The Toronto Community Mobilization Network and G20/G8 Protests
The Toronto Community Mobilization Network organizes for justice and dignity through supporting community groups and concerned residents to share their outrage and their hope in the months leading up to and during the G8/G20 Summits in June 2010.
“The G8/G20 causes immense violence on Indigenous people, poor people, on women and on people of color around the world. The G20 and its banks are responsible for the global financial meltdown and the resulting austerity measures that have deprived many communities of choices,” says Syed Hussan of the Toronto Community Mobilization Network.
“Communities in Canada and around the world oppose G20 policies. In place of such harmful policies, communities around the world are implementing their own people-based solutions to resolve the ongoing economic and social crises in their lives,” says Sharmeen Khan of the Network.
Khan adds, “Solutions and forms of resistance are diverse because the majority of communities impacted by the G20 are not homogenous. But our diverse communities are our strength and we respect and learn from these different alternative perspectives.” The Toronto Community Mobilization Network is not an umbrella group. The Toronto Community Mobilization Network is not organizing any actions.
The Toronto Community Mobilization Network is an education, outreach and infrastructure body that works to support community-based mobilizations prior to the G20. We do so within the framework of solidarity and respect. The Network’s Solidarity and Respect Statement can be found at http://g20.torontomobilize.org/SolidarityRespect The Network is working to create legal support, medic support, media support, transportation, food, housing, and convergence space during the mobilizations, as well as trying to create a safe, accessible space, free of sexual assault.
Rallies, marches, street parties, tent cities, autonomous actions, creative and fun actions are being organized by over a dozen different coalitions, networks or collections of individuals and organizations between June 21-27, 2010.
The Toronto Community Mobilization Network does not speak for these actions, and neither does the Network advise on anyone’s tactics.
The Toronto Community Mobilization Network is not planning protests but is hosting a calendar of different activities scheduled between June 21-27, 2010 so that all residents interested in social justice are able to attend events that fit their political viewpoint and their expectations of safety and effectiveness.
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For more info, visit g20.torontomobilize.org or email tcmn.media@gmail.com
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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.