Schedule

ALL OUT AGAINST THE 2010 WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES!

* New promo video! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoLQ6ThezTk

The 2010 Winter Olympics will take place in Vancouver & Whistler, on unceded Indigenous land, from February 12-28 2010. We call on all anti-capitalist, Indigenous, housing rights, labour, migrant justice, environmental, anti-war, community-loving, anti-poverty, civil libertarian, and anti colonial activists to come together to confront this two-week circus and the oppression it represents. We are organizing towards a global anti-capitalist and anti-colonial convergence against the 2010 Olympic Games.

* BASIC SCHEDULE:

The Convergence is called for Feb 10-15:

- Wed Feb 10- Thurs Feb 11: Olympic Resistance Summit from noon until 10 pm.Workshops and speakers discussing Impact of the Olympics on Indigenous Communities and Land Defence, Corporatization of the Games, Legal Rights, Housing and Poverty Impacts, Creative Resistance, and Struggle beyond 2010. Childcare and Food will be provided. Wise Hall (1882 Adanac St) and nearby Centre For Socialist Education (706 Clark Dr). Details: http://olympicresistance.net

- Fri Feb 12: Resist the Torch! Resist the Games! The Olympic Torch will be coming through our neighbourhoods. Meet at Victory Square, Cambie and Hastings at 8:30 am or Grandview Park on Commercial Drive at 9 am. Let's show VANOC and their Coca-Cola corporate spectacle what community really looks like. Celebrate our strength, creativity, and diversity.

- Fri Feb 12: Take Back Our City! “Welcome” the 2010 Olympic Torch with Free Games, Free Speech, and Free Food! Beginning with a festival at the Vancouver Art Gallery at 3 pm, followed by a parade and protest to BC Place Stadium. Details, including childcare, at: http://2010welcoming.wordpress.com/

- Sat Feb 13. 2010 Heart Attack: Street March to Clog the Arteries of Capitalism. Arrive at 8:30 am in Thornton Park (Main and Terminal). This demonstration will respect diversity of tactics and aims to disturb "business as unusual" on the first day of the Games! Details: http://olympicresistance.net/content/2010-heart-attack

- Sat Feb 13th from noon to 5 pm: Call to Action by No Sochi 2014 Committee. The next Winter Olympics will be held in Sochi, Russia in 2014. Demonstrations will be held in front of the Russian “Sochi House” at Science World between 12-5pm at Thornton Park to protest against the 2014 Sochi Olympics on the Land of Circassian Genocide.

- On Sun Feb 14th, we will be standing with the 19th Annual Women's Memorial March to honour all the missing and murdered and women in the DTES (this is not an anti-Olympic protest). Details at: http://womensmemorialmarch.wordpress.com/

- Mon Feb 15 (ONGOING): Noon at Pigeon Park (Carrall and Hastings). No empty talk, no empty lots! Rally for Homes and Support the Olympic Tent Village. Organized by DTES-based, anti-poverty, and housing rights groups. http://olympictentvillage.wordpress.com

- Mon Feb 15: Vancouver Art Gallery, Gathering at 6:00pm and leaving at 6:30pm. Come out and be part of an anti-war and anti-militarization moving spectacle. This event is a festive and creative demand for the Canadian government to respect and uphold human-rights, international law, the right to self-determination and civil rights.Organized by Stopwar.ca

ADDITIONAL EVENTS:

We will also be updating this description and our website with additional anti-Olympic events occurring during the entire month of February: http://olympicresistance.net or http://no2010.com

- Mon Feb 1 at 7 pm. There will be a roundtable discussion on Olympic Crimes: Corporate Swindles, Stolen Land & Stolen Dreams. Conference Room 1205 C, CEDAR Building, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Surrey. Jeff Shantz, Caelie Frampton, Alex Mah, Myka Abramson, Ben West and others.

- Wed Feb 3. Megaphone Magazine special issue entitled "Vancouver's Downtown Eastside: A People's History", the issue aims to change the perception of the neighbourhood and the people that populate it.Launch at the Interurban Gallery at 11 a.m. Speakers: Sean Condon, Irwin Ootindie, and Dalannah Gail Bowen.

- Wednesday Feb 3 from 7-9 pm. The Olympics are Coming, Let's Yack! WISE Hall, 1882 Adanac Street. Planning, sharing Olympic resistance activities. Organized by Community Olympics Watch.

- Thursday Feb 4. 112 West Hastings 8pm. $5-$10 entrance; $5 performer registration. The 2nd Annual CrossRoads Slam! With Burning Hearts: Fair Play! Inspired by the pending arrival of the 2010 Olympics poets are invited to slam on topics that explore the notion of Fair Play. Info: http://urbanink.ca/?p=252

- Thursday, Feb 4th. Pink Resistance hosts a discussion at Spartacus Books (684 E Hastings) at 5 pm on the impact of the Olympics towards queer and trans people, pre-Olympic cutbacks to HIV and AIDS services, concerns about the Olympic Pride House”, and more. Open to allies.

- Friday Feb 5 till Monday Feb 8: Indigenous Peoples Assembly in Secwepemc Territories. For Indigenous people only. For information email nymcommunications@gmail.com. Full callout posted at: http://mostlywater.org/indigenous_peoples_assembly_2010

- Saturday Feb 6. Empowerment 2010 Tour at the HD Lab (1814 Pandora St). Performances by The Outspoken Wordsmiths, Testament, Illogik and El Vuh. Doors at 8pm show at 9pm. $5 to $10 suggested donation no one turned away. A benefit for the Vancouver Media Co-op.

- Sunday Feb 7. 3rd Annual Poverty Olympics in the DTES. Relay starts at 12:30 at VANDU (380 East Hastings St.), 1-3 pm at Japanese Hall (487 Alexander St) Free, family event. http://povertyolympics.ca

- Sunday Feb 7. Leave Out Violence Presents youth-led media collaboration (films, photography, and live performances) that focus directly on "What does 2010 mean to you?" Strathcona Park from 5-9 pm. Email: lcyaction@gmail.com

- Sunday, Feb 7 at 5:30 pm. 2010 Abbotsford Olympic Torch Welcoming Committee at the Abbotsford Exhibition Park, 32470 Haida Drive. Let's make some noise and show them how we feel about their waste of 7 billion dollars while 156,000 children in this province live in poverty.

- Sunday Feb 7. Women's International League for Peace and Freedom presents a Panel Discussion on Women and the Olympics. Rhizome Café, 317 East Broadway, from 6-8 pm. Free event, donations appreciated.

- Mon Feb 8, 2010 onwards: Rhizome Cafe, 317 East Broadway. Bring in your own contributions—photos, posters, original artwork—for our collective art show: “Bringing the World together--In Collaboration, not Competition.” As the Olympics unfold all around us, Rhizome is sharing images of other ways that the world comes together: in solidarity and collaboration to address global social and environmental issues.

- Mon Feb 8, 2010: Direct Action Training at UBC. From 5:00pm - 8:00pm at SUB Room 245, UBC. Just four days before the Torch Reception protest at UBC and the beginning of the 2010 Convergence! Let's all attend and learn everything we can! Organized by UBC Social Justice Centre.

- Tues Feb 9, 3pm Delta Municipal Hall - 4500 Clarence Taylor Crescent (5 min walk from Ladner Exchange bus loop). GatewaySucks.org and the Council of Canadians will "greet" the Olympic Torch Relay when it arrives at Delta Municipal Hall. Join us! We will provide signs and banners at both events. For more information see: http://www.gatewaysucks.org/freeway-olympics

- Thursday, Feb. 11 between 6-7pm. Protest the Torch relay at UBC. Social justice groups on UBC campus invite Olympic resisters to rally at the Old Bus Loop (corner of University Boulevard and East Mall near the Student Union Building).

- Friday, Feb 12, 2010 at 8:00pm, Legion Hall, 2205 Commerical Drive. We do not like the Olympics Celebration Party! Lineup: Dreamscene, Legally Blind, DJ Josef, DJ Kinky Kitty, Team YPE Cost: $3 - ($1297 cheaper than a ticket to the opening ceremonies). Nobody turned away.

- Fri Feb 12: Resistance Media Lounge at Rhizome Café, 317 East Broadway at 8 pm. Join the Vancouver Media Co-op for a mash up of protest footage, news, and images from the actions against the Olympic torch and the kick off of the anti-Olympics convergence.

- Sat Feb 13, 8:00pm at Rhizome Cafe (317 East Broadway). Anne Feeney in Concert: 5 Ring Circus Special. Join Anne Feeney for political songs about: the environment, jobs, gay rights, women's rights, stopping racism and other forms of discrimination, homelessness, a world without war, and much, much more. $12-$20 sliding scale.

- Sunday Feb 14. People's Prom. The most kick ass antidote to Valentine’s Day in the city. You like funk and frolic? Love and revolution? Perfect. All money raised goes toward grassroot, direct action and creative resistance groups engaged in the resistance to the 2010 Olympics. http://peoplesprom.resist.ca/

- Friday, Feb 19, 7:00pm at Rhizome Cafe (317 East Broadway). Board Games are Soooo Gay! Board Games, not Olympic Games! Bring your favourite games or use ours. Our in-house DJs will keep the tunes coming.

- Saturday, Feb 20. Rally for a National Housing Program from noon-2 pm, north Side of Vancouver Art Gallery. The UN now calls Canada's housing crisis, 'a national emergency.' Come join this rally to pressure the federal government to once again re-establish a national housing program in Canada. Organized by Impact on Communities Coalition.

- Sat Feb 20: Anti-OH-LIMP-IC show at Rickshaw Theater, 254 East Hastings Street. Door at 8 pm. D.O.A. will headline. The games are not much more than a corporate sellout. Professor Chris Shaw, who wrote the definitive book Five Ring Circus: Myths and Realities of the Olympic
Games will speak at the event.