[Ost-announce] Edmonton: No Games on Stolen Native Land! Panel on 2010 and call to disrupt the "Spirit Train"

[Macdonald Stainsby]

[For Edmonton Residents]


On September 29th, 2008 (Monday), the 2010 Olympic Winter Games "Spirit
Train" will be coming to Edmonton, Alberta. A call out has been issued by
the Olympics Resistance Network (appended below)

 On September 27, 2008, several speakers from indigenous communities who
are being adversely effected on unceded territories in "British Columbia"
as well as communities in "Alberta" are coming to Edmonton to speak about
issues surrounding the 2010 Olympic Games, tar sands development and the
negative effects on
human health and to discuss ways in whcih these issues surrounding such
developments are interlinked. On Monday September 29th, there will be a
demonstration confronting the Olympic Spirit train as it brings its show
through Edmonton. The panel will detail why these issues need to be
understood and opposed as a show of support for self-determination and
against corporate sponsored development of traditional indigenous
territories.

confirmed speakers include:
Dustin Johnson, Tsimshian Nation: Olympics Resistance Network and
coordinator of North Coast Enviro Watch;
Ange Sterritt, Gitxsan First Nation: Olympics Resistance Network

Invited Speakers from the communities of Fort Chipewyan, Alberta
(Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation) Little Buffalo (Lubicon Lake Indian
Nation) and the tar sands campaign of the Indigenous Environmental
Network.

Location of panel: TBA
Date September 27th (Saturday);

Action opposing 2010 Olympic Spirit Train on September 29th (Monday).

for more infortmation,
contact macdonald at oilsandstruth.org
780 233 4992

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The following is excerpted from a larger callout for support/actions &
events from the Olympics Resistance Network.
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Another upcoming opportunity is the Spirit Train, being launched on Sept.
21, 2008 by Canadian Pacific Railway (which has historically and currently
played a critical role in the colonization and usurpation of indigenous
lands) and VANOC (Vancouver Organizing Committee for 2010). We are calling
for and encouraging protests and actions to disrupt the 'Spirit Train' as
it stop across cities across Canada.

* Scheduled route and days (Check: cpspiritrain.com for official updates):

Sept. 21, Port Moody, BC. 2-8 pm. West Coast Express Station, 65 Williams
St. Sept. 27, Calgary, Alberta. 2:00pm – 8:00pm Pop Davies Park (Ogden Rd.
and Millican Rd. S.)
Sept. 29, Edmonton, Alberta. 1:00pm – 8:00pm WP Wagner School (6310 Wagner
Rd NW)
Oct. 2, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. 1:00pm – 8:00pm William Reid Park
Pendygrasse Rd.
Oct. 4, Winnipeg, Manitoba. 2:00pm – 8:00pm Sinclair Park Community Centre
490 Sinclair St.
Oct. 8, Thunder Bay, Ontario. 1:00pm – 8:00pm Marina Park
October 11, Sudbury, Ontario. 2:00pm – 8:00pm Energy Court, next to
National Grocery on Lorne St.
Oct. 13, Toronto, Ontario. 1:00pm – 8:00pm Cooksville GO Transit Station
3210 Hurontario St.
Oct. 16, Smiths Falls, Ontario. 1:00pm – 8:00pm CP lot on Rideau Ave N and
Ella St
Oct. 18, Montreal, Quebec. 1:00pm – 8:00pm Place des Vestiges on the
Quays of the Old Port, across from Jacques-Cartier Pier