http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/07/21/olympic-profits/ Fiercely independent (and often irreverent) news & views. Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:51:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/07/21/olympic-profits/#comment-836 ex-vancouveriste Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:44:20 +0000 http://briarpatchmagazine.com/?p=676#comment-836 [...] Jake Mohan at Utne Reader highlights homelessness and the dark side of Vancouver’s Olympic development, and includes a link to Briarpatch Magazine, which in this month’s issue has provided an excerpt from Christopher A. Shaw’s Five Ring Circus. [...] [...] Jake Mohan at Utne Reader highlights homelessness and the dark side of Vancouver’s Olympic development, and includes a link to Briarpatch Magazine, which in this month’s issue has provided an excerpt from Christopher A. Shaw’s Five Ring Circus. [...]

]]> http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/07/21/olympic-profits/#comment-833 The New Peril « Blind Man with a Pistol Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:17:29 +0000 http://briarpatchmagazine.com/?p=676#comment-833 [...] a mere thirty years after boycotting Moscow 1980 for the same imperialist crime, but for the exact same abuses for which it criticizes the inscrutable East (hat-tip to bcg on babble): Often, with only hours’ [...] [...] a mere thirty years after boycotting Moscow 1980 for the same imperialist crime, but for the exact same abuses for which it criticizes the inscrutable East (hat-tip to bcg on babble): Often, with only hours’ [...]

]]> http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/07/21/olympic-profits/#comment-816 wacqueline Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:19:51 +0000 http://briarpatchmagazine.com/?p=676#comment-816 Chris Shaw, you are one of my heroes in Vancouver right now. Thank you Briarpatch for excerpting such an incisive part of the book. As much as it can seem like Vancouver's going down the tubes with its Quatchi-soaked brand of delirious Olympic self-denial, there is also a groundswell of dissent in this town, perhaps most aptly illustrated through work like Shaw's and the Impact on Communities Coalition. Congratulations on your bravery Chris. Can't wait to hear more about you. Chris Shaw, you are one of my heroes in Vancouver right now. Thank you Briarpatch for excerpting such an incisive part of the book. As much as it can seem like Vancouver’s going down the tubes with its Quatchi-soaked brand of delirious Olympic self-denial, there is also a groundswell of dissent in this town, perhaps most aptly illustrated through work like Shaw’s and the Impact on Communities Coalition. Congratulations on your bravery Chris. Can’t wait to hear more about you.

]]> http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/07/21/olympic-profits/#comment-808 Sandra Espinoza Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:02:38 +0000 http://briarpatchmagazine.com/?p=676#comment-808 I had lived in Vancouver since my family immigrated from Chile in '85 --just in time for that good ol' Expo '86-- and now my partner and I have moved to Ontario with our daughter. We were not 'low-income', but it was becoming clear (and scary) that the Olympics were not going to affect our finances positively. It angers and saddens me to have had to escape beautiful Vancouver, but it makes me sick to read about how it is getting worse and worse. Thank you for such a well-written article! I had lived in Vancouver since my family immigrated from Chile in ‘85 –just in time for that good ol’ Expo ‘86– and now my partner and I have moved to Ontario with our daughter. We were not ‘low-income’, but it was becoming clear (and scary) that the Olympics were not going to affect our finances positively. It angers and saddens me to have had to escape beautiful Vancouver, but it makes me sick to read about how it is getting worse and worse. Thank you for such a well-written article!

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