G20 Feminist Picnic and Politics
G20 Feminist Picnic and Politics
Who: Feminists against the G20!
What: Let’s meet to share our knowledge and passion about resisting
the G20 and make connections with others with the same interests.
We'll create banners, signs, theatre and other ways of telling the G20
what women think!
When: Friday June 25 12:30 PM
Where: Allan Gardens, corner of Carleton & Sherbourne
Why?
Because women, children, and trans people bear the brunt of violence,
war, racism, colonialism, ageism, economic inequality, and climate
degradation. The G8/G20 as an organization profits from and
proliferates all of these problems.
Because Indigenous women are disproportionately victimized,
incarcerated, and denied basic rights in Canada and across the world.
Because women and their families are displaced by war, by
privatization and climate disasters caused by government and corporate
actions, and are forced to migrate with their families to survive and
thrive, only to be faced with criminalization and racism in Canada.
Because the Harper government has cut funding the Status of Women in
Canada, killed plans for national childcare, and ended the court
challenges program that sought to help women and minorities fight for
their rights.
The Conservative government’s G8/ G20 maternal and child health
initiative does not support contraception or abortion, and will result
in far more preventable deaths than the overall number of lives saved.
Bring yourselves, your ideas, your passion, your rage!
Bring some food, bring paper, pens, markers, paints, tape, costumes,
bullhorns, boomboxes ... whatever you want to use to help make women’s
voices heard in the G20!
Afterwards we will join with All Out for Gender Justice! to form a
Gender Justice contingent as we lead off the Justice for Our
Communities! March against the G20.
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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.