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Anti-Olympic Activists Mark the Arrival Of the Torch in Victoria

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Last Updated (Monday, 02 November 2009 10:06) Written by NO2010 Saturday, 31 October 2009 00:14

Anti-Olympic Activists Mark the Arrival Of the Torch in Victoria

 

The Olympic torch relay began today in Victoria. The torch lighting ceremony that took place at the BC Legislature was attended by a few hundred people, many of them classes of primary school children brought down fill in the crowd that took up only a small portion of the lawn. During the 105 days leading up to the Vancouver 2010 games the torch will be carried throughout Canada rallying up support for the Olympic games, and fostering nationalist pride. On day three of the torch's journey it will be paraded through the streets of Port Alberni  on the back of a logging truck to celebrate Canada's long history of profit driven environmental devastation.

 

 

 

Upon the torches' arrival Premier Gordon Campbell was quick to mention the involvement of first nations in the olympic process, a process that has already been boycotted by the groups such as the Native Youth Movement, and criticized widely by native groups across Canada. Campbell spoke of the torch as a symbol of olympic pride, a "golden light" that has no precedent from the ancient greek games and in fact was started as a modern Olympic tradition by the Nazis, in the 1936 summer games. Highlighting this fact, the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre has just opened an exhibit profiling Canadas' involvement in the spectacle. 

Indymedia will bring you more updates on this story as it develops 

 

Fight for the right to sleep cont...

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Last Updated (Tuesday, 30 November 1999 00:00) Written by Administrator Monday, 19 October 2009 00:00

David Johnson has now been released from jail after being arrested for breaching his probation by erecting a temporary shelter on city property. He was set free Oct 14th after a 23 day hunger strike in jail to protest the courts mal-treatment of him by making him a political prisoner, and for the abuses of the homeless caused by the enforcement of anti poverty laws such as the "safe streets act". Mr. Johnson is still awaiting the supreme courts decision on the City of Victorias' challenge to the earlier court ruling that found anti camping bylaws a violation of charter rights.
 

Len Barrie Defalts On Loan Repayment

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Last Updated (Monday, 21 September 2009 18:37) Written by VICFAN Monday, 21 September 2009 18:24

Langford Interchange payment "postponed" indefinitely

 

A crucial piece of information regarding the Langford interchange funding controversy came to light Friday afternoon. Langford city staff confirmed Friday, September 4th that Len Barrie's company, LGB9, has failed to repay $4.79 million, his share of the $9.8 million that the city borrowed on behalf of developers to build the Spencer Road interchange (formerly the Bear Mountain Interchange.) 

Read more: Len Barrie Defalts On Loan Repayment

   

Aug 25th Call Out

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Last Updated (Thursday, 20 August 2009 04:19) Written by Joycraft Thursday, 20 August 2009 04:09

You are invited to join the Joycraft Homefullness Society, the Temporary Autonomous Shelter Committee and others for a Potent Peace Party Potluck Picnic. Come welcome in the 39th session of the BC Legislative Assembly and tell our MPPs who they work for. We need more then the Olympic Legacy dept. We need our paramedics back, our education funds for off reserve First Nations restored, we need more then a band aid solution for our marginalized poor, we need to get our homeless population under control. We need stability not instability for all BCers.
 
When: 2pm August 25th
Where: Legislature Lawn
 
Bring drums, guitars, petitions, placards, banners, stories, prayers and food for those who have none 
 
We wish to also honour the many, many of you who have volunteered and supported the people who live outside
without shelter. Without the kindness of strangers, many of us would not be here today. We wish to present the
simple truth and ways in which one can assist immediately to relieve the suffering on the streets of Victoria.
 

Young Family's Bid to Save Local Farm

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Last Updated (Monday, 03 August 2009 00:43) Written by lucho Sunday, 02 August 2009 23:55

Madrona Farm has met it's second fundraising deadline of $750,000 by July 31,2009. The goal is to pay for the land so that it can be held in trust, as a public resource, for as long as “registered property owner” means anything to our society. (Farmer) Dave Chambers, the current tenant, says that this model of public land ownership is important for the future of farming, and could even be an example of how to manage other public resources as well.
 Madrona Farm
All it take is for one generation to make the decision to develop land, and that farm is gone for all future generations. By removing the land from the realm of private property, we can responsibly care for it as a valued community asset. Madrona Farm is as old as the city of Saanich it's self, and predates the municipal plumbing that currently supplies its water for irrigation. Currently the farm provides tens of thousands of tones of organic food for the community, as well as apprenticeship for young aspiring farmers. With 105 varieties of vegetables, the farm is managed organically with careful attention paid to the health of the soil. If you would like more information about the farm visit http://madronafarm.com/
   

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