Fire Works For Prisons Demonstration during G20 (more details)
When: Sunday, June 27 2010 at 5pm
Where: Bruce Mackey Park (Dundas and Wardell) in Toronto’s east end
What: A Demonstration Against Prison. Anarchists are organizing this as a
part of the larger mobilization in opposition to the G20 meetings.
Prison is everywhere; it is nothing more than a reflection of the society in
which we live. It is a daily threat and reality that has permeated every
facet of society. With the deepening of surveillance, the integration of
police forces, the increased use of private security, the existence of
courts, repression and isolation, the walls of prison are already built
around us. If we don’t accept this miserable life offered to us, they’ll
always have room for us in their overcrowded cells.
In the streets, prisons, psychiatric institutions, detention centres, there
are those who do not come to peace with their exploitation. We desire to
stand with comrades and accomplices who refuse to accept this reality, who
refuse to be defeated by the System, who taste freedom in the ashes of
prisons. We want to shed our fear and together confront the prison
apparatus. We want to expand our solidarity in struggle against prison. We
want people to join us and directly confront the systems of social control.
We want to be everything prison isn't: uncontrollable, joyful, creative...
We are encouraging people to come organized with intention, to make this
project their own. Bring what you want to the demo: plans, noisemakers,
banners, chants, and above all your passion for freedom. Confrontation is
welcome.
Keep the date marked off, we'll see you in the streets!
For more info: http://fireworksforprisons.wordpress.com
About the anti-G20 convergence: http://g20.torontomobilize.org
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The G8/G20 meetings took place in Ontario from June 25-27, 2010. Toronto-based organizations of women, people of colour, indigenous peoples, the poor, the working class, queer and trans people and disabled people organized a peoples convergence with 40,000 people taking to the streets, standing up for justice in collaboration and solidarity!
Activists, community members, inspired and outraged individuals came together as a movement to demand justice for people and the planet. Over a week of mobilizations, events, workshops and direct actions took place in the face of state and police repression, violence and infringements on rights and freedoms.
We must continue to mobilize and build greater solidarity among our communities- an important part of this is supporting all those arrested during the G20 summit, including our allies still in detention, and those released on bail.