Community Update on G20 Detainees by the Direct Support Committees of G20 detainees still being held at Maplehurst Men's Detention Centre and Vanier Women's Prison in Ontario.
Community Update on G20 Detainees by the Direct Support Committees of G20 detainees still being held at Maplehurst Men's Detention Centre and Vanier Women's Prison in Ontario.
La CLAC2010 exige la libération immédiate de touTEs les prisonierEs politiques et l’annulation immédiate de toutes les accusations portées contre les personnes arrêtées lors du G20.
Nous n’accepterons jamais la criminalisation de la dissidence.
Nous ne nous tairons pas face à la répression politique.
Libérez nos camarades!
Over 900 were arrested in Toronto during the G20 mobilization, via police kidnapping, political profiling, house raids and street level police snatch squads. Police violence, brutality and intimidation were the order of the day via the Toronto police in their systematic repression against anti G20 street protests. This is the largest number of arrests in Canadian history. After being arbitrarily detained for hours to days, several hundred protesters are returning home. This is a message of support and solidarity with those coming back home to Montreal.
WEDNESDAY 7th JULY, 6H PM
UQAM, Pavillon Hubert-Aquin, local A-2860
400 Ste-Catherine est (corner of St-Denis)
(Metro Berri-UQAM)
Download the information bulletin of the CLAC on the repression at Toronto's G20. To be distributed during july 1st demo.
Demonstration against police repression and in solidarity with the G20 resistance
THURSDAY, JULY 1st, NOON in MONTREAL
*** new starting point: Square St-Louis ***
(St-Denis & Rue du Square St-Louis, métro Sherbrooke)
PROTEST THE CRIMINALIZATION OF DISSENT IN TORONTO!
ORGANIZE A SOLIDARITY PROTEST IN YOUR CITY!
Ottawa (J30), Hamilton (J30), London (J30), Windsor (J30), Winnipeg (Ll1), Québec City (JL1), Lyon (France, JL1) and others cities will also hold solidarity demonstrations
Given the overwhelming number of people arrested during the G20 repression in Toronto, the CLAC Legal Committee has set up phone numbers to help people get info about friends and family members who may have been arrested over the weekend.
If you are looking for info on people from Montreal who have been detained, if you have lost touch with friends or family members or if you've witnessed the arrest of someone from Montreal, you can call one of the following numbers:
-- 514 563 1437 or 514 243 2776
Si vous avez des informations sur les personnes arrêtées, communiquez avec nous par courriel au contreleg20@gmail.com.
Si vous voulez partir lundi s’il vous plait, contactez-nous également à ce courriel!
Les forces policières sont entrées dans le centre des médias alternatif de Toronto et le Centre de Convergence a été évacué. Ne vous y rendez pas!
Another instant classic from our favourite anarcho-jesters Mise en demeure! Enjoy!
To all news editors; to all independent and alternative media
For immediate release
The Anti-Capitalist Convergence of Montreal (CLAC 2010): To Toronto!
Capitalism is the crisis!
June 21 2010 – Less than a week from the G8 and G20 meetings, the Anti-Capitalist Convergence of Montreal (CLAC 2010) is escalating its mobilizing efforts to bring as many people as possible to Toronto to directly confront the policies of the G8 and G20 on June 25, 26, and 27. Groups and individuals under the banner of CLAC 2010 have organized a campaign of popular education and outreach to condemn the savage and destructive capitalist politics of the planet’s most powerful political and economic leaders who are meeting to decide the fate of the global population.
These private and ferociously protected summits only serve to perpetuate an authoritarian and criminal system of exploitation, permitting a small fraction to continue to enrich itself using wars, environmental destruction, land expropriation, the exploitation of women, cultural genocides, the indebtment and impoverishment of entire communities, political repression and border control to achieve their goals. As explained by Danie Royer, spokesperson for CLAC 2010: “This meeting will finalize one the biggest diversions of funds ever seen: the transfer of hundreds of billions of public money towards the leaders of the previous recession: banks, private investment funds, transnational companies, speculators of all stripes, etc.” Their next step will no doubt be against public deficits and the “cleansing” of government finances!
This illegitimate elite accepts no criticism or questioning of its privileges and will go as far as demanding a budget of billions and tens of thousands of puppets armed to the teeth to celebrate its domination. In the words of Mathieu Francoeur, also spokesperson of CLAC 2010: “ With the tools given to the forces of repression and the fear campaigns spearheaded by the compliant mainstream media, there is a desire to associate any expression of dissent and all form of resistance as either empty vandalism or terrorism.” The reasons for revolt are numerous and it is legitimate to disrupt this sad mascarade. Only one statistic is necessary: 2% of humanity possesses 50% of the planet’s wealth while 50% of the global population only holds 1%.
The Conservative government is using this meeting to promote its reactionary ideology by having the nerve to hold this summit in the downtown area of the biggest city in the country and by erecting a multi-million dollar wall! This offense can only provoke a combative response. In solidarity with the peoples of the world that do not have the “occasion” to directly confront those who control their lives, we will be in the streets of Toronto.
CLAC 2010’s media committee is available to explain the issues touching our diverse communities and to make links between our local struggles and the destructive programs of the G8 and G20. Journalists will be able to keep in contact with the CLAC 2010’s media committee by e-mail or telephone.
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CLAC 2010 MEDIA:
Telephone: 438-838-8498
E-mail: media@clac2010.net
Twitter: www.twitter.com/CLACMontreal
Website: www.clac2010.net
[We can respond to interview requests in French, English and Spanish.]