For immediate release – August 23, 2010

TORONTO/MONTREAL – This Monday, August 23, close to 300 individuals, including approximately 100 from Quebec, will be making their first court appearances since the mass arrests and detention of more than 1000 protesters (and bystanders) during the G20 in Toronto in June.

The Anti-Capitalist Convergence of Montreal (CLAC) joins with allies in Toronto and beyond in mobilizing to support all arrested protesters. We continue to demand that all criminal charges related to the G20 be dropped. We also call for the immediate release of those G20 prisoners who remain in custody, including some who have been detained for close to two months. We offer our tangible support and solidarity to all who were arrested and face charges, as well as their friends and family.

The real crime scene in Toronto was the Convention Center, where the G20 leaders, ministers, and bureaucrats -- in complicity with major corporations – gathered to continue their transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich, while agreeing to deepen violent “austerity” measures. The decisions of the G20 leaders have had, and will continue to have, devastating consequences in our communities and for the planet.

We look ahead to the inspiring mobilizations being organized against the G20 to take place in Seoul, South Korea this November to continue the resistance against capitalism.

We came to Toronto in June to oppose the G8/G20’s agenda of unabashed military and economic aggression. We came from diverse local struggles that mutually support each other. We are allies of indigenous sovereignty and migrant justice struggles; we are queers, feminists, youth, students, workers, environmentalists, immigrants, anti-racists and anti-sexists; we organize against police brutality, poverty, cutbacks, privatization and precarity, and for housing rights and environmental justice. We are active in international solidarity, from Colombia to Palestine to Mexico and beyond, and against all borders. We are united in our opposition to a fundamentally unjust capitalist economic system. It is our day-to-day organizing in our communities that motivates our opposition to the G20 and related institutions and gatherings.

The G20 hid behind a $1 billion dollar-plus security operation in the streets of Toronto. That unprecedented expense is also reflected in the charges now faced by hundreds of protesters in courtrooms. Those charges, including serious “conspiracy” charges against many protesters (including dozens from Montreal), are nothing more than an escalated attempt to criminalize dissent and organizing. In response, we know that it is not about who is guilty or innocent, but rather how we struggle and fight together for justice.

[NOTE to all media: CLAC spokespersons will be available for comment and interviews, in both Toronto and Montreal.]

courriel: blocampmontreal @ gmail.com

Montreal, July 13 - The two remaining Montrealers detained in Toronto following the G20 protests were released yesterday afternoon.

Community Update on G20 Detainees by the Direct Support Committees of G20 detainees still being held at Maplehurst Men's Detention Centre and Vanier Women's Prison in Ontario.

La CLAC2010 exige la libération immédiate de touTEs les prisonierEs politiques et l’annulation immédiate de toutes les accusations portées contre les personnes arrêtées lors du G20.

Nous n’accepterons jamais la criminalisation de la dissidence.
Nous ne nous tairons pas face à la répression politique.
Libérez nos camarades!

Over 900 were arrested in Toronto during the G20 mobilization, via police kidnapping, political profiling, house raids and street level police snatch squads. Police violence, brutality and intimidation were the order of the day via the Toronto police in their systematic repression against anti G20 street protests. This is the largest number of arrests in Canadian history. After being arbitrarily detained for hours to days, several hundred protesters are returning home. This is a message of support and solidarity with those coming back home to Montreal.

Legal support - Testimonies and documentation - Mental Health & Trauma Support

WEDNESDAY 7th JULY, 6H PM
UQAM, Pavillon Hubert-Aquin, local A-2860
400 Ste-Catherine est (corner of St-Denis)
(Metro Berri-UQAM)

Download the information bulletin of the CLAC on the repression at Toronto's G20. To be distributed during july 1st demo.

InfoCLAC - Bulletin d'information

Demonstration against police repression and in solidarity with the G20 resistance
THURSDAY, JULY 1st, NOON in MONTREAL
*** new starting point: Square St-Louis ***
(St-Denis & Rue du Square St-Louis, métro Sherbrooke)

PROTEST THE CRIMINALIZATION OF DISSENT IN TORONTO!
ORGANIZE A SOLIDARITY PROTEST IN YOUR CITY!

Ottawa (J30), Hamilton (J30), London (J30), Windsor (J30), Winnipeg (Ll1), Québec City (JL1), Lyon (France, JL1) and others cities will also hold solidarity demonstrations

In the face of police violence, violent attacks against protesters and arrests without president at the anti-G20 mobilization, CLAC 2010 - the Anti-Capitalist Convergence - appeals to social movements to mobilize in solidarity with victims of state repression on the streets of Toronto.

Given the overwhelming number of people arrested during the G20 repression in Toronto, the CLAC Legal Committee has set up phone numbers to help people get info about friends and family members who may have been arrested over the weekend.

Si vous avez des informations sur les personnes arrêtées, communiquez avec nous par courriel au .

Si vous voulez partir lundi s’il vous plait, contactez-nous également à ce courriel!

Les forces policières sont entrées dans le centre des médias alternatif de Toronto et le Centre de Convergence a été évacué. Ne vous y rendez pas!