Communique by Olympics Resistance Network

The Olympics Resistance Network is primarily based in Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories and exists as a space to coordinate anti-2010 Olympics efforts. In doing so, we act in solidarity with other communities across "[British Columbia]" - particularly indigenous communities who have been defending their land against the onslaught of the Olympics since the bid itself. Our organizing is largely being done under the slogan of "No Olympics on Stolen Native Land", while creating an opportunity for all anti-capitalist, indigenous, anti poverty, labour, migrant justice, environmental justice, anti war, and anti colonial activists to come together to confront this two-week circus and the oppression it represents.

The Edmonton Journal

Canadian officials surveying the Beijing Olympics must be paying special attention to the myriad protests and criticisms -- some overdrawn and overwrought -- that have dogged China before and during the Games. If they are wise, our observers should fight the temptation to feel smugly superior.

By ROBERT MATAS - Friday, August 22, 2008

Vancouver opening ceremony must help Harper government
"achieve its domestic and international branding goals," memo says.

Resist the 2010 Olympics, the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), and the G8 summit!

Join us for a celebration of the arts, revolution and community. This event includes music, theatre, art, guest speakers and a social justice fair.

Date: September 6
Time: 11AM-7PM
Location: Camosun College (Lansdowne) By the Paul Bldg
Price: By Donation

Inspired by the mobilizing on the West Coast, organizers across "Canada" have begun awareness-raising efforts. Building on the call from the West Coast for anti-capitalist and anti-colonial resistance to the Olympics, some organizers affiliated with the People's Global Action Bloc (PGA-Bloc) in Ontario and Quebec have begun mobilizing around "Resistance 2010", linking anti-Olympics efforts to organizing against the G8 and SPP, and the day-to-day systems and institutions of power and oppression they represent.

An innocent little Kachin girl was rapped and murdered by Burmese government troops. It was a most horrific tale for someone so young to endure. The details of which were beyond imagination.

[Warning: graphic material]

RevWaldo writes "The International Olympic Committee filed a copyright infringement claim yesterday against YouTube for hosting video of a Free Tibet protest at the Chinese Consulate in Manhattan Thursday night.

Are the Olympics financing murder and rape?

By JOHN ROSS - August 9/10, 2008

The Chinese big producton Beijing Olympics is a coming-out party for cutthroat capitalism, a feather in the cap of what used to be called "the developing world" of which the Chinese Peoples' Republic considers itself a charter member...But the Beijing games are not the first Olympics to be staged in the developing world. In 1968, a fast-modernizing Mexico was awarded the 13th Olympic Games. For then-president Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, whose anti-communist mindset bordered on the pathological, the Games would carve his name in history. They did but not the way Diaz Ordaz anticipated.

By Naomi Klein - August, 08 2008

The games have been billed as China's "coming out party" to the world. They are far more significant than that. These Olympics are the coming out party for a disturbingly efficient way of organizing society, one that China has perfected over the past three decades, and is finally ready to show off. It is a potent hybrid of the most powerful political tools of authoritarian communism — central planning, merciless repression, constant surveillance — harnessed to advance the goals of global capitalism.

HONG KONG - China is using the Beijing Olympics as a pretext to pursue — and in some cases tighten — a crackdown on human rights, notably ridding the capital of “undesirables,” Amnesty International charged Monday.

Reporting 11 days ahead of the August 8 opening ceremony, the rights group said that despite some minor reforms, authorities had stepped up repression of activists and lawyers to present a picture of stability and harmony.

"Despite what media pundits or columnists may wish to imply, the Mackenzie project and the Alaska gas pipeline are not competing projects. They are two phases of a comprehensive objective that will ensure a secure and stable energy supply for the future."

This alone makes clear the nature of this corporation. They should be earmarked for corporate campaigners against the SPP, 2010 Games and the tar sands themselves.

in the early morning of tuesday july 22nd 2008 a truck belonging to peter kiewit and sons parked off of victoria drive was lit on fire. kiewit is making a(nd) killing off of the development of the sea to sky highway.

Indigenous Resistance on Film:
Fundraiser for No Olympics on Stolen Native Land West Cost Tour

Saturday, July 26th. First film at 6:30pm
Spartacus Books (684 Hasting Street- phone 604-688-6138)
Coast Salish Territory

* Suggested Donation of $5 - $8 (no one turned away)

* Snacks available