[antiwar-van] Oct 25 / 26 : Why Resist 2010? A Conference on the Vancouver Olympic Games

[Harsha]

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Why Resist 2010?
A Conference on the Vancouver Olympic Games.

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Saturday October 25th
Olympics Resistance Benefit Show
Rhizome Cafe, 317 E. Broadway (corner Kingsway)
Doors 8 pm

Sunday October 26th
10:30 am - 5:30 pm @ SFU Harbour Centre
515 West Hastings, corner Granville, Waterfront Skytrain Station
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* Tentative Schedule for Sunday October 26 *

10:30 am: Doors and Registration

11 am to 1 pm: Panel:
- Myths and Realities of the Olympics Industry
- The Olympics Legacy in Vancouver
- Impacts on Indigenous Peoples and Lands
- Corporatism in the Olympics
- Olympics, Tar Sands, and the Security and Prosperity Partnership

1 pm to 1:30 pm: Lunch break

1:30 pm to 5:30 pm: Workshops: Educate yourself and get involved!
- Olympics-style Displacement from Indigenous, Rural, to Urban communities
- Olympics Security Apparatus and Criminalization of Resistance

* Please note: Program updates will be posted to www.no2010.com. Check
back frequently.
* Bag Lunch will be provided.
* Please be in touch as early as possible to register for free childcare
so we can make appropriate arrangements.
* Bus tickets will be available.

Organized by the Olympics Resistance Network. For more information email
olympicresistance at riseup.net.


==> About the Olympics Resistance Network <==

The 2010 Winter Olympics will take place on unceded indigenous land from
February 12-28 2010. Far from being simply about ‘sport’, the history of
the Olympics is one rooted in displacement, corporate greed, fascism,
repression, and violence. Only the political and corporate elite – from
real estate developers to security corporations – have anything to gain
from the Olympics industry. The effects of the upcoming Winter Games have
already manifested themselves- with the expansion of sport tourism and
resource extraction on indigenous lands; increasing homelessness and
gentrification of poor neighborhoods; increasing privatization of public
services; union busting through imposed contracts and exploitative
conditions especially for migrant labour; the fortification of the
national security apparatus; ballooning public spending and public debt;
and unprecedented destruction of the environment.

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
'BC' - 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.