[mobglob-discuss] Olympics Resistance Show and Conference THIS WEEKEND

[Harsha Walia]

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

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Saturday October 25th
Olympics Resistance Benefit Show
Doors @ 8 pm
Rhizome Cafe, 317 E. Broadway (corner Kingsway)
$5-20 (no one turned away for lack of funds)

Sunday October 26th
Panels and Workshops
10:30 am - 5:30 pm @ SFU Harbour Centre
515 West Hastings, corner Granville, Waterfront Skytrain Station
Free. Donations thankfully accepted
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Organized by the Olympics Resistance Network.
For more information email olympicresistance at riseup.net
Visit http://resist2010.blogspot.com


==> FULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:

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Saturday October 25th
Olympics Resistance Benefit Show
Doors 8 pm
Rhizome Cafe, 317 E. Broadway (corner Kingsway)
$5-20 (no one turned away for lack of funds)
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For poster, check: myspace.com/kalidahk

*  Echolalia-  Politically infused and high energy all female folk/punk
from Vancouver. Band members include Adrian Chappell on Violin and Vocals,
Steph Cameron on Guitar and Vocals. http://www.myspace.com/echolaliaband

* Gabriel Teodros
is a hip hop artist and member of the group Abyssinian Creole. He is of
Ethiopian, Scottish, Irish & Native descent. His music is
determined by a social consciousness. His recent album "Lovework"
topped the CMJ Hip Hop charts.
http://www.myspace.com/gabrielteodros

* JB the First Lady
is a triple threat as an Emcee, Actor and Director. She hails from the
Nuxalk and Cayuga Nations and over the past five years has been heavily
involved in the urban native youth community. Expression is her life's
work.  http://www.myspace.com/jbthefirstlady

With Djs to follow.


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Sunday October 26th
Panel and workshops
10:30 am - 5:30 pm @ SFU Harbour Centre
515 West Hastings, corner Granville, Waterfront Skytrain Station
Free. Donations thankfully accepted.
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11 am to 1 pm: Panel:

- Myths and Realities of the Olympics Industry: Chris Shaw is a professor
at UBC and also one of the founders of 2010 Watch, an 2010 Olympic
watchdog organization. He has recently the book "Five Ring Circus: Myths
and Realities of the Olympic Games".

- Impacts on Indigenous Peoples and Lands: Kanahus Pellkey is Secwepemc &
Ktnuxa and co-founder of the Secwepmec Native Youth Movement. Her mission
is to defend and protect the land, mountains, and clean water and food,
including from Olympics development such as Sun Peaks resort on her
peoples' territory.

- Corporate Control of the Olympics: Garth Mullins is an activist, writer,
and researcher who has been active in a variety of social justice
struggles. He is on the advisory board of "Upping the Anti: A Journal of
Theory and Action" and is working on a doctorate on communities
intervening in capitalist globalization.

- Vancouver's Olympics Legacy: from homelessness to migrant labour
exploitation: Harsha Walia is a South Asian activist and writer involved
in local and global anti-capitalist & anti colonial movements, migrant
justice organizing, feminist & anti-racist networks, and works in the
DTES.

- Olympics, Tar Sands, and the Security and Prosperity Partnership: Dustin
Johnson is a member of the Tsimshian Nation, coordinator of North Coast
Enviro Watch documenting the impacts of the Tar Sands and Olympics, and
organizer with Native 2010 Resistance.

1 pm to 1:30 pm: Lunch break (bag lunches provided)

1:30 pm to 5:45 pm: Workshops: Educate yourself and get involved!

(1:30-3:30 pm) Displacement from Indigenous, Rural, and Urban communities:
Facilitated by Odessa Sterritt (Gitxsan, Native 2010 Resistance, DTES
legal advocate), Wendy Pederson (Carnegie Community Action Project),
Alaina Tom (Statimc Native Youth Movement)

(3:45-5:45pm) Security Apparatus and Criminalization of Resistance +
Getting involved in the Movement! Facilitated by Megan Craig (Anti-Poverty
Committee and Simon Fraser Public Interest Research Group); Gord Hill
(Native 2010 Resistance, Warrior Publications); Cecily Nicholson (No One
Is Illegal, DTES Women Centre worker) and Tammie Tupechka (The Torch, No
Olympics at Brittania Group, DTES outreach worker)