The People's Assembly debrief
Date: Thursday July 29th
Time: 6pm
Location: 519 Church St Community Centre
On June 23rd grassroots organizers in Toronto hosted the People’s Assembly on Climate Justice at the Ryerson Student Campus Centre as part of the Toronto Community Mobilization Network’s Day of Resistance for Environmentaland Climate Justice. The event drew a packed house of diverse participants. Together we showed that a room full of 250 engaged people has more ideas andcreative potential than all of the world’s leaders’ combined.
While the G20 talked about crippling austerity measures and veered away fromany true commitments to confronting the climate crisis, we talked about the need to change things from the ground up. We talked about re-thinking theway we use energy, recognizing our disproportionate impact on the planet, altering our consumer habits. We called out capitalism as a major part ofthe problem. And we highlighted the need to create alternatives in our own backyard, NOW.
To build on the momentum and creative solutions developed during the People’s Assembly, the organizing team is calling for a general meeting to debrief the Assembly and begin the process of deciding how to move forward.Many felt that one brief evening was not enough time for the Assembly, and that another one should be planned that would take place over the course of a day.
Staying true to the horizontal, non-hierarchical approach and principlesthat we introduced at the People’s Assembly, we would now like to invite you
to join us on Thursday July 29th at the 519 Church St Community Centre at 6pm as we meet to discuss planning for the next People’s Assembly.
The fight for Climate Justice unites many of the struggles that social movements are engaged in throughout Toronto and around the world. We hope that you will join us and add your energy to the momentum generated duringour first Assembly.
The stakes are high, but everything that we begin locally can be spreadanywhere in the world. Let’s make the dream of Climate Justice a reality.
With love and determination,
The People’s Assembly Team
peoplesassembly.toronto@gmail.com
www.torontopeoplesassembly.wordpress.com
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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.