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This is the questions a lot of people are asking — not just visitors, either. Plenty of locals in Vancouver are stymied in their efforts to decipher just what the protesters want; or more precisely, what it would take to satisfy them, barring a wholesale transfer of Canadian territory to First Nations groups and a handover of the Bank of Canada’s reserves to poverty groups.

Here’s a video of the anti-Olympics protest on the first day of the Games and some conversations with individual protesters about why they showed up that day.