Court Support for G20 'Conspiracy' Defendants + March and Rally, Nov. 22: Our Resolve Is Stronger than their Prison Walls
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Janice Lee
Nov 16, 2011, 10:17:16 PM11/16/11
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A court support event is happening nov 22nd in toronto. Kw people are going so get in touch if you would like to go together.
Janice
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From:
Date: Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Subject: [g8/g20mobilization] Court Support for G20 'Conspiracy' Defendants + March and Rally, Nov. 22: Our Resolve Is Stronger than their Prison Walls
To: community...@masses.tao.ca
1. Court Support for G20 'Conspiracy' Defendants
**Information may change- please check the links below for updates.**
**Please forward widely**
http://g20.torontomobilize.org/node/757
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=263745827004444
Date: Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Time: Court starts at 10 am
Location: 2201 Finch Ave. W
*Bus to court- pickup at OISE (252 Bloor Street West) - please arrive by
9am (leaving at 9:15am sharp!) If you would like to be on the bus, please
email us at toronto....@gmail.com and confirm that you would like a
spot- there are limited seats.
*Leaving court- 12:30pm approximately- drop off location St. James Park
Community organizations, friend and supporters- this is the first Court
Support callout for the G20 'Conspiracy' Defendants- 17 community
organizers who are being charged for conspiracy around the G20 protests,
last June 2010.
From June 21st to June 27th 2010, tens of thousands of people mobilized on
the streets of Toronto to resist the G20 meetings. We mobilized for
Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination, for migrant justice and an
end to war and occupation; for climate justice; against income inequality
and for community control over resources- this work has not stopped just
because the G20 elites have left town.
We dared to challenge the illegitimate fence that separated the rich and
powerful elite conspiring to an agreement of global austerity from the
people on the streets who inevitably are meant to bear the brunt of these
policies. We reclaimed power, we shook the fence, and we broke through the
police lines. Many of us faced or witnessed the largest mass arrest in
Canadian history- 17 members of our communities were charged with
conspiracy for merely challenging this global austerity agenda. We need to
stand by our friends and allies who face such criminal charges-
criminalization of dissent is not something we will tolerate and we must
stand in solidarity with those who are criminalized for just that.
Please join us on Tuesday, November 22nd at 10am at 2201 Finch Ave. West
court house, to show solidarity with our 17 friends and allies who have
been criminalized for their dissent. Our movements will not be deterred by
the prison walls they try to build around us!
Please also join us afterwards for a rally and march at St. James Park-
details below!
*************
2. RESIST REPRESSION: OUR RESOLVE IS STRONGER THAN THEIR PRISON WALLS
**Please forward widely**
Event Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=301192326572141
Web: http://g20.torontomobilize.org/node/758
What: Community rally and march to oppose austerity measures in our city,
to fight police repression against activists during the G20, at Occupy
Toronto, in marginalized communities, and in solidarity with political
prisoners.
Date: Tuesday, November 22
Time: 4pm
Location: Meet at St. James Park
MORE INFO:
From June 21st to June 27th 2010, tens of thousands of people mobilized on
the streets of Toronto to resist the G20 meetings knowing that they were
initiating the 'age of austerity'. We mobilized for Indigenous sovereignty
and self-determination, for migrant justice and an end to war and
occupation; for climate justice; against income inequality and for
community control over resources. We fought to end capitalism and
colonization.
In Toronto and across the globe we've seen austerity measures snatching
away health, educational and social services, while the governments of G20
countries continue to bail out banks and corporations. The austerity
agenda threatens the lives and livelihoods of many around the world and we
see these impacts in our communities as libraries and shelters are cut, as
water is polluted and as land is pillaged for resources, as jobs are
threatened and poverty and hunger increase. Today Harper, McGuinty and
Ford are attempting to take away basic services from people in the name of
austerity while pouring millions into the military, policing and
immigration enforcement. Today, we commit again to stopping them.
In June 2010, we were met with the most repressive and expensive police
operation ever seen for a G20 summit, over 1,100 were arrested and many
more were harassed, intimidated and brutalized merely for speaking out
against the injustice of the global austerity agenda. Since then, dozens
of organizers have lived under onerous bail conditions, some facing long
jail sentences.
These practices are not an exception. Today Toronto Police is trying to
evict Occupy Toronto. Daily, we witness racist criminalization of migrants
and refugees becoming more vicious, while the colonization and destruction
of Indigenous nations and their lands continues. Daily, our communities
experience the entrenchment of a racist, ableist, patriarchal,
queer-phobic, trans-phobic, profit-driven culture, while countless bodies
bear the violence of an oppressive police state that enforces these norms.
In spite of brutality and repression, our communities continue to build
and grow our movements for social, economic, and environmental justice and
autonomy.
We have grown tired of the rule of the 1% at the expense of all of us - we
want to see a better, freer and more just world.
On November 22 at 4pm we will take to the streets again! To challenge the
repression we faced during and after the G20 and to show our solidarity
for people who are criminalized for daring to dream of a better world. We
demand that all charges against those still awaiting their G20 trials are
dropped!
Join us on November 22nd starting at St. James Park, Occupy Toronto, as we
tell the capitalist elite that if you won't let us dream, we won't let you
sleep! Our resolve is stronger than their prison walls, and we will
continue to fight against any and all repression!
_______________________________________________
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community...@masses.tao.ca
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Janice
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From:
Date: Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Subject: [g8/g20mobilization] Court Support for G20 'Conspiracy' Defendants + March and Rally, Nov. 22: Our Resolve Is Stronger than their Prison Walls
To: community...@masses.tao.ca
1. Court Support for G20 'Conspiracy' Defendants
**Information may change- please check the links below for updates.**
**Please forward widely**
http://g20.torontomobilize.org/node/757
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=263745827004444
Date: Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Time: Court starts at 10 am
Location: 2201 Finch Ave. W
*Bus to court- pickup at OISE (252 Bloor Street West) - please arrive by
9am (leaving at 9:15am sharp!) If you would like to be on the bus, please
email us at toronto....@gmail.com and confirm that you would like a
spot- there are limited seats.
*Leaving court- 12:30pm approximately- drop off location St. James Park
Community organizations, friend and supporters- this is the first Court
Support callout for the G20 'Conspiracy' Defendants- 17 community
organizers who are being charged for conspiracy around the G20 protests,
last June 2010.
From June 21st to June 27th 2010, tens of thousands of people mobilized on
the streets of Toronto to resist the G20 meetings. We mobilized for
Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination, for migrant justice and an
end to war and occupation; for climate justice; against income inequality
and for community control over resources- this work has not stopped just
because the G20 elites have left town.
We dared to challenge the illegitimate fence that separated the rich and
powerful elite conspiring to an agreement of global austerity from the
people on the streets who inevitably are meant to bear the brunt of these
policies. We reclaimed power, we shook the fence, and we broke through the
police lines. Many of us faced or witnessed the largest mass arrest in
Canadian history- 17 members of our communities were charged with
conspiracy for merely challenging this global austerity agenda. We need to
stand by our friends and allies who face such criminal charges-
criminalization of dissent is not something we will tolerate and we must
stand in solidarity with those who are criminalized for just that.
Please join us on Tuesday, November 22nd at 10am at 2201 Finch Ave. West
court house, to show solidarity with our 17 friends and allies who have
been criminalized for their dissent. Our movements will not be deterred by
the prison walls they try to build around us!
Please also join us afterwards for a rally and march at St. James Park-
details below!
*************
2. RESIST REPRESSION: OUR RESOLVE IS STRONGER THAN THEIR PRISON WALLS
**Please forward widely**
Event Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=301192326572141
Web: http://g20.torontomobilize.org/node/758
What: Community rally and march to oppose austerity measures in our city,
to fight police repression against activists during the G20, at Occupy
Toronto, in marginalized communities, and in solidarity with political
prisoners.
Date: Tuesday, November 22
Time: 4pm
Location: Meet at St. James Park
MORE INFO:
From June 21st to June 27th 2010, tens of thousands of people mobilized on
the streets of Toronto to resist the G20 meetings knowing that they were
initiating the 'age of austerity'. We mobilized for Indigenous sovereignty
and self-determination, for migrant justice and an end to war and
occupation; for climate justice; against income inequality and for
community control over resources. We fought to end capitalism and
colonization.
In Toronto and across the globe we've seen austerity measures snatching
away health, educational and social services, while the governments of G20
countries continue to bail out banks and corporations. The austerity
agenda threatens the lives and livelihoods of many around the world and we
see these impacts in our communities as libraries and shelters are cut, as
water is polluted and as land is pillaged for resources, as jobs are
threatened and poverty and hunger increase. Today Harper, McGuinty and
Ford are attempting to take away basic services from people in the name of
austerity while pouring millions into the military, policing and
immigration enforcement. Today, we commit again to stopping them.
In June 2010, we were met with the most repressive and expensive police
operation ever seen for a G20 summit, over 1,100 were arrested and many
more were harassed, intimidated and brutalized merely for speaking out
against the injustice of the global austerity agenda. Since then, dozens
of organizers have lived under onerous bail conditions, some facing long
jail sentences.
These practices are not an exception. Today Toronto Police is trying to
evict Occupy Toronto. Daily, we witness racist criminalization of migrants
and refugees becoming more vicious, while the colonization and destruction
of Indigenous nations and their lands continues. Daily, our communities
experience the entrenchment of a racist, ableist, patriarchal,
queer-phobic, trans-phobic, profit-driven culture, while countless bodies
bear the violence of an oppressive police state that enforces these norms.
In spite of brutality and repression, our communities continue to build
and grow our movements for social, economic, and environmental justice and
autonomy.
We have grown tired of the rule of the 1% at the expense of all of us - we
want to see a better, freer and more just world.
On November 22 at 4pm we will take to the streets again! To challenge the
repression we faced during and after the G20 and to show our solidarity
for people who are criminalized for daring to dream of a better world. We
demand that all charges against those still awaiting their G20 trials are
dropped!
Join us on November 22nd starting at St. James Park, Occupy Toronto, as we
tell the capitalist elite that if you won't let us dream, we won't let you
sleep! Our resolve is stronger than their prison walls, and we will
continue to fight against any and all repression!
_______________________________________________
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community...@masses.tao.ca
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