great idea

thanks guys :)

great!

Great photo :)

lol to aya

unbelievable.

plus, i like how the cop's trying to figure out where all that came from. guess some people have bigger things to ponder than native rights.

This land is their land

nice letter SS

When I was in beijing some 5 years ago there were thousands of billboards stating, "New China, Great Olympic."

We thank the first nationers here for giving us the opportunity to commit genocide

eheh

...it is interesting to me that the only parts of the U.S. wherein you find relatively large percentages of Native Americans holding positions of power in government and society is in Alaska -- where reservations either were never established or they did not result in considerable isolation for the majority of native cultures -- yet assimilation had not resulted in a loss of their culture, any moreso than in other parts of the country.

freal.
depressing.

We've been watching a PBS series (on dvd) about the history of the American West, so I am more keenly aware than ever about how native peoples have and continue to be mistreated.

what I wrote:

"Dear (Mayor) Sam Sullivan and Council,

I am asking you to please remember in the midst of all this Olympic giddyness that there are thousands of people in vancouver who are inadequately housed and need your action.

Please make sure that good housing (not dorm rooms) is available to all Vancouverites, and resist the temptation to write some of us off. Just because so many in this city hold the poor in contempt does not mean that you may do the same.

You dream city of the future will not look so great with thousands of desperately poor people wandering throughout it. Please think it through."

LOLs Freaks, Aya, Pothole!

Ceph & Pana - yeah good point. how often we forget that our affluent civilisation got that way by stealing.

Housefinder - it is all over the papers here. before I got there I guess, the notorious rabble-rousers had stormed the stage and thrown things! so of course the media made sure the whole province knew how out to lunch we protesters are (thanks a lot kids).

didn't see this on Global National

Does that give the coppers rights to have their horse shit on the native peoples land!! Although I think they would forgive the horse as he knows not what he does!!

I'm seeing a biological bomb there....LoL

that's a DOOmsday scenario, up thar!