Press Conference June 27- 3pm
MEDIA ADVISORY
June 27, 2010
The TorontoCommunity Mobilization Network and the Movement Defense Committee hold a press conference to highlight the willful violations of due process by police and the way ahead for TorontoCommunities.
A representative for the Movement Defense Committee will be at the Parkdale Library at 3:00 pm today to talk about the police’s violation of due process, as they conduct random sweeps and searches of people on the streets, deny access to lawyers and phone calls, and continue to arrest long-time community organizers.
A Toronto Community Mobilization Network spokesperson will be there to speak about why people are angry and what lies ahead for all the communities that rose up in resistance to the G8/G20.
At the end of the day, the G20 will leave this city, but our communities will be here, and our struggles for justice will be here. United and stronger than ever before we will keep fighting for a world we want to create and live in.
WHO – Movement Defense Committee and Toronto Community Mobilization Network
WHERE – Parkdale Library 1303 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON
WHEN – June 27th 3:00pm
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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.