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DESCRIPTION:Panel and discussion with Gesig Isaac and Sarolta Jane\n\nThis past June, 
 the G8/G20 leaders met in Ontario, and in turn, faced a people's 
 convergence, striving to "creatively build the world we wish to live in." 
 The mobilization, in turn, faced unprecedented policing: 1,090 people were 
 arrested; thousands were beaten, illegally detained, searched, and abused; 
 over 300 people face criminal prosecutions for their ideological and 
 political actions; and multiple instances of so-called conspiracy trials 
 and politically motivated targeting continues. Yet as an article on the 
 G8/G20 Toronto Community Mobilization Web site asserts, "Nearly 40,000 
 people took to the streets, gathered in discussion, watched movies, set up 
 a tent city, danced and fought. . . . For the first time, an economic 
 summit saw a march of thousands against colonization and for Indigenous 
 sovereignty. . . . Instead of simplifying our diverse struggles in to one 
 issue, we supported actions for queer and trans rights, environmental 
 justice, income equity and community control over resources, gender justice 
 and disability rights, migrant justice, and an end to war and occupation. 
 We created the conditions for over 100 grassroots organizations to come 
 together, to build relations, to grow stronger together. . . . We saw 
 communities in ongoing resistance, people of color, poor people, indigenous 
 people, women, disabled folk, queer folk, and others leading the days of 
 action. This in itself is a victory" 
 (http://g20.torontomobilize.org/node/432).\n\nJoin Gesig and Sarolta for 
 their analysis of this convergence, its organization, significance, 
 successes, and dilemmas, and the post-mobilization issues.\n\nGesig, a 
 queer-identified women from the micmac first nation of "Canada," has been 
 active in radical antipoverty work and has volunteered at her local 
 infoshop for the past several years. Besides being in Toronto for the 
 mobilizations, she was involved in the Ottawa-based organizing leading up 
 to them.\n\nSarolta, a Bay Area activist and filmmaker, was a member of 
 I-witness video during the St. Paul RNC and currently does work with the 
 Free the SF 8 Defense Committee. She lived in Toronto from 2005-7, and was 
 deputized to work in the legal office during the deluge that followed the 
 G20. \n\n$3-5 donation, for the G8/G20 Legal Defense Fund (no one turned 
 away for lack of funds)\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/02/18655181.php
SUMMARY:"This in Itself Is a Victory": The People's Convergence to Resist the G8/G20 in Toronto
LOCATION:Station 40, 3030B 16th Street (at Mission), San Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/02/18655181.php
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