Native Youth Movement: No 2010 Winter Olympics on Native Land

Green Guerrillas met up with Kanahus and Dustin on their TAKE BACK THE LAND tour in 2008... we talked about Indigenous sovereignty, stolen land, and why the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver is a threat to all people and the planet...

excerpt from no2010.com...
Why We Resist
the 2010 Winter Olympics

No Olympics on Stolen Land
BC remains largely unceded and non-surrendered Indigenous territories. According to Canadian law, BC has neither the legal nor moral right to exist, let alone claim land and govern over Native peoples. Despite this, and a fraudulent treaty process now underway, the government continues to sell, lease and develop Native land for the benefit of corporations, including mining, logging, oil & gas, and ski resorts. Meanwhile, Indigenous peoples suffer the highest rates of poverty, unemployment, imprisonment, police violence, disease, suicides, etc.

Ecological Destruction
Despite claims to be the greenest Olympics ever, and PR statements about sustainability, the 2010 Olympics will be among the most environmentally destructive in history, with tens of thousands of trees cut down & mountainsides blasted for Olympic venues in the Callaghan Valley (near Whistler) & the Sea-to-Sky Highway expansion. In the summer of 2007, a record number of black bears were hit on the Sea-to-Sky Highway, with at least 11 dying (attributed to loss of habitat). Massive amounts of concrete used in construction have also caused millions of Salmon to die in the Fraser River, where tons of gravel are being mined to make concrete.

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• green guerrillas
• native youth movement
• indigenous
• sovereignty
• no 2010
• winter olympics
• vancouver
• homelessness
• gentrification
• ski resorts
• Kanahus Pellkey

[ASKIAOTA]

I need tribal help the cops beat me up in philly for nothing type( police in philly )

[stampcny]

@ASKIAOTA

just received an announcement from our peoples in philly...

for those who can support:

(1) mobilizing meeting TONIGHT (09-15) at Holy Ground (5600 Media Street)

(2) PEOPLE'S WALK FOR JUSTICE (09-17-10)

in support of Askia Aabur and the Black Community

Landsdowne & Allison at 5 PM

more info = prepbn@gmail.com

ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE!

[stampcny]

@ASKIAOTA

@ASKIAOTA

just received an announcement from our peoples in philly...

for those who can support:

(1) mobilizing meeting TONIGHT (09-15) at Holy Ground (5600 Media Street)

(2) PEOPLE'S WALK FOR JUSTICE (09-17-10)

in support of Askia Aabur and the Black Community

Landsdowne & Allison at 5 PM

more info = prepbn@gmail.com

ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE!

[Hashashin001]

Ya you didn't give anything up. Your ancestors from 10 generations ago did.

[Trickster05]

At 5:37 that's my great aunty Phillippa Ryan going toe to toe with the VPD!

[TheVic81]

It amazes me how people will just move into some else's land and just declare it belongs to them. Pray and keep up the fight! If things were as they should be, shouldn't these companies need to consult and ask permission from the tribes, not Canadien government?

[Voteforclaytonishka]

i love how they cover their faces and keep saying how they're tough and wont back down, inspired me to face my challenges FACE to FACE

[AdAmH002]

why you complaining? are your governement checks going to be less then usual? go get some jobs and stop bitching about everything

[phomer86]

I am from upstate new york I aM Oneida/Thames from Wolf clan I want to follow the NYM!!! I will support my native brothers. I have attached my E-mail address. Contact me if there is anythingf I can do in the north east I will.

[yukrazy196969]

Keep up the fight my brothers and sisters. I pray someday the Canadian Government will see that Indigenous people are the children of our Mother Earth, we will survive long after the Government is gone...The Great Creator will not let it happen.

[BillionGODSun]

ThanksTaking 2010... Never Again!!!

[bongHITZx]

she's 73 fucking years old .. old people die. the Canadian government didn't kill her. why would you even LET your grandmother or a 73 year old woman get riled up enough that she gets arrested? that's ridiculous.