http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/old/taxonomy/term/1868/0 en http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/protesters-resist-illegal-searches/3824 <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/Freethestreets9_Fri_SeanDeCory.jpg" alt="" title="" width="450" height="297" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>What does it mean to have a legal right to protest when police conduct illegal searches attempt to seize everything needed for that protest, including banners, water, medicine and sun protection and then attempt to prevent protesters from leaving the march?</p> <p><a href="http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/protesters-resist-illegal-searches/3824" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/protesters-resist-illegal-searches/3824#comments Megan Cotton-Kinch Police/Prisons Poverty Sat, 26 Jun 2010 14:48:29 +0000 Megan Kinch 3824 at http://toronto.mediacoop.ca http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/peoples-assembly-keeps-climate-justice-debate-public/3792 <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/Reclaim-Earth-1_web.jpg" alt="" title="Raul Burbano, stands in front of the Wiphala, the indigenous Bolivian flag, at the People&#039;s Assembly he helped organize. (photo: Christian Peña)" width="450" height="340" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>While the power elites gather in their walled-off security cordons, the Peoples Assembly for Climate Justice offers another model of decision-making. Subtitled &ldquo;Moving Forward for Cochabamba&rdquo; the meeting seeks to build on the successful summit in Bolivia, a people&rsquo;s alternative to the failure to reach any kind of meaningful climate agreement at Copenhagen.</p> <p><a href="http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/peoples-assembly-keeps-climate-justice-debate-public/3792" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/peoples-assembly-keeps-climate-justice-debate-public/3792#comments Megan Cotton-Kinch Education Environment Indigenous Solidarity #g20report Original Peoples Canadian Foreign Policy Environment Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:30:43 +0000 Megan Kinch 3792 at http://toronto.mediacoop.ca