The 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games

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Yes, I believe it`s a waste of money.


No Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics On Stolen Native Land

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Why protest Vancouver's 2010 Olympics?

Standing up to the global system makes change possible

by Gord Hill

The Dominion - The Dominion | news from the grassroots


There are many reasons to protest the Olympic Games. It is a multi-billion dollar industry run by an elite clique that sells the five rings to the highest bidder, using sports as a commodity and a platform for corporate advertising. Their main goal is profit, in collaboration with their partners: government, local organizing committees, and corporations (construction, real estate, tourism, TV, and media, as well as sponsors).

The Olympics have a long history of association with fascists, colonialists, and authoritarian regimes (i.e., the 1936 Hitler Olympics, the 1968 Mexico City Olympic massacre, and the 2008 Beijing Summer Games). Since the 1980s, they have displaced over three million people and contributed to massive increases in homelessness (as we’ve seen in Vancouver).

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Massive construction projects associated with the Olympics, from venues to infrastructure, result in both widespread environmental destruction and huge public debts. As part of security operations, police, military, and intelligence agencies receive millions of dollars for new personnel, equipment, and weapons — strengthening the creeping police states we see around the world and further eroding our alleged 'freedoms' and civil liberties.

Some naysayers ask: Why protest, since protests don’t change anything, and the Games are going to happen anyway? Their questions are based on the apparent futility of protest.

To begin with, protests are but one tactic used by social movements. They help raise awareness and mobilize people. The US black civil rights movement started out as small protests and grew into a mass campaign of civil disobedience. This forced the government to enact reforms and desegregate the South. Protests weren’t the only activities carried out by the civil-rights movement. They also organized forums, held workshops on legal rights, registered black voters, and printed newsletters.

Protests and civil disobedience were what made change both possible and necessary, because not only did they draw international attention to racism in the US, they also made it impossible for the apartheid system in the South to go on as it had before.

By the 1970s and ’80s there were black mayors and chiefs of police; today, there is a black president.

People who say protests don’t change anything don’t know history. Those who say the Olympics can’t be fought don’t even know their own local history.

Over the last three years, the anti-Olympic movement has forced the Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC) off the streets, to the point where it no longer holds large, public ceremonies (as it did in 2007). Anytime the organizing committee does have events, it requires a large policing operation to secure them. This is because we have successfully used direct action to disrupt Olympic events.

The effectiveness of direct action and protest can be seen in the struggle for social housing in Vancouver. This campaign increased in 2006 when the growing ranks of homeless began to become a major political issue, linked to Olympic-related construction, gentrification, and tourism.

By the fall of 2006, housing and anti-poverty groups were having large, noisy protests and began occupying empty hotels. Over two dozen people were arrested, many of them members of the Anti-Poverty Committee. These actions raised the profile of homelessness and dislocation.

Since 2007, various levels of government, along with VANOC, have had to respond with measures to limit the loss of low-income housing units, and to appear as though they are addressing the issue. By 2008, the homelessness crisis, along with the Olympic Village fiasco, determined the outcome of the Vancouver civic election.

Homelessness became a public issue because people organized, educated, and agitated for change. Without the political pressure exerted by protest groups, without community resistance, the situation for the poor and the homeless would be far worse than it is today.

Why protest 2010? Because as history shows us, the limits of tyrants are set by those whom they attempt to tyrannize.
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Do people expect everyone to stay at home and do nothing 24/7 expect send money to the hospital? The socialist do-nothing-forever-except-pay-for-healthcare philosophy is a joke.
 
Bar Sinister

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I was just watching the BBC World News and its take on the Vancouver Games. The News item spent less than a minute on the games before deciding that it was more newsworthy to cover Vancouver's drug culture. So much for highlighting Canada.
 
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Bar Sinister said:
I was just watching the BBC World News and its take on the Vancouver Games. The News item spent less than a minute on the games before deciding that it was more newsworthy to cover Vancouver's drug culture. So much for highlighting Canada.
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Yeah, it seems these games have been a boondoggle right from the get go. Maybe the politicianas are just trying to get more out of them than what there is.
 
Socrates the Greek

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Party On Canada, the world loves people who enjoy a good fun inclusive historical Party.:lol::lol::lol:

To all the cynical dull minds, DON’T WATCH THE OLYMPICS IF YOU ARE ALLERGIC.

TAKE AN ASPIRIN AND SOON YOUR PAIN WILL GO AWAY, WHILE YOU MOANED AND GROANED YOU MISSED A GOOD FRIENDLY PARTY.:roll::roll::roll:


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Bar Sinister said:
I was just watching the BBC World News and its take on the Vancouver Games. The News item spent less than a minute on the games before deciding that it was more newsworthy to cover Vancouver's drug culture. So much for highlighting Canada.
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that is just another fact pointing to the 'low' quality
and class of the media.
 
Risus

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Soc, what don't you understand about this thread being about the Vancouver WINTER Olympics??? Your pics aren't even from olympics. Do you want me to start posting pics from last weeks dart tournament?
 
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Hazmart

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As was pointed out several times, this is a thread regarding the Vancouver Winter Olympics. Therefore pictures posted here should relate to the Vancouver Winter Olympics.
 
Socrates the Greek

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Risus said:
Thank you!!! :smile:
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Olympic Photos, Pictures and Images : Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics

Risus, I am not hard to get along, ;-):smile:

I posted pictures of the Olympic history, I did not post NASCAR racing photos, grow up.
As for the mod,

you do not have the right to stop me from being inclusive to both Summer and winter, as this is part of myyyyyyyyyyyyyyy heritage…….

I have not violated any forum rules by posting summer Olympic Photos, do you understand that?


You do not have that right.........to stop me ............. make sure you understand that because I do....

YOU DO NOT HAVE THAT RIGHT...........................


picking fly sh!t from pepper is a mental condition

Power triping makes a person look bad...............................:angryfire::p
 
Risus

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Socrates the Greek said:
Olympic Photos, Pictures and Images : Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics

Risus, I am not hard to get along, ;-):smile:

I posted pictures of the Olympic history, I did not post NASCAR racing photos, grow up.
As for the mod,

you do not have the right to stop me from being inclusive to both Summer and winter, as this is part of myyyyyyyyyyyyyyy heritage…….

I have not violated any forum rules by posting summer Olympic Photos, do you understand that?


You do not have that right.........to stop me ............. make sure you understand that because I do....

YOU DO NOT HAVE THAT RIGHT...........................


picking fly sh!t from pepper is a mental condition

Power triping makes a person look bad...............................:angryfire::p
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Give it a rest, soc. If you want to post about olympic history start a thread about it. This thread is about the VANCOUVER WINTER games... Your posts made you look bad.

And the mods have the right to do whatever they want...
 
doclach

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Hey, I'm new here. Posting from Australia. One of our biggest commercial channels is dedicated to live winter olympic broadcasts and hours of coverage everyday, plus we have 4 channels on cable, so pretty stoked. Love the winter olympic sports, made it over for the 1988 olympics. A canadain luger just fired down the track and the crowd went wild!!! haha. Friendly folks you 'canucks' :)
 
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