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The Olympic Resistance Network will be at Car-Free Day at the Drive – Sunday, June 14 @ Napier and Commercial

Come out to the neighbourhood Car-Free festival on Commercial Drive this Sunday, learn more about the Olympics’ impacts on our communities, and connect with other folks about your concerns.  The Olympic Resistance Network will be at Napier and Commercial throughout the day (11 am – 7pm) a

Email: olympicresistance@riseup.net
Website: http://olympicresistance.net/

Also check out http://www.no2010.com/ (Indigenous anti-Olympics website that is part of the Olympic Resistance Network and has extensive information)

GET INVOLVED!

If you need housing or can provide housing, please use the drop-down menu for our housing forms

If the drop down menu is not visible in your browser, please visit these links:

1) Able to provide housing: http://olympicresistance.net/content/2010-convergence-billeting-form

2) Need housing: http://olympicresistance.net/content/housing-request-form

* Download our media package here: http://web.resist.ca/~tarsandsfreebc/downloads/media-packet-feb-2010.pdf

* Subscribe to our media distribution list:
https://lists.resist.ca/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ornmedia

MEDIA INQUIRIES

* TO PRE-ARRANGE INTERVIEWS: Email olympicresistance@riseup.net. We will get back to you within 36 hours.

* EMERGENCY MEDIA LIASONS:
- Harsha Walia: 778 885 0040
- Gurb Gill: 604-376-0366

* FOR SAME-DAY MEDIA AVAILABILITY:

- Monday:
Harsha Walia: 778 885 0040 or hwalia8@gmail.com
Joseph Jones: 604-433-2764 or jjones2340@gmail.com

- Tuesday:

The 2010 Winter Olympics will take place on unceded Indigenous land from February 12-28, 2010. Far from being simply about 'sport', the history of the Olympics is one rooted in displacement, corporate greed, fascism, repression, and violence. Those with the most to gain from the Olympics are the political and corporate elite – from real estate developers to private security corporations.

The negative effects of the upcoming 2010 Winter Games are already quite clear:

 

Theft of unceded Indigenous lands

* Promotional Video for the Anti-Olympic Convergence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoLQ6ThezTk

* Watch: Eight Reasons to Oppose the 2010 Winter Olympics: http://vimeo.com/4872922

The 2010 Winter Olympics will take place in Vancouver & Whistler, on unceded Indigenous land, from February 12-28 2010. Over the past seven years, there has been a groundswell of opposition to the Games. This began in 2002 when members of the St'at'imc and Secwepemc Nations filed a submission with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to oppose the bid.