Toronto: PRISONERS JUSTICE DAY VIGIL
Date: August 10
Time: 6:30 - 9pm EST
Location: outside the Don Jail (550 Gerrard St E., Toronto)
What is Prisoners' Justice Day?
It is a day of protest against all deaths in custody, the inhumane use
of solitary confinement, racist policing, the detention and
deportation of immigrants and refugees, the taking of land through
colonization and the criminalization of First Nations defence of their
territories, the denial of justice for Aboriginal women and
transpeople, the disabling effects of prison, the cruelty of
psychiatric incarceration, poverty and homelessness, the separation of
families, security certificates, tasers for prison guards and cops,
the medical neglect of prisoners with HIV/AIDS, the incarceration of
people who use drugs, the incarceration of sex workers and the lack of
harm reduction in prison.
It is a call for alternatives to incarceration - at a time when
governments are enacting repressive U.S. style get-tough-on-crime laws
to build more prisons despite a falling crime rate. Join us for
speakers, performers and a candlelight vigil at dusk when we read the
names of prisoners who have died.
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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.