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Protests against Toronto G20 repression - Call out!
« on: June 30, 2010, 10:29:24 AM »
I already posted an initial call to the demonstration here in Montréal tomorrow (July 1st) against G20 repression in Toronto. Now there are evidently demos called in many other cities. Important: the departure point for the Mtl demo has CHANGED - it is now Carré St-Louis (Sherbrooke métro). This call is in French and English (I could have done without the KKKanada in the English version, but I'm not editing it). I received the updated call from several sources, most recently la Fédération des femmes du Québec, among the demo sponsors.

Please find and post info here about demos in your towns and cities or others in your region, or protests in any other form! Also post it on other forums, lists and discussion boards!

Bonjour,
 
Ce jeudi, la Fédération des femmes du Québec sera présente à la manifestation contre la répression et en solidarité avec les 900 arrêtéEs du G20 qui a eu lieu à Toronto la fin de semaine dernière.
 
Manifestation contre la répression et en solidarité avec les arrêtéEs du G20
JEUDI LE 1er JUILLET – 12h
*** nouveau rendez-vous: Carré St-Louis ***
(St-Denis & Rue du Square St-Louis, métro Sherbrooke)
 
C’est la première fois au Canada qu’un aussi grand nombre de manifestantEs est arrêté dans le cadre de grands rendez-vous comme celui du G20. Les témoignages concernant les conditions d’arrestation et de détention des personnes manifestantes sont inquiétants et révoltants.  ll est très alarmant que la dissidence soit réprimée de cette façon dans un pays dit démocratique.
 
La politique du gouvernement conservateur en matière d’avortement et la répression qui a eu lieu au sommet du G20 à Toronto démontrent bien jusqu’où ce gouvernement est prêt à aller pour faire reculer les droits humains dans notre pays. Nous devons manifester notre refus face à ces pratiques! 
 
Soyez présentEs en grand nombre!!! Rendez-vous sous la bannière de la Fédération des femmes du Québec.
 
Solidairement,
 
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Eve-Marie Lacasse
Responsable de la Coordination du Québec de la Marche mondiale des femmes
Fédération des femmes du Québec
514-876-0166 poste 229, emlacasse@ffq.qc.ca
www.ffq.qc.ca
 
   
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Manifestation contre la répression et en solidarité avec les arrêtéEs du G20
JEUDI LE 1er JUILLET – 12h
*** nouveau rendez-vous: Carré St-Louis ***
(St-Denis & Rue du Square St-Louis, métro Sherbrooke)

Demonstration against police repression and in solidarity with the G20 resistance
THURSDAY, JULY 1st, NOON
*** new starting point: Square St-Louis ***
(St-Denis & Rue du Square St-Louis, métro Sherbrooke)
 
 
 
 
DÉNONÇONS LES 900 ARRESTATIONS DES RÉSISTANT-E-S AU G20
Du jamais vu dans l’histoire du Canada
 
Manifestation contre la répression et en solidarité avec les arrêtéEs du G20
Montréal - Jeudi le 1 juillet - 12h au Carré St-Louis
 
 
MANIFESTONS CONTE LES ARRESTATIONS POLITIQUES À TORONTO
ORGANISEZ UNE MANIFESTATION DE SOLIDARITÉ DANS VOTE VILLE!!!
 
Toronto, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Québec et d’autres villes tiendront également des manifestations de solidarité
 
 
Face à la violence policière, aux attaques contre notre résistance et aux arrestations sans précédant des manifestantEs anti-G20, la Convergence des luttes anticapitalistes – CLAC 2010 - appelle l’ensemble des mouvements sociaux à se mobiliser en solidarité avec les victimes de l’appareil répressif tombéEs aux mains de l’armée policière.
 
Plus de 900 arrestations ont eu lieu durant la fin de semaine à Toronto par kidnapping, profilage politique, raids dans des résidences privées et lieux d’hébergement, violence, brutalité, intimidation et harcèlement. C’est le plus grand nombre d’arrestation dans l’histoire du Canada, et elles furent effectuées envers des manifestantEs qui n’ont fait qu’exprimer leur désaccord avec des politiques capitalistes, sécuritaires, sexistes, colonialistes et antisociales du G20 et des grands financiers de ce monde.
 
MANIFESTATION JEUDI 1er JUILLET À MONTRÉAL
 
CLAC 2010 dénonce la répression policière d’une ampleur sans précédent au Canada intervenue à Toronto lors du Sommet du G20. À la violence policière s’ajoute l’annonce d’une série de mesures d’austérité économique (réduction de déficits, hausses de taxes, coupes dans les services sociaux), qui constituent autant de violences économiques dirigées contre les populations. Les travailleuses et les travailleurs sont appelés à payer la note pour la dernière crise financière, alors que les banques et le secteur financier, qui en sont les responsables et qui ont bénéficié de 20 000 milliards $ en plans de relance, ne se voient imposer aucune nouvelle régulation.
 
Les 900 arrestations arbitraires et politiques à Toronto sont du jamais vu dans l’histoire du Canada, soit près de trois fois plus qu’en octobre 1970. Les policiers ont violé les droits fondamentaux, détenu des gens durant des heures sans accusations formelles, sans recours à un avocat, sans nourriture et sans eau. Les policiers se sont montrés coupables d’entrée par effraction sans mandat, de profilage, d’intimidation et de harcèlement, de kidnapping, d’usage démesuré de la force sur des manifestantes, des manifestants ainsi que des journalistes. Nous voyons bien qu’État policier et violence économique vont de pair.
 
Chaque jour, partout dans le monde, des gens meurent des conséquences directes des politiques sociales et économiques mises de l’avant par les élites regroupées dans cette instance illégitime qu’est le G20. Les réductions de déficit fièrement annoncées ne feront qu’empirer les conditions de vie de millions de personnes. Stephen Harper a d’ailleurs rappelé que l’objectif visé était de contenter et de rassurer les marchés financiers. Rien sur l’environnement, des miettes pour la santé des femmes, rien sur les conséquences sociales de la crise économique, dont les personnes migrantes sont les premières victimes. Tout pour consolider le capitalisme, un système économique qui privilégie une infime minorité au détriment de l’immense majorité
 
Durant la fin de semaine, à l’intérieur du centre de détention de Toronto, les femmes arrêtées entre 17 et 25 ans ont vécu du profilage sexuel, des menaces et du harcèlement sexuel de la part des policiers. Une femme qui s’est plus tard exprimée devant les médias a été témoin de femmes traumatisées par l’intimidation et la violence sexuelle des policiers dans la prison elle-même. D’autres détenues se sont fait menacées de viol et de viol collectif par les policiers qui leurs disait que ça assurerait qu’elles ne participeraient plus jamais à des actions politiques. Par ailleurs, plusieurs personnes lesbiennes, gais et trans furent placés à l’écart des autres prisonniers-ières politiques dans une cellule qui leur fut réservée.
 
Ce dont nous avons été témoins à Toronto visait à faire taire la dissidence et à criminaliser les mouvements sociaux. Ce sont des tactiques bien connues pour diviser les populations, briser la résistance et imposer des politiques régressives. Nous avons franchi une nouvelle étape dans l’intensification de la répression policière et dans les concessions exigées des populations.
 
La CLAC 2010 tiendra une manifestation le jeudi 1er juillet 2010 à midi au CARRÉ ST-LOUIS, face au métro Sherbrooke à Montréal.
Nous invitons tous les mouvements sociaux progressistes, les familles et leurs enfants à cette grande manifestation qui sera clôturée par un « baby block ».
 
La Convergence des luttes anticapitalistes de Montréal 2010 (CLAC 2010) est un réseau de groupes et d'individus qui se sont réunis pour consolider leurs luttes respectives à l'échelle locale et mobiliser leurs communautés en vue des sommets du G8 et du G20.
 
COMPILATION DE VIDÉOS DE LA RÉSISTANCE AU SOMMET DU G20
www.clac2010.net
 
 
 
------- ENGLISH CALL OUT --------
 
 
 
DENOUNCE THE ARREST OF 900 G20 PROTESTORS
The highest number of arrest in the history of Canada
 
Demonstration against repression and in solidarity with the G20 arrestees
Montreak - Thursday, July 1st - 1pm at Carré St-Louis (Sherbrooke metro)
 
 
PROTEST THE CRIMINALIZATION OF DISSENT IN TORONTO
ORGANIZE A SOLIDARITY PROTEST IN YOUR CITY!!!
 
Toronto, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Québec and others cities will also  be holding solidarity demonstrations
 
In the face of police violence, attacks against our protesters of resistance and arrests without president of the anti-G20, the CLAC 2010 - the Anticapitalist Convergence - calls out to all social movements to mobilize and act in solidarity with the victims of the repressive systems who have fallen in the hands of military police.

More than 900 have been arrested during the end of the week in Toronto either by kidnapping, political profiling, raids in private residences and places of accomodation, violence, brutality, intimidation, as well as varying assaults.  To date, this is the largest number of arrestations in the history of KKKanada, and has been effective towards the protestors who have expressed their disagreements towards the capitalist, security enforced, sexist,colonialist and anti-social politics of the G20 and their large financial interests in the world.
 
MONTREAL DEMO THURSDAY JULY 1ST
 
CLAC 2010 denounces the magnitude of the police repression that has arrived in Toronto during the G20 summit as something never seen before in KKKanada.  The police violence has added with it the announcements of different measures within economic austerity(cutbacks in deficits, rising taxes, cuts in social services) that constitute even more economic violence directed against the population. The workers are called to pay the bills for the last financial crisis, all the while the banks and financial sectors who are responsible and who benefit over 20 000 billion dollars survive off their economic stimulus plan without imposing any new regulations.
 
The 900 arbitrary and political arrests in Toronto never seen in the history of KKKanada, came close to three times more than that of October 1970. The police violated the fundamental rights, detaining people for hours without formal charges, without accessibility to contacting legal help, and without food or water for extended periods of time.  The police were guilty of breaking and entering without a warrant, profiling, intimidation, assault, kidnapping, using extreme measures of force against the protestors, as well as journalists.  We see that the police state and the economic violence go hand in hand.
 
Each day everywhere in the world people are dying from direct social and economic political consequences put into place by the elite that were gathered together in this illegitimate instance that we know as the G20. The proudly announced deficit cutbacks do little more than make worse the conditions of millions of people in the world. Stephen Harper has remembered that the given objective was to maintain and reassure the financial markets.  Nothing about the environment, crumbs for womens health, nothing around the social consequences of the economic crisis, where migrant are the first victims.  All of this to consider once again that capitalism, is an economic system that prvilidges the smallest minority at the expense of the larger majority.
 
During the weekend inside the detention centre in downtown Toronto, women arrestees around the age of 17-25 experienced instances of sexual harassment, threat and sexual profiling.  One woman who later spoke to the public witnessed a woman traumatized from intimidation and sexual violence imposed by police officers inside the detention center itself.  Other detainees experienced threats of gang bang and rape that the police insured would advance their retirement from political and apolitical activities. Also, many LGBTQ folks were segregated from the rest of the arrestees and put in a separate cell because they were queer.
 
We were witnesses to the lock down of dissidence and criminalization of social movements in Toronto.  This is a well known tactic to divide the populations, break the resistance and impose regressive politics.  We have climbed over a new step in the intensifying police repression and in the demanded concessions of the people.
 
La CLAC 2010 is hosting a demo Thursday July 1st 2010 12pm at  CARRÉ ST-LOUIS, in front of Sherbrooke metro in Montreal.
We invite all social and progressive movements, families and children, to this grand demo that will be ending with a baby block.
 
CLAC – the anti-capitalist convergence - is a network of groups and individuals who unite together to consolidate their respective struggles at a local level and mobilize their communities in the face of the G8 and G20
 
Video compilations of resistance during the G20 summit can be found @ www.clac2010.net
 
 

 
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Re: Protests against Toronto G20 repression - Call out!
« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2010, 06:05:18 PM »
As bad a the reaction of the Police was to the G20 demonstration - at least they were not a extreme as that of the New Orleans police force to some folks trying to escape from the ravages of Katrina.

Here is a Rachael Maddow on it.

(It is a sad state of affairs that allows anyone to say that.)  :crying
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Re: Protests against Toronto G20 repression - Call out!
« Reply #2 on: July 16, 2010, 09:46:11 AM »
Oh look! A screenshot of Ossifer Bubbles' Facebook page -- before he realized he'd been outed.

Note in particular how he fills in the "Employers" line: "City of Toronto ... I collect human garbage."

Via Sister Sage -- have to go back to her to get URL and let her know source.
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Re: Protests against Toronto G20 repression - Call out!
« Reply #3 on: October 15, 2010, 12:47:41 PM »
Every time I come upon a situation like this I think of Crocodile Dundee in the (bland) film of his trip to LA. He is accosted by some muggers with a knife - and looks at it and comments: "You call that a knife .... that's not a knife ... now this is a knife." and pulls out a damn near sword. A bit of fantasy - but I find it amusing for the quote.

You think that is repression against those gaoled for the G20 demonstrations????

That's not repression - now this is repression.

re: from a letter from
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Betty Krawczyk:

The way the Court system works is a mystery to most people including me.   It's the language, for one thing. It's in a special code. The biggest   problem I have encountered is simply trying to break the code. Even   after all these years of being hammered by legal language I am still   puzzled by most of it but what I do understand, or think I do, I will   pass along to you.

First, I asked the Court in my written factum,   which must be submitted to the Court before the day of the hearing,   that I be given a new trial with a jury. The Crown (Mike Brundrett who   represents the Attorney General of BC) asked in his written response to   my factum, by using case law (what other judges have decided in other   cases) that the Court should consider that I be declared a dangerous   habitual offender and given life. This was evidenced by Mr. Brundrett in   his written response by using two cases of violent pedophiles   who attacked their own children repeatedly. By this Mr. Brundrett   accomplished two things:
(a) he associated my name and person with violent, debased men in the hopes of anchoring this message in the judges' heads
(b)   he brought to the court's attention that I had repeatedly broken other   judges' orders- which is what an injunction is and which no judge likes   to hear about.

I based my argument on two main things:
(a)   that a summary process (which mine was) is defined in the Criminal Code   as sentencing that does not exceed six months. I was given ten.
(b)   when Madam Justice Brown ruled on my application that she would not   allow for a jury trial, she was not considering sentencing me to over   five years (which is the time frame for being eligible to apply for a   jury trial) and yet the Crown came back on appeal and recommended to the   Court, through case law, that I should be sentenced to life in prison.   Only in his written words to the judges did Mike Brundrett recommend   this and, sneakily, only in his written responses to the Court did he   propose that I should be given life. And to make sure the appeal judges   didn't miss his message, he emphasized "should be given life".

The   appeal judges have reserved their decision. Of course I am hoping for a   new trial with a jury, but failing that, it would be heartfelt hopeful   if they gave me enough room in their decisions to take it to the Supreme   Court of Canada. If they did, I would walk to Ottawa. I think...

In any case, I will be sure to let you know.
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Re: Protests against Toronto G20 repression - Call out!
« Reply #4 on: April 06, 2011, 10:18:33 PM »
G20 demonstrations seem to bring out the mendacity in Police departments. Thing are still falling out from the death of a passing worker killed by the London Police.
 
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 Matthew Ryder QC, representing the family of the killed man, Ian Tomlinson, had this to say - confronting Simon Harwood, the officer that struck him:
 
Harwood initially maintained he had not pushed Tomlinson from behind – despite video footage that showed he did. His insistence that Tomlinson did not have his back turned when he struck him prompted Matthew Ryder QC, for the Tomlinson family, to accuse him of giving "absurd" testimony.
"The problem is that we have video of that day when you were there," Ryder said. "That is rubbish, I suggest to you, PC Harwood, and you know it." The police officer replied: "I was there and I saw what I saw."

Harwood later back tracked.
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Re: Protests against Toronto G20 repression - Call out!
« Reply #5 on: May 28, 2011, 10:48:55 AM »
A public inquiry into Toronto G20 and police accountability rally today
 
Toronto rally
Saturday May 28, 2011
2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Yonge and Dundas Square
Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/g20inquiry

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« Reply #6 on: May 28, 2011, 12:31:50 PM »
I'd be there but for this broken ankle.
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« Reply #7 on: November 22, 2011, 11:21:06 PM »
G20 case reveals 'largest ever' police spy operation
RCMP collaborated with provincial and local police to monitor activists
Millions of dollars in undercover ops just to try to leverage activism up to conspiracy charges, conspiracy charges which were then dropped against the 6 people who copped plea bargains today. 

Among other creeping police state concerns, what happens when the police spies are complete morons?

Exhibit A : Ontario Provincial Police spy Bindo Showan
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Earlier this fall, Showan told the court about how he attended a meeting prior to the Toronto summit. There, a protest-planning group that included several of the 17 main G20 defendants was discussing whether to lend their support to a First Nations rally.

Adam Lewis, one of the 17 accused conspirators in the G20 case, interjected, “Kill whitey!” The group chuckled. Lewis, like all but one of his co-accused, is white.
When a Crown lawyer asked the officer what he thought Lewis meant, Showan said in complete seriousness, to "kill white people."
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[/color]Ditto their handlers :

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[/color]"a JIG report from June 2009, before the G20 summit was scheduled, that sets out the intelligence group's mission. "These ideologies may include variants of anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, nihilism, socialism and/or communism.
The important commonality is that these ideologies ... place these individuals and/or organizations at odds with the status quo and the current distribution of power in society."[/quote
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And it's still going on :
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[/color]RCMP records suggest that the reconnaissance continues. Report logs indicate at least 29 incidents of police surveillance between the end of the G20 summit and April 2011 — more than nine months after world leaders departed Toronto.
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Re: Protests against Toronto G20 repression - Call out!
« Reply #8 on: November 23, 2011, 12:22:45 AM »
I'd prefer to think Bindo is a moron, but somehow I think he's paid to say batshit crazy things like that. What's worse?
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« Reply #9 on: November 28, 2011, 11:32:00 PM »
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According to Wall's lawyer "the report shows that senior command directed officers to make unlawful arrests." “Wearing a bandana or refusing to allow police to look in your backpack are not criminal offences. We now have proof that many arrests were not the result of a few bad apples or overreaction by officers on the ground. The orders came from the top," lawyer Davin Charney said in a release to the media.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2011/11/28/toronto-g20-wall.html
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Re: Protests against Toronto G20 repression - Call out!
« Reply #10 on: November 29, 2011, 08:04:47 AM »
Same undercover officers identified in the G20 business turn up in this story:
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GUELPH — Undercover Ontario Provincial Police officers were apparently part of two protest actions in Guelph that sparked recent criminal investigations by city police.

Posing as activists, OPP officers Const. Bindo Showan and Const. Brenda Carey, using the respective aliases “Khalid Mohammed” and “Brenda Dougherty” infiltrated local activist groups, such as Land is More Important than Sprawl (LIMITS) in late 2008 and 2009.

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Re: Protests against Toronto G20 repression - Call out!
« Reply #11 on: May 14, 2012, 11:13:05 AM »
G20 report in.  http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/05/13/pol-rcmp-watchdog-report-g8-g20-toronto-2010.html


RCMP were just 'following orders' regarding kettling w/o an exit, the Toronto police made them do it. And take better notes. Some watchdog.


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