CANADIAN POLITICS TORONTO:IN THE WAKE OF THE G20:Here's an upcoming event down Toronto way in the wake of the massive arrests surrounding the G20 summit in that city.
G20G20G20G20Strengthening Our Resolve
Time September 17 · 6:30pm - 11:30pm
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Location
Ryerson University - Rogers Communication Centre, room
RCC 204 (Eaton Lecture Theatre), (80 Gould Street, Toronto ON)
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Created By
Toronto Community Mobilization Network (or
the website -
Molly)
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More Info
Strengthening Our Resolve: Movement Building and Ongoing Resistance to the G20 Agenda
http://g20.torontomobilize.org/node/486 Speakers include Alex
Hundert, Jen
Meunier, Judy
Rebick,
Liisa...
Schofield,
Ro Velasquez,
Harsha Walia, and a representative from the
Greater Toronto Workers Assembly
This is a Pay What You Can event. All contributions go to the G20
Legal Defence Fund (
http://g20.torontomobilize.org/support )
While 40,000 demonstrated and over 1000 were arrested in the streets of Toronto, so-called leaders met behind a security fence and 10,000 police to further their exploitation of people and the Earth. Hundreds face G20-related charges stemming from an unprecedented coordinated police operation, and political dissent remains criminalized as arrests of community organizers have occurred as recently as September.
Meanwhile, across the globe we see G20 austerity measures snatching away health, educational and social services, while the governments of G20 countries continue to bail out banks and corporations. Locally, we witness racist criminalization of migrants and refugees becoming more vicious, while colonization and destruction of Indigenous nations and their lands continues. Many of us daily experience the entrenchment of a racist,
ableist, patriarchal, queer-phobic, profit-driven culture, while countless bodies bear the violence of an oppressive police state that enforces these norms.
Join us in this event with speakers and discussion about responses the G20 agenda, and making linkages across issues and ongoing struggles. With courage and with care, this event is about building solidarity and understanding, about creating real alternatives to this
exploitative and destructive system, and to strengthen our resolve to
continue resisting.
For more information email
alex.hundert@gmail.com or call 416 922 4595.
Sponsored by: Toronto Community Solidarity Network, the 247 G20
Defence Committee, CAW Sam
Gindin Social Justice and Democracy Chair,
OPIRG York,
OPIRG Toronto,
CUPE 3903 First Nations Solidarity Working Group,
CUPE 3907
- Alex
Hundert is a G20 defendant charged with “conspiracy” who was arrested in a violent
pre-
emptive house raid. He has been targeted as a “ringleader” for his role in Indigenous solidarity and anarchist networks including AW@L, SOAR and the Six Nations Solidarity Network.
- Jen
Meunier is an
Anishinaabekwe (Algonquin) Indigenous
sovereigntist who has been involved in land defense struggles from
Site 41 and Six Nations to the No Olympics on Stolen Native Land
campaign.
- Judy
Rebick is an author, past CAW-Sam
Gindin Chair in Social
Justice and Democracy at
Ryerson University, past president of the
National Action Committee on the Status of Women, media commentator, and founding publisher of rabble.ca.
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Liisa Schofield is a documentary filmmaker, an anti-poverty activist
with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, and an activist for
Palestinian rights.
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Ro Velasquez is an artist, York University student, and a member of
the Queer Resistance Network. She is active in movements rooted in
racialized, immigrant, and queer communities of resistance.
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Harsha Walia is an organizer with No One Is Illegal-Vancouver. She
is involved in migrant justice, Indigenous solidarity,
anti-imperialist, anti-poverty, feminist organizing. She has been
active in the 2010 Olympics and G20 convergences.
