Montreal, July 13 - The two remaining Montrealers detained in Toronto following the G20 protests were released yesterday afternoon.
PRESS RELEASES
Community Update on G20 Detainees by the Direct Support Committees of G20 detainees still being held at Maplehurst Men's Detention Centre and Vanier Women's Prison in Ontario.
La CLAC2010 exige la libération immédiate de touTEs les prisonierEs politiques et l’annulation immédiate de toutes les accusations portées contre les personnes arrêtées lors du G20.
Nous n’accepterons jamais la criminalisation de la dissidence.
Nous ne nous tairons pas face à la répression politique.
Libérez nos camarades!
Over 900 were arrested in Toronto during the G20 mobilization, via police kidnapping, political profiling, house raids and street level police snatch squads. Police violence, brutality and intimidation were the order of the day via the Toronto police in their systematic repression against anti G20 street protests. This is the largest number of arrests in Canadian history. After being arbitrarily detained for hours to days, several hundred protesters are returning home. This is a message of support and solidarity with those coming back home to Montreal.
WEDNESDAY 7th JULY, 6H PM
UQAM, Pavillon Hubert-Aquin, local A-2860
400 Ste-Catherine est (corner of St-Denis)
(Metro Berri-UQAM)
Download the information bulletin of the CLAC on the repression at Toronto's G20. To be distributed during july 1st demo.
Demonstration against police repression and in solidarity with the G20 resistance
THURSDAY, JULY 1st, NOON in MONTREAL
*** new starting point: Square St-Louis ***
(St-Denis & Rue du Square St-Louis, métro Sherbrooke)
PROTEST THE CRIMINALIZATION OF DISSENT IN TORONTO!
ORGANIZE A SOLIDARITY PROTEST IN YOUR CITY!
Ottawa (J30), Hamilton (J30), London (J30), Windsor (J30), Winnipeg (Ll1), Québec City (JL1), Lyon (France, JL1) and others cities will also hold solidarity demonstrations
Given the overwhelming number of people arrested during the G20 repression in Toronto, the CLAC Legal Committee has set up phone numbers to help people get info about friends and family members who may have been arrested over the weekend.
If you are looking for info on people from Montreal who have been detained, if you have lost touch with friends or family members or if you've witnessed the arrest of someone from Montreal, you can call one of the following numbers:
-- 514 563 1437 or 514 243 2776
Si vous avez des informations sur les personnes arrêtées, communiquez avec nous par courriel au contreleg20@gmail.com.
Si vous voulez partir lundi s’il vous plait, contactez-nous également à ce courriel!
Les forces policières sont entrées dans le centre des médias alternatif de Toronto et le Centre de Convergence a été évacué. Ne vous y rendez pas!
To all news editors; to all independent and alternative media
For immediate release
The Anti-Capitalist Convergence of Montreal (CLAC 2010): To Toronto!
Capitalism is the crisis!
June 21 2010 – Less than a week from the G8 and G20 meetings, the Anti-Capitalist Convergence of Montreal (CLAC 2010) is escalating its mobilizing efforts to bring as many people as possible to Toronto to directly confront the policies of the G8 and G20 on June 25, 26, and 27. Groups and individuals under the banner of CLAC 2010 have organized a campaign of popular education and outreach to condemn the savage and destructive capitalist politics of the planet’s most powerful political and economic leaders who are meeting to decide the fate of the global population.
These private and ferociously protected summits only serve to perpetuate an authoritarian and criminal system of exploitation, permitting a small fraction to continue to enrich itself using wars, environmental destruction, land expropriation, the exploitation of women, cultural genocides, the indebtment and impoverishment of entire communities, political repression and border control to achieve their goals. As explained by Danie Royer, spokesperson for CLAC 2010: “This meeting will finalize one the biggest diversions of funds ever seen: the transfer of hundreds of billions of public money towards the leaders of the previous recession: banks, private investment funds, transnational companies, speculators of all stripes, etc.” Their next step will no doubt be against public deficits and the “cleansing” of government finances!
This illegitimate elite accepts no criticism or questioning of its privileges and will go as far as demanding a budget of billions and tens of thousands of puppets armed to the teeth to celebrate its domination. In the words of Mathieu Francoeur, also spokesperson of CLAC 2010: “ With the tools given to the forces of repression and the fear campaigns spearheaded by the compliant mainstream media, there is a desire to associate any expression of dissent and all form of resistance as either empty vandalism or terrorism.” The reasons for revolt are numerous and it is legitimate to disrupt this sad mascarade. Only one statistic is necessary: 2% of humanity possesses 50% of the planet’s wealth while 50% of the global population only holds 1%.
The Conservative government is using this meeting to promote its reactionary ideology by having the nerve to hold this summit in the downtown area of the biggest city in the country and by erecting a multi-million dollar wall! This offense can only provoke a combative response. In solidarity with the peoples of the world that do not have the “occasion” to directly confront those who control their lives, we will be in the streets of Toronto.
CLAC 2010’s media committee is available to explain the issues touching our diverse communities and to make links between our local struggles and the destructive programs of the G8 and G20. Journalists will be able to keep in contact with the CLAC 2010’s media committee by e-mail or telephone.
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CLAC 2010 MEDIA:
Telephone: 438-838-8498
E-mail: media@clac2010.net
Twitter: www.twitter.com/CLACMontreal
Website: www.clac2010.net
[We can respond to interview requests in French, English and Spanish.]
To all news editors; to all independent and alternative media
For Immediate Release
The Anti-Capitalist Convergence of Montreal (CLAC 2010):
Organizing in our communities and neighborhoods, mobilizing against the G8/G20 in Toronto
Capitalism is the crisis!
June 14, 2010 -- The Anti-Capitalist Convergence of Montreal (CLAC 2010) is a network of community organizations and individuals who have come together to reinforce day-to-day anti-capitalist social justice struggles in our community, and to mobilize against the upcoming G8/G20 meetings in Toronto.
Together, CLAC 2010 members and allies represent diverse local struggles that mutually support each other. We are of allies indigenous sovereignty and migrant justice struggles; we are queers, feminists, youth, students, workers,environmentalists, immigrants, anti-racists and anti-sexists; we organize against police brutality, poverty, cutbacks, privatization and precarity, and for housing rights and environmental justice. We are active in international solidarity, from Colombia to Palestine to Mexico and beyond, and against all borders. We are united in our opposition to a fundamentally unjust capitalist economic system.
In recent months, CLAC 2010, in collaboration with allies like the Regroupement anti-G20 étudiant (RAGE), la Coalition des féministes radicales contre le G20, the queer group Politi-Q and others, has focused our attention on popular education work. We have published an anti-capitalist reader called “Coup de Semonce”, organized over a dozen workshops locally, and hosted a two-day Anti-Capitalist Teach-In. We mobilize against the G8/G20 linked to our day-to-day organizing locally for justice and dignity.
Now, with the G8/G20 meetings slated to begin in two weeks, we are focusing our attention on mobilizing to oppose and confront the G8/G20 in Toronto between June 25-27.
We will be organizing buses and cars to transport demonstrators to Toronto. We are also supporting all efforts by Toronto and Southern Ontario groups to disrupt the Summit, despite the billion-dollar security measures meant to intimidate protesters.
CLAC 2010 Media will be active is addressing the issues that impact our communities, and making the links between our local struggles and the destructive agendas of the G8 and G20. Mediarepresentatives can stay in touch with CLAC 2010 Media by e-mail or phone and get in touch to speak with a media representative . We especially encourage alternative and independent media outlets to make contact, so we can share our anti-capitalist, popular education, direct action perspective against the G8/G20, as well as background about our local struggles and organizing.
CLAC 2010 MEDIA:
telephone: 438-838-8498
e-mail: media@clac2010.net
twitter: www.twitter.com/CLACMontreal
web: www.clac2010.net
[We can respond to interview requests in French, English and Spanish.]
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May 21, 2010
Occupied Coast Salish Territory
[Vancouver, Canada]
The May 18, 2010, arson attack on the Royal Bank of Canada in Ottawa was clearly an anti-colonial and anti-capitalist action. It has had a strong impact across the country and invoked the wrath of the state. As both sabotage and propaganda, the attack was highly successful: the bank was almost totally destroyed while the RBC's funding of the genocidal Tar Sands was once again highlighted.
Montréal, le 2 mai 2010. Plus de 800 personnes ont marché, pour la troisième année consécutive, dans les rues du Centre-ville de Montréal, samedi le 1er mai, dans le cadre de la Journée internationale des travailleurs et des travailleuses. La manifestation, organisée par la Convergence des luttes anticapitalistes – 2010 (CLAC-2010), visait à dénoncer le système capitaliste, principal générateur d’exploitation, de misère et de pauvreté dans le monde.
Malgré l’intimidation et la provocation des serviteurs de l’ordre (sic) déployés en très grand nombre, les manifestantes et les manifestants ont pris la rue et ont complété la marche prévue par les organisatrices et les organisateurs.
>> Lire également cet autre communiqué de la CLAC publié le 30 avril
*ANTI-CAPITALIST CONVERGENCE (CLAC) 2010*
*Against the crisis here! Against the crisis everywhere!
Unite Against the G20!*
*CALL-OUT: PARTICIPATE IN A
POPULAR EDUCATION CAMPAIGN AND MASS MOBILIZATION*
*Montreal, March 2010 – We won't pay for their crisis! *No to cuts in social programs; no to rising tuition; no to workers' insecurity, including non-status and immigrant workers, and the unemployed; no to racist immigration policies; no to social and ecological destruction. Enough is enough!