[Indigsol] Direct Action in Ottawa - RBC Burned down

[Indigenous Peoples' Solidarity Movement -Ottawa]

Royal Bank Canada was a major sponsor of the recently concluded 2010
Olympics on stolen indigenous land. This land was never legally ceded to
colonial British Columbia. This hasn’t stopped the government from
assuming full ownership of the land and its resources for the benefit of
its corporate masters and to the detriment of aboriginal peoples, workers
and the poor of the province. The 2010 Winter Olympics increased the
homelessness crisis in Vancouver, especially the Downtown Eastside,
Kanada’s poorest urban area. Since the Olympics bid, homelessness in
Vancouver has nearly tripled while condominium development in the Downtown
Eastside is outpacing social housing by a rate of 3:1. The further
criminalization and displacement of those living in extreme poverty
continues apace.

"Royal Bank Canada is one of the planet’s greenest companies” according to
one of its own brochures. Coporate Kanada saw fit to include RBC as one of
the top 50 in a competition dubbed Canada’s Greenest Employers, which
purports to recognize organizations that have created “a culture of
environmental awareness.” Yet RBC is now the major financier of Alberta’s
tar sands, one of the largest industrial projects in human history and
perhaps the most destructive. The tar sands, now the cause of the second
fastest rate of deforestation on the planet, are slated to expand several
times its current size.

The games in Vancouver are now over, but resistance continues. An RBC
branch can be found in every corner of Kanada.

On June 25-27 2010, the G8/G20 ‘leaders’ and bankers are meeting in
Huntsville and Toronto to make decisions that will further their policies
of exploitation of people and the environment. We will be there.

We pass the torch to all those who would resist the trampling of native
rights, of the rights of us all, and resist the ongoing destruction of our
planet. We say: The Fire This Time.

FFFC - Ottawa
at the corner of Bank Street and First Avenue.
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