Hot reception for G20 in Toronto
anon@indymedia.org (pest control) | 27.06.2010 21:22 | London
London activist reports from mass mobilisations against G20 this weekend in Toronto, Canada where the arrest count in approaching 500 while banks and cars are burning.
"Demo was amazing. Huge, multicultural, labour movements, environmental movements, justice, loads of people from everywhere. Press here is a shit storm. black block are being vilified, lots of broken stuff but no looting - very canadian."
"Don't believe corporate media hype. The streets of Toronto were full of thousands of informed individuals who care about the lack of legitimacy of the G20, their undemocratic backroom deals, their instance on continuing to privatize the commons and socialize risk. Harper has tried to criminalize dissent by spending $1billion for this summit but lots of people demonstrated today that he has gone far beyond the pale of acceptability - his attempt to peddle his neo-liberal austerity measures to the rest of the G20 in order to pay for the banking bailout will destroy social progress it took decades to build. But dissent is what will save us and I am glad to report that lots of people in this town are not having it!" - London based activist on the ground in Toronto
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Unfortunately Indymedia is pretty much a dead project in Canada with most of the regional sites now gone or no longer maintained. There is no IMC Toronto but some coverage is being posted to http://ottawa.indymedia.org/ and http://quebec.indymedia.org/en/
For example:
http://ottawa.indymedia.org/en/2010/06/11294.shtml
http://ottawa.indymedia.org/en/2010/05/11258.shtml
http://ottawa.indymedia.org/en/2010/06/11372.shtml
http://ottawa.indymedia.org/en/2010/06/11343.shtml (mp3 http://ottawa.indymedia.org/media/2010/06//11345.mp3)
Additionally there is a social media aggregation site set up for the occasion http://2010.mediacoop.ca/ which pulls content from youtube, flickr and twitter etc with the tag #g20report
Guardian reported assaulted and arrested http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/guardian-journalist-assaulted-arrested/3865
anon@indymedia.org (pest control)
Original article on IMC London:
http://london.indymedia.org/articles/5066