Fwd: [g8/g20mobilization] 4 WEEKS TO G8/G20 - A CALL FROM TORONTO
- From:
- Graeme Bacque
- Date:
- 2010-05-28 @ 20:44
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Subject: [g8/g20mobilization] 4 WEEKS TO G8/G20 - A CALL FROM TORONTO
Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 07:08:39 -0700 (PDT)
From: community.mobilize@resist.ca
To: community.mobilize@masses.tao.ca
G8/G20 CONVERGENCE IN CANADA
21 - 27 June 2010
DAYS OF ACTION: 25-27 JUNE
Anti-Colonial People's Convergence
with Rallies. Marches. Parties. Forums.
Autonomous, Creative and Fun Actions.
Tent City
in Toronto and across Turtle Island
http://g20.torontomobilize.org
WELCOME TO TORONTO
Democracy shirking, fear mongering, women's rights abusing Stephen Harper
invites us all to watch rich people talk to rich people about how to save
the world from rich people. This June, the G8/G20 circus is coming to
town!
Once again billions will be spent. So that politicians, lawyers and big
businessmen can assure us that the world is in safe hands. Like a song
for Haiti, we'll be told that the few can be many.
> From the 21st to the 27th of June the people of Toronto, Turtle Island
invite the whole world to sing a different song.
Toronto - from Jane and Finch to Parkdale, Rexdale to Malvern. The inner
colony run by the institutions of economy. Where schools banish children,
governments banish schools. Employers degrade and profit from the
exploitation of women. Migrant workers bleed dry/ Indigenous
peoples pushed aside. Humiliated by laws that line the pockets of the
wealthy under their corporate sky.
Welcome to Toronto where the welfare line grows almost as quick as the gap
between the rich and the poor. Where a welfare check won't get you a roof,
let alone food. Welcome to our streets. 3$ from A to B. They will deny
disAbility because time waits for nobody. The city behind the tower: it
ain't free.
Welcome to streets choked by big businesses gut rot. Where doctors of
colour work the taxis, the factories; where women work the homes of the
wealthy; to try and keep their children healthy; to try and find
opportunity in a land of plenty on a belly starved empty.
Welcome to urban apartheid; streets partitioned by police, security,
immigration officials and CCTV. The city's paramilitary, and their bedtime
buddy the TV, wage war on the homeless, the youth, the sex worker the
black male in the hoody, the faces that make their label: poverty.
Welcome to streets where the G8/G20 feeds, where their hatred economy
breeds the nine's that kill our children, the laws the pollute our food.
Welcome to the fenced streets; where the powers that be underestimate the
powers of you and me. Where we are re-writing the word destiny. For in the
cracks in the concrete we find sustenance. In the name of tomorrow we
return these streets to the global family...to those who wish her free.
In these streets, no one is illegal; another world is possible and it's
here; and it's now and it's a party. We don't need no song from no
celebrity. We won't be sung to sleep. Their song won't heal the world
because we have our own words, our own flag and it's unfurled.
We are the people; We are the beat; that will run rings round capitalism's
two feet.
Our world needs you. Let the G8/G20 hear you: 'We are the many, you are
the few'
SCHEDULE:http://g20.torontomobilize.org/schedule
GET INVOLVED:http://g20.torontomobilize.org/getinvolved
SUPPORT US:http://g20.torontomobilize.org/support
COMING TO TORONTO?:http://g20.torontomobilize.org/comingtotoronto
ALSO, 10 REASONS TO OPPOSE THE G8/G20
Part 1:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LguieJZFCUY
Part 2:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtuMgh_kI1M
WANT TO FOLLOW G8/G20 NEWS?
http://g20.torontomobilize.org/g8g20news
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