(From Hamiltoncopwatch.com)

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FAMILIES AND FRIENDS AGAINST POLICE TERROR! STOP POLICE BRUTALITY!

On February 4th, Hamilton Copwatch and the families and friends of those healing from the trauma of police terror and brutality are calling on you to take to the streets in solidarity with the message t...hat THIS ENDS NOW! In response to the events of December 13th, wherein Pamela Markland and her six kids (8 to 21) were terrorised by a paramilitary-style police invasion of their home as part of the Toronto Police-led ‘Project Marvel’ raids in our city, we say NO MORE!

By Brandon Gray

For forty days this past autumn, approximately 500 people, mostly youth, maintained a protest camp in St. James Park, a couple blocks from the third largest stock exchange in North America. As part of the global 'Occupy' movement against economic inequality, the park was a base in which a political dialogue could happen using direct action and non-hierarchical decision-making.

Protest signs and work boots hang off a fence at the front gate of the Electro-Motive Diesel plant in London Ont. on Jan. 21 Photo: Mick Sweetman

By Alex Balch

There was little to celebrate this New Years Eve for workers at the Electro-Motive Canada (EMC) plant in London, Ontario. As midnight struck, the factory's 465 employees found themselves locked out of their workplace and forced into a labour dispute with one of the largest industrial equipment manufacturers in the world – Caterpillar Inc (CAT).

Capitalism, Austerity and Class War

The global economic crisis continues to send shock waves through global markets; investment banks and corporate giants get bailed out, while poor and working people are made to suffer. After helping to manufacture this crisis, politicians have skillfully manipulated the public into believing that severe austerity is the only way out. Massive cuts to social services and the privatization of public sector jobs are being used to divert more money into corporate hands, as the government pumps billions of dollars into building new prisons and expanding the military-industrial complex. The time has come to fight back... with everything we've got.

This talk will focus on the role that a class-struggle anarchist perspective can play in building the type of mass movement that we need in order to defeat this latest round of attacks on the working class and to help usher in the new world that we hold in our hearts.

About the Presenters:

Common Cause supports the locked out workers of CAW Local 27 in their struggle for a living wage. The year of 2012 has begun with a blatant attack on the working class. Electromotive Canada (EMC), owned by Caterpillar, has demanded a 50 per cent wage cut and major pension and benefit concessions. When the workers refused to accept that offer the company locked them out at the start of the year. This shows that the capitalist class, aka the 1%, is only interested in their own profits and will stop at nothing to meet this goal.

The events at EMC will set the tone for the struggle against exploitation in London, Canada, and beyond. Whether this ends in victory or defeat, this struggle is important for all working people, but we must do everything we can to win. If mobilized, the power of the labour movement can stop the bosses in their tracks.

Between October 22 and October 25, Common Cause organized a speaking tour entitled “Class War On The Workfloor” in four Ontario cities (Hamilton, Toronto, Kitchener & London). The speaker was postal worker, anarchist and rank-and-file trouble maker, Rachael Stafford, from Edmonton.

Following the June 2010 G20 summit in Toronto, a wave of repression came down on anarchists and anti-authoritarians in Southern Ontario. Ryan Rainville was one of those arrested and held in jail for three months before being released into house arrest at a Native men's residence in Toronto called Sagatay.

Throughout his court proceedings, Ryan proudly proclaimed his anarchist values and defended the use of property destruction during anti-capitalist protests that weekend to disrupt the economy.

Ryan eventually plead guilty to three counts of Mischief Over $5000 and Breach of Peace. On October 31st, 2011 with at least a dozen supporters present, Ryan made the following statement to the court.

- Guelph Anarchist Black Cross (http://guelphprisonersolidarity.wordpress.com)

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Common Cause wishes to extend our solidarity to the six defendants of the so-called “G20 Main Conspiracy Group” who made the difficult decision to plead guilty to trumped up counseling charges in an effort to see the charges of eleven of their co-defendants dropped, and in order to help bring their shared year and a half-long judicial farce to a close. These eleven community organizers now join the ranks of the dozens of individuals who have already seen their bogus G20 conspiracy charges dropped. They will once again be able to associate with one another, and will once again be granted the right to plan and attend public demonstrations. This is a welcome and long over-due occasion for celebration – though their exoneration has come at a heavy price.

By Connor Crawford

Recent weeks have seen ‘Occupy Hamilton’ rallies take over Gore Park. The group, made up of local activists from various backgrounds, gathers every Saturday at noon to make noise and show solidarity with the global ‘Occupation’ movement.
This past week’s rally (Oct 22) drew a crowd of about 40 people. A range of groups and individuals were present, from the Mohawk Social Justice Society, to the Hamilton Young Communist League, to Zeitgeist activists. Copwatch Hamilton was also present, and were effective in blocking police interference with the protest.

The Doors Pub
56 Hess St S Hamilton, ON L8P 3N3
Hamilton, Ontario

Doors open at 6

Cover- Pay what you can

Art by-
... Horror in the Hammer's own Jennifer Emily
Art from Death row and contributors to minutes before six
Bound for Glory/Bindle stick Publications
Nyki Kish

This event is to raise awareness of the case of poet, artist and activist Nicole Kish who was wrongfully convicted of murder. Falsely labelled and dismissed as a “panhandler” who would kill a man for not giving her money, Nicole now languishes in jail with a life sentence.
Nicole, the founder of Books to Bars Hamilton and Bound for Glory magazine was out with friends celebrating her 21st birthday in Toronto where her friend was verbally abused by two men. Her friend’s boyfriend intervened but was beaten. A larger fight broke out and one of the two men was fatally stabbed and later died of his wounds.