UPDATE: Due to an emergency, the speakers for the No Olympics on Stolen Land
speaking tour have had to postpone their visit to Toronto.

The event, originally scheduled for Tuesday, Jan 22, will now be held on
February 13. More details about the rescheduled event will follow in the
coming weeks.

Please keep checking the No One Is Illegal-Toronto website for updates.
Website: http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org

Tuesday, Jan 22, 6pm
40 St. George Street (North of College)
Bahen Centre Rm 1210, Toronto

FEATURING

Kanahus Pellkey (Native Youth Movement)
Dustin Johnson (Ts'mkiyen Nation and Anti-2010 Olympics Campaign)

With the 2010 Winter Olympics scheduled to occur on unceded Coast Salish,
St'at'imc and Squamish territory in two years, the spectacle surrounding
them continues to wreak havoc on Indigenous people, poor people, and the
Earth. In the spirit of resistance to colonialism, with the 2010 Olympics
as a main target, Kanahus Pellkey of the Native Youth Movement and Native
youth Dustin Johnson are touring throughout the Great Lakes and East Coast
in January and February 2008.

"By them choosing to have the Olympics here, it's opening up our land, our
sacred sites, our medicine grounds," says Kanahus Pellkey. "We want
investors to know our land is not for sale." Pre-Olympic fever occupies
the province of BC, and the economic excitement has massively accelerated
gentrification and the building of highways, resorts, and condos. The
construction of infrastructure for the 2010 Olympics itself is adding to
extensive destruction of traditional homelands of the local Indigenous
peoples.

In October 2007, more than 1500 Indigenous people representing communities
across this hemisphere held the Gathering of the Indigenous Peoples of
America, on Yaqui territory in Vicam, Sonora, Mexico. They stated in their
final declaration, "We reject the 2010 Winter Olympics on sacred and
stolen territory of Turtle Island–Vancouver, Canada." This speaking tour
is strengthened by this momentum, and by the knowledge that 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.

The Native Youth Movement is a Movement of Native youth that works to
revive traditional knowledge and inspire Native youth to defend their
Peoples and Territories.

Kanahus Pellkey is a Secwepemc and Ktnuxa Warrior and a spokesperson for
the Secwepemc chapter of the NYM. She has been jailed before for fighting
against the illegal occupation and theft of Secwepemc Lands for the Sun
Peaks ski-resort, and is active in opposing the 2010 Olympics.

Dustin Johnson is a member of the Ts'mkiyen nation and is active in
organizing anti-colonial resistance to the 2010 Olympics.

Endorsed by: OPIRG-Toronto, No One Is Illegal-Toronto, OCAP, CUPE 3903
First Nations Solidarity Working Group, Coalition Against Israeli
Apartheid

For more info, email: opirg.toronto@gmail.com

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More information:

The Olympic organizers operate with a budget of almost $2 billion, and
other costs to government surpass $6 billion. Despite all the
Olympic-related mega development, Vancouver is now home to North America's
fastest growing homelessness crisis. Indigenous people account for 30% of
this homeless population, despite making up only 2% of the total
population in the province.

Dozens of low-income hotels and apartment buildings are being converted to
unaffordable condominiums. As thousands of people are forced from their
homes, they are then criminalized for being homeless. Private security
firms are hired by the city to further police the streets, long-running
squats are shut down, and social services are more stressed and threatened
than ever. The solution of the municipal and provincial governments and
the police is to ignore the root cause, and instead pay people to leave
Vancouver and repress those who stay.

The darker side of the 2010 Olympics is further apparent by examining how
their sponsors and supporters are some of the most destructive companies
on Turtle Island. These include:

* Petro-Canada, one of Canada's largest producers of oil and gas,
* TransCanada, one of the continent's largest transporters of oil and gas,
* Canadian Pacific Railway, long an integral tool of colonization, *
Hudson's Bay Company, another company responsible for the colonization and
theft of Indigenous land,
* General Electric, one of the world's top three producers of military
aircraft engines and major producer of nuclear power plants,
* General Motors, long a top contractor for the Canadian military and now
the world's largest automobile manufacturer,
* Dow Chemical, the world's second largest chemical manufacturer and cause
of the Bhopal, India disaster,
* Bell Canada, who's CEO is one of the top corporate architects of the
Security and Prosperity Partnership.

There is of course so much more that could be said. For further reading,
see: www.no2010.com or www.harrietspirit.blogspot.com