2010 Security Plans ‘On-Track’ Say Organizers

Critical report off base, say organizers
Clare Ogilvie, The Province
Olympic security officials are refuting a report that charges they are not doing enough to protect the Games.
“Our security planning is on track, and Vancouver 2010 [Integrated Security Unit] is continuing to grow proportionately to our planning needs,” RCMP spokeswoman Cpl. Gursharn Bernier said yesterday.
“We are on [...]

CSIS watching extremist Olympic protesters

Jorge Barrera, Canwest News Service
Canada’s spy agency has been monitoring anti-Olympic activities for more than a year and found the strongest opposition to the athletic event to be among “the more extreme elements” of First Nations groups, particularly in alliance with anti-poverty groups, according to an internal government document obtained by Canwest News Service.

Anti-Poverty Committee Response to anti-2010 activist scare

-from APC
For once police ‘intelligence’ has gotten it right when they predicted
that protests against the 2010 games will become more ‘intense’.
Still confused though, the RCMP has warned that such actions will increase
in violence; of course it’s not violent when they taser someone to death.
The APC scoffs at the allegations of violence and repeats, ‘the disruption
targeting [...]

2010 Olympic resistance in Earth First! Journal

(The Beltane Issue of the Earth First! Journal is out on newstand, and includes articles on the Buffalo Field Campaign, the I-69 protests, and this article about local 2010 Olympic resistance. Support the volunteer non-profit Journal by finding a copy at you local independant bookstore, or better yet, get a subscription.)
The Games Have Already Begun
Resistance [...]

Extremist Activity Associated with the 2010 Olympics, the G8, and the SPP

from rabble.ca
By Tom Quiggin - natsecintel@hotmail.com
International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT)
P.O.Box 167 Herzliya 46150, Israel
Situation
In 2010, Canada will host at least three major events with a significant international profile, including the Winter Olympics, the G8 meetings and the Security and Prosperity Partnership meetings. Numerous groups have already begun violent activities and further organization that may [...]

Impeach Langford Council, Evict Bear Mountain

(The City of Langford is the pet-dog of the earth-raping monster that has stolen a sacred mountain.
Bear Mountain is a playground for the wealthy elite, the kind of people who laugh at concepts of ecological stewardship, and whose motto seems to be ‘Fuck you.’ They can’t even avoid pissing off their own partners and customers. [...]

Tre’s Latest Callout

by Tre Arrow
from Vancouver Island Regional Correctional Centre

The sun bursts through the clouds…the mountains sing with radiancethroughout the afternoon. The sun sets, painting a portrait in its wake along the western treeline. Darkness unfolds with Orion dazzling high in the southern sky. The Big Dipper tilts on its end in the northeast.
Two [...]

Developer Quits after ALF Threat

Let me say I have no connection to the Animal Liberation Front, and I do not know anyone from the ALF or related groups. I’m more of an eco-warrior than an animal rights activist. But hell yeah, I dont consider what happened illegal. This one is for the animals.
from RADIONETHERLANDS
The park - called Sciencelink - [...]

Retired D.C. Schoolteacher Arrested Again for Speaking Truth to Power

Washington — During the Atlantic Life Community’s faith and resistance winter retreat, a 76 year-old D.C. peace and justice activist was arrested Saturday for the 11th time this year during a protest against the U.S. government’s warmongering policies and commemorating the 117th year since the Wounded Knee massacre.
Tetaz, and Patrick O’Neill, a member of a [...]