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Black Bloc

Grounded TV Talks to BCCLA's David Eby About Protests During the Vancouver 2010 Games

Grounded TV talks to the youngest member of this year’s Vancouver Magazine Power 50 list, David Eby.  Eby is the 33-year-old Executive Director of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association. An...

Protests, Black Bloc, and the Future of Anti-Olympic and Other Activist Organizing in Vancouver: View from the Street

An interview with Olympic Street medics Chris Shaw and Danika Surm about the first week of the 2010 Olympic Games.

Vancouver's Anti-Olympics Movement Falters as Local Activist Hero David Eby Gets Pie in Face From Black Bloc Supporters

"You're a traitor," someone in the group of sixty activists shouted out, after lobbing a pie at David Eby. It landed squarely in his face. British Columbia Civil Liberties executive director Eby was...

Police Announce Charges in Heart Attack Marcher Arrests and Olympics Resistance Network Member Gives His Account of Being Surrounded by Riot Police

Contrary to reports from the police department yesterday, at least one of the "Black Bloc" protesters was local. Twenty-three year old Charlotte Christine Hannah of Vancouver was charged with...

Black Bloc Riot at the 2010 Olympic Games Damages Hudson Bay Company Store in Vancouver's City Centre

The Vancouver Police and Integrated Security Unit officers battled with a group that inflitrated a peaceful march of 200 on Georgia Street today. The protest went awry when masked participants began...