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As most of you probably know by now, I have decided to plead guilty to the charge of counseling to commit mischief. Originally, I along with 20 others was charged with four counts of conspiracy in what was called the G20 main conspiracy group.

I am writing because the past year and a half of facing these charges and living under bail conditions has meant that I have not been able to talk as openly as I would have liked. My voice has been muzzled by the state, which has served as a powerful reminder of the many voices that are muzzled by the daily colonialism, patriarchy, racism and violence of the world. While the silencing of my voice has an end date, the work to hear the chorus of our grandmothers and the Indigenous Peoples whose land we stand on is ongoing.

Here is the group statement from the 17 so called "G20 Main Conspiracy Group" as their plea deal was announced today in court.

Solidarity with all those facing charges or sentences for standing up to injustice!

UPDATE: There has since been a video uploaded to youtube, please go to link to watch.

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Group Statement Regarding Our Plea Deal (from Conspire to Resist):

November 22, 2011 — As people across Turtle Island look towards the global wave of protests against the austerity agenda, the memory of the 2010 G20 protests in Toronto looms large as both inspiration and caution. We are seventeen people accused by the state of planning to disrupt the leaders summit – the prosecutors call us the G20 Main Conspiracy Group.

Issue 12 of Linchpin, the newspaper of Common Cause, is now online and available for downloading and printing.

In it you can read articles on anti-austerity strikes in Europe, pro-choice community activism in Ottawa, the new Certain Days prison solidarity calendar and much more!

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Issue 11 of Linchpin, the newspaper of Common Cause, is now online and available for downloading.

This is a special edition of the paper produced in the lead up to the G20 Summit protests in Toronto.

In it, you will find articles on rebuilding the working class towards a general strike, conceptualizing a decentralized alternative energy grid, the G20 police state and an interview with First Nations solidarity activist Tom Keefer.

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by Lesley Wood
Toronto Media Co-op

During last week’s G20 summit, police arrested or detained over a thousand people. With guns drawn, they kicked people awake, they threatened, pepper sprayed, TASERed, tear gassed and beat those in the streets. Although the politicians declared the policing at the summit a success, popular anger at the police is at an all time high. At such moments, it is important to look closely at the tactics and strategy that were used to police dissent, not least because the models that are considered successful, tend to spread.

How was the summit in Toronto policed? The website for the Integrated Security Unit argues that “The approach to the Summit would be best described as an expanded version of our approach to previous events based on best practices and the lessons learned.” This seems obvious. However the ‘expansion’ included some new and worrying elements.

by Jeff Shantz
State repression columnist

In events like the G20 protests and clampdown there emerge real opportunities for recognition and understanding that are not always so readily available behind the screen of “business as usual.” The learning curve shifts and some things become much more clear.

Statement from the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP)

On June 26 and 27, the political representatives of the world’s greatest
thieves and murderers gathered in Toronto. They held their ‘G2o Summit’
in a billion dollar armed camp financed with public money stolen from
vital social programs. They threw out some meaningless platitudes and
drew up a plan around their real agenda – solving the crisis of their
bankrupt system by imposing austerity and poverty on people throughout
the world. With the Harper Government hosting the event and standing on
the right wing edge of the discussions, plans were drawn up to halve
public deficits by 2013. They will not, however, take the money back
from the banks and corporations they bailed out. Instead they will gut
public services, destroy social infrastructure and launch a war on poor
and working people.

Across the world, people under attack and in struggle saw that the

Below is a statement from our anarkismo sister organization in Quebec, Union Communiste Libertaire.

Free our comrades - Solidarity is not a crime

The UCL calls for solidarity in the wake of demonstrations against the G20 Summit in Toronto and the intense political repression that accompanied it. About thirty of us went to Toronto to demonstrate with the Anti-Capitalist Convergence (CLAC-2010) and with our comrades in the anarchist organization, Common Cause. What we saw and what we experienced revolted us to the extreme, and that is why we take the streets again on Thursday July 1st to denounce the repression and demand the release of all detainees.

Against the G20

Here's an incomplete round-up of media coverage of the Solidarity rallies that have been held across Canada for the Toronto 900 and the remaining political prisoners that are still being held. We will update this blog post as more reports are sent in. Please comment below or use our contact form if you have any media reports on the solidarity rallies. Free all political prisoners now!

National coverage
Protests continue over police actions at G20 Canwest News Service

2,000 protest G20 summit arrests CBC

Solidarity with Toronto 900 protests continue across Canada Digital Journal