G20 defendant marks six weeks in jail, Last detainee awaits bail appeal hearing
August 4, Toronto – Community organizer and G20 activist Erik Lankin continues to remain in detention since his arrest early on June 26th. Along with others, he is facing politically-motivated charges in relation to the Toronto G8/G20 protests. He is the last detainee on conspiracy charges who remains behind bars, and is awaiting a bail appeal after almost six weeks in detention.
G20 5-metre rule charges against environmental organizer mysteriously “disappear”
Toronto – Dave Vasey, a 31 year old environmental justice organizer appeared in court today, July 28, to request further details about the charges laid against him when he was arrested under the Public Works Act on 24 June, 2010, only to find that the file was no longer on record either on paper or on the Police database.
Press Release
ACTIVISTS EXPOSE POLICE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN DURING THE G20
Anti-Violence Against Women activists join women abused by Toronto Police to condemn ongoing police assault against women and hold accountable the Federal, Provincial and City government leaders that conspired to plan and give orders for the widespread police violence and repression that was experienced by thousands on the streets.
11am, 22 July 2010, Press Conference at Toronto Rape Crisis Centre (17
Phoebe Street)
Toronto – The Toronto Community Mobilization Network is gravely disappointed with the recent decision by Toronto Police to further waste resources by releasing a Top 10 G20 Most Wanted List at a media circus in downtown Toronto on Wednesday.
The TorontoCommunity Mobilization Network and the Movement Defense Committee hold a press conference to highlight the willful violations of due process by police and the way ahead for TorontoCommunities.
Toronto Community Mobilization Network Press Conference
“Toronto Community Mobilization Network and community organizers express
disgust at G8/B20”
Toronto – As the Week of Resistance to Abolish the G8/G20 continues and
the G8/B20 begins their elitist and private meetings, the Toronto
Community Mobilization Network gathers around their own fake lake outside
the International Media Centre to outline the weekend’s days of action and
reveal plans for Friday June 25th action: Justice For Our Communities.
Joint Press Conference on Illegal Detentions and Harassment
Movement Defence Committee and the Toronto Community Mobilization Network
4:00pm
Police Headuarters, 40 College Street
Toronto - Over the last two days, Toronto Police have engaged in at least
12 of illegal detentions and subjected a number of everyday people to
searches without cause. Targets include people on the street, based on
Environmental and Climate Justice Activists Take a Toxic Tour of Toronto: Expose Canada, G8 and G20 leaders’ record on mining, climate and environmental injustice
Environmental and Climate Justce Themed Day of Resistance hosts Toxic Tour, a creatve march through downtown Toronto followed by the People’s Assembly, a public forum on climate justce
Toronto—As the meetings of the self-appointed, global organizing committee of violence (the G8 and G20 Summits) draws closer, immigrant, working and poor communities, Indigenous people, women, queer and disAbled folk are continuing to organize in the face of police intimidation, harassment and CSIS visits to organize for a world free of poverty, violence and environmental havoc.
The Toronto Community Mobilization Network organizes for justice and dignity through supporting community groups and concerned residents to share their outrage and their hope in the months leading up to and during the G8/G20 Summits in June 2010.
Toronto Community Mobilization Network holds Press Conference to Speak on Public Events and Key Issues to be Raised in June
Toronto – On Thursday, May 20, 2010 at Steelworkers' Hall, members of the Toronto Community Mobilization Network will hold a press conference to announce a schedule of public events and discuss issues behind the protests leading up to the G20 summit inToronto this June.
WHAT: Press conference with spokespeople from the Toronto Community Mobilization
TORONTO— Toronto Community Mobilization Network encourages the City of
Toronto and Integrated Security Unit’s decision to abandon
Trinity-Bellwoods Park as a protest zone, but further rejects the
discussion or planning of any other protest or 'free speech' zone. Both
the city and the ISU are considering alternate sites to create a giant
protest pen to confine demonstrators. Such logic is indicative of the
Toronto— At the conclusion of the Halifax demonstrations against the G8 Development Ministerial, Toronto activists are finalizing plans for a week of similar events during the June G20 Summit, to mark the G20's unwillingness to meet its own commitments to global equality.
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