[Sudg20solid] Lesley Wood/Mac Scott: This week!

[shailagh at riseup.net]

Policing and Criminalizing Dissent at the G20 Protests in Toronto

Last June saw the largest mass arrests in Canadian history at the G20
Summit when thousands of protesters hit the streets of Toronto. Come and
hear two of the protest organizers speak about the mobilization and its
repression, and discuss the implications of both for the future.

Three Talks by Lesley Wood and Mac Scott

1). Thursday Nov. 18th, 1pm, FA-055 (Upper Fraser).

"What happened at the G20 Protests in Toronto?" Lesley Wood

"Fighting Poverty and for Migrant and Immigrant Rights: Organizing
Against the G20 Austerity Agenda," Mac Scott.

2). Thursday Nov 18th,  5:30-7:00pm -- Rm C112 (Classroom Building).

"Policing Protest and Criminalizing Dissent - the G20 and Beyond"

3). Friday November 19th, 7pm, Fromagerie Elgin (on Elgin just south of
Cedar Street).

"What happened in Toronto? Policing Protest and Criminalizing Dissent -
the G20 and Beyond"

·         Lesley Wood is Associate Professor of Sociology at York
University, and was an
organizer with the Toronto Community Mobilization Network that
organized the
G20 mobilizations this past summer. She researches transnational
social
movements, direct action and protest policing.
·         Mac Scott works as an immigration consultant. He is a member
of No One Is Illegal and the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty and
through those groups assisted in organizing around the G20 summit. He
also works with the Movement Defense Committee of the Law Union of
Ontario and was part of the legal team during the protests last June.

Sponsored by: Law and Justice, Labour Studies, the Centre for Research
in Social Justice and Policy, the Sociology Department, and the
Laurentian Association of Mature and Part-Time Students (LAMPS)at
Laurentian University, the Human Conditions Series, and Sudbury Against
War and Occupation.

 For more information contact Gary Kinsman at 675-1151 ext. 4221 or at
gkinsman at laurentian.ca




-- 
“One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be
compromised.” – Chinua Achebe – Nigerian Writer
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