Adam Vaughn

Olympic Legacies: Gold Medals, Gentrification, and Worsening Homelessness?

joaquinuy — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:43:32 +0000

Vancouver’s Winter Olympic Games are in full swing. Since 2003, an estimated nine billion has been spent on the Winter Games. But what spectators probably aren’t seeing is one of Canada’s poorest neighborhoods less than a mile from many of the Olympic venues.

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A Sinister Trade: The Winter Games for Civil Liberties

joaquinuy — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:08:19 +0000

The Winter Olympics are set to begin in British Columbia, Canada this weekend and one group hopes to reveal significant civil liberties issues behind the winter games. Protesters with the Olympic Resistance Network point to a number of new laws enacted just for the Olympics that violate civil liberties.

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Canadian Indigenous groups continue to speak out against 2010 Winter Olympics

joaquinuy — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:03:39 +0000

The Vancouver Winter Olympics are just around the corner and for this year’s games much of the action may take place away from the jumps, slopes and ice rinks. Indigenous groups plan to protest what they say has been the theft of their land and resources to construct Olympic related venues and projects.

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