Against the Tyranny of the Olympic Regime & the Terror of the Torch Relay:
Join the Anti-Olympic Zombie Army for the First Ever ZOMBIE March Against the Olympic Torch
On Friday, October 30, the Olympic Torch Relay begins in Victoria, BC...
2 PM: Anti- Olympic Festival of Resistance
Centennial Square (Government & Blanshard St)
4:30 PM: ZOMBIE March from Centennial Square. Wear Scary costumes (or just costumes!)
From Vancouver to Victoria:
Friday Oct 30, 2009
In Vancouver: 9AM at Safeway (Broadway @ Commercial) for Carpool/Transit—Pay Your Own Way Soldier! [Est: $40 Roundtrip] .
The Olympic Torch relay is sponsored by the Royal Bank of Canada & Coca Cola.
The RBC is one of the main financiers of the Tar Sands oil project in northern Alberta, which is an act of genocide against the Indigenous people of the area, who are suffering extremely high rates of cancers, toxified water and land. The Tar Sands must be shut down & RBC must stop funding genocide!
Coca Cola factories in Columbia have been linked to paramilitary death squads & repression of union organizers; factories in India cause water depletion and environmental contamination. Coca Cola must stop repression of its workers & end its destructive production practises!
The 2010 Winter Olympics has already caused huge increases in homelessness (over 370 percent since Vancouver won the bid in 2003), criminalization of the poor (new by-laws & more police harassment), a massive public debt (estimated at $6 billion), restrictions on civil liberties, environmental destruction (including the Sea-to-Sky Highway & new venues in Whistler), and the establishment of a militarized police state.
NO Olympic Police State!
Defend your Civil Rights! Fight for Freedom!
No Olympics on Stolen Native Land!
More Info:
WWW.No2010Victoria.net
WWW.OlympicResistance.net
WWW.No2010.com
Previous Postings on this mobilization:
HALLOWEEN Convergence October 30-31, Victoria BC
NOlympic Torch Relay
Coast Salish Territory
no2010victoria@gmail.com
http://no2010victoria.net
Get ready for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to share the spotlight with the world's biggest circus of misspent public resources! Deliver a message to the world for justice and equality in Canada! Exercise our right to free speech and free association in the face of a police clampdown and come PARTY on Halloween! Ninjas, zombies, pirates, and superheroes welcome! Plan your own surprise party!
The official 2010 Olympic Torch Relay begins Friday morning, October 30 in downtown Victoria. On October 31, the relay goes through Sooke, Metchosin, Langford and beyond. Stay tuned for event announcements. Media convergence organizing is underway. Everyone welcome! Canada is a Free Speech Zone! View the relay route on an interactive map here: http://www.vancouver2010.com/en/torch-relays/olympic-torch-relay/the-rou...
Next No 2010 meeting is tomorrow: 5 pm, Thursday, August 20 at Camas Books, 2590 Quadra Street in Victoria. RSVP to no2010victoria@gmail.com
Check our site for updates: http://no2010victoria.net
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NO OLYMPICS ON STOLEN NATIVE LAND!
Convergence February 2010, Vancouver BC
Coast Salish Territory
The 2010 Winter Olympics are set to take place on unceded indigenous land from February 12-28. In addition to building ongoing educational and resistance efforts, we are organizing toward a convergence in 2010, called for Feb 10th-15th. Building on the call by native warriors - particularly at the Indigenous Peoples Gathering in Senora, Mexico in October 2007 – we will be working to coordinate the logistics to host all those converging on Vancouver, Whistler, and surrounding unceded native land during Feb 2010. To that end, we are asking groups and individuals planning to travel to the convergence to contact us now so that we are able to assess potential numbers and the logistical support that will be required in terms of housing, food, and other forms
of support.
=> Please email the 2010 Logistics Committee at 2010logistics@riseup.net to let us now if you are planning to come to the convergence, and include any information about specific forms of logistical support that you might require such as housing needs, travel, border crossings and visas, etc. Alternatively, we are calling for a global day of action against the Olympic Industry and the 2010 Olympic sponsors on February 12th 2010. If you are planning to organize events to coincide with the 2010 convergence in your own communities, please inform us of those plans as well.
=> If you haven't already, join the Olympic Resistance Network email list to receive news and announcements, as well as post updates and report-backs from your own city or community. Email olympicresistance@riseup.net to add your email to the list.
Over the six months, we encourage communities to fundraise, raise awareness, and organize in preparation for the anti-2010 Olympic convergence. We hope to see you all in 2010 to demonstrate our indignation and resistance!
The Olympics Resistance Network is primarily based in Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories and exists as a space to coordinate anti-2010 Olympics efforts. In doing so, we act in solidarity with other communities across 'BC' - particularly indigenous communities who have been defending their land against the onslaught of the Olympics since the bid itself. Our organizing is largely being done under the banner of "No Olympics on Stolen Native Land", while creating an opportunity for all anti-capitalist, indigenous, anti poverty, labour, migrant justice, environmental justice, anti war, and anti colonial activists to come together to confront this two-week circus and the oppression it represents.
In solidarity,
The 2010 Convergence Logistics committee
www.olympicresistance.net
www.no2010.com
