Eastside Revolt
25th September 2010, 00:29
G20 Solidarity Rally
Monday, September 27 · 12:00pm - 3:00pm
The Knoll (unceded Musqueam territory) 6138 STUDENT UNION BOULEVARD V6T 1Z1 (South Side of SUB)
Vancouver, BC
Rally and fundraiser in support of those who faced political persecution during the Toronto G20, many of whom still face charges. Donations will go towards the legal fees of those who were arrested. Speakers include those who were arrested during the G20 and those who will discuss globalization and the G8/G20. Speakers are Kirk Chavarie from UBC Okanagan who was arrested, Yifan Lee from Food Not Bombs who was arrested, Sozan Sav...ehilagh from No One Is Illegal and others.
Come out and show your support! Come out and show your outrage at the police brutality that took place and that continues to take place every day in marginalized communities across Canada.
The bare facts:
- Over 1000 people were unjustly arrested and brutalized.
- Protesters were beaten, tear gassed and pepper sprayed in so-called "free speech zones."
- The Harper and McGuinty government allowed such a thing as a "free speech zone" to be established in violation of our right to free assembly as established in the Charter.
- The arrestees were held in deplorable conditions at the now infamous Eastern Ave studios, called "the Prisoner Processing Centre."
- Prisoners were denied food, water, toilet paper, blankets, medicine and their legally mandated phone call; make-shift cages holding forty prisoners at a time were built to hold ten; female prisoners were sexually, verbally and physically assaulted by police officers; queer prisoners were segregated and verbally assaulted; disabled prisoners were physically brutalized (this is by no means a comprehensive account of the abuses that took place).
- This was the greatest civil liberties violation in Canadian history since the October Crisis.
- 10 violations of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms took place.
- Police were given special privileges to search without cause in a municipal act that was rushed through right before the meetings; to cover their tracks, police later claimed that they misinterpreted this law.
- Activists were illegally searched, followed and harrassed in the weeks leading up to the G20.
- The neo-liberal "free trade" policies that are pushed in these undemocratic, closed-door G8/G20 meetings impoverish and subjugate billions of people around the world to the benefit of a small elite in corporate, political and financial sectors.
- G8, G20, they few, we many
Organized by:
http://www.socialjusticecentre.org/
Monday, September 27 · 12:00pm - 3:00pm
The Knoll (unceded Musqueam territory) 6138 STUDENT UNION BOULEVARD V6T 1Z1 (South Side of SUB)
Vancouver, BC
Rally and fundraiser in support of those who faced political persecution during the Toronto G20, many of whom still face charges. Donations will go towards the legal fees of those who were arrested. Speakers include those who were arrested during the G20 and those who will discuss globalization and the G8/G20. Speakers are Kirk Chavarie from UBC Okanagan who was arrested, Yifan Lee from Food Not Bombs who was arrested, Sozan Sav...ehilagh from No One Is Illegal and others.
Come out and show your support! Come out and show your outrage at the police brutality that took place and that continues to take place every day in marginalized communities across Canada.
The bare facts:
- Over 1000 people were unjustly arrested and brutalized.
- Protesters were beaten, tear gassed and pepper sprayed in so-called "free speech zones."
- The Harper and McGuinty government allowed such a thing as a "free speech zone" to be established in violation of our right to free assembly as established in the Charter.
- The arrestees were held in deplorable conditions at the now infamous Eastern Ave studios, called "the Prisoner Processing Centre."
- Prisoners were denied food, water, toilet paper, blankets, medicine and their legally mandated phone call; make-shift cages holding forty prisoners at a time were built to hold ten; female prisoners were sexually, verbally and physically assaulted by police officers; queer prisoners were segregated and verbally assaulted; disabled prisoners were physically brutalized (this is by no means a comprehensive account of the abuses that took place).
- This was the greatest civil liberties violation in Canadian history since the October Crisis.
- 10 violations of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms took place.
- Police were given special privileges to search without cause in a municipal act that was rushed through right before the meetings; to cover their tracks, police later claimed that they misinterpreted this law.
- Activists were illegally searched, followed and harrassed in the weeks leading up to the G20.
- The neo-liberal "free trade" policies that are pushed in these undemocratic, closed-door G8/G20 meetings impoverish and subjugate billions of people around the world to the benefit of a small elite in corporate, political and financial sectors.
- G8, G20, they few, we many
Organized by:
http://www.socialjusticecentre.org/