[van-announce] FWD: Sunday July 4th - 2pm - solidarity rally in Vancouver

[Naava Smolash]

hey,
APC forwarded this callout, I'm passing it on:

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RESIST STATE REPRESSION!

Sunday July 4th - 2pm
China Creek Park South - West of Clark on Broadway

MAP:
http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=China+Creek+Park+Vancouver,+British+Columbia+V5T+2B6&g=Vancouver,+British+Columbia+V5T+2B6&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Vancouver,+British+Columbia+V5T+2B6&ll=49.262484,-123.079126&spn=0.003102,0.006899&t=h&z=17

During the G20 Summit in Toronto this weekend, 40,000 people reclaimed the
streets and shutdown the city. Over 900 were brutally arrested and
detained, most without criminal charges.

Arrestees reportedly have been denied access to lawyers, telephones, food
and water (for upwards of 35 hours), and held in deplorable conditions in
makeshift steel cages. Many have been beaten in the streets and in their
homes; shot at with rubber bullets and tear gas; some have been sent to
hospital with severe injuries. Many of the released are willing to testify
to either experiencing or witnessing the sexual harassment of women and
Queer people, youth as young as 15 in adult cells, threats of
assault/harassment, no access to medication or medical treatment, police
intimidation of released detainees among their extensive list of
complaints.

The summit was part of the largest and most expensive security operation
in Canadian history. This show of extreme repression has broken the record
for the largest mass arrest in Canadian history. Naturally, the 5 previous
record holding events also came out of resistance to social and
environmental injustice:

* 2010 Toronto G20: Roughly *900*
* 1993 Clayoquot Sound logging blockades: *856*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayoquot_Sound
* 1970 October Crisis: *465*  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Crisis
* 2001 Quebec City Summit of the Americas: *463*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3rd_Summit_of_the_Americas#Protests
* 1981 Toronto bathhouse raids: *286*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Soap

Come show your opposition to this growing Police State & meet us in the
streets!

NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE!

http://g20.torontomobilize.org/
http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/
http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/