SPECIAL OLYMPICS COVERAGE

CiTR News speaks to Anna Hunter, an organizer with the Olympics Resistance Network about the Closing Ceremonies demonstration, the ongoing Tent City, and other activities. Listen here!

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Foreign Born Secretly Canadian indie rock group from L.A.play an early show on Feb 27th @ Fortune Sound Club w/ Philadelphia born Free Energy (DFA Records). Doors at 7:30. Show at 8:00. Tickets available at Zulu, Scratch, Red Cat or www.cheznouspresents.com

Local DJs will be playing great music for an even greater cause! Step aside from the Olympic Games madness and support your local DJs! Bring all your friends! This event will raise money for an international development project in Nepal in May 2010, run by Developing World Connections, a charitable, non-profit Canadian organization with outstanding experience in volunteer projects in developing countries.

Date: Wed, Feb 24 Time: 10 pm – 1:30 am Location: Anza Club ( 3 W 8th Ave) Tickets: $10 at the door

The Fundraiser: Keeping Discorder in Print Since 2010 Apollo Ghosts, Fine Mist, Japandroids (DJ Set), mt-40, Boogie Monster, KOBAN, Fanshaw, radiozero DJs @ The Biltmore Cabaret (No Minors) Tickets $15, 8:00 pm – 2:00 am Presented by: Discorder Magazine and CiTR 101.9 FM Radio

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Homelessness is addressed by Vancouver activists and protesters: the Tent City protest and the Red Tent Campaign.

Check out this Olympics minispot for Saturday and Sunday, February 20-21st. We’re your source for the latest coverage of the Vancouver Olympics from an alternative perspective.

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SPECIAL OLYMPICS COVERAGE

Upcoming Olympics events in Vancouver!

Check out this Olympics minispot for Friday, February 19th. We’re your source for the latest coverage of the Vancouver Olympics from an alternative perspective.

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Policing tactics become edgier and protesters arrested in Vancouver.

Check out this Olympics minispot for Thursday, February 18th. We’re your source for the latest coverage of the Vancouver Olympics from an alternative perspective.

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Whose voices are being heard during the games? What do these voices signify?

The Tent City protest gains international attention but are protests still overshadowed by Saturday’s events?

Check out this Olympics minispot for Wednesday, February 17th. We’re your source for the latest coverage of the Vancouver Olympics from an alternative perspective.

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The Biltmore Cabaret and CiTR present Paper Bag recording artists WOODHANDS… with TOPLESS GAY LOVE TEKNO PARTY. WOODHANDS showcases their new LP, REMORSE-CAPADE. Heralded by British magazine – Q – as one of the “Ten Best New Bands On Earth,” WOODHANDS is known for their vivid live performances, free of laptops or pre-recorded samples.
Doors open at 8 PM, Bands start at 8:30. Tickets at Zulu, Scratch and Red Cat Records or online at: www.ticketweb.ca

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The first few days of the Olympics proved senstationally busy as everyone got out to see what was going on. From protests, to a march in the Downtown Eastside and independent media facing the mechanics of the IOC – it’s all here on CiTR News.

Check out this Olympics minispot for Tuesday, February 16th. We’re your source for the latest coverage of the Vancouver Olympics from an alternative perspective.

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