Resources continue to be wasted in G20 witch hunt
For Immediate Release
July 14, 2010
Resources continue to be wasted in G20 witch hunt
Toronto – The Toronto Community Mobilization Network is gravely disappointed with the recent decision by Toronto Police to further waste resources by releasing a Top 10 G20 Most Wanted List at a media circus in downtown Toronto on Wednesday.
“After already wasting $1 billion, it seems the Police have even more money to throw at setting up special investigation teams, hosting expensive press conferences and going after a few protestors, all the while failing to investigate the real crimes people face”, said Claudia Calabro of the Toronto Community Mobilization Network.
“Where is the Top 10 list of suspects responsible for the deaths and disappearances of over 500 Indigenous women? Where is the Top 10 list of suspects responsible for Canada’s mining atrocities? Where is the special investigation team for suspects who tortured Afghanis?” she asks.
The press conference by the Toronto Police happened the day after the Toronto Community Mobilization Network, launched a grassroots people’s investigation in to the police blunders, abuse and violence that took place in late June 2010.
“Violence and ‘blunders’ by police officers in different parts of the city at different times was too well organized to be random, it has to have been ordered and coordinated by someone”, says Farrah Miranda of the Toronto Community Mobilization Network. “We aren’t just talking about a few bad apples, we’re talking of a calculated armed assault carried out against people that was planned and conspired in secret at the highest levels of
government.”
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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.