Vancouver protests go back to the seventies
Posted by Marc | 4-02-2010 23:17 | Category: Activism, Sport
Déjà vu! This video and poster are protest items of the anti-capitalist, Indigenous, housing rights, labour, migrant justice, environmental, anti-war, community-loving, anti-poverty, civil libertarian, and anti colonial movement fighting at the coming Vancouver Olympics.
I was active at various protest movements in the early eighties and what I see at the Vancouver movement is almost a copy of what was going on 40 years ago. Protesting because the Olympics will take place on unceded Indigenous land I understand. Making the world aware of poverty and migrant justice I fully agree. But saying that the Olympics has acted as a fascist trojan horse since the Hitler games in 1933 is beyond all reality. And from a communications point of view it is very anti-productive. This is Godwin’s Law.
I guess what we are doing here at Osocio, covering the world where marketing and activism collide, is a fascist thing too.
Still want to read more? Check The Olympic Resistance Network.
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