaga was being attacked by armed Ontario Provincial Police, four dump trucks owned by Priori and Sons and contracted by Reids Heritage Homes were destroyed by fire causing between three and four hundred thousand dollars in damages. On the [...]

Let’s party, not protest in 2010, torch relay planners say

ROD MICKLEBURGH, Globe and Mail
VANCOUVER — Undeterred by threats of torch-relay protests, organizers are urging communities to party, party, party when the Olympic flame passes by on its epic journey across the country in 2010.
“It’s going to be the biggest continual celebration this country has ever seen,” torch relay director Jim Richards vowed yesterday, as [...]

2010 Developer Truck Torched

-reposted from mostlywater.org
On the night of May 7, 2008 we set fire to a Kiewitt & Sons work truck. Peter Kiewitt & Sons is currently working on expanding the Sea to Sky highway between Vancouver and Whistler, the main artery for the Olympics, also paving the way for investment [in] land exploitation, tourism and development. [...]

2010 Olympics face the wrath of young natives, Fontaine warns

Blockades, protests could be unstoppable as desperation mounts, national chief says
Linda Diebel, Toronto Star
Aboriginal leaders may be unable to stop protests and blockades from disrupting the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, warns National Assembly of First Nations Chief Phil Fontaine.
“There’s clearly that sentiment in parts of our community for sure,” Fontaine told the Toronto Star editorial [...]

Canada’s Tibetans:Barriere Lake and other First Nations

by Martin Lukacs, Rabble.ca
In this small, impoverished northern village, people eke out a miserable existence. One of the world’s most powerful countries occupies their land, plunders their resources, interferes with their governance and seems intent on assimilating them into wider society.
With its Olympic Games at hand, the country would rather the international community dwell on [...]

Natives free to protest 2010 Olympics despite ‘legacies’

CATHRYN ATKINSON , Globe and Mail
SQUAMISH, B.C. — Members of the Squamish and Lil’wat communities can take part in protests before or during the 2010 Olympics, despite land-use agreements given to them as “legacies” of their participation in the Games, the sole native leader on the Vancouver Olympic Committee’s board of directors says.