[Org4j-announce] 5:30pm- G20 policing rally

[Organizing 4Justice]

RALLY AGAINST G20 POLICING / SOLIDARITY WITH THE TORONTO 900

All out against G20 police brutality and in solidarity with the Toronto 900!
A protest outside police headquarters in every city!


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5:30pm Wed June 30
Ottawa Police Station, 474 Elgin St
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June 30, 2010:
>> 5:00pm at Hamilton Police Headquarters, 155 King William Street
>> 5:30pm at Ottawa Police Headquarters, 474 Elgin St (at Catherine)
>> 6:00 pm at London Police Headquarters, 601 Dundas St (Dundas and
Adelaide)
>> 6:00pm at Windsor Police Headquarters, 150 Goyeau Street

July 1, 2010
>> 1:00pm in Montreal: carré Phillips, St. Catherine


The events of the past week in Toronto have been unprecedented in Canadian
history. Over 900 people were arrested, the biggest mass arrests ever in
Canada, for daring to protest against the destructive policies of the G20.

Protesters and local residents were subjected to violent baton attacks,
snatch squads, tear gas and rubber bullets. Sleeping people have been pulled
from their homes at gunpoint in the middle of the night. Many have been
beaten. People who have been arrested have been strip-searched and held in
cages, facing long delays in obtaining legal support. We have heard numerous
accounts of sexual abuse by police from women who were arrested. Journalists
have been punched, arrested and had their equipment broken.

On the streets of Toronto, the mask of “liberal democracy” has slipped off
and the police reminded us of the State's willingness to use blatant
violence against its own population in the face of popular dissent. And
thanks to citizen journalists, the alternative media and even some in the
corporate media, the truth of what happened in Toronto is slowly emerging.

In order to make sure that the actions of the police state are fully
exposed, we must keep up the pressure on the police and the government.

We must also publicly demonstrate our solidarity with all those arrested so
that they are released as quickly as possible and charges are dropped
against all those caught up in the net of the police state.

In Toronto, solidarity rallies outside detention centres and police stations
are already taking place. But just as police forces from across the province
converged on Toronto for the G20, so our resistance must spread out from the
epicentre of oppression to every corner of the province.

We thus call on all those concerned to take the fight back across the
province and across the country.

Starting this Wednesday, June 30, we are calling for solidarity rallies
outside police headquarters in as many cities as possible.

Our message will be clear:

Free the Toronto 900!

Fight back against the police state! We are putting you under surveillance!

Build the resistance against the G20! Build the resistance against
austerity!

Build the general strike!

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Ottawa Facebook event:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=138696632809826
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