G8/G20 June 2010 Protest Watch

[Michael OLeary]

Bang your head all you want, you have yet to offer credible solutions for dealing with the CRIMINAL element that hides inside your "peaceful demonstrations.  We are, therefore, left with the solution developed by legal authority, and you thinking it's too expensive is a meaningless objection without real alternatives.

 

[Kat Stevens]

Sure, if you single it out of context.  :


That is okay, I feel like :brickwall: as well even discussing the subject with folks who like to paintbrush large group of people because of the idiot few, and then say it is enough grounds to treat the large group as criminals themselves simply because they have not or failed to remove themselves...or call the police who are all right there ready to arrest and possibly hit you with a baton just for being too close. How the law is applied during a large protest is different, and everyone is stressed out and high on adrenaline.

Again, my proposal stands to form a group to attend a large protest like Toronto as civilians, even attend some of the planning meetings, and do exactly what you guys suggest to see for yourselves from the other side.  I have only been trying to draw a picture of some of things that goes on and realities of protest organizing as I have been there. Chastise me all you like about being irresponsible, stupid, for "just not getting it", make it seem I am anti-police and an anarchist, but I am sticking to what I know and been trying to share it.

In the end, whatever I say not going to matter anyway, and it is not like I will be at Toronto for G8/G20 (especially as I will be Philadelphia then).

You mean like people who label all security personnel  as violent, jack-booted thugs?

 

[zipperhead_cop]

These volunteers would have to be willing to risk physical and violent confrontations, and possibly risk arrests themselves as the police are not keen of vigilantism, even during protests. This includes risking putting off a lot of peaceful protesters too.

 

Why can't they just do that idiotic "SHAMESHAMESHAMESHAME" blathering that they so love to bleat?  Just shout and point at the anarchist/criminal who is being an nozzle?  How hard can that be?  Are you all so soft, inept and weak that if one of them turned on one of your group people wouldn't step up to help?  You said your groups are much bigger and the criminals are relatively small groups.  Strength in numbers.  Where is your solidarity?  I call bull$hit that you have any interest in stopping the violence.  You enjoy it and hope it happens.  You just want someone else to do it for you.  It's all about choices and you and your ilk have made the choice to be on the side of violence by choosing to facilitate it by word and deed (or lack thereof). 

Yes, and a lot of times with overkill, as in more than needed.

Really?  Guess what?  This is a job for us.  A JOB.  We have families to go back to at the end of the day.  Your a$$hat friends CHOSE to show up and be idiots.  We got ASSIGNED to be there.  See the difference?  And another big heads up?  There is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING that states that we have to get hurt in the commission of our duties.  Quite the contrary actually.  And the law also says we don't have to fight fair.  So spare us the whining about "overkill".  Riot arrests are swift, brutal and decisive because experience tells us that if you try to reason with people in those settings you just create a magnet affect and instantly have hundreds of people interfearing. 

It can include blockades of streets, roads, entrances and such. Disruptive sit downs. Infiltrating into a political party or conference in attempt to scream some message. Trespassing and put some big banner off a building. Squatting inside an corporate or government office. While they may risk arrests, they do not involve violence or vandalism.

Okay seriously, what is the point? The only people that are impressed by that stuff are the people doing it.  You really thing that Pres. Barack Obama is going to go "hey, somebody just hung a 100 foot banner off the Scotia tower that says "NO BLOOD FOR OIL".  Wow, that is so moving!"  Grab a clue!!  They could care less with your childish antics.  They are 100% ineffective and accomplish NOTHING!  As for the interference crap, all that does is piss off the normal people who are trying to get on with their lives.  You know, the ones you can't relate to with those things called "jobs". 

If police preparations involves risking harming peaceful protests and risk causing a riot or/and panic, no matter what the preparations are by protest organizers, then they fail at their job.

What are you even talking about?!?  Every single protest that has ever occurred started off with a bunch of police standing around looking bored.  Police REACT to threats and disorderly conduct.  REACT.  In order to REACT someone else has to be ACTING.  Knowing what they may end up against, a public order unit will take steps to protect themselves.  So if you are suggesting that the mere sight of helmets, shields and batons is CAUSING people to misbehave, your perceptions are badly skewed. 

Protest organizers are generally about being able to have a peaceful protest where everyone and anyone can attend, not be the police themselves. There are laws against vigilantism, and for good reason.

It is not vigilantism for a citizen to take ownership of their community and exercise their rights under Sec 494 of the Criminal Code, citizens right to arrest.  Any citizen can arrest a person whom they observe committing and indictable offence.  Commonly here, that would be assault or mischief.  Vigilantism speaks to carrying out sentences.  Poor example. 

Treat protesters as criminals and you will get them.

Act like criminals and get treated like one. 

Doubtless you will ignore my salient points as in previous posts.  :

 

[1feral1]

All those who particpate in these anti-globalisation rallies, are either professional paid shyte distrubers (whose main purpose is to go from city to city promoting such), wannabee anarchists, or ULWNBs (Ultra Left Wing Nut Bars) with attitudes, and in my opinion, the majority are all unemployed, bored, and misguided at best.

Get the fire hoses out, and have the CS/DS/DN, rubber bullets and '00' on stand by, I've had a gutfull of them all.

OWDU

Oops, edited for spelling

 

[Fishbone Jones]

Let's make this real simple for everyone.

We'll add your comment to the thread, if you send it to a Mod, and it hasn't been previously discussed in it's present form or another permutation.

Once the fun and games start, we'll reopen it, so both sides can give their slanted, biased elicitations of the facts......as they see them.

We will then entertain, a civil discussion on what everyone thought went wrong.

Finally, when everyone has stated ad naseum, that it was the other sides fault, we will lock the whole thing up...........again, forever.

Probably around Oct\Nov 2010.

Milnet.ca Staff

 

[Infanteer]

As requested from a member.

Via Rail to bypass Union Station during G20
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/06/04/via-g20-union-station451.html

 

[Loachman]

Posted at the request of PMedMoe:

http://www.ottawasun.com/comment/columnists/greg_weston/2010/06/04/14266366.html

Fake Muskoka costs real bucks
Plan to take the great outdoors indoors for global media more than a little loony

By GREG WESTON, QMI Agency

Last Updated: June 6, 2010 2:00am

Canadian and international journalists covering the G8 summit in Muskoka later this month will be able to file their reports from the leisurely comfort of a cottage dock, their feet dangling in the water, surrounded by the stunning sights and sounds of the fabled Ontario resort country three hours north of Toronto.

The only catch is they won’t be anywhere near Muskoka.

Instead, the federal government is shelling out millions of dollars to re-create cottage country — complete with a small lake — inside a Toronto convention facility that will warehouse most of the media during the three-day windfest.

Your tax dollars at work.

It is all another stunning achievement by organizers of the great Canadian summits of squander, three days of hot air and tear gas that will cost taxpayers an estimated $1.2 billion and counting.

Recession? What recession?

The head of the Muskoka tourism agency, Mike Lawley, cannot contain his enthusiasm for the great outdoors being built indoors with federal tax dollars.

Lawley describes the planned decor as a sweeping dock surrounded by a “very large water feature” complete with canoes, all facing a big-screen TV the size of a stadium jumbotron creating the sights and sounds of cottage country.

Journalists will be able to lounge in comfy Muskoka chairs on what is likely the only cottage dock in existence with bar service and high-speed Internet connections.

The loopy lake project is only part of a bigger prop called “The Canadian Corridor” being constructed inside the temporary media centre.

Foreign Affairs describes it all as “experiential and will provide the media with compelling stories, images and ideas that could form the basis of published and broadcast works.”

Think: Drunk reporter falling in fake lake.

Foreign Affairs estimates the cost for the project will be $1.9 million, including draining the lake and dismantling the whole thing after three days.

At least, that’s the bill so far.

Government documents show that just last month, the absolutely outside cost was supposed to be $1.5 million — an increase of almost 25% in 30 days.

At that rate, the public tab for plugging arguably the richest resort region in the nation will blow past $3 million like a blackfly in a hurricane.

That’s just the beginning.

We have it on good authority that the usually hum-drum swag bags for media will include brand new “special summit edition” BlackBerrys preloaded with promotional stuff about Muskoka.

Since most international reporters won’t get within 200 km of Muskoka while they are here, Canadian taxpayers will also be forking out a small fortune in post-summit advertising campaigns aimed at potential tourists in the U.K., Germany, China, and U.S. border states.

Ka-ching. Ka-ching.

The worst of it is none of this had to happen.

After spending $23 million on a media centre in Huntsville where the G8 leaders will actually be meeting, the feds decided six months ago to keep most of the journalists three hours away in Toronto.

Needless to say, the decision did not sit well with the local tourism folks.

It also made life politically awkward for Muskoka-area MP Tony Clement.

Known affectionately as Uncle Tony for his political largesse with other people’s money, Clement has spent the past two years wallpapering his riding in $50 million of “summit heritage funds” for projects ostensibly to wow the visiting world media in the hopes of promoting future tourism.

But no media. No wow.

Lucky for everyone but taxpayers, Clement is also the federal industry minister responsible for a large federal slush fund called Investment Canada.

And apparently there is nothing Uncle Tony and Investment Canada can’t solve for the good voters of his riding.

If the media couldn’t go to Muskoka, why not bring cottage country to the media stuck in Toronto, eh?

Investment Canada to the rescue, indoor lake and all.

The good news is that in the likely event the actual summit meetings produce zero of value, tourism officials say bored reporters will be able to sit on the dock and watch FIFA soccer on the big screen.

If nothing else, the world will at least come to understand that not all the loons in this country are birds.

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[Michael OLeary]

The rallying call is out there.  I shot this today, it was pasted to the side of a London Free Press newspaper box.

 

[George Wallace]

And people wonder why the budget for this is so large and the Security efforts so grand:

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G8 Summit invites 10 extra nations

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Last Updated: Monday, June 14, 2010 | 8:21 PM ET
CBC News

The G8 Summit in southern Ontario's cottage country will include 10 other countries, and that has invited concerns and criticisms from politicians and activists.

The G8 consists of eight of the world's leading economic powers, including Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. This year's annual summit will take place June 25-27 in Huntsville, Ont., but officials said it will also include leaders from Haiti, Jamaica, Colombia and seven African countries.

"And what is all this costing?," asked Liberal MP Siobhan Coady, during the House of Common's question period. "There's no limit to what Canadians will have to pay for the prime minister's ego."

NDP MP Paul Dewar said aid-recipients Haiti, Jamaica and Colombia recently signed a free-trade agreement with Canada and their leaders likely won't disagree with Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

"Is this really a meeting of the G8 or is this, in fact, just a meeting of the campus of conservative club, Mr. Speaker?" he asked during question period.

Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon said the last-minute G8 guests will add a lot to the discussion around the table.

"The prime minister will be discussing issues that are related to development," he said. "He will be discussing issues related to security, global security, Mr. Speaker."

But NGOs say the government shouldn't limit the discussion to only those topics.

"For Canada to invite those people and not talk about climate change, not put it on the agenda and make sure there is very strong commitment, would be highly hypocritical, and, frankly, if I was from an African country, I'd be outraged," said Steven Guilbeault, co-founder of the environmental group, Équiterre, in Montreal.

Zoë Caron, a climate policy and advocacy specialist at WWF-Canada, said developed countries agreed last December in Copenhagen to help developing nations cope with climate change by putting money into a fund, but so far there isn't much in it.

"I think that having those faces at the table and those voices at the table would very much support those dollars moving forward," she said.

Cannon said climate change is on the agenda, but environmental groups worry it will get only a passing mention, instead of a full discussion about what needs to be done to reach an international agreement by the end of the year.



Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2010/06/14/g8-summit.html#ixzz0qvFB8Qis

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2010/06/14/g8-summit.html#ixzz0qvEzYA6y





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[George Wallace]

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Oxfam's giant heads of world leaders arrive for G8

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The Canadian Press

Date: Monday Jun. 14, 2010 1:56 PM ET

TORONTO — Barack Obama's head has arrived in Canada ahead of the G8 and G20 summits -- minus part of his ear.

The giant papier mache likeness of the U.S. president's noggin and the heads of the seven other G8 leaders were unpacked at Oxfam's Toronto offices Monday after being shipped from Germany, where they appeared at UN climate change talks.

Oxfam uses the props for publicity stunts during international meetings, such as the upcoming G8 in Huntsville, Ont., from June 25-26 and the G20 in Toronto from June 26-27.

The heads made the journey largely intact, except for a chip missing from the top of Obama's ear.

The ear should be easy enough to fix, but Oxfam's biggest concern now is getting a new head made for Japan's leader in time for a stunt on June 25 in Huntsville for the G8 summit.

"Normally they take about a month (to make), so this is a rush job," said Frida Eklund, Oxfam's popular mobilization lead.

"We didn't really plan for him to step down just before the summits."

Toronto artist Ted Heeley has offered to make a giant head of Naoto Kan, who replaced Yukio Hatoyama as Japan's prime minister less than two weeks ago.

The group had been thinking they wouldn't have the heads make the trek from Toronto to Huntsville, but are now planning an appearance or two at the G8.

The heads, lined up on a boardroom table after the bubble-wrap was taken off, are very close likenesses to their real-life counterparts. The artist -- Dot Young in the United Kingdom makes most of them -- will select a few different photos of the leaders and Oxfam staff pick ones they feel are most representative of the leaders.

They try to pick a good range of expressions, Eklund said.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper's head has a detached stare and icy blue eyes, while Obama's has a jovial smile.

Volunteers -- mostly Oxfam policy experts and executive directors -- will don the heads and pose in mock photo-ops.

"What they try to do is put them in a scene that's basically a satirical comment on what's happening or what should be happening," said Oxfam Canada spokeswoman Karen Palmer.

At the G8 last year in L'Aquila, the G8 leaders were "sitting down to a rather decadent dinner on the eve of a discussion about food insecurity," Palmer said.

So staffers there had the big heads sit down to giant bowls of pasta made out of metres and metres electrical cord.

They also opened the summit with a "while Rome burns" scene, complete with fire blowers, a comment on how out-of-touch the G8 can seem, Palmer said.

Strapped on to their heads with a hard hat mounted inside, the props are a bit wobbly, weighing seven kilograms each. There are no eye holes, so except for the Angela Merkel head -- whose mouth is open -- the volunteers can see through little holes designed to look like stubble.

It means limited vision and no peripheral vision, so the volunteers will be under close watch by a "stunt director."

They wouldn't want to trip and break a giant nose.


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[Michael OLeary]

Black Bloc expected to test G20 security

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/06/14/black-bloc.html

When more than 5,000 police officers take to the streets of Toronto during the G20 summit meetings June 26-27, their biggest worry may be militants whose tactics have earned them the name Black Bloc.

The self-described anarchists promote violent confrontation with the authorities, which is why they may be a major concern at the G20, according to CBC News security correspondent Bill Gillespie.

Black Bloc protesters wear ski masks or balaclavas to conceal their identity, rarely do interviews, and on their websites rail against capitalism and banks.

They allege that exploitation of Third World countries by the rich G20 nations causes poverty and death.

So, according to Black Bloc logic, throwing rocks at the police is a justifiable, even moral, response to the violent consequences of G20 policies.

Canadian security analyst John Thompson doesn't buy it.

"They've been described as activists. Forget it. The cause is irrelevant. What they really are is confrontation junkies," Thompson said.

Typically, a tightly knit phalanx of Black Bloc members will insert themselves into a large, peaceful protest march. When the march passes a bank, one of them might run out of the group and throw a brick through a window.

The brick thrower then quickly runs back to his masked, black-clad comrades, leaving the police unsure whom to arrest.

The No. 1 target of the Black Bloc in Toronto is expected to be the tall mesh security fence surrounding the centre where the G20 leaders will meet, said the CBC's Gillespie.

Protesters using Black Bloc tactics were active during the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Three were arrested after windows were broken at a Hudson's Bay Company store and cars were vandalized on West Georgia Street.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/06/14/black-bloc.html#ixzz0r1CpD6q1

 

[Infanteer]

I'm re-opening this because I'm sick of posting stuff for other people when I don't give a damn about this topic.  Any stupid posts will simply be deleted.

 

[GAP]

The G8/G20 is being used by the natives now....

Natives to win HST concessions from Ottawa
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Adam Radwanski and Karen Howlett

From Wednesday's Globe and Mail Published on Wednesday, Jun. 16, 2010 3:00AM EDT Last updated on Wednesday, Jun. 16, 2010 10:28AM EDT

The federal government is set to give aboriginals a major concession on Ontario’s new harmonized sales tax, amid threats that protesters will “shut down the country” when it plays host to world leaders at the coming G8 and G20 summits.

Until this month, Ottawa had ignored natives’ pleas for a provincewide point-of-sale exemption from the HST after it takes effect on July 1. But with native leaders set to plan protests that could include outright blockades, federal and provincial officials engaged in a frantic round of negotiations.

Sources say that an 11th-hour deal to give aboriginals the exemption is now imminent, and that it was the spectre of major disruptions that forced Stephen Harper’s government to come to the table.

The talks began on June 4, and picked up steam after a meeting a week later at which aboriginal representatives put government officials on notice that they would back up their unhappiness with the end of the exemption by taking action.

Alvin Fiddler, senior policy adviser at the Independent First Nations Alliance – a tribal council representing five communities – said the main item at a meeting of native leaders next Tuesday in Fort Frances, Ont., would be how to maximize exposure to natives’ complaints. “It’s direct action that usually gets the most attention,” he said.

Stan Beardy, Grand Chief of the Nishnawbe Aski Nation, said in an interview that representatives are very close to reaching an accord. But “if the thing isn’t resolved, we have to tell our people to do whatever we need to do in order to protect our rights,” he said. “We have to shut down the country if we have to.”
More on link

 

[The Bread Guy]

Expect wireless blackouts....:

Wireless companies say they’ve been told their signals may be jammed during the G8 and G20 summits, but aren’t being given any more information about how thousands of cellphone users could be affected. Wireless industry sources told the Canadian Press that the jamming technology is expected only to be used to create a moving bubble of electronic silence around motorcades ....

....and closed banks:

Canadian banks will close 36 branches inside or near the security perimeter during the G20 summit in Toronto, which begins June 26.  The Royal Bank, CIBC, TD Bank, Scotiabank and Bank of Montreal say the branches could be the targets of protesters, so they will close the outlets.  They are asking people who might need to get to safety deposit boxes for items such as passports to visit their branches before June 24 so vacation plans aren't ruined ....

Canadian Civil Liberties Association and the Canadian Labour Congress call for injunction against use of LRADs:

.... The Canadian Labour Congress and the Ontario Federation of Labour are expecting thousands of people to come out to their “People First!” rally on June 26th, and have been working for months with local organizations in Toronto, including local police, to provide people with a safe and peaceful venue to express their displeasure with G20 leaders and their own government. The organizers say dozens of buses have been chartered by local labour unions and student associations to bring people from across Ontario to the protests. They have permits for a large stage at Queen’s Park and have planned their march to steer clear security hot spots. Nonetheless, they are concerned about the possible use of sonic cannons, and that peaceful protesters may become targets for unnecessary crowd control ....

Note to geocachers:

.... Geocachers planning to hunt for hidden boxes in Toronto during the G20 weekend are being warned to take their sleuthing outside of the city.  “It’s not recommended to go down to a high-security area and start snooping around looking for a hidden package,” Ontario Geocaching Association vice-president Gregory Pleau said ....

Point:  How violence doesn't help

.... The diversity of tactics concept allows and condones tactics such as those of the Black Bloc, which has historically included the wearing of hoods and masks to conceal identities, physical fights with the police, breaking windows, smashing cars and media vehicles, and firebombing.

An underlying assumption is that peaceful protesters will be “politicized” by provoking police into responding to violence with violence. This arrogant position not only places nonviolent demonstrators at risk, it also leads to alienation and a weakening of the social change movement.

In this society, a group that chooses violence chooses to marginalize itself. Widely rejected tactics such as fire bombings or window-smashing not only lead to mass arrests, but also result in a loss of credibility and public support ....

Counterpoint:  some more protest art attached, shared via Twitter and twitpic.com, with the message "G8 G20 crash the meeting. tools of the trade. submedia.tv"

 

[The Bread Guy]

From the DoS web page:

.... The G-20 Summit, which heads of state and government will attend, will take place June 26-27, 2010, at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in downtown Toronto.  Previous G-20 summits have drawn large numbers of protesters and activists, and a number of groups have announced plans to demonstrate throughout downtown Toronto.  Protesters are expected to gather in Toronto in the days leading up to the Summit and access to parts of the downtown area will be restricted due to security requirements.  Even demonstrations that are meant to be peaceful can become violent and unpredictable.  You should avoid them if at all possible.  Be alert and aware of your surroundings and pay attention to what the local news media has to say ....

 

[Michael OLeary]

http://g20.torontomobilize.org/schedule

Schedule of Events

If you are organizing an action during this time, please contact the Toronto Community Mobilization Network immediately to ensure that all actions are safe and supported.

Please read our Solidarity and Respect statement, the Accessibility Statement and Statement/Guidelines on Sexual Assault

The Toronto Community Mobilization Network is supporting mobilizations for:
~ self-determination for indigenous peoples
~ climate and environmental justice
~ income equity and community control over resources
~ migrant justice and an end to war and occupation
~ gender justice, queer and disAbility rights.

Organizers percieved level of police interference
* = low; ** = medium; *** = high

* 18-20 June 2010, All Day, Forum, Ryerson: 2010 People’s Summit

21-24 June 2010: THEMED DAYS OF RESISTANCE (BUILD UP)

J21, 1pm, Harper's Attacks on Reproductive Rights at home and abroad, 25 Cecil Street, OCAC [email protected]

** J21, 2pm, Allan Gardens, March: "All Out In Defense of the Rights of All"

** J22, Various Times/Locations, creative civic transformations and street theatre for Gender Justice

J22, Creative Queer Resistance to the G20, 4:30pm Yonge and Queen, Tuesday June 22nd

* J23, 11am, Alexandra Park (Dundas and Bathurst St.) March: "Toxic Tour of Toronto"

* J23, 7pm, Ryerson Student Campus Centre (SCC115), 55 Gould St: People's Assembly on Climate Justice: Moving Forward from Cochabamba (Poster) (Facebook)

** J24, 11am, Queen's Park, March: "Canada Can't Hide Genocide: Indigenous Day of Action" (Poster Image)

J24, 5pm, Toronto Underground Cinema 186 Spadina Ave, "Six Miles Deep" Documentary

* J24, 8pm, 25 Cecil Street Steelworkers Hall, Forum: "Confront the Invasion!" (Poster image)

25-27 June 2010: DAYS OF ACTION

** J25, 2:30pm, Allan Gardens (Carlton Street between Jarvis and Sherbourne Street) Free the Streets! March. Block Party. Tent City: "Justice for Our Communities"

* J25, 6:00pm, Forum, Massey Hall: "Shout Out For Global Justice"

* J26, 1:00pm, March, Queen's Park: "People's First. We Deserve Better"

*** J26, 1:00pm, March, Queen's Park: "Get Off the Fence"

*** J26, Time/Location TBA, Radical Street Party: "Saturday Night Fever."

*** J27, Time/Location TBA, Autonomous Direct Actions: "Getting Down to Business"

* J27, 1pm, Location TBA, Bike Block action

** J27, 2pm, St James Park (on King St. between Jarvis and Church), March: "Funeral March"

J27, 3:33 PM, Anywhere, Make Believe Tea Party, (Flyer) (Handout)

*** J27, 5pm, Bruce Mackey Park (Dundas and Wardell), March:  Fire.Works.For.Prisons
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    * g8 toronto community mobilize mobilization network schedule protest dates times location g20 resistance resist

 

[Michael OLeary]

Hmmm, what was all that rhetoric we were getting earlier in this thread about how the "peaceful mass" of protesters had no control over the few "direct action" rabble?

Well, it seems they have no qualms about publishing strict guidance concerning those who have a record of committng, or may commit, sexual assault.

http://g20.torontomobilize.org/sexualassaultpolicy

Sexual Assault

TorontoCommunity Mobilization Network –
Statement/Guidelines on sexual assault and consent

Information on Prevention and Support Structures for Survivors for the G8/G20 in Toronto

*please disseminate widely*

The Toronto Community Mobilization Network recognizes that organizing and activist spaces are not always spaces liberated from sexual and gender based violence and assault. We believe it is important that as a community we create spaces that acknowledge this reality and fight the structures and persons that create and sustain rape culture within our society, but that we also establish prevention and support mechanisms for individuals who experience sexual assault/gender based violence while attending the summit in Toronto.

We will do this by:

    * Actively discouraging persons with a known history of perpetrating assault from attending the summit/being present in organizing spaces
    * Having trained medics/volunteers experienced with sexual assault present throughout the convergence to support survivors
    * Having guidelines for consensual sexual activity to be abided by, especially in G8 & G20 Housing/Organizing spaces

Perpetrators of Sexual Assault, Abuse and Harassment are not welcome in G8 & G20 Resistance Spaces!!!

Perpetrators of Sexual Assault, Abuse and Harassment are not welcome in G8 & G20 Resistance Spaces. This includes people who have perpetrated in the past, people currently engaged in or running away from accountability processes, and people who refuse to respect the TCMN consent guidelines.

People who violate consent guidelines will be directed to leave G8 & G20 organization spaces, and housing arrangements.

It is no way acceptable that the presence of a perpetrator hinder the particpation of a survivor during the G8/G20 mobilization. We encourage survivors, and allies of survivors to identify ways in which we can assist them if they feel that their participation in the G20 is being obstructed by the presence of a perpetrator.

The G8/G20 guidelines are in place to discourage the replication of the paradigms of domination that exist within our society. If you are here to protest the paradigm of domination that the G8/G20 represents,  practically engaging in deconstructing and de-practicing learned patriarchal, misogynist behaviours of abuse includes following these guidelines.

  To identify someone perpetrating abuse, to get support for you or a friend,  please contact us at: [email protected]

Hello hypocrisy.

 

[vonGarvin]

You see, it's all about aboringinal/women/queer/disAbled etc rights.  Cops are white men.  Only white men own banks, therefore, it's ok to beat on them...


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[GAP]

Perpetrators of Sexual Assault, Abuse and Harassment are not welcome in G8 & G20 Resistance Spaces!!!

Well, there's that problem solved.....they told them not to come, and they won't .....they're not welcome......well done!!!  :

 

[Michael OLeary]

But at least they published a policy, a plan and a set of contacts to report violators.

Sexual assault - Not welcome here!

Planning to throw Molotovs at cops, not a problem worth mentioning.  :


Of course, the sexual assault issue is to protect demonstrators from other demonstrators. Go figure.