Heavy security force has tread lightly, rights group says
The Globe and Mail
By Robert Matas, The Globe and Mail, Friday, February 19, 2010
VANCOUVER - At the halfway mark of the 17-day Winter Olympics, the
Games' massive security operation - which civil libertarians once
warned would trample democratic rights - has so far stepped on few
toes.
2010 Heart Attack: Vancouver Olympics Opening Day
By Scott Harris| February 14, 2010, Council of Canadians Blog
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/council-canadians/2010/02/2010-heart-attack-vancouver-olympics-opening-day
Is this Violence?: Protestors take to the streets as the city has a Heart
Attack.
By Eve Belle Wilensky
February 14, 2010
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/campus-notes/2010/02/violence-protestors-take-streets-city-has-heart-attack
In defense of the black bloc: A communique from Olympic resisters
February 14th, 2010 – Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories
On February 12th and 13th, 2010, thousands of courageous individuals came
together to resist the 2010 Olympic police state and to attack the
Mass protests and the future of convergence activism
http://briarpatchmagazine.com/convergence-activism/
By Jane Kirby, Briarpatch Magazine
January/February 2010
Wet weather 'sucking fun out of games'
[This content should have generated the headline: "there is still strong
support -- 55 per cent -- for the protesters' core argument that the Games are
a waste of money"]
Vancouverites love the Games
Sympathy for anti-Olympic protests dropping, poll suggests
By Doug Ward, Vancouver Sun, February 18, 2010
February 13, 2010,
Blockade Golden Ears Bridge,
Anti-2010 Olympics Convergence, Coast Salish Territories, (Vancouver, B.C.)
Video: http://www.youtube.com/salmonsovereignty
Contact: salmonsovereignty@hotmail.com
Olympics Can't Mask Country's Human Rights Record on Indigenous Peoples
Canada's Aboriginal Show and Tell
By MARTIN LUKACS
Games Over! Resistance Lives!
Celebrating Unity & Solidarity
Sunday FEB 28th, 2010 1PM
Smythe and Cambie
Bring the NOISE! Pots, pans, drums and noisemakers welcome! Join us in a
noisy public festival to celebrate our communities and our resistance.
Our struggles for justice as indigenous, migrant, poor, working class and
[Stella August is a 64 year old Indigenous Elder and a well-known DTES
residents and activist with the Downtown Eastside Power of Women Group]
Power of Women Group defends protesters
VANCOUVER/CKNW Radio (AM980)
Dan Burritt
2/20/2010
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