Toronto: DROP G20 CHARGES! RESISTING THE CRIMINALIZATION OF DISSENT
Date: August 17th
Time: 6pm - 7:30pm
Location: Room 116, Wallberg building, 200 College Street, Toronto, ON
Speakers include Lesley Wood, Syed Hussan, AJ Whithers and Farrah Miranda. Full list of speakers and video statements to be announced!
[Please note that Childcare is available upon request. Please let us know by Mon, Aug 16 by emailing nahed.mansour@gmail.com]
For ten days at the end of June, the Police led a coordinated armed assault against Toronto’s civilian population. Community organizers were in particular targeted. Mobilizations for justice, for dignity and for self-determination were infiltrated, harassed and intimidated. A Canada wide response is at hand... as people fight to have the criminal charges dropped and to continue the struggle against the G20's anti-people and anti-environment policies. (Support the Legal Defence Fund! http://g20.torontomobilize.org/support)
To understand why people mobilized against the G20 and how organizers were targeted; to hear accounts of police brutality and repression; and to understand the political nature of the bail conditions, the criminalization of dissent and ways to support the people facing charges, join us for an informative panel and discussion.
This event is focused towards activists, grassroots organizers and people who are interested in knowing more and acting in solidarity with local struggles and defendants.
Endorsers: Ontario Coalition Against Poverty | No One Is Illegal - Toronto | Rainforest Action Network - Toronto | Common Cause - Toronto Branch | SAIA York | SAIA UofT | Women's Coordinating Committee Chile | Ryerson Students Union | Educators for Peace and Justice | NION (Not In Our Name): Jewish Voices Opposing Zionism | International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network - Toronto | Women In Solidarity With Palestine (WSP) | The Hamilton Coalition Against the G20
To endorse this event, please email abeeramajeed@yahoo.ca
Sponsored by: Hussan Freedom Committee, Ontario Public Interest Research Group - Toronto
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LESLEY WOOD is a Professor of Sociology at York University and a member of the Toronto Community Mobilization Network and the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty. Lesley will be speaking about G20 policies, police violence during the summit and the role of global justice movements and community struggles. Read her latest movement article at: http://bit.ly/bT5LdB
SYED HUSSAN is a member of the Toronto Community Mobilization Network and No One Is Illegal-Toronto. He was arrested on the morning of June 26, 2010 and held for 12 days. Hussan will speak about his arrest, bail conditions, and the need for solidarity and ongoing organizing.
AJ WHITHERS is a member of DAMN 2025 and the Ontario Coalition Against Povert (OCAP). OCAP is a grassroots anti-poverty organization that faced increasing police repression following mass demonstrations in 2001. AJ will be speak about the targeting of various community groups in 2001 and during the G20 and the need to struggle against the G8/G20 policies in the coming years. Read more at http://bit.ly/bKZfyu and http://ocap.ca/node/904
FARRAH MIRANDA is a member of No One Is Illegal - Toronto, a grassroots migrant justice organization that fights for access to entitlements, justice and dignity for all people, irrespective of immigration status. Farrah will be speaking about the targeting of racialized people in the lead up to and during the G20 and the need for solidarity and movement building in the days ahead. Read statements from No One Is Illegal at http://bit.ly/9xt45c and http://bit.ly/dkQ8hG
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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.