[IPSM] Montreal Launch of Dominion's Olympics Issue

[Dru Oja Jay]

Launch event for the Dominion's special issue on the 2010 Olympics
Tuesday, November 24, 5:00pm
Casa del Popolo (4873 St-Laurent)

THE LAUNCH:

The Media Co-op and The Dominion will be hosting a launch event in
Vancouver to celebrate the publication of the special issue on The
Olympics. Join us in an informal setting. Meet some of the editors and
writers, and discuss grassroots media, and pick up your copy of the
Olympics issue.

Details: http://www.dominionpaper.ca/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=179292526156

THE SPECIAL ISSUE
"In Canada, you will find a nation that works every day towards
creating the conditions of the Olympic ideal." --Jean Chrétien

The "Olympic Ideal" is part of one of the world’s most successful
marketing campaigns, built around concepts that almost everyone can
agree upon: world-class amateur sport and peaceful competition.

But a rising chorus of critical voices say that the Olympics are
deeply implicated in the expropriation of land, money and resources.
>From movements demanding "No Olympics on Stolen Native Land" to angry
business owners, resistance to the Olympics economic and social agenda
is growing. The Olympics budget includes a billion dollars for
security. A billion dollars each will be spent on a new convention
centre, a larger highway to Whistler, and SNC Lavalin's rail link from
the Vancouver airport to downtown. In the political and economic
manoeuvres leading up to the 2010 Olympics, a different "ideal" has
been revealed – one of exclusive contracts, sponsorship deals,
displacement, social cleansing, and corruption. At times, sport seems
like an afterthought.

Many of the real stories behind the Olympics remain to be told. In the
Dominion's special issue on the Olympics, dozens of activists and
journalists from across the country tell some of these stories.

Thousands of copies of the Olympic special issue will be printed and
distributed through grassroots networks across Turtle Island in
November 2009.

http://www.dominionpaper.ca

For ongoing coverage of resistance to the Olympics, visit:

http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca