CANADIAN ANARCHIST MOVEMENT-VICTORIA:
ANTI-TORCH RELAY FESTIVAL:
Just before Halloween, how appropriate, the Olympic Torch Relay will start in Victoria BC. Opponents of the 2010 Winter Olympics will be holding their own events to protest the whole circus. Here's the lowdown from the No2010Victoria website.
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Five Ring Circus: anti-Torch Relay festival!
Victoria, Fri Oct 30:
Re-posted by request from Janine Bandcroft: Victoria Streetnewz
Re-posted by request from Janine Bandcroft: Victoria Streetnewz
Five Ring Circus: anti-Torch Relay festival!
Victoria, Fri Oct 30
Get ready - here comes the Olympic Torch!
The whole world will be watching the launch of the Torch Relay, the first official event of the 2010 Olympics here in Victoria on Friday, October 30. Over a thousand journalists from around the world will be here, and huge sections of the Capital Region will be shut down by security police as the relay passes through. The Olympic Committee wants to make the city a no-protest area to protect the "Olympic brand." No way! Over half million dollars is being spent on a "Spirit" party, corporate advertising for the world's worst polluters and heavy-handed policing for the rest of us. Victoria is a free speech zone! Join our Five Ring Circus for Poverty Games, comedy, live music and much more!
Help mock this corporate circus and defend our Charter rights and civil liberties:
- Giant puppets and masks are being created for street theatre, Saturdays from 12 to 3 pm at Camas Books (2590 Quadra, Vic)
- Join the No2010 meetings every Thursday at 6pm, Camas Books
- Attend a Legal Observer training with the BC Civil Liberties Association (dates to be announced)
- Be part of the Pop Ed team visiting local classes and student groups with info about the Torch Relay and Charter rights
- Expose the "Snakes in the Grass" with the Council of Canadians and sing songs with the Raging Grannies
- Join the circus, walk on the zombie march, play an instrument in the marching band, or just bear witness on October 30.
Please re-post!
No2010 VICTORIA INVITES YOU TO:
***** THE FIVE RING CIRCUS: AN ANTI-OLYMPIC FESTIVAL *****
Convergence at the launch of the 2010 Olympic Torch Relay :
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Date:
Friday, October 30, 2009
Time:
Festival begins at 2 pm, March departs at 4:30 pm
Place:
Centennial Square (Pandora & Douglas)Victoria, B.C., Lekwungen and WSANEC territories
NEXT ORGANIZING MEETING:
Thursday October 8 at 6 pm
Camas Books and Infoshop - 2590 Quadra (@ Kings).
Everyone welcome! http://no2010victoria.net
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No Olympics on stolen native land!
Whose streets?
Our streets!
Public space for people, not for corporate profits!
Take it back!
Homes and healthcare before games!
No more cuts to social services and arts!
Stand up for justice, dignity and free speech! :
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The Canada-wide Olympic Torch Relay officially begins in Victoria, Lekwungen and WSANEC Territories, on October 30th and the Anti-Olympic Festival will be there to greet it. Join us in the spirit of creative resistance to environmental destruction, indigenous rights violations, the privatization of public space, the quashing of free speech, cut-backs in social services, and the corporate spectacle.
COME TO THE VICTORIA ANTI-OLYMPIC FESTIVAL FOR THE TORCH RELAY CONVERGENCE!!
** Enjoy a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to share the media spotlight with the world's biggest circus of misspent public resources!
** Stand up for justice and dignity!
** Exercise our right to free speech under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms!
Gordon Campbell and mayor Dean Fortin want to showcase Victoria to the world when the Torch hits. With the bill for the 2010 colossal circus rising almost as quickly as poverty rates, No2010 Victoria is determined to take the occasion to showcase our dissent.
SCROLL DOWN TO FIND OUT WHAT'S HAPPENING AND HOW YOU CAN GET INVOLVED! **********************
THE TORCH RELAY CONVERGENCE:
A DAY OF ANTI-OLYMPIC EVENTS
No2010 Victoria is holding two events to mark the beginning of the Torch Relay spectacle. Zombies, pirates, ninjas, and superheroes welcome!
(1) The Anti-Olympic Festival of Dissent 2 pm, Centennial Square, on Pandora between Government and Blanshard
Join us for a festival of resistance featuring the Poverty Games, street hockey, wrestling, food, speakers, music and more family-friendly anti-Olympic fun!
Hear from local groups working on issues such as indigenous rights, environmental protection, homelessness and drug users' rights.
(2) The Zombie March:
In Memoriam 4:30 pm,
Centennial Square, on Pandora between Government and Blanshard
As the Torch Relay evening festivities begin in Victoria, the Zombie March will haunt the city streets. On the eve before Halloween, the dead will rise and demand justice.
- Missing and murdered women in BC
- Homeless people and drug users who died on the streets from neglect- Child victims and survivors of residential schools
- Robert Dziekanski and others killed at the hands of police
- People tortured, massacred and disappeared during past Olympic Games.
GET INVOLVED WITH THE ANTI-OLYMPIC FESTIVAL!
Does your group want to get a message to the world on October 30th?
Over a thousand media people can't be wrong.
Get in on the fun!
Organize a friendly competition, step up to the soapbox, take over a ring of the Five Ring Circus! Music, art and theatre especially welcome.
Join us, don't sit this one out!
* Write to us at no2010victoria@gmail.com and visit our website at http://no2010victoria.net
* Send us your ideas for art, street theatre, fun 'sport-spoof'' Olympic activities and other creative pieces of the Anti-Olympic pie
* Come to our meetings:
No2010 Victoria meets every Thursday at 6 pm
at Camas Books & Infoshop (2590 Quadra @ Kings)
* Donate to our activities and/or legal fund
Thank you!
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--Zoe Blunt
250-813-3569
-- "Dare to be wrong and to dream." Friedrich von Schiller
born September 10, 1759 (German poet, dramatist, philosopher and historian. 1759-1805) http://janinebandcroft.blogspot.com
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