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RESISTANCE 2010!
- No Olympics on stolen land!
- Disrupt and abolish the G8 and SPP
- Active support and solidarity for local struggles of self-determination, justice and dignity

[August 2008 – OTTAWA]

Military twist to Games

By BOB MACKIN
24 Hours Vancouver
Thursday, August 14, 2008

BEIJING -- The Beijing Olympics are already the most militarized global sporting event since Moscow in 1980 and perhaps Berlin 1936. Organizers up the ante every day.

Campbell fires back at Chinese critics

Questions about homelessness, rock slide from government newspaper reporters stir response

Jeff Lee, Vancouver Sun
Published: Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Tighter transit security needed now

Threat of terrorist attacks requires random screening on SkyTrain and West Coast Express

Gordon Keast, Special to the Vancouver Sun
Published: Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Terrorist attacks on our transit system are no longer unthinkable.

Beijing Lockdown

by Geofferey York
From Saturday's Globe and Mail
July 26, 2008

In the small Beijing suburb of Hongxialu, there's a new force in town. The government has recruited a special unit of 288 residents, mostly middle-aged or elderly, to work as “security volunteers” in the lead-up to the Olympics.

Anicinabe Youth from Grassy Narrows, Ontario, stand with Anti-2010 Olympics banner, June 2008

Native Anti-2010 Gangstaz at Montreal Anarchist Bookfair, May 2008. That's cold hard cash in their hands, fund-raising for riot gear!

In the wee hours of the morning of August 4 anarchist settlers used a ketchup bottle to apply red metal paint to a statue of John Galt in front of City Hall. August 4 was Guelph’s first ever John Galt Day. The town was awash in festivities and celebrations honouring John Galt and the plan he developed for the founding of the city of Guelph back in 1827. But who is this John Galt character?

VANOC keeps 2010 motto secret: But Province readers have some ideas

Damian Inwood, The Province
Published: Friday, June 06, 2008

The International Olympic Committee has approved the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games official motto.

But, sadly, local organizers said yesterday they don't plan to release it for several months.

No Smooth Sailing for PNWER Elites: Marina Entrance Blocked by Activists A group of activists blocked access to the Westin Bayshore marina on Wednesday July 23 to protest the Pacific NorthWest Economic Region (PNWER) summit. In doing so, they prevented PNWER delegates from boarding a 190-person luxury boat tour of the Vancouver harbour.