[news] Olympic Backlash in Vancouver: Why History Should Be Deployed Before the Police

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

History shows that mega-events [like the Olympics] in Canada and abroad frequently leave a wake of destruction amongst the most vulnerable...The impoverished and racialized residents of the host city are at both an economic disadvantage, for they are easily ousted by developers, and a social disadvantage, as they are often not considered a community but a concentration of moral and aesthetic deficiency.

  


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