RESIST STATE REPRESSION!
by Citizen's Pushback Coalition
 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.
Sunday July 4th - 2pm
China Creek Park South -
West of Clark on Broadway
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.
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/
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