2010 Olympics

Let's Hold Canada to the Same Standards as China
By Yves Engler; September 01, 2008 - Znet

The mainstream media's hypocrisy during the Olympics would have been funny
if it weren't so ignorance-producing.

So many words written or spoken about human rights violations,
lip-synching, suppression of Tibet, taped fireworks, Communist
dictatorship, evil Chinese nationalism and yet what about context? Or what
about how Canada might seem to them?

Has any media discussed Canada's decades-long support of British
imperialism in China? Opium War anyone? Dividing the country up among

Increase of Migrant Workers in Canada Opens Door to Abuses
By Am Johal, IPS News. Posted July 31, 2008.

Canada's construction boom has brought in thousands of foreign workers. They're being horribly exploited.
Tools

VANCOUVER, Jul 15 (IPS) -- Western Canada's construction boom, spurred on by the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver and oil sands development in Alberta, has led to a massive increase in foreign temporary workers coming to the region.

A few quick notes on this:

TransCanada-- otherwise known as TCPL-- is a major sponsor of the 2010 Olympics destroying Vancouver and the lands of "BC". TransCanada is also a massive construction conduit for the expansion of the tar sands/tar pits up to 5 MILLION barrels a day (more than any other single country in the world minus Saudi Arabia for daily delivery). These plans are enunciated and spelled out in the SPP's round of talks from Houston, 2006.

TCPL is promoting the expansion of *both* northern pipelines for gas, and finally gave up the competition charade:

ATTENTION: ALL NEWS EDITORS

==> Pictures attached of 2nd Protest Against PNWER Summit

==> No Smooth Sailing for PNWER Elites: Marina Entrance Blocked by Activists

==> Activists cite lack of transparent process and public consultation in
PNWER decision making given wide scope of policy impacts from 2010 Olympics
to oil and gas mining

Wednesday July 23, 2008 Vancouver- A group of activists blocked access to
the Westin Bayshore marina today to protest the Pacific NorthWest Economic
Region (PNWER) summit. In doing so, they prevented delegates from boarding a

2010 Organizing and the Tar Sands: Inspiring the SPP and Helping the Olympics
By Macdonald Stainsby; July 14, 2008 - Znet
http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/18182

For much of the last year, many of the anti-capitalist and anti-authoritarian forces across Canada have started to work towards converging many of the bigger issues to take place in 2010 into a larger whole.

Statimc Native Youth Movement Warrior Society St'at'imc Nation, Tsalalh
Territory

Re: 2010 Olympics

To Whom It May Concern;

Please accept this letter as a declaration of opposition to the upcoming
2010 Olympics set to take place within traditional St'at'imc Borders. Many
members of our Nation, including children, youth, elders and land users do
not support the Olympics taking place in Whistler for many reasons.

First being that Whistler and many other towns, cities and municipalities
are illegally occupied by foreigners and run by fraudulent government

The SPP and Merging Military Command Structures
by Dana Gabriel
Global Research, June 18, 2008

Racism in the Tar Sands: exploiting foreign workers and poisoning indigenous people
June 12, 2008

By Macdonald Stainsby

The giant corporations that are determined to exploit the Alberta tar sands face a major problem — a serious shortage of local labour to do the actual work. So the Canadian and Albertan governments have a plan, ideal in their eyes, to solve the crunch.

Change in activists' tactics poses serious threat to 2010 Games: analyst

By Stephanie Levitz, The Canadian Press

VANCOUVER - Changing tactics by Canadian activists pose a serious threat to security
at the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver, security analysts say.

The usually fragmented, single-issue groups are converging and organizing in ways
never seen before in Canada, said Tom Quiggan, a former security consultant with the
Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

Where there's usually a lull in protest activity in the years leading up to