Canada's 2010 Stolen Land Olympics' News
October 25, 2009 - 8:18am
Olympics' Top Cop Helped Blow Up Truck At Gustafsen Stand Off
http://thetyee.ca/News/2009/10/20/GustafsenStandOff/
"Gustafsen Lake isn't the only high profile clash of law enforcement with dissenters where Bud Mercer played a key role. He was on the frontlines when APEC protesters were pepper-sprayed in 1997. And when tree-sitters tried to stop logging in the Elaho Valley in 2000, Mercer led a team to roust them from their perches.."
Mobilization Against Start of Olympics Nazi Torch Ritual in Victoria
Native Activist Threatened with 'Rendition' by Incredibly Stupid Unit Olympic Cops
http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/story/1985
Mobilization Against Start of Olympics Torch Relay, Victoria 'BC'
http://www.no2010.com/node/1110
'"The Olympic Torch Relay is sponsored by the Royal Bank of Canada and Coca Cola. The RBC is one of the main financiers of the Tar Sands Oil project in northern Alberta, which is an act of genocide against the Indigenous people of the area, who are suffering extremely high rates of cancers, toxified water and land...Coca Cola factories in Columbia have been linked to paramilitary death squads and repression of union organizers.."
Trisha Baptie “worked” on the streets and off the streets. She prostituted to feed a drug addiction, and to feed a Gucci addiction.
Now she is working to stop demand and normalization of human trafficking and demand for prostitution.
“It was never the law that raped and beat me,” she told a crowd, while holding back tears, but staying strong. “As a society, do we think men should be able to pay to sexually access women’s bodies?”
In the only speaking engagement outside of Vancouver, Michelle Miller - Resist Exploitation, Embrace Dignity (REED), Trisha Baptie - Experiential Voices Educating (EVE), Cherry Smiley - Aboriginal Women’s’ Action Network (AWAN) along with Kate Quinn, Executive Director of the Prostitution Awareness and Action Foundation of Edmonton (PAAFE), spoke last Wednesday at the Sherwood Park Alliance Church about putting a stop to human trafficking and prostitution.
A panel of experts spoke to Sherwood Park residents about stopping human trafficking and abolishing prostitution. Human trafficking is happening in the community, and the upcoming Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver exacerbate the problem, the panel found.
The women advocated the Swedish or Nordic model, which clearly identifies prostitution as violence against women, decriminalizes “selling”, and criminalizes the buying of sex, including a public education campaign and increased exit strategies for women.
The average age women are recruited into becoming prostitutes is 14; of those in prostitution, 92 per cent in five surveyed countries, including Canada, said they wanted out of the business.
Miller said prostitution is paid rape, not a transaction, and that it disproportionately affects women of colour, especially Aboriginal women in Canada. She said women who have already suffered sexual assault are more likely to become prostitutes.
The AWAN came out with a statement against the idea that indoor prostitution is safer.
Do You Believe? The Dominion's Special Report on the Olympics
http://mostlywater.org/do_you_believe
"The Olympics are providing cover for an array of actions that would be politically unpalatable under normal circumstances.."
Repression and Resistance to the Olympic Torch Relay
http://mostlywater.org/how_much_does_anarchist_cost_repression_and_resis...