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Calling on all native warriors, anti-capitalists, anti-poverty activists, environmentalists, and concerned individuals,queer activists, anarchists to convergerge against the the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.

In February 2010 the Winter Olympic Games and its supporters will be converging on Vancouver, Whistler, and surrounding unceded native land in Coast Salish Territories.

Let them know that it will not be business as usual and that where ever the neo-colonial beast spreads its parasitic tentacles that the people will rise to sever them.

PROTEST VANOC!
Wednesday May 16th
1pm Peoples Pigeon Park (Carrall & Hastings)
-Free transportation to VANOC office at 3585 Gravely for demo at 1:30-

PROTEST CORPORATE INVASION OF INDIGENOUS TERRITORY!!
PROTEST OLYMPIC GENTRIFICATION!! PROTEST VANOC’S BULLSHIT BUDGET!!

The Vancouver Olympics Committee (VANOC), the ruling elite of the 2010
Olympic games, have been allowed to conspire in peace behind closed doors
while outside people’s homes and land are destroyed.

At their next secret meeting join us in confronting them face-to-face at
their headquarters.

Protestors Crash VANOC Recruitment in Halifax

On the morning of April 24, 2007, VANOC kicked off a recruitment drive in
Nova Scotia with a keynote presentation by Donna Wilson, Executive Vice
President of the Human Resources division at VANOC held at the Westin Hotel
in downtown Halifax.

At approximately 8:15 am, half a dozen protesters crashed the event,
overtook the podium at the front of the room and spoke to the detrimental
impacts that the Olympic Games have already had and will continue to have on
the urban poor, low-income communities, and Native peoples. Fact sheets were

-please forward-

Shutdown Countdown 2010!

Monday, March 12, 2007
5:15 PM at Vancouver City Hall
(West 12th Avenue & Cambie Street)

FREE BUS FROM PIGEON PARK (Hastings & Carrall) AT 4:30

This is an official VANOC 'flag lighting' event which we intend to disrupt
or shutdown.

Bring noise-makers.

Honour the spirit of Harriet Nahanee!

No Olympics on Stolen Native Land!!!

Picture the Struggle is FINALLY here.

Date: Saturday, March 3rd
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Rhizome Cafe (317 E. Broadway)
Cost: $2 - $7 sliding scale (no one turned away)

We will be having a silent auction of local artists work, as well as music
from our very own Echolalia, Bex and special guest Ricky!

We will still be accepting art submissions. To submit please contact anna or peter 604 325 3812
at 604-764-5103 or ahunter@riseup.net

See you there!

RE: Documentary film about the Vancouver Olympics.

The "Five Ring Circus" exposes a side to the Vancouver Olympics which
has not been revealed before. This film shows how this three week event
is changing Vancouver forever. Find out what mayors, activists and
residents think of the 2010 olympic games.

With three years to go before the games, this documentary examines how
the commitments to environmental, social and economic sustainability
have not been kept and how the preparations for the games are affecting
diverse communities. Is Vancouver getting into the spirit of the