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NO OLYMPICS ON STOLEN NATIVE LAND!

VANCOUVER, BC - More than 200 representatives from

international news wire services, photo agencies, newspapers,

internet sites and non-rights holding broadcast organizations are

expected to attend the Vancouver 2010 World Press Briefing

scheduled for November 18 to 21, at the Vancouver Convention and

Exhibition Centre, Suite 200, 999 Canada Place.

*Dates are as follows:*

Monday, November 17, 2008 - Registration Check-In

Tuesday November 18, 2008 - Vancouver (city) venues tour, City of

Richmond (site of the speed skating oval) reception

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 - Whistler (mountain) venues tour

Thursday, November 20, 2008 - Vancouver 2010 World Press Briefing

presentations, evening reception presented by the Canadian

Tourism Commission, Tourism British Columbia and Tourism

Vancouver

Friday, November 21 - One-on-one sessions, Photo Services

briefing, optional venue tours

The Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC) has planned this event

to further propel its propaganda towards a global audience:

masking the detestation and mass local resistance towards the

2010 Winter Olympics. The Olympic Resistance Network (ORN) plans

to counter this attempt by claiming November 18th - 21st as 'Days

of Anti-Olympic Action'!

"The 2010 Games have already wreaked havoc on our communities and

destroyed traditional unceded indigenous territories. The people

feeling the negative effects of these actions are opposing this

injustice and are calling for mass anti-olympic resistance against all

Olympic venues and sponsors!" -Mary Claremont, Vancouver resident

The ORN takes this opportunity to announce plans to disrupt VANOC's

February 2009 Olympiad celebrations. We are calling for a mass

convergence to shutdown this event and further our resistance against

the games.

We invite all community members to help send the message to the world

that the people demand an end to the oppression and corporate greed

that are the 2010 winter games. We are calling for a wide range of

actions by as many groups and individuals as possible to fuel upcoming

convergence. If every group covers an Olympic issue in their own realm

and or hits one out of a vast number of Olympic sites around the city

this should take VANOC's glory away once again. We call for a wide

range of actions by different groups and individuals to demonstrate to

the world media that active opposition the 2010 circus exists and

grows more powerful with each passing day.

So be creative! Let's turn this media circus away from the corporate

circus!