Esplanade Townhall: Peaceful Rally Faces Mass Arrests at Novotel
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
6:30pm - 8:30pm
Windmill Line Co-op (125 Scadding Avenue)
After a week of protests and action by the labour movement and working class communities to the policies of the G20, one of the final battles raged in front of Novotel, a hotel in our community where workers were on strike. Police had already shown their willingness to brutalize peaceful protesters and ignore our civil liberties over the past days.
On Saturday evening, they arrested more than 300 peaceful protesters and bystanders, including many of our you as well as striking hotel workers during a peaceful rally on The Esplanade. This occurred while police forces stood back while black bloc vandals created havoc in the city of Toronto.
We, as the Esplanade community, will not accept such blatant disregard for our human well-being and our hard-fought civil rights. Working people have a right to protest increasing poverty, cuts to services and bailouts for the rich.
Join us on Wednesday, June 30th at 6:30 pm for an Esplanade community townhall. All are welcome and needed.
Townhall Will be Held at:
Location: Windmill Line Co-op on the 10th floor (125 Scadding Avenue)
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
Map: http://www.mapquest.com/
Speakers:
Rik Hockley, shop steward representative of Novotel Hotel Workers, UNITE Here! Local 75
Mike Seaward, United Steelworkers and Executive member of the Ontario NDP
Farshad Azadian, co-founder of the Esplanade Community Group
Organized by:
Esplanade Community Group
Toronto Young New Democrats
UNITE Here! Local 75
Endorsed by:
Fightback
BASICS community Newsletter
Afghan-Iranian Youth Network
Hands Off Venezuela
Media contacts: Jennie Ernewein - (647)-218-0164. Farshad Azadian - (647)-204-5312
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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.