this is a piece from Boskote of ATS. the work of this groups has been instrumental in helping secure the online behaviours of many activists. their work was featured in my article: http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/3988 and can be found Thank you ATS and Boskote!
by Boskote
from The Dominion - http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/4190
Some thoughts at the outset of the preliminary inquiry
Sept 12, 2011
from: @alexhundert's blog - Narrative resistance
Today is the first day of what is scheduled to be an 11 week preliminary inquiry for what the Ontario Crown Attorney’s office calls, the “G20 Main Conspiracy Group Prosecution.” This prosecution will see myself, along with 16 other community organisers spend almost three months in court every single week day, watching and listening as the Crown Attorneys from the Provincial “Gangs and Guns Initiative” present evidence collected by a series of undercover cops who infiltrated community organisations across the country over a period of nearly two years prior to last year’s G20 (an event which saw the city converted into “Fortress Toronto,” as the heads of state from the world’s twenty richest countries, along with more than 10 000 cops, occupied the city’s downtown).
nice garter, pig
to blog author Patrick Ross,
in response to http://nexusofassholery.blogspot.com/2010/09/well-done-judy-rebick.html
From AW@L: http://peaceculture.org/drupal/g20statement
September 15th 2010 – Kitchener-Waterloo
G20 Policing, Political Targeting, and Anarchy
The Toronto G20 and G8 summits of so-called “leaders” of the self-described free world were defiantly met by a massive convergence of people oriented towards social justice. Indigenous Nations and anti-poverty groups, migrant justice activists, anti-capitalists, environmentalists, community builders, disAbility rights advocates, radical feminists, anarchists, moms and grandmothers, animal liberation crusaders, maternal health advocates, civil libertarians, liberals, and some people from the right and a score of others from the entire spectrum of the ecological and social justice movements took the streets to share their love and rage. For another time on Turtle Island in 2010, a people’s convergence was met with scorn and repudiation from these uncaring leaders and with violence and violations from the massive security operation mobilized to keep us silent.
its incredible how some "allies" will excuse the violence of the state and the police and decry any tactics outside of which they adhere to. where is the solidarity between the people, not the power? good to see some labour folks have their priorities right:
Open Letter to Ken Georgetti and the Canadian Labour Congress:
CALL OUT: JUSTICE FOR OUR COMMUNITY AGAINST G20 REPRESSION
WHEN: WEDNESDAY 7 JULY 2010
WHERE: WATERLOO TOWN SQUARE and various locations
TIME: 4PM-6PM
There is a tremendous community bursting in Kitchener-Waterloo that believes another world is possible.
STATEMENT FROM THE SOUTHERN ONTARIO ANARCHIST RESISTANCE IN DEFENCE OF OUR COMRADES
July 1st 2010, from SOAR, reposted by AW@L and others
