Invincible Summer
4th February 2010, 21:45
From: http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/2010wintergames/Welcome+2010+Winter+Olympics+Please+keep+left/2520429/story.html
"The 2010 Winter Olympics will take place in Vancouver & Whistler, on unceded Indigenous land . . . We call on all anti- capitalist, Indigenous, housing rights, labour, migrant justice, environmental, antiwar, community-loving, antipoverty, civil libertarian and anti-colonial activists to come together to confront this two-week circus and the oppression it represents." -- Press release sent out Wednesday, titled " Anti-Olympic Resistance Unleashed!", from the Olympic Resistance Network, complete with a schedule of coming events.
Sisters and Brothers, Welcome to Vancouver!
We hope your cavity searches coming through the border this time did not discomfit you too much: The fascist police forces have been uncommonly thorough in the run-up to the Olympic Circus, and we have trauma counsellors standing by for any of those who feel the need to talk it out. (Consider, though, that any embarrassment you may have felt caused the capitalists to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on security measures! Another victory!)
Following are a few pointers to give you, our guests, what to expect during the next two fun-filled weeks:
- For those of you who have just arrived in Vancouver and still have not arranged for accommodation, our housing activists will be on hand to direct you to available squats and condemned tenements in the area. (Or go online to check our housing directory at www.cockroachinfestedhell.com.)Also, I have some space on my living room floor, if you don't mind sleeping on a futon.
- Be sure to register for our full slate of fascinating seminars and workshops to be held at the North Korean consulate, location disclosed upon a secret handshake. Some of the subjects in our lineup include:
" Too Close for Comfort: Lycra Track Suits and The Objectification of Female Olympic Athletes."
" The Last Bast ion of Apartheid."
And:
" Great Expectorations: You, the Police and Spitting."
- Plan to have a blast by taking part in the Resistance Network's own Alternative Olympic Games. They're non-judgmental, gender-neutral and open to all sexual orientations, other than those whose outdated notion of the traditional patriarchal nuclear family is dependent on the systemic subjugation of Womyn.
There's something for everybody in the Games, including: The 100-yard Smash (cobblestones plus plate glass windows equals fun!); the Skeleton Hunger Strike (last one to faint wins); Transgendered Hockey (no offside, no icing, no rules); and the Downhill Trajectory of Western Civilization (first to the finish line wins survivalist kit). Be sure to sign up the kids!
- The week will culminate with a march downtown, scheduled to coincide with the opening ceremony of the Olympic Winter Games. We will welcome our Olympic torch as it makes its climactic entry into Vancouver, and then possibly burn something down with it. We do not -- we repeat, WE DO NOT -- condone violence of any kind. But things happen, don't they?
Marchers should wear something comfortable to protest in -- hobnail boots and gas masks are always timeless -- and remember to bring the chip on your shoulder.
- Unhappily for those many people who expressed an interest in visiting it, there is no Cuba Pavilion at the actual Olympic Games. The International Olympic Committee claims its absence is due to Cuba's lack of winter athletes, rather than political pressure from American imperialists, and sure, 9/11 wasn't an inside job! But as an alternative, may we suggest that after a hard day of protesting, locals like to congregate at Chez Che's in east Vancouver.
A personal recommendation? Try the flan there. It will revolutionize your tastebuds!
What a bunch of reactionary, uninformed, mischaracterizing bullshit. This is such an immature jab at the left.
"The 2010 Winter Olympics will take place in Vancouver & Whistler, on unceded Indigenous land . . . We call on all anti- capitalist, Indigenous, housing rights, labour, migrant justice, environmental, antiwar, community-loving, antipoverty, civil libertarian and anti-colonial activists to come together to confront this two-week circus and the oppression it represents." -- Press release sent out Wednesday, titled " Anti-Olympic Resistance Unleashed!", from the Olympic Resistance Network, complete with a schedule of coming events.
Sisters and Brothers, Welcome to Vancouver!
We hope your cavity searches coming through the border this time did not discomfit you too much: The fascist police forces have been uncommonly thorough in the run-up to the Olympic Circus, and we have trauma counsellors standing by for any of those who feel the need to talk it out. (Consider, though, that any embarrassment you may have felt caused the capitalists to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on security measures! Another victory!)
Following are a few pointers to give you, our guests, what to expect during the next two fun-filled weeks:
- For those of you who have just arrived in Vancouver and still have not arranged for accommodation, our housing activists will be on hand to direct you to available squats and condemned tenements in the area. (Or go online to check our housing directory at www.cockroachinfestedhell.com.)Also, I have some space on my living room floor, if you don't mind sleeping on a futon.
- Be sure to register for our full slate of fascinating seminars and workshops to be held at the North Korean consulate, location disclosed upon a secret handshake. Some of the subjects in our lineup include:
" Too Close for Comfort: Lycra Track Suits and The Objectification of Female Olympic Athletes."
" The Last Bast ion of Apartheid."
And:
" Great Expectorations: You, the Police and Spitting."
- Plan to have a blast by taking part in the Resistance Network's own Alternative Olympic Games. They're non-judgmental, gender-neutral and open to all sexual orientations, other than those whose outdated notion of the traditional patriarchal nuclear family is dependent on the systemic subjugation of Womyn.
There's something for everybody in the Games, including: The 100-yard Smash (cobblestones plus plate glass windows equals fun!); the Skeleton Hunger Strike (last one to faint wins); Transgendered Hockey (no offside, no icing, no rules); and the Downhill Trajectory of Western Civilization (first to the finish line wins survivalist kit). Be sure to sign up the kids!
- The week will culminate with a march downtown, scheduled to coincide with the opening ceremony of the Olympic Winter Games. We will welcome our Olympic torch as it makes its climactic entry into Vancouver, and then possibly burn something down with it. We do not -- we repeat, WE DO NOT -- condone violence of any kind. But things happen, don't they?
Marchers should wear something comfortable to protest in -- hobnail boots and gas masks are always timeless -- and remember to bring the chip on your shoulder.
- Unhappily for those many people who expressed an interest in visiting it, there is no Cuba Pavilion at the actual Olympic Games. The International Olympic Committee claims its absence is due to Cuba's lack of winter athletes, rather than political pressure from American imperialists, and sure, 9/11 wasn't an inside job! But as an alternative, may we suggest that after a hard day of protesting, locals like to congregate at Chez Che's in east Vancouver.
A personal recommendation? Try the flan there. It will revolutionize your tastebuds!
What a bunch of reactionary, uninformed, mischaracterizing bullshit. This is such an immature jab at the left.