[Indigsol] [Aca-list] [pga-ottawa] No Olympics on Stolen Native Land! Sh(o)ut Down VANOC's John Furlong Tommorow 12:30pm!

Tue Mar 10 07:35:38 PDT 2009

YES ! it is a recent piece of news, it is happening today, there was just an error in the callout!

> From: sarah.lawrance at resist.ca
> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:29:58 -0400
> To: pgaottawa at roadnetwork.org
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> Subject: Re: [Aca-list] [pga-ottawa] No Olympics on Stolen Native Land! Sh(o)ut Down VANOC's John Furlong Tommorow 12:30pm!
> 
> hmm... it says the olympics are taking place in two years, but  
> they're in less than one year... is this a recent piece of news?
> 
> sarah.lawrance
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> 
> On 9-Mar-09, at 7:00 PM, Matt Kristjansson wrote:
> 
> > PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY:
> >
> > No Olympics on Stolen Native Land! Shut Down the 2010 Corporate  
> > Circus!
> > Tuesday March 10
> > 12:30pm
> > Assemble at the Olympic Countdown Clock (Wellington and Metcalfe)
> >
> > and march to the Chateau Laurier (1 Rideau st.) to Sh(o)ut down  
> > VANOC CEO John Furlong.
> > Bring banners, noisemakers, and placards!
> > John Furlong of the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010  
> > Olympic
> > and Paralympic Winter Games, will be giving a luncheon talk entitled
> > “Vancouver 2010 Winter Games: The Successes and Challenges Ahead.”  
> > The 2010
> > Winter Olympics will take place on unceded indigenous land in two  
> > years.
> >  We wish to make it clear to Mr. Furlong and the public that one of  
> > the
> > challenges ahead will be widespread resistance to the 2010  
> > corporate circus
> > and all it entails: the expansion of sport tourism on unceded  
> > indigenous
> >  lands and increased land tenure to corporations; increasing  
> > homelessness
> >  and gentrification of poor neighbourhoods; increasing  
> > privatization of
> >  public services; union busting through decisions such as the seven- 
> > year
> > imposed contract handed down to the BC Ferry and Marine Workers  
> > Union and
> >  the recent Canadian Union of Public Employees contracts; exploitative
> > conditions for workers especially temporary migrant labour; the
> > fortification of a security apparatus estimated at $175 million; and
> > unprecedented destruction of mountains, old growth forests, streams,
> > hunting and fishing grounds, and delicate ecosystems.
> >
> > Indigenous communities in the interior and on the coast of so called
> > British Columbia including the Secwepemc people of Skelkwek'welt, the
> > St'at'imc of Sutikalh, and the Pilalt of Cheam have been critiquing  
> > and
> > resisting the objectives and activities of the 2010 Olympics since  
> > 2000.
> > In October 2007, more than 1500 Indigenous people representing  
> > communities
> > across this hemisphere held the Gathering of the Indigenous Peoples of
> > America, on Yaqui territory in Vicam, Sonora, Mexico. They stated  
> > in their
> > final declaration, “We reject the 2010 Winter Olympics on sacred and
> > stolen territory of Turtle Island–Vancouver, Canada.”
> >
> > While the Olympic organizers operate with a budget of almost $2
> > billion(costs for the Vancouver's Trade and Convention Centre alone  
> > has
> > reached almost $900 million) and other costs to government  
> > surpassing an
> > estimated $6 billion, Vancouver is now home to North America’s fastest
> > growing homelessness crisis. Dozens of low-income hotels and apartment
> > buildings are being converted to unaffordable condominiums. Over  
> > 126,000
> > people in 56,000 households in Greater Vancouver are at risk of
> > homelessness according to the 2001 Canada census. As thousands of  
> > people
> > are forced from their homes, they are then criminalized for being
> > homeless. Indigenous people account for 30% of this homeless  
> > population,
> > despite making up only 2% of the total population in the province.
> >
> > The 2010 corporate Olympics circus is apparent by examining the
> > destructive global record of some of its sponsors. These include:
> >
> > • Petro-Canada, one of Canada’s largest producers of oil and gas,
> > • TransCanada, one of the continent’s largest transporters of oil  
> > and gas.
> > • Canadian Pacific Railway, long an integral tool of colonization
> >
> > • Royal Bank of Canada- #3 Sponsor of 2010 Olympics (160 million+) 
> > and big
> > investor in energy projects including the tar sands. 15.7 billion  
> > invested
> > in fossil fuel production representing 15% of Canada’s greenhouse  
> > gases.
> > For More info:  www.climatefriendlybanking.com
> > • Hudson’s Bay Company, another company responsible for the  
> > colonization
> > and theft of Indigenous land,
> > • General Electric, one of the world’s top three producers of military
> > aircraft engines and major producer of nuclear power plants,
> > • General Motors, long a top contractor for the Canadian military  
> > and now
> > the world’s largest automobile manufacturer,
> > • Dow Chemical, the world’s second largest chemical manufacturer  
> > and cause
> > of the Bhopal, India disaster,
> > • Bell Canada, who’s CEO is one of the top corporate architects of the
> > Security and Prosperity Partnership.
> >
> >
> > No Olympics on Stolen Native Land!
> > Check out
> > http://no2010.com/
> > http://2010watch.com/
> > harrietspirit.blogspot.com
> >
> > for more info call (613)614-4219
> >
> >
> >
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