QUEER G20 CALLOUT!
Calling all queers, homos, transfolk, gender benders and blenders, fierce femmes, leather daddies and mamas, poets, voguers, artists, brazen butches, freaks, riot grrrls and bois, MCs, porn stars, singers, dancers and ruckus causers!The G20 is comin’ to town!This past year our communities have seen the increased corporatization ofToronto’s Pride festivities, the censorship of community organizations from the march, increasing barriers facing queer migrants seeking status in Canada, therejection of a new sex education curriculum, queer rights being removed from the Canadian citizenship guide by the conservative government, and thecontinued struggle for freedom from fear that we must fight for here and around the world everyday.It is time to let the world know that radical queers say no more!We need your help! We are planning some queer and trans resistance in downtown Toronto on Tuesday, June 22. We want to create fierce and creative actions that will move through the streets, actions that are grounded in the real experiences of queer and trans folks, in as safe a manner as possible. The G20 is bad news for queer and trans folks here and in the Global South - let's show them whatwe think!We have two open meetings coming up:
-Wed. June 16th @ 6-9 p.m.
-Sun. June 20th @ 4p.m. (which will include a mini-marshalls meeting/training)Come bring your ideas, creativity and input! Create a street theatre piece, advance intervention, or lead a marching band, there’s no idea too big or small! We also need marshals! Please contact us if you have marshaling experience.
RSVP to queerG20resistance@gmail.com for location/info.Steps are being taken to make this event more accessible. Please email us aheadof time with any accessibility needs.Start time: 4:30pm Yonge and Queen, Tuesday June 22ndBring your bedazzled balaclavas and colourful masks if you want, along withsomething hot pink (extra armbands will be available), signs, banners,
noisemakers, instruments!We will be following the Toronto Community Mobilization Networks’ Guidelines onsexual assault and consent: http://g20.torontomobilize.org/sexualassaultpolicy
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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.