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Anarchists urged to converge on Vancouver for Olympics
CanWest News Service
Published: Friday, May 25, 2007
VANCOUVER -- A rallying cry has gone out to anarchists and radicals, urging them to converge on Vancouver to protest the 2010 Olympic Games. A website set up by a far-left group features a poster reading: "Calling on all native warriors, anti-capitalists, anti-poverty activists, environmentalists and concerned individuals, to converge against the 2010 Winter Olympics." The Anti-Poverty Committee has sparked public outrage in Vancouver in recent weeks by occupying buildings, disrupting city council and Olympic preparations, and trashing the office of Premier Gordon Campbell. The group is protesting what it calls the eviction of poor people from the city's Downtown Eastside in advance of the Winter Games. "We want people coming six months before the Olympics and two weeks before the Olympics," said group organizer David Cunningham. Cunningham said the goal is for protesters to converge on Vancouver in the same way anti-globalization activists were drawn to the World Trade Organization summit of 1999 in Seattle, which led to massive protests and clashes with police in the streets. The group calls its latest campaign Convergence February 2010 and has established a website: www.no2010.com.
...Seems like the games will be quite busy with this kind of activity scheduled. Which of our units are going to be part of the lucky 3,000 scheduled to help local police with security efforts?
http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=384248dd-0088-4797-ac54-8ac2d049426d
Anarchists urged to converge on Vancouver for Olympics
CanWest News Service
Published: Friday, May 25, 2007
VANCOUVER -- A rallying cry has gone out to anarchists and radicals, urging them to converge on Vancouver to protest the 2010 Olympic Games. A website set up by a far-left group features a poster reading: "Calling on all native warriors, anti-capitalists, anti-poverty activists, environmentalists and concerned individuals, to converge against the 2010 Winter Olympics." The Anti-Poverty Committee has sparked public outrage in Vancouver in recent weeks by occupying buildings, disrupting city council and Olympic preparations, and trashing the office of Premier Gordon Campbell. The group is protesting what it calls the eviction of poor people from the city's Downtown Eastside in advance of the Winter Games. "We want people coming six months before the Olympics and two weeks before the Olympics," said group organizer David Cunningham. Cunningham said the goal is for protesters to converge on Vancouver in the same way anti-globalization activists were drawn to the World Trade Organization summit of 1999 in Seattle, which led to massive protests and clashes with police in the streets. The group calls its latest campaign Convergence February 2010 and has established a website: www.no2010.com.
...Seems like the games will be quite busy with this kind of activity scheduled. Which of our units are going to be part of the lucky 3,000 scheduled to help local police with security efforts?