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TCMN: At least 4 community organizers currently being held as political prisoners as G20 related police repression continues to increase.


 June 26, 2010
For Immediate Release:
Press Release At least 4 community organizers currently being held as
political prisoners as G20 related police repression continues to
increase.

As the G20 meetings happen behind fortified fences, numerous long-time
community organizers working on issues ranging from migrant justice to
climate change to indigenous sovereignty are being targeted and arrested
by police.

At approximately 4:45 a.m., June 26, about 20 police officers raided a
Toronto home. They entered the house without consent through the back
door, aggressively dragging unclothed people from their beds, kicking
others who were asleep on the floor.

Police demanded that everyone provide names and identification. A number
of people repeatedly requested to view the warrant before complying with
police demands.

“I requested a warrant at least five times from the cop who refused to
show me his badge number, to which he said they have every legal right to
do what they’re doing and they didn’t have to show us anything,” said
Tammy Kovich, a resident of the raided house.

Police forcibly detained and cuffed a number of people, and refused to
allow those in the house to call for legal advice. Without showing
warrants, asking consent, or giving notice, police did an illegal cursory
search of some of the people on the premises as well as the house itself.

“I went out the front door to get a signal so that I could call for legal
advice, and a cop grabbed me and pushed me back towards the house.  A
minute later, I was on the phone with the G20 legal people, and he grabbed
my phone away from me and smashed it onto the front porch,” stated another
resident, Renee Henderson.

One arrest was made at this house: an organizer of G20 Childcare as well
as other community projects.  A warrant was not shown for their arrest.
This individual was also detained and harassed by police earlier this week
while walking on in Toronto, and was searched without credible legal
rationale.

Across town, the door to another house was kicked in and three long time
community organizers Leah Henderson, Alex Hundert and Mandy Hiscocks were
placed under arrest. Warrants have also been issued for the arrest of
other community organizers.  These politically motivated raids and arrests
of community members are just some of the tactics the police have been
using to intimidate and silence those who have voiced their concern about
the illegitimate and undemocratic institutions of the G8/G20.

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For further inquiries, contact:
Niki Thorne, resident of the raided house and G20 organizer
416 827 5186
csn.thorne@gmail.com

Toronto Community Mobilization Network
647 454 2443
tcmn.media@gmail.com

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Time to get louder

It's not going to work, pigs. Trying to shut up those who are most vocal will only bring others to the fore.

It's time to get louder.

Brilliant comment Get louder

Brilliant comment

Get louder and what???, the police will back off??
Not likely, you twit....they'll just get more determined with the result being something I'm sure you are quite used to..........you'll lose.....again and again and again.

Stoking a fire

This  mo***f**kin canuck govt. thinks it can jump out on the fascist bleeding edge, be the trendsetter of control and aggression at the mere price of $1bn  the last illusions of civil liberties. 

All that cash is only proving to be tinder stoking a fire they can't ever control. Spread it. Feed it!   All Out onto the streets!

Keep your head up Toronto!  We are with you! 

Fan the flames everywhere!

 

- one of your Oakland, CA kin

p.s.  It builds. Watching your battles, we await the Oscar Grant verdict coming in mere days.

Stoking a fire

This  mo***f**kin canuck govt. thinks it can jump out on the fascist bleeding edge, be the trendsetter of control and aggression at the mere price of $1bn  the last illusions of civil liberties. 

All that cash is only proving to be tinder stoking a fire they can't ever control. Spread it. Feed it!   All Out onto the streets!

Keep your head up Toronto!  We are with you! 

Fan the flames everywhere!

 

- one of your Oakland, CA kin

p.s.  It builds. Watching your battles, we await the Oscar Grant verdict coming in mere days.

This world gets worst and

This world gets worst and worst. We don't call them "PIG" for nothering. I live in Miami and will never forget what they did here during the FTAA. It looks like that was a picnic compaired to what happing now.

 

Ray

STRUGGLE

KEEP FIGHT COMRADES THERE !!!!!!!

OUR EYES OUR HEARTS AND OUR SOULS ARE WITH YOU!!!!!!

FROM GREECE

fuck the police!!!!

 Is it still repression if

 Is it still repression if the detained individual lit a car on fire?

Throw away the key

Bullshit.

 

Lock up the fuckers - shoot the rioters.

 

Peaceful protesters welcome.

 

Foreigners that come to our city to do damage can fuck off.

 

 

Street Violence

It seems that the police wanted to see as big a riot up there as they could. They cannot silence the message by locking up the messengers.

Nike Thorne is a bald-faced

Nike Thorne is a bald-faced liar

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