This year, the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver—held on unceded indigenous land—will take place from February 12-28. In what will culminate several years of intense organizing by indigenous and anti-capitalist groups, there will be a two-week convergence that will confront the Olympic games with a variety of protests. The protests will focus on indigenous issues, environmental destruction, gentrification, and other issues as they relate to the Olympic games (see No2010.com for more background information).
Already, protestors across Canada have blocked the Olympic torch numerous times as it makes its way across the country while others have used property destruction (against the Olympic clock, banks connected to the Olympics, and other targets). Other tactics used by anti-Olympics protestors have included “traditional” protests, squatting, and street theatre.
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