[mobglob-discuss] URGENT - THIS is What a Demonstration Looks Like!

[Jessica Denyer]

URGENT - Please FWD Widely 

THIS is What a Demonstration Looks Like!

WHAT: Demonstration
WHEN: Tuesday, October 12 at 5pm
WHERE: Starting 55 Gould Street (Ryerson Student Centre)

On October 8th, a Justice of the Peace ruled that Alex Hundert, a community 
organizer facing politically motivated G20 related "conspiracy" charges had 
violated his "no-public demonstration" bail condition for participating in panel 
discussions at 2 University events. He was arrested on the evening of September 
17th in front of his father's house after speaking on a panel at Ryerson 
University and has been in jail ever since. Based on the ruling on Oct 8, the 
Crown is now seeking to revoke Alex’s bail entirely and keep him behind bars. 

Alex is one of many community organizers and activists facing "conspiracy" 
charges for effectively voicing their opposition to the G20 agenda of 
exploitation and exclusion. Many of these organizers have similarly received 
threats from the police to not speak at events or speak to the media. This 
targeting of community organizers is intended to weaken our growing and thriving 
social and environmental justice movement, to isolate effective and vocal 
community activists, and to criminalize dissent against the violent policies of 
the G20 that perpetuate environmental degradation, militarization, labour 
exploitation, and theft of Indigenous lands that wreaks misery for the world’s 
majority. While the panic surrounding the G20 protests has pushed forward the 
criminalization of resistance, we also continue to witness the criminalization 
and intensification of repressive state practices against immigrants and 
refugees, Indigenous people, queer and trans folks, and communities living in 
poverty.

Declaring a public panel a public demonstration is a dangerous precedent and an 
attack on all of us. Unless we challenge this ruling forcefully, it will be used 
against organizers all across our movement and all communities in struggle.

We cannot be silenced or intimidated, our resistance will only increase as we 
keep organizing for liberation for all people, especially those who
daily bear the brunt of police, state, and corporate oppression. They cannot 
jail our hearts.

Come show your support and solidarity with Alex Hundert and all those facing G20 
related charges on Tuesday at 5pm at 55 Gould Street and show the police and the 
attorney general what a PUBLIC DEMONSTRATION really looks like!


-Community Solidarity Network-
http://g20.torontomobilize.org/node/558


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