With Tibet exiles attempting to return home, the Chinese government is in the midst of conducting a “people’s war” of violence and propaganda against Tibetan Buddhists and anyone who supports the Dalai Lama. Since this began, about one week ago, anywhere up to 300 demonstrators have died and hundreds more have been detained. By the looks of things, the situation is going to get a lot worse in the coming days.

What you Can do to Help
Students for a Free Tibet ask you to “contact your local government …

In early January, five leading Tibetan organizations announced the launch of the “Tibetan People’s Uprising Movement”, a coordinated Tibetan resistance effort leading up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The Games will take place just months before the 50th anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan National Uprising against China’s invasion of Tibet. Since then, more than 1 million Tibetans have died as a direct result of China’s occupation.

As stated in a Press Release, even now, China continues an “unrelenting war on Tibetan religion and culture.” They are displacing …

Indigenous representatives attending the recent intercontinental encuentro in Vicam, Sonora Mexico, have called for a boycott of the 2010 Olympics Games in Vancouver, Canada; ratifying the position in the Vicam declaration, which was produced at the end of the 4 day gathering.

Hundreds, if not thousands of indigenous people now plan to attend the Olympic games “not in celebration, but in resistance to the danger the Olympics poses to Indigenous lands, identity, culture, health, livelihoods, and to future generations.”

Intercontinental Anti- 2010 Olympics Movement Launched In Mexico
For Immediate Release, …

The following is the concluding section of a paper titled “Development-induced Displacement,’ from the Center for Education and Documentation (CED) website. I think it is particularly useful in reference to my recent post about the Olympics.

Conclusion
Right to development as a human right was declared in 1986,123 however, was acknowledged in the Second UN World Conference on Human Rights in 1993 in Vienna integrating the economic social and cultural rights with the civil and political rights; it articulated an amalgamation of the two sets of human rights as an essential fore condition for the `right to opportunities for …

When one thinks of the Olympics, we conjure up images of honour, integrity, and fair play.

It’s a time when athletes from around the world gather to challenge themselves, to try and set new world records, and to even ‘bring home the gold!’

As citizens, we’re led to believe it’s a privilege to play host for the games. We’re endlessly encouraged to attend and share in this new-found Olympic pride; and as tourists we’re even given the chance to take some of it back home with us—in the form of t-shirts, …

No Olympics On Stolen Unceded Native Land
International Indigenous Youth Network Statement
March 19, 2007

The International Indigenous Youth Network stands in full confrontation with the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee (VANOC) and the Canadian Government and corporations supporting the Olympic 2010 Winter Games.

We hold the Canadian government, the British Columbian (BC) and Canadian Judicial systems working in conjunction with VANOC responsible for death of Indigenous Elder and Warrior Harriet Nahanee[1], and acknowledge her death and the persecution of Indigenous dissent as a direct result of the Canadian …

Natives Protest Sun Peaks and 2010 Olympics
Native Youth Movement and Skwelkewk’welt Protection Center
Media Advisory: For release on Thursday, March 15th, 2007

Secwepemc People Mobilize with the Anti-Olympic Coalition to Smash on the New Sun Peaks Road, the Continued $294-Million Sun Peaks Expansion and the 2010 Olympics in BC, CANADA!

What: Secwepemc People will gather and have a Press Conference and Protest in Sun Peaks Village to voice a united opposition to the new Sun Peaks road, The 2010 Olympics, along with Sun Peaks’ efforts to become a Municipality and the continued destruction of un-surrendered, un-ceded Secwepemc Homelands. We say No to …

Please find enclosed the press release regarding Harriet Nahannee’s death as a direct result of her incarceration. The call for a public inquiry to answer the below questions has gone out and we are also forwarding it to the European Support groups, who are looking into a campaign on Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples especially in light of the 2010 Olympics being railroaded into Aboriginal Territories and Harriet losing her life trying to stop it.

As you all know elder and environmental activist, Betty Krawczyk, 78, will be sentenced by the same judge, Mme Justice Brown, who sent Harriet to jail …