http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=02/08/09/3418651 Fireworks in Vancouver.Someone died at one of these potlatch events once.A long time ago in a galaxy far,far away...The context of the current class war in British Columbia includes - - An attempt by B.C. Government Employeees Union (B.C.G.E.U.) members to charge into a hotel on January 23rd, 2002, where Premier Gordon Campbell was set to speak. - Illegal wildcat strikes in late January by the B.C. Teachers Federation (B.C.T.F.) and the B.C.G.E.U. - A tent-city occupation by street youth and students on the front lawn of the provincial legislature building in Victoria in February which ended with it's dismantling by riot police - The fire-bombing of Premier Gordon Campbell's office on the night of February 21st. - A B.C Federation of Labour rally at the legislature in Victoria by more than 20,000 people, at which a group of about 10 anarchists intervened by attacking a security barrier and throwing rocks at the legislature building. - An anti-poverty Snake March in Victoria on March 25th that went through a mall and several corporate stores, leaving splatters from paint-bombs and graffitti behind. - An anti-poverty march to one of Premier Gordon Campbell's homes in Vancouver on April 1st. - An all-womyn anti-poverty brigade's occupation of a "Member of the Legislative Assembly" office in Victoria on April 25th that was broken up by riot police who pepper-sprayed several demonstrators. - A May Day demonstration in Vancouver against the 6-dollar training wage that included a half-hour blockade of a McDonalds restaurant (one of the businesses using the training wage, and a major contributor to the Liberal's election campaign.). After the end of the demonstration a masked group charged through a downtown mall and carried out small acts of vandalism and sabotage. - A July 14th demonstration at the opening of a gallery show at the Vancouver Art Gallery at which the Premier was scheduled to speak at, but failed to show his face in public - because of "security concerns" caused by hundreds of angry demonstrators who attempted to dismantle a security fence, spat on police officers, and were then pepper-sprayed.