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Subject: BREAKING NEWS: Rail Blockade Disrupts CP Rail’s Olympic Spirit 
Train
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:15:26 -0400

BREAKING NEWS                        For Immediate Release
October 12, 2008

Rail Blockade Disrupts CP Rail’s Olympic Spirit Train
“Six Nations and solidarity activists resist Olympic theft of Indigenous
land, ecological destruction, and attacks on the poor”

Toronto, Ontario – Moments ago, a group of activists occupied Canadian
Pacific (CP) Railway’s train tracks by locking themselves down to the
tracks and hanging banners off of the rail overpass on highway 27 near
Elder Mills. The protest was organized in solidarity with the Olympics
Resistance Network (ORN) and their call to disrupt CP’s “Spirit Train”
that is traveling across Canada.  Directions to the blockade site can be
found at the bottom of this release.

“We are here today to show the world what the Olympics really stands
for; capitalist greed and colonialist theft of Indigenous lands” said
Winnie Small.  They continued, “In stark contrast to Canada’s cherished
reputation as a human rights advocate, our First Nations live in abject
poverty; casualties of Canada’s apartheid policy refusal to respect
Indigenous rights to their own land.”

The “Spirit Train” was launched Sunday Sept. 21, 2008, in Port Moody,
B.C. where activists from the ORN, Anti-Poverty Committee, and the
Native Youth Movement successfully disrupted it.  To the embarrassment
of its corporate sponsors, the Spirit Train, still rolling across the
country, has been disrupted at several locations with
protesters often outnumbering supporters.

“The 2010 Winter Olympics are occurring on unceded First Nations land in
British Columbia where they are causing widespread environmental damage,
and are resulting in a massive uprooting of homeless and poor people in
Vancouver” said Dan Kellar, a spokesperson from AW at L, one of the
activist groups involved in the rail blockade. “The Canadian Pacific
Railway's (CP) "Spirit Train" is an Olympic propaganda machine spreading
the ideals of capitalist colonialism across Turtle Island.”


What: Blockade lock down on train tracks to stop Olympic ‘Spirit Train.’
Where: CP rail overpass on highway 27, just south of highway 73
(Rutherford Rd.).
Visuals:  Activists locked down to CP rail tracks, two large banners
over highway 27 reading “No Olympics on Stolen Native Land,” and
“Resistance 2010 Stop the Corporate Circus,” and Native Unity flags
flying high.

Driving Directions: Take 401 to highway 400 North.  Take exit 33 off
highway 400 onto highway 73 West (Rutherford Rd.).  After approximately
6 km, turn South on highway 27.  The blockade is on the CP rail overpass
on highway 27 approximately 500m South of highway 73.


For more information contact:
Dan Kellar 519 616 4462
Chris Buck 416 708 0834

For more information about Olympic Resistance
No2010.com
Peaceculture.org

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