The Dominion - Vancouver Media Cooperative

Housing Activists Reclaim Olympic Village

Tim McSorley — Tue, 25 May 2010 17:21:51 +0000

Housing activists and their supporters reclaimed Athlete's Village in a carefully planned action on the afternoon of Saturday, May 15.

The False Promises at False Creek rally disrupted the open house event, and made the demands of poor and homeless people in Vancouver impossible for investors to ignore.

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This video report was originally published on the Vancouver Media Coop site.

Cameras: Gregor Jahn, Franklin Lopez
Editing: Franklin Lopez
Writing: Dawn Paley

You can also view more images from this action in a photo essay by Isaac Oommen.

False Creek action 2

"They love everything about Indigenous Peoples, except the people"

dawn — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:50:00 +0000

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A talk by Gord Hill

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"The government wants to say, 'It's all great here. We have a great relationship with Indigenous peoples.' We're saying no, that's false. That's a lie that the governments, the corporations and the Olympics are perpetrating."

These are some of the words of Gord Hill, member of the Kwakwak'wakw Nation, editor of No2010.com, and resident of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

In this talk, recorded at UBC's Green College on October 19th, 2009, Hill discusses the history behind the slogan "No Olympics on Stolen Native Land."

Adil Charkaoui Speaks

dawn — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:16 +0000

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On CSIS, Security Certificates and understanding Kafka

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On June 26, Adil Charkaoui spoke about his experience as one of five men in Canada living under a security certificate.

He was in Vancouver for an event sponsored by No One Is Illegal-Vancouver, BC Civil Liberties Association, Canadian Muslim Union, Council of Canadians - BC / Yukon Region, Canadian Islamic Congress, and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Photo by Cecily Nicholson.