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Date: Tue. May. 22 2007 9:11 PM ET

VANCOUVER — Anti-Olympic protesters stormed into the provincial cabinet offices Tuesday, overturning chairs, tossing around plants and pouring water into a fax machine.

No one was hurt and the two men and a woman waited to be arrested after causing the damage.

The Anti-Poverty Committee has threatened to "evict" Olympic officials to protest what they claim are poor people losing their homes to Olympic-related developments.

Anti-poverty activist David Cunningham said Tuesday's action was taken in response to his arrest on the weekend.

He said the target was Ken Dobell, who is on the board of the Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee.

Cunningham was arrested and issued a peace bond after he arrived at a public location in the city's Downtown Eastside for what he believed was an interview with a reporter.

But it was a Vancouver police officer posing as a reporter.

Cunningham said the Anti-Povery Committee called a news conference but didn't tell the media what was to occur.

"We just called the media together, didn't notify them of the eviction, otherwise the police would have been notified,'' he said.

"It was us resorting to police tactics if you will, and fooling the media, using and abusing the media for our own objectives."

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