G20 to Toronto: Don't go fly a kite
Transport Canada has released more details of the restricted airspace during the G8 and G20 summits in Huntsville and Toronto. In Huntsville, access within 15 nautical miles of the summit site will be limited to approved military and police operations, emergency/life-saving flights (including MEDEVAC/organ flights), search and rescue, approved essential service aircraft, state aircraft on official business, and aircraft carrying VIPs (designated by the RCMP).
In Toronto, the same rules apply with exception given to all regularly scheduled commercial passenger and cargo flights and approved traffic watch flights. But the agency is not just drawing the line with planes. The following operations will be prohibited:
• parachuting
• parasailing
• paragliding
• hang gliding
• gliding
• rocket launches
• kites
• radio controlled aircraft
• unmanned air vehicles (UAV)
• hot air balloons
• dirigible aircraft
• agricultural/crop-dusting flights
• sight-seeing
• aerial advertising/banner towing
• aerobatic flights
• flight training
• general aviation
• media flights
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/g8-g20/blog-local-view/g20-to-...
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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.