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Montreal: Extinguish the Olympic Torch! No Olympics on Stolen Native Land!patc, Samedi, Novembre 28, 2009 - 20:39
PGA-Bloc Montreal
[Please post and forward widely] Upcoming Events: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 5pm SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6, 6:30pm WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 6:30pm All culminating with: ----------
Join us as we hear directly from Indigenous activists and organizers involved in the defense of their cultures and lands, and in resistance to the Olympics on unceded native territory. Speakers include: The evening will also include short films from Defenders of the Land, as well as the Native Youth Movement (NYM). ----------
Corner of Notre-Dame est and Place Jacques Cartier, between St-Laurent & Gosford, métros Champ-de-mars or Place d’armes Bring your noisemakers!!! We encourage everyone to meet by no later than 5:30pm so that we can effectively protest the arrival of the torch in front of Montreal’s City Hall. Latercomers are welcome, but we strongly encourage everyone to make the effort to arrive no later than 5:30pm. Background: Just months away from the beginning of the Olympics spectacle in Vancouver/Whistler in February 2010, and just days away from the arrival of the Coca-Cola/RBC Olympic Torch Relay in Montreal on THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, local indigenous solidarity and social justice organizers are lending their support to the calls by the Olympics Resistance Network and for protests and disruptions of the Olympic Torch Relay. We highlight our support for Indigenous-led resistance in “British Columbia” to the Olympics. Our Indigenous allies have built an awareness and resistance campaign against the upcoming We also highlight the other negative effects of the Olympics industry, as summarized by the Olympics Resistance Network in Vancouver: “Far from being simply about ‘sport’, the history of the Olympics is one rooted in displacement, corporate greed, fascism, repression, and violence. Only the political and corporate elite – from real estate developers to Olympic sponsors - have anything to gain from the Olympics industry. The negative effects of the upcoming Winter Games are clear: expansion of sport tourism and resource extraction on unceded Indigenous lands; homelessness and gentrification of poor neighborhoods; increasing privatization of public services; union busting through imposed contracts and exploitative conditions for migrant labour; a ballooning $1 billion security apparatus with an attack on basic civil liberties; misdirected $7 billion public spending and public debt; and unprecedented destruction of the environment.” ----- WHY ORGANIZE AGAINST THE TORCH? The Olympic torch is a propaganda tool that promotes gentrification, repression and environmental destruction. The origins of the Torch Relay lie in the dark history of the 1936 Games in Berlin, where it was devised as a means to spread Nazi fascism and to promote the Third Reich. (See Globe and Mail article here: http://no2010.com/node/1113) The 2010 Olympic Torch Relay is a $25 million publicity stunt to promote the Olympic Brand, particularly its top sponsors. The Royal Bank of Canada and Coca Cola are the main sponsors of the 2010 Torch relay. RBC is the top financier of the environmentally devastating Alberta Tar Sands, while Coca Cola has been responsible for health degradation as part of the junk food industry, massive depletion of groundwater and toxic waste pollution in India, and involved in hiring paramilitary groups to violently repress union organizers in Colombia. ----- Ironically, the Olympic torches themselves are manufactured by Quebec company Bombardier, whose aerospace section is heavily implicated in the Canada-Quebec military-industrial complex. We encourage you to join us in large numbers in Montreal at our “No Olympics on Stolen Native Land” Protest against the RBC/Coca-Cola Olympic Torch Relay on December 10, and to get informed at the events organized earlier. The various events against the Olympic Torch Relay in Montreal are organized by members of the Indigenous Solidarity Committee of the People’s Global Action Bloc, Reclaim!, Ste-Emilie Skillshare, No One Is Illegal-Montreal, Q-Team and others. INFO: For more information about anti-Olympics organizing: |
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