Olympic Resistance on the Global Day of Action against Climate Change

From Narrative Resistance, Dec 11

It was not out of place for us to protest the Olympics today, as one might potentially suggest, on the Global Day of Action against Climate Change. For one thing, the City of Kitchener was holding a pre-torch Olympic celebration yesterday on public property at City Hall. Second, because Olympic sponsor RBC and the country of Canada are using the Olympics as a greenwashing campaign, to cover up their true record on climate change and the environment.

For several years now, the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympics (VANOC) has been touting the upcoming Games as the "greenest ever." However, as activists on the West Coast and in the Callaghan Valley have been saying, the claim is a lie.

This week, Gordon Campbell, the premiere of so-called British Columbia, is in Copenhagen, selling the world on the Province's alleged record of environmentalism. He went armed with a publicly available website and document called Super, Natural British Columbia: Climate Action for the 21^st Century [pdf].

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