CANADIAN ANARCHIST MOVEMENT-VANCOUVER:
MORE ANTI-OLYMPIC ORGANIZING ON THE WEST COAST:
Nearer and nearer draws the inevitable Vancouver/Whistler 2010 Winter Olympics, but those organizing on the west coast against this government give-away sponge are not idle. Here's the latest news from the Olympics Resistance Network. @@@@@@@@@
ORN Meetings, Events and Actions:
Reminder, ORN General Meeting (open to all!)
Sunday Oct 25, ORN General Meeting 6pm @ Spartacus Books, 684 E. Hastings
*** Upcoming Anti-Olympics Events and Meetings:
1) Anti Olympic Torch Relay kickoff - Victoria Oct 30th
2) Call for Cross Canada Mobilizing: Extinguish the Torch!
3) Oct 19th: Olympics and National Security Forum at SFU
4) Oct 19th: Olympics impact on the poor. UBC free speaker series.
5) Oct 28th: Teaching 2010 Resistance Educators Meeting
6) Oct 29th: Resistance Without Reservation! Indigenous Sovereignty Week
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ANTI OLYMPIC TORCH RELAY KICKOFF
*** For travel details includes times of departure and arrival from Vancouver to Victoria, check out the transportation information below.
The Canada-wide Olympic Torch Relay officially begins in Victoria, Lekwungen and WSANEC Territories, on October 30th and the Anti-Olympic Festival will be there to greet it.
Join us in the spirit of creative resistance to ongoing colonization, cut-backs in social services, environmental destruction, the privatization of public space, the quashing of free speech, and the corporate spectacle.
==> PROGRAM INFORMATION FOR FRI OCT 30TH <==
1. 2:00 pm, Anti-Olympics festival of resistance in "Spirit Square"(formerly known as Centennial Square) downtown Victoria on Pandora between Government and Blanshard.
2. 4:30 pm: "Zombie March" In memoriam of Olympics past, hosted by the Anti-Olympics festival. Depature from Spirit/Centennial Square. People are encouraged to bring scary costumes, or just costumes!
3. 5:30 pm: The Torch will be blessed during an officially planned ceremony at the Legislature buildings. Does your group want to get a message to the world on October 30th? Over a thousand media people can't be wrong. Get in on the fun! Organize a friendly competition, step up to the soapbox, take over a ring of the Five Ring Circus! Music, art and theatre especially welcome. Join us, don't sit this one out! For updates as the become available keep your eyes on:
==> TRANSPORTATION INFORMATION <==
*** For those leaving on Fri Oct 30, there is a planned meeting point at the Safeway parking lot at Commercial Drive and Broadway Ave, Vancouver. Transportation pools will depart at 9am. The cost is approx $40 return. This is to encourage group travel on public transit (please note ORN is not providing financial assistance for transit).
*Transit directions from Vancouver to Victoria:
Take the Expo train line from Broadway Station to to Grandville Station and transfer to the Canada Line. The Canada Line Station is on the corner of Grandville Ave and Georgia Street Take the Canada Line southbound to Bridgeport Station (25 min) Transfer to the bus "620 Tsawwassen ferry terminal" (to make 1st ferry board at 5:55am) Buy a walk on ticket for the ferry going to Swartz Bay. Go to
www.bcferries.com for schedules and fares. The 1st ferry is 7:00 am. After arriving in Swartz Bay, there is a bus stop right in front of the ferry terminal, where you’ll catch the "No. 70 Downtown/Airport" bus. The cost is $2.75. If you catch the ferry at 10am you will arrive in Victoria at 12:30 pm Check the Victoria Transit website for schedules:
* For those interested in leaving the evening of Thurs Oct 29th, please fillout the transportation form indicating whether you can provide or carpooling or need a ride located at olympicresistance.net or email:
marlarenn@gmail.com .
==> CAN YOU HELP? <==
No2010 Victoria is working on providing billeting and people are encouraged to go over the night before (Thurs Oct 29th).
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Hosted by: No2010 Victoria
This invitation brought to you by the Olympic Resistance Network
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CALL FOR CROSS-CANADA MOBILIZING:
EXTINGUISH THE OLYMPIC TORCH!
* Route details below
* From October 31 2009 - February 12 2010, the Olympic Torch Relay ; A Path of Northern Lights; will be traveling across Canada. The Olympic Resistance Network, based in Vancouver Unceded Coast Salish Territories, is calling on and encouraging our allies to coordinate efforts in over 2000 communities to oppose and resist the Torch Relay.
The origins of the Torch Relay lie in the dark history of the 1936 Games in Berlin, where it was devised as a means to spread Nazi fascism and to promote the Third Reich. The Royal Bank of Canada and Coca Cola are the main sponsors of the 2010 Torch relay. RBC is the top financier of the environmentally devastating Alberta Tar Sands, while Coca Cola has been responsible for health degradation as part of the junk food industry, massive depletion of groundwater and toxic waste pollution in India, and involved in hiring paramilitary groups to violently repress union organizers in Colombia.
It is becoming increasingly evident that far from being simply about sport, the 2010 Olympics is rooted in displacement, corporate greed, militarization, and repression. While Olympic corporate sponsors are getting bailed out, Indigenous lands are being stolen, more people are becoming homeless, thousands are losing their jobs and access to public services, the environment is being destroyed, and civil liberties are being eroded as over a billion dollars are being sunk into security and surveillance measures.
This Torch Relay will be the longest in-country relay in Olympic history, giving us the chance to make some anti-Olympic history!
No Olympics onStolen Native Land!
==> If you are organizing an event or action in your city, town, or community please email us the details at
olympicresistance@riseup.net so we can compile the information and build strength and unity in our efforts by having this information available on our website.
Basic route details (see links below for full information) are as follows:
Oct 30 - Nov 5, 2009: through BC, Yukon, and Northwest Territories: Victoria, Duncan, Nanaimo, Port Alberni, Snuneymuxw, Esquimalt First Nations, Tla-o-qui-aht, Qualicum, Courtney, Campbell River, Whitehorse, Taku River Tlingit, Dawson City, Kugluktuk, Yellowknife, and others.
Nov 6 - Nov 15, 2009: through Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Nunavut, Quebec, and NewFoundland: Fort McMurray, Cold Lake, La Ronge, Thompson, Qausuittuq, Iqaluit, Kuujjuaq, Gaspé, Labrador, Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Sheshatshiu, St. John's, St. Anthony, Grand Falls-Windsor, and others.
Nov 16 - Nov 28, 2009: through Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and New Brunswick: Sydney, Whycocomagh, Port Hawkesbury, Truro, Paqtnkek, Antigonish, Halifax, Bear River FN, Lunenburg, Charlottetown, Moncton, Sussex, Saint John, Fredericton, Esgenoôpetitj, Grand Falls, and others.
Nov 29 - Dec 11, 2009: through Quebec: Rimouski, Baie-Comeau, Les Escoumins, Saguenay, Lévis, Saint-Georges, Black Lake, Victoriaville, Sherbrooke, Drummondville, Trois-Rivières, Longueuil, Kahnawáke,Beaconsfield, Mont-Tremblant, Montréal, Laval, Gatineau, and others Dec 12, 2009 - Jan 4, 2010: through Ontario: Ottawa, Pikwàkanagàn, Akwesasne, Kingston, Tyendinaga, Peterborough, Toronto, Hamilton, St.Catharines, Six Nations, Brantford, Oneida, Leamington, Windsor, Sarnia, London, Stratford, Kitchener, Waterloo, Guelph, Barrie, Huntsville, Temiskaming, Sudbury, Sault Ste. Marie, Red Rock FN, Kenora, and others.
Jan 5 - Jan 20, 2010: through Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta: Winnipeg, Sioux Valley Dakota, Regina, Moose Jaw, Swift Current, Saskatoon, Prince Albert, Moosomin FN, Edmonton, Wetaskiwin, Red Deer,Medicine Hat, Lethbridge, Calgary, Canada Olympic Park, Stoney Nation, and more.
Jan 21 - Feb 11, 2010: through BC: Golden, Cranbrook, Nelson, Trail, Osoyoos FN, Penticton, Kelowna, Vernon, Revelstoke, Salmon Arm, Kamloops, 100 Mile House, Williams Lake, Prince George, Smithers, Gitanmaax, Fort St. John, Terrace, Bella Bella, Powell River, Sechelt, Squamish, Whistler,Lilwat, Merritt, Fraser Valley, Lower Mainland and others.
* Full route information: Complete listing by day:
Provincial and Territorial Routes:
* About the Olympic Resistance Network:
*Why we Oppose the 2010 Games:
Video at:
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Monday, October 26 12:30-2:30
* MBC 2290 *
SFU Burnaby Campus
Refreshments will be served
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The 2010 Winter Olympics will take place on unceded Indigenous land from February 12-28, 2010. From real estate developers to private security corporations, the political and corporate elite have the most to gain from the Olympics. Over 13,000 municipal, provincial, national, and military police as well as joint US-Canada military & North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD none the less-Molly )operations are being deployed to protect the Olympic games at the cost of over $1 billion dollars. This is why the 2010 Olympics have been dubbed the "Security Games".
Communities in Vancouver are already feeling the fall-out from increased security. Security cameras and increased policing are invading communities and many Vancouver residences--especially anti-Olympic activists and particularly Indigenous defenders--have been intimidated and harassed by CSIS and VISU (Vancouver 2010 Integrated Security Unit). However, as this panel will show, resistance to the Olympics and its regimes of security has been successful. This forum will discuss current and historical practices of and resistance to national security and the Olympics.
Gary Kinsman {LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY}
Author of the Regulation of Desire, and forthcoming book the Canadian War on Queers, speaking to Queer Resistance to the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympic social cleansing
Nassim Elbardouh {NO ONE IS ILLEGAL}
SFU student tackles the cuts to civil liberties and increased security due the Games
Tami T {COMMUNITY OLYMPIC WATCH}
Former SFU student and anti-olympic activist talks about her experiences of VISU visits and her ongoing work in the commercial drive area.
This forum is endorsed by Out on Campus, Simon Fraser Public Interest Research Group, the Teaching Support Staff Union and the Olympics Resistance Network
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"THE OLYMPIC GAMES IN MYTH AND REALITY"
FREE speakers series of Olympic critics and organisers ongoing most Mondays, 5pm, from Sept. 14 - Dec. 7.
Hosted by UBC's Green College.
The speakers begin at 5 pm with time for questions
(FREE, open to all, no reservations).
Optional dinner with speaker at Green College starts at 6:30pm ($12 for students and $16 for non-students; reserve a spot by noon Sundays at 604-822-0912). (Just a little heads up for those who wish to eat at this event. As Molly has reveled previously on this blog the RCMP was searching for the phone number of this kitchen, presumably to (literally-tee hee hee)) take information on all who register for the meal. Please make sure to order the 'Rookie From Regina Ragout. It's really good. )
Located in the Green College Coach House at 6201 Cecil Green Park Road (north of NW Marine Drive).
- Monday, Oct.26: "How the Olympics impact the poor and homeless." Laura Track.
Track is a lawyer with Pivot Legal Society specializing in housing issues.
- Monday, Nov. 2: "Olympic security and civil liberties: A lasting legacy." David Eby.
Eby is the Acting Executive Director of the BC Civil Liberties Association.
- Monday, Nov. 16: "The myth of the Green Games." Harjap Grewal and Dustin Johnson. Grewal, Council of Canadians, is a member of No One is Illegal, and the Olympic Resistance Network. Johnson is an Indigenous activist.
- Monday, Nov. 30: "Understanding the Olympics as part of corporate culture; Garth Mullins. Mullins is a Vancouver-based social justice activist and member of the Olympic Resistance Network.
- Dec. 7: IOC Corruption: Would you take these people home to meet your loved ones?" Andrew Jennings.
Mr. Jennings is the author of three books on the IOC.
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[updated version! please note correction]
::::TEACHING 2010 RESISTANCE: UPCOMING EVENTS (updated):::::::
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**PLEASE NOTE CORRECTION to OCT. 28th event below**
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Greetings from Teaching 2010 Resistance
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Many educators have observed that there is a great amount of "Olympic Spirit" materials available for teachers, but very little to balance the picture. However, we believe education means presenting balanced information and supporting critical thinking and the development of active citizens. This is why Teaching 2010 Resistance has developed a workshop that is interactive, fun, and based in cooperative learning, in order to examine the social, environmental, and economic issues associated with the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. We are willing to present this workshop in classrooms throughout British Columbia, and are happy to personalize the workshop to fit the needs, unit topics, and the educational level of every class.
Contact us via e-mail at
orn.youth [at]
gmail [dot] com to discuss the
possibilities and schedule a workshop with us. Teaching 2010 is also
collaborating to produce easy to use resources and lessons for teachers to use in their classrooms. The materials for our workshop and many other educational activities are available at:
http://www.teach2010.org -----Meeting for Educators: October 28th------
This will be a meeting for educational professionals interested in previewing the workshop, brainstorming possibilities for other activities, and collaborating in adapting the workshop and other materials for elementary students.
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SFU Harbor Centre;,
515 W. Hastings,
Room 2245
Wed., October 28th, 2009
6:30 - 8:30 pm
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---Become Part of Teaching 2010 Resistance---
Teaching 2010 Resistance is always looking for more people to get involved. We are working on a variety of projects, so there are many ways to help out. Some of these include – but are by no means limited to: - developing teaching resources and alternate workshop modules- organizing social events for youth (art nights, skill shares, etc.) -hosting a workshop in your classroom or community centre- facilitating (presenting) the workshop in Greater Vancouver- helping make materials for workshops and publicity If you’re interested in hearing more about the work that has already been started and finding out how to get involved, please contact us for information about our next open meeting.
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Please don’t hesitate to get in touch with Teaching 2010 Resistance! Email us at: orn.youth [at] gmail [dot] com;
For online teaching resources,please see
For more information on Olympicresistance, please see
Teaching 2010 Resistance is a project of the Olympic Resistance Network.
Teaching 2010 is a community group composed of educators, youth workers,and community members. We are not endorsed by any professional body nor are we seeking to be.
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RESISTANCE WITHOUT RESERVATION!
As part of Indigenous Sovereignty Week and building resistance to the Olympic Torch Relay, join us in an evening of powerful films, dignified food,("dignified food" ????-Molly ) inspiring speakers, and rebel performers... On Facebook:
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Thursday Oct 29.
Free!
Doors and food served @ 6 pm
Event begins @ 6:30 pm
706 Clarke Drive (3 blocks south of Hastings)
Bus route #22, 10, 16, 20
Child-friendly. Bus tickets available
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* Coast Salish Opening by Kat Norris: founder of Indigenous Action Movement and survivor of the Kuper Island Residential School. Kat joined the American Indian Movement and has been a social activist since. Most recently, she has been organizing against police abuses and her biggest success is the Frank Paul Inquiry.
* Carol Martin: Nisga'a/Gitanyow and member of Downtown Eastside Elders Council, Sweetgrass All Nations Healing Centre, and Feb 14th Memorial March Committee. Carol is a long-time advocate and grassroots voice for Indigenous peoples and for women and men in the DTES, especially in the lead up to the Olympic Games.
* Dustin Rivers: a young and outspoken Skwxwúmesh-Kwakwakawakw activist,artist, and writer.He's had an obsession with history from a early age, but also raised in a time of cultural re-generation, he uses his ancestors legacy of political uprising to accomplish his vision of decolonization.
* Writing the Land (7 mins, Kevin Lee Burton): This 2007 film meticulously combines film language with Hunkamenum words to recreate Musqueam elder Larry Grant's experience of rediscovering his language and cultural traditions.
* Resist 2010 (15 mins, Burning Fist Media with no2010): A short,fast-paced documentary focusing on the negative impacts of the 2010 Games and the ongoing resistance by Indigenous & other social movements.
Defenders of the Land, a cross-Canada network of First Nations in land struggle and fighting for Indigenous rights, has issued a call to organize a cross-Canada week of educational events on Indigenous Rights and Indigenous struggles from October 25-31, 2009. The purpose of this week is to disseminate ideas of Indigenism and to contribute to building across-Canada movement for Indigenous rights, sovereignty, and justice that is led by Indigenous communities with a broad base of informed support. As non-native multiracial supporters, we are allies of frontline Indigenous communities who organize in defense of their land, freedom, and autonomy.
As a grassroots anti-racist and anti-imperialist migrant justice group rising to liberation, No One Is Illegal strongly believes that our movement must always be in active solidarity with self-determination struggles of Indigenous communities who struggle across Turtle Island against centuries of imposed racist, sexist, criminalizing, impoverishing, and genocidal policies. Our event is organized in this spirit of respect with the diverse realities of Indigenous peoples to survive and resist, especially in the face of our society's apathy, the normalization of colonialism, and increasing state repression. We hope you will join us and we encourage others to organize additional events and actions during Indigenous Sovereignty Week.
No Justice on Stolen Land!
Organized by No One Is Illegal-Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories.
or call 778-833-4484
To read the full callout for Indigenous Sovereignty Week:
To read the basis of Unity for Defenders of the Land Network:
To read an article about the first Defenders of the Land gathering:
