Toronto G20 Legal Fallout

Toronto G20 Legal Fallout
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What kind of world do the G20 leaders want to create? They showed us a sneak preview at the G20 summit in Toronto last June: a billion-dollar security budget, 20,000 security personnel, secret laws, pre-dawn house raids, indiscriminate attacks with batons, tear gas, and rubber bullets. Over 1100 people were arrested, most of whom were never charged.

If this is the future, who can blame people for resisting?

Since the G20 protests, we’ve waited breathlessly for a comprehensive account of the charges and investigations stemming from the summit. Despairing of finding one, we finally prepared this report. It’s not all-inclusive; there is a tremendous amount to keep up with, and many important details are still being forcefully withheld.

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Toronto Police Arrest Over 600 in Crackdown Outside G20 Summit; Naomi Klein - The Real Crime Scene Was Inside the G20 Summit

(Reports on the June G20 Summit in Toronto, The Protests, and the Police Violence)

Democracy Now

Toronto Police Arrest Over 600 in Crackdown Outside G20 Summit

Canadian police have arrested over 600 people in Toronto in a police crackdown on protests at the G20 summit. Riot police used batons, plastic bullets and tear gas for the first time in the city’s history. More than 19,000 security personnel were deployed in Toronto, and a nearly four-mile-long security wall was erected around the G20 summit site at the Toronto Convention Center. The security price tag for the summit is estimated at around $1 billion. Franklin Lopez of the Vancouver Media Co-op filed this report from the streets of Toronto.


Naomi Klein: The Real Crime Scene Was Inside the G20 Summit

As thousands protested in the streets of Toronto, inside the G20 summit world leaders agreed to a controversial goal of cutting government deficits in half by 2013. We speak with journalist Naomi Klein. "What actually happened at the summit is that the global elites just stuck the bill for their drunken binge with the world’s poor, with the people that are most vulnerable," Klein says.


Journalist Describes Being Beaten, Arrested by Canadian Police While Covering G20 Protest

Among the hundreds of people arrested at the G20 protests in Toronto were a number of journalists. Jesse Rosenfeld is a freelance reporter who was on assignment for The Guardian newspaper of London. He is also a journalist with the Alternative Media Center. He was arrested and detained by Canadian police on Saturday evening covering a protest in front of the Novotel Hotel.

The Real News Network: G20 Reports of Police Brutality -- "THEY ARE NEVER GOING TO GET INSIDE MY HEAD"; "WE ASKED THEM FOR MERCY...THEY LAUGHED AT US"

The Real News Network

Highly recommended! Clear videos of the abuse this peaceful protestor suffered, of her being hit/slammed/cuffed and thrown into an umarked van with plainclothes police, and testimony of the beating and sexual threats she received from these police officers.

This was reported in mainstream news (CNN/CBC/Toronto Star), now... hear her story in her own words--very inspiring testimong from an intelligent, brave activist:

"THEY ARE NEVER GOING TO GET INSIDE MY HEAD"



Another good description from a (non-protesting) citizen swept up in the police raids--interesting the lessons being taught by the police state to everyday citizens (not to mention activists)

"G20: WE ASKED THEM FOR MERCY... THEY LAUGHED AT US"

Friends of Tortuga

Website for the long-standing anarchist collective household in Jackson Heights, Queens that was raided by a Joint Terrorism force after the recent Pittsburgh G20 Summit. Members were arrested, the house was searched/ransacked, and anything that looked faintly subversive was seized—famously a needlepoint of Lenin was included… Eventually all charges were dropped … it was initiated because two Tortuga members were using Twitter to communicate police announcements over the publicly accessible/available police scanner. Ironically this was the same tactic/technology that the Obama administration celebrated months earlier when used by Iranian activists. Is it a crime to twitter/text public information?

Friends of Tortuga