G20 Arrests and Organizing for Freedom
There's a lot of really horrific testimonials coming out about the brutal police repression that activists and the public in Toronto experienced during the G20 weekend. By far the best source is the Toronto media co-op.
That said, I think the article "G20 Arrests and Organizing for Freedom" by Vancouver-based organizer Harsha Walia on her arrest and strategies to resist repression hits all the nails squarely on the head.
I believe our organizing to free all G20 arrestees needs to be rooted within the social movements that many of the arrestees are part of: labour, anti war, migrant justice, Indigenous self determination, anti-oppression, environmental justice, and anti capitalist. While this lends itself to the all the challenges of sustained community organizing, it has the potential of building a powerful revolutionary grassroots movement that incorporates the reality of social movement repression and criminalization of dissent within a broader analysis and experience of colonization, poverty, marginalization, and daily police violence.
Free all political prisoners!
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