[Indigsol] Sun 2:30pm - 2nd Ottawa rally against G20 police actions

[ipsmo at riseup.net]

Solidarity with the Toronto 1000 arrested and all others who were
brutalized and had their rights violated

2nd Ottawa rally - this Sunday, 2:30pm outside the Ottawa Police Station
474 Elgin - to demand a public inquiry

~~ please forward widely ~~

>> and note: two IPSMO organizers were arrested last Saturday, held
overnight in the detention centre, and then released the next day
without any charges. also a former IPSMO organizer, now working as a
journalist with the Real News Network based in Washington, was twice
punched in the face by police while he was filming the police arrest a
deaf man on the Friday, and then had his microphone temporarily stolen
from him by police while he was questioning them on their actiosn

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Thanks to everyone for making Wed's rally a success! There were also
rallies in Hamilton, London and Windsor on Wed. And on Thurs, Canada Day,
approx 1000 rallied in Montreal, and several thousand in Toronto.

According to an Angus Reid poll, 2/3 of Canadians and 73% of Torontonians
think that the police actions at the G20 were justified:
http://bit.ly/bVewvv

At this time we need to stand up, make some noise and make a collective
statement that we will not let these actions stand.

There will be another rally in Ottawa at the police station this Sunday at
2:30pm.
>> Official FB event page:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=139279446088968
>> Public FB event page:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=128999990470178
>> please RSVP and invite people
>> note that the public FB event page (and the links it contains) can be
see by people without Facebook

Also there is a call for a Canada-wide day of action on Sat July 17:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=139227296091761

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It's important to remember two things at this point:

1) "keep people fighting for rights they thought they had that way they
don't have time to protest what they came to fight for. hmm."~ Sara
Rodenhizer

Along with the police actions, there is also the problems with the G20
itself that we still need to stand up against. here are a couple links
with analysis of the G20 and what happened at the summit:

>> Naomi Klein on Democracy Now (video): http://bit.ly/a592XQ
>> Naomi Klein in the Globe & Mail (print): http://bit.ly/adUCB8
>> Paul Jay on the Real News Network (video):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu5o5891JS8

2) as one speaker noted at Wed's rally, police regularly brutalize,
dehumanize and violate the rights of people (including sex workers) living
in our communites

As Vancouver organizer Harsha Walia writes upon her release from detention
in Toronto: "We run the risk of exceptionalizing this moment, at the
expense of normalizing the daily violence of police and prisons and the
criminal (in)justice system for Indigenous communities, people of colour,
low income neighborhoods, street-involved youth, and trans people."
http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/story/g20-arrests-and-organizing-freedom/3976

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Coverage of the Wed rally in Ottawa:

Thanks to Julie Lauron at http://julielaurin.com for some awesome video
coverage of the rally (and photos are also up at her website)
>> speakers at rally: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFG7NfFZh6A
>> interview with Dan Murphy at rally:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tXLRow2e48

Also featured in mainstream media:
>> Ottawa Sun: http://bit.ly/aQvEyE
>> Ottawa Citizen: http://bit.ly/9jVJmV

if you have further documentation (photos, videos, etc) please email
commoncauseontario at gmail.com and org4justice at gmail.com
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Calls to action:

Sign the Toronto Call: http://bit.ly/aFZbne
>> deadline July 5, 2010

Share your experiences in Toronto: http://g20inquiry.org
>> also see what others have shared

Cdn Civil Liberties Assoc - resources for G20-related complaints:
http://ccla.org/2010/06/29/resources-for-g20-related-complaints/
>> note that CCLA is considering filing a class-action lawsuit against the
police and authorities, fill in your incident report to be a part

If you would like to contribute to the legal defense fund, please transfer
funds to: OPIRG York - transit number 00646 - institution number 842 -
account number 3542240
OR donate via paypal at http://g20.torontomobilize.org
OR donate via cheque payable to the Toronto Community Mobilization
Network, mailed to TCMN, 360A Bloor Street West, PO Box 68557, Toronto, ON
 M5S 1X0

Call the Toronto Chief of Police Bill Blair
>> Some ideas: complain about police brutality, demand all the detainees
are released, and demand for his resignation.
>> They need to hear from us. All of us. If you are in Toronto call as a
Torontonian. If you are from elsewhere, call as someone who has spent
time in the city.
>> Chief of Police: 416-808-8000
>> Professional Standards: 416.808.8088

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Thanks to Common Cause - http://linchpin.ca - for helping get the ball
rolling on the Wed rallies, and to IPSMO (Indigenous Peoples Solidarity
Movement Ottawa) - http://ipsmo.org - for handling much of the Wed
logistics.

connect with Organizing For Justice to receive updates:
>> O4J FB page (local events in your news feed):
http://facebook.com/OrganizingForJustice
>> O4J FB group (invites to some events):
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=62922241219
>> O4J twitter: http://twitter.com/org4jus
>> O4J email list (for people not on FB):
https://lists.resist.ca/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/org4j-announce