Toronto: G20 Acupuncture Fundraiser
Date: Thursday August 5th
Time: 6-9pm
Location: (please contact RSVP email for information)
This is a Pay What You Can Event (PWYC), suggested donation is $20. Money raised will be donated to the G8/G20 Community Mobilization Legal Defence Fund
There are only 12 spots available, so please RSVP asap to heyamrit@gmail.com
It’s been just over a month since the G8/G20 summit in Toronto where over 1000 people have been arrested and many illegally detained, harassed and abused on all levels.
There is a call out to communities across the city to help raise money for those who are facing prosecution for exercising their freedom of speech, who have had personal items ‘lost’ during detainment, and those who have taken their own initiative to defend themselves in court.
The stories and experiences are not gone. We are still seeing people in clinics who are shaken up from that weekend, emotionally, mentally, and physically.
Please join us for a Community Acupuncture Fundraising session to share your stories, receive a relieving treatment, and connect with community.
“Every experience we have in our life rests in our minds, heart, and physical self.” Let’s work together to help relieve the trauma that weekend left behind.
This is a safe space for People of Colour and LGBT Communities
FB Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=136702936369776
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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.