[van-announce] Feb. 9th - Movie Matinee - Impact of the Olympics

[edoherty at portal.ca]

Impacts of the Olympics and Big Games:
from unceded territories in BC to Mexico to New Delhi

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SATURDAY FEB 9TH
2-6 PM
CARNEGIE THEATRE (401 Main, corner of Main and Hastings)
By donation (pay what you can)
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Organized by the No2010 Network, for information email 604-682-3269, ex.
8009 or email thetorch at resist.ca. Web: www.no2010.com.

* Don't forget the Rally and March on Mon Feb 11th at noon at Vancouver
Art Gallery: Shutdown the Corporate Olympic Countdown!


==> Documentaries and short talks on impacts of the Olympics and other
Games across the world:

* Olympiad (2008) on Native youth views of 2010 Olympics.
Introduction by Director Cowboy Smithx, followed by speaker from Native
Anti-2010 Resistance.

* Keys to the Massacre about the1968 Mexico City Olympics massacre.
Introduction by Miriam Hernandez, locally-based Mexican activist.

At a time in Mexico, when student and labour movements were reaching
unprecedented proportions in response to government and police corruption,
growing poverty and unemployment, and priortization of business interests
over social services, the Summer Olympic Games were to be held in Mexico
City in October 1968. In response to one such rally at the Plaza of the
Three Cultures in Mexico City's Tlatelolco district, on October 2, 1968,
armed military units and tanks arrived on the scene and surrounded the
demonstrators, firstly dropping flares and then beginning to shoot.
Estimates of the number of people killed ranged from several dozen to more
than 400. Despite the violence, the Olympic Games proceeded on schedule.

* Five Ring Circus (2007) Introduced with talks by Dirctor Conrad Schmidt
and Environmentalist Betty Krawzcyk.

The "Five Ring Circus" exposes a side to the Vancouver Olympics which has
not been revealed before.  This film shows how this three week event is
changing Vancouver forever. Find out what mayors, activists and residents
think of the 2010 olympic games.

* Recent clips on the impact of 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi.

As in all mega-sporting events, the impacts of upcoming 2010 Commonwealth
Games in New Delhi is astounding: vital river floodplains are being
converted into commercial and tourst establishments; development will
result in the loss of an estimated 50,000 trees in the area; one slum area
alone Nangla Maanchi will see the eviction and displacement of about
100,000 people; and approximately 300,000 food street vendors will be
'cleaned out'.


COME LEARN ABOUT THE IMPACTS OF THE OLYMPICS!

Some articles:

* No Olympics on Stolen Land
http://warriorpublications.com/?q=node/36

* Massacres and Profits: A brief history of the Olympics
http://users.resist.ca/~eps2005/olympics.html

*Olympics blamed for forcible removal of 2 million over 20 years
http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,2096323,00.html

* CCPA Report: Managing the Cost of Olympic Gold
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/index.cfm?act=news&do=Article&call=624&pA=BB736455

* Real estate, sport tourism and Native sovereignty in B.C.
http://www.sevenoaksmag.com/features/29_billie.html

* Migrant workers coerced by RAV line employer
http://noii-van.resist.ca/?p=573

* The Olympics Land Grab by Naomi Klein
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=3941

* More Homeless than Athletes in 2010
http://thetyee.ca/News/2007/05/28/Homeless1/

* Stolen Games
http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/1099

* Everywhere they go, the Olympic Games become an excuse for eviction and
displacement.
http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/15054

* Report Slams Run-up to Olympics
http://thetyee.ca/News/2007/05/07/Olympics/