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DESCRIPTION:Hosted by the Institute for Anarchist Studies\n\nSuggested donation: $5-10 
 sliding scale, to support tour \n(but no one will be turned away for lack 
 of funds)\n\nAs part of a provincial and West Coast speaking tour, 
 activists will talk about the impacts of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in 
 Vancouver. Learn more about why opposition to the games is growing, and how 
 you can participate in and support the resistance: "No Olympics on Stolen 
 Native Land."\n\nThe Olympics will take place on unceded indigenous land 
 from February 12-28, 2010. Far from being simply about sport, the history 
 of the Olympics is one rooted in displacement, corporate greed, and 
 repression. As Olympic promoters and sponsors seek to present their 
 sanitized corporate brand image to the world, the real impacts of the games 
 are apparent to everyone:\n\n* Expansion of sport tourism on indigenous 
 lands\n\n* Increasing homelessness across the province and especially 
 in\nVancouver’s Downtown Eastside\n\n* Misdirected public spending and 
 debt totaling $6 billion while public\nservices are suffering cutbacks\n\n* 
 Threats to basic civil liberties and free speech\n\n* Union busting and 
 vulnerable working conditions for migrant labor\n\n* Unprecedented 
 destruction of the environment\n\n* Unparalleled $1 billion police and 
 security spending\n\nThe tour will also report on recent resistance to the 
 2010 Olympics, especially Olympic torch protests across the country, and 
 plans for a global February 10-15 anticolonial and anticapitalist 
 convergence against the games.\n\nFor more information on resistance to the 
 Olympic Games, watch: Eight Reasons to Oppose the 2010 Winter Olympics, 
 http://vimeo.com/4872922\n\nFor more information on the IAS, see: 
 http://www.anarchist-studies.org\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/01/07/18634603.php
SUMMARY:Why Oppose the 2010 Olympic Games? Speaking Tour of Indigenous Activists
LOCATION:Station 40, 3030B 16th Street (at Mission Street BART), San Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/01/07/18634603.php
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