Walkers get the boot from city streets

(Yesterday was obviously police oppression day in the CRD. First I read news of Saanich Police using helicopters to look for homeless people, now I read about the Victoria Police disrupting the beginning of an important and sacred journey for my friend Rose and the other First Nations women involved in the Walk For Justice. [...]

Saanich police use helicopter to spot homeless in parks

(this is some serious bullshit. How much more proof does anyone need that there is a war on the homeless in the greater Victoria region? Who for one believes the bullshit excuses they use for this tactic? It doesn’t cost them anything because they already have the flight time paid for? Well use it for [...]

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 [...]

RCMP wants floating home for 2010 security

Miro Cernetig, Vancouver Sun
If you want a sense of how gargantuan the security challenges are going to be at the 2010 Olympics, just consider this: The RCMP is in need of an entire cruise ship — maybe even two or more — to house security personnel during the Games.
Yes, for a brief few months in [...]

Bank Of America, US Bank Attacked In Olympia May Day March

-from portland indymedia
Today in Olympia there was a march that followed a rally in Sylvester Park. During the rally people spoke about the plight of immigrant workers and the raids by ICE carried out in our communities. The hip-hop group Sound Asylum performed a short set and then the crowd marched up Capitol Blvd towards [...]

Happy May Day from Hamburg, Germany

Protesters set a car on fire during May 1st demonstrations in Hamburg, Germany, 01 May 2008. Thousands of people participated in a protest against a march of the extreme right in Hamburg.

Earth Week Marcher Arrested For Leading Parade Off Approved Route; Unarrested by Crowd

Earth lovers gathered in Victoria today for an annual march from Centennial Square to the provincial legislature. Earth Walk, now in it’s 27th year, brought almost a thousand people out into the unseasonable cold and snowy weather.
There was a brief skirmish and stand-off with traffic police assigned to lead the parade when a marcher carrying [...]

Feral Human Killed in Russia

A heavily armed recluse nicknamed Russia’s Rambo of the Forest has been gunned down in a shoot-out with police.
Alexander Bichkov, had lived a semi-feral existence in the woods for 20 years, terrorising locals and the police if they ventured near him.