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2010 Heart Attack protest march - Vancouver, Canada
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by Pangea | February 13, 2010 at 05:32 pm
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Anti-Olympic demonstrators wearing bandanas and balaclavas smashed windows and overturned newspaper boxes in downtown Vancouver today, part of an anti-Olympic protest march organizers named The 2010 Heart Attack. The march billed itself as a demonstration designed the "clog the arteries of capitalism," according to promotional pamphlets handed out before the rally got underway at around 9 a.m. According to police, around 200 demonstrators took part.
The march began under the Main Street SkyTrain station, just a few minutes walk from the athletes village, and wound its way through downtown towards the Stanley Park causeway. Several demonstrators said they hoped to block the route to the Lion's Gate Bridge, which would have forced Olympic traffic headed for Whistler to be re-rerouted.
Several protesters threw a newspaper box and a chair through the window of the Hudson's Bay Company, which was then splashed with red paint, before clashing with riot police near the entrance to the Stanley Park causeway. Police are reporting they made seven arrests.
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at 17:47 on February 13th, 2010
I don't know why protesters think they have to destroy things to make their point.
at 23:36 on February 13th, 2010
Well, if you look at the footage and pictures, you can not see protesters being violent, you see a hand full of individuals almost apart from the protest causing vandalism. Some of those pictures look almost staged.
Never the less, it is a very small minority that causes this vandalism. I wonder how other would take being in their 20th, unemployed, hungry, scared of the future and with out a home in many cases.
You are retired and safe, they are at the begging and this in very uncertain times. As you started out every thing was booming and the future looked bright. Today it is a very different story for those that are young.
at 05:00 on February 14th, 2010
Wearing mighty nice clothing for beggars.
Most are likely spoiled children, living off of the largess of their parents.
at 05:36 on February 14th, 2010
Why do they need to be 20, unemployed. hungry? I mean damn dude, I'm not much older and have had some tough times but have never resorted to shit like this. Big excuse from a bleeding heart. If you want to be a loser, fine. Smoke shit all day (I love to smoke AFTER work) fine. But go and bust up a bunch of shit in our city.....crap! I'm not pro olympics but I am anti-stupidity.
at 18:42 on February 13th, 2010
if you have to cover your face and disguise yourself you cant be proud of what you are doing.......my suggestion...focus your energies in a more positive manner, be proud of our canada....if you dont like being canadian leave if you cant add something positive to society....you need to be responsible for what you do not hiding behind masks like cowards
at 00:02 on February 14th, 2010
No one can blame them for covering up their faces. Even though this is supposedly a free society with the right to protest, the reality speaks otherwise.
People that protest a certain cause have fund them self losing their jobs or being suspended from work or university, simply because the boss or dean did not like them opposing a certain cause and used their power in an abusive way to punish protesters for opposing such cause.
In the same manner has you blame protesters we should blame those abusing their power to silence any opposition, also we could blame soldiers, that kill and ransack civilian and civilian properties....
at 03:37 on February 14th, 2010
Additionally, the corporate media now virtually ignores valid protesters. Millions marched against the illegal Iraq invasion globally and went mostly unreported. So standard marching/protesting action has become almost useless. The reaction opinion is that breaking a few insured windows to goad the TV stations is the only means of making a global "shout out". Blame the sensationalist-biased media for forcing this behaviour in order to get legitimate attention.
at 19:15 on February 20th, 2010
You're either with Canada, or your with the terrorists (in this case anarchists) eh Marian? Your comment displays the worst of Bush-style-partiotism. If you support Canada, maybe the most positive thing you can do is to raise your voice in opposition to social welfare being slashed in favour of a party for the rich?
at 23:21 on February 13th, 2010
Thank you for the post and follow up on this story.
at 23:32 on February 13th, 2010
at 23:58 on February 13th, 2010
this is really putting a damper on the world's perspective of Canadians
great footage
at 10:12 on February 15th, 2010
i think i saw the protestors stop at the rbc to take out some money to buy a big mac and coca cola before the protest.what a bunch of losers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
at 19:12 on February 20th, 2010
Yah, damn those protesters!Only losers eat, and only really big losers need money to eat.I don't know why I even bother reading the comments of these stories. They're always full of idiots who look at the world and can't wrap their heads around why people are angry, or morons who only see the olympics as a celebration of sport (which is good) rather than also a giant corporate and nationalistic orgy, draining billions of dollars from necessary social programs in a time when those cuts can be least afforded (which is definitely worth protesting about).