Press Conference June 28 - Wave of Political Repression Sweeps Toronto
http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/events/3905
Alternative Media Centre, Toronto Community Mobilization Network joint Press Conference
Wave of Political Repression Sweeps Toronto
10:00am
Monday June 28 2010
Venue: Alternative Media Centre
Address: 319R Harbord Ave
WAVE OF POLITICAL REPRESSION SWEEPS TORONTO IN WAKE OF G20 SUMMIT
Press Conference
10am, Monday June 28th at the Alternative Media Centre 318R Harbord Ave.
Toronto
Speakers
Jesse Rosenfeld: The Guardian, Independent Journalist
Amy Miller: Alternative Media Centre, Independent Journalist
Adam MacIsaac: Alternative Media Centre, Independent Journalist
Sharmeen Khan: Toronto Community Mobilization Network
Adonis elJamal: Toronto Community Mobilization Network
The Alternative Media Centre and the Toronto Community Mobilization Network will hold a joint press conference to present first hand accounts of the events of recent hours including mass arrests, police violence and intimidation across the city.
Our speakers will highlight the ongoing and politically motivated targeting of journalists and community organizers, as well as the profiling of people on the basis of clothing type, for carrying phone numbers of the legal aid hotline or for residing in certain neighbourhoods. We will also report on the cruel and brutal conditions under which people are being detained, arrested and imprisoned.
Media packets with raw video footage will be distributed at the Press Conference.
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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.