No 2010 Olympics on Stolen Land - Talk Saturday 6th June at 7pm in London.
A presentation and discussion on Saturday, 6th June, 7pm at the 100 Flowers, Hackney, with a comrade from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, to exchange ideas and experiences of anarchist thought and action, with a focus on resistance to the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
Social War is Everywhere - No 2010 Olympics on Stolen Land.
The “Bosses Grand Idea,” the Olympics, aptly termed by Greek anarchists in the time leading up to the 2004 Athens Olympics, is coming to Vancouver in 2010. We say it is already here. Before winning the Olympic bid in 2003, urban development, tourism and resource exploitation were heavily promoted as a way to sell BC on an international level. Not just an event, the Olympics functions to market this land, through ski resorts, mining, shipping ports, highways and security; to catalyze and secure the projects of the bosses. The Olympics serves to enforce projects of exploitation and social control across British Columbia that will, in many cases, integrate and bolster capitalist infrastructure internationally.
Initially, anarchists in British Columbia, were inspired to participate in anti-Olympics efforts by the ongoing indigenous resistance to ski-resorts and development, destroying land and ways of life. By continuing in long-term pre-existing struggles, indigenous resistance is at the forefront of the anti-Olympics fight.
At 100 Flowers social centre, Belgrade Road, Hackney, N16 - at the Eastern end of the road, on the corner with the main road - Stoke Newington Road. The building has lots of flowers on its gates, nearest station is Dalston Kingsland and lots of buses go to Dalston Junction.
If you have any trouble finding it or getting into the building, please call me on 07725 616345. Best way of getting in is to knock on the door using the wooden stick under the gate.
beth
http://bcanarchiststour.wordpress.com/
A presentation and discussion on Saturday, 6th June, 7pm at the 100 Flowers, Hackney, with a comrade from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, to exchange ideas and experiences of anarchist thought and action, with a focus on resistance to the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
Social War is Everywhere - No 2010 Olympics on Stolen Land.
The “Bosses Grand Idea,” the Olympics, aptly termed by Greek anarchists in the time leading up to the 2004 Athens Olympics, is coming to Vancouver in 2010. We say it is already here. Before winning the Olympic bid in 2003, urban development, tourism and resource exploitation were heavily promoted as a way to sell BC on an international level. Not just an event, the Olympics functions to market this land, through ski resorts, mining, shipping ports, highways and security; to catalyze and secure the projects of the bosses. The Olympics serves to enforce projects of exploitation and social control across British Columbia that will, in many cases, integrate and bolster capitalist infrastructure internationally.
Initially, anarchists in British Columbia, were inspired to participate in anti-Olympics efforts by the ongoing indigenous resistance to ski-resorts and development, destroying land and ways of life. By continuing in long-term pre-existing struggles, indigenous resistance is at the forefront of the anti-Olympics fight.
At 100 Flowers social centre, Belgrade Road, Hackney, N16 - at the Eastern end of the road, on the corner with the main road - Stoke Newington Road. The building has lots of flowers on its gates, nearest station is Dalston Kingsland and lots of buses go to Dalston Junction.
If you have any trouble finding it or getting into the building, please call me on 07725 616345. Best way of getting in is to knock on the door using the wooden stick under the gate.
beth
http://bcanarchists
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