Victoria, BC - Benefit for Kelly Pflug-Back
Date: September 4
Time: 7:30-10:30pm PST
Location: BCGEU (2994 Douglas St., Victoria BC)
Benefit for kelly Pflug-Back
Mike XVX
Jeff Andrew
Starla! Ubiquitous
Comrade Black
Chase
Star
Sasha n Nedjo
jody franklin
& more friends
$5-$15 sliding scale, no one turned away! All money raised goes to
Kelly's legal defense
Kelly Pflug-Back is a long time community organizer, whom has been
targeted by the police and scapegoated as "the leader of the black
bloc" from the G20. She is facing 13 charges including conspiracy, and
mischief, The courts are viewing her charges as "hate crimes" against
the police, meaning if she is convicted she will be given a stiffer
sentence than normal.
This is a blatant mis-use of hate crime legislation that was designed
to protect identifiable minorities form racist homophobic and sexist
violence. We believe Kelly is being targeted as is SOS for her roll as a
community organizer doing anti-racist, and anti-poverty work in her
community.
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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.