RFB News/Real/News: NYM Against the 2010 Olympics

CURRENT AS OF 12 FEB 2008

IT'S ALL FUN AND GAMES UNTIL SOMEONE LOSES THEIR LANDS.

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• 2010
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• vancouver
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[Red1676]

its agreed... the Olympics bring out alot of the wack jobs. if we did give back the land that Olympics used you guys would praise us with lakota then build casinos on your lands...

[TheRFB]

Well racism has always proved a great way to deal with things you don't understand.

But what I don't understand is how someone who makes Halo videos feels qualified to dismiss anyone else as a "wack job". I refer you to my comments below, specifically the part about "immature" and "irrational".

[lozairakija]

stfu we give u free school plus more and u guys still bitch we stole the land fair and square so deal with it

[TheRFB]

They are dealing with it. The objective of demonstrations such as the ones surrounding the Olympics is not simply to bitch. It's also about developing solidarity between groups with similar political interests. Part of the aim is to develop alternative institutions that can serve people's needs were broken systems of government at the band council and federal levels have failed.

As to free schools, consider the case of Tyendinaga in Ontario, where the school has no running water.

[EmporerReagan]

BOYCOTT MCDONALDS, COCA-COLA, and all other olympic sponsors. fuck 2010, no games on stolen land

[45FLWS]

Dont forget about Las Vegas, most of the power that Vegas uses comes from a slurry line that is killing the Dineh people, just outside of the Navajo rez is the site of the largest nuclear spill in US history, a year later they relocated our people on that land, today the cancer rate is 50% higher than the rest of the USA, all those who are responsible for aboriginal suffering in the world will rot in hell,

[ASKIAOTA]

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

[TheRFB]

@Red1676 Solid points. I agree that some of the views in this video are expressed in ways that contribute to racism rather than fighting it. You're exactly right that we should be challenging the system of government and the media companies, not each other. The biggest challenge is to find how our struggles are part of a larger whole.

The only problem is that race still exists as long as there's racism. In our attitudes, we each have to take that first step of breaking down prejudice.

[Red1676]

@Red1676 lastly hate the white man in government not the average person living out his life, because i get treated like shit every day if its by the black man, the natives, or a crippled person. i do nothing to to be told i did something wrong. also to be put out there, i know you guys have been treated like shit but the media will always find a way to keep you out or label you as ones doing wrong. trust me if you know what straight edge is. i belong to the movement and put on gang file, for it

[Red1676]

@TheRFB considering i didnt make the halo video, meaning i pirated off a torrent thinking it was what you call machinima which i watched when i was 12 and still do. but to complain about to racist... its funny because i see alot of natives say to me kill the white man and all that stuff and i say yes you have a freedom of speech but when i say some thing like ow a joke or i say something to prove a point like im doing right now. trust me i dont like the government but i believe in who i am.

[TheRFB]

It's easy to cheer on individuals. It's much harder to cut through the spectacle and recognize that the Olympics operate within a social and political context, and that thinking about them in individual terms is an immature, irrational approach.

[TheRFB]

There is clearly no consideration in your comments for the fact that the companies that support the Olympics are engaged in a mass campaign of rape and pillage around the world, nor that the ideological underpinnings of the Games in fact negate true social solidarity (that is, social solidarity between humans, not "natives" or "Canadians"). They instead glorify unbridled individualism. Is that really the world we want?

[TheRFB]

It is interesting you encourage us to "cheer on [our] fellow natives and Canadians" (after telling us to fuck ourselves). This (the first part) suggests you care about solidarity between people. The question therefore remains how supporters of the Olympics are able to decide where solidarity is okay, and where it goes too far. You encourage cheering on natives and Canadians, but this form of solidarity seemingly ends at the nation's borders.