Vancouver, BC- G20 Solidarity Rally
Date: September 27
Time: 12:00pm - 3:00pm PST
Location: The Knoll (unceded Musqueam territory - 6138 STUDENT UNION BOULEVARD, Vancouver BC)
Rally and fundraiser in support of those who faced political persecution
during the Toronto G20, many of whom still face charges. Donations will go
towards the legal fees of those who were arrested. Speakers include those
who were arrested during the G20 and those who will discuss globalization
and the G8/G20. Speakers are Kirk Chavarie from UBC Okanagan who was
arrested, Yifan Lee from Food Not Bombs who was arrested, Sozan Savehilagh from No One Is Illegal and others.
Come out and show your support! Come out and show your outrage at the
police brutality that took place and that continues to take place every
day in marginalized communities across Canada.
The bare facts:
- Over 1000 people were unjustly arrested and brutalized.
- Protesters were beaten, tear gassed and pepper sprayed in so-called
"free speech zones."
- The Harper and McGuinty government allowed such a thing as a "free
speech zone" to be established in violation of our right to free assembly
as established in the Charter.
- The arrestees were held in deplorable conditions at the now infamous
Eastern Ave studios, called "the Prisoner Processing Centre."
- Prisoners were denied food, water, toilet paper, blankets, medicine and
their legally mandated phone call; make-shift cages holding forty
prisoners at a time were built to hold ten; female prisoners were
sexually, verbally and physically assaulted by police officers; queer
prisoners were segregated and verbally assaulted; disabled prisoners were
physically brutalized (this is by no means a comprehensive account of the
abuses that took place).
- This was the greatest civil liberties violation in Canadian history
since the October Crisis.
- 10 violations of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms took place.
- Police were given special privileges to search without cause in a
municipal act that was rushed through right before the meetings; to cover
their tracks, police later claimed that they misinterpreted this law.
- Activists were illegally searched, followed and harrassed in the weeks
leading up to the G20.
- The neo-liberal "free trade" policies that are pushed in these
undemocratic, closed-door G8/G20 meetings impoverish and subjugate
billions of people around the world to the benefit of a small elite in
corporate, political and financial sectors.
- G8, G20, they few, we many
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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.