G8, Huntsville
Dec 23, 09
Toronto Community Mobilization Network Communique
Six months to the 2010 G8/20 Summit
"AN INVITATION: FROM COPENHAGEN TO TORONTO"
The Group of 8 Leaders and the Group of 20 Leaders are meeting in Ontario, from the 25th to the 27th of June, 2010.
Following the collapse of the Copenhagen Climate Summit, they will be discussing the global economy, development and climate change.
These gatherings are about trying to fix capitalism, a system that cannot be fixed; about creating unsustainable market responses to ecological catastrophe that reinforce systems of oppressions; about ensuring the continued exploitation of people of color and the South and about celebrating war as a means to create puppet allies to maintain imperialist power. The so-called leaders at these gatherings do not represent us.
In opposition and with a will to transform, people across Turtle Island are organizing community-based days of action in Toronto, Canada. The days of action will be led by Toronto-based organizations of people of color, indigenous peoples, women, the poor, the working class, queer and trans people and disabled people.
We will organize for these days of action by deepening our roots. With sisters, brothers, friends and allies, we will shut down the places, the systems and the ideas that exploit and exclude us.
In their place, we will creatively build the world we wish to live in. A world with self-determination for indigenous peoples; climate justice; income equity and community control over resources; migrant justice and an end to war and occupation.
Change does not come from markets or from so-called negotiations with so-called leaders. Change comes from people making decisions for themselves. We call upon communities of resistance everywhere to continue to build their local struggles.
Join us in Toronto in June 2010 to share your ideas and strategies!
On these days, we call for Days of Action across the world that showcases solutions from the ground up.
To join the network, hear about open meetings and to get more information, email community.mobilize@resist.ca
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The Toronto Community Mobilization Network is a network of long-standing grassroots community organizers in Toronto and their allies building a radical community mobilization during the G8/20 summit.
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strategies for passive resistance at the G8
A team of bright and dedicated protesters might entertain coming up with some new and creative protesting plans for the upcoming G8 in Huntsville Ontario.
Locals up there appreciate ingenuity and love a good yarn or a tall tale. The G8 event is an unprecedented debacle far 'outside of the ordinary' and will go past all other previous events in terms of it's merit for great story telling.
In this semi redneck type community not much happens, there is a huge potential for the protesting to present itself in a new and positive way. The locals, apt to rally if a cause is just and the humor is high, are definitely wondering what the whole thing is going to look like.
The recipe for a tall tale may only need to contain some slightly odd ingredients. Perhaps some hardy construction would be appreciated by the surrounding woodland people. A rough hewed tall podium with a ladder from which to fly protest letters and literature could open some eyes. Attach the literature to some floating helium balloons and years of awestruck phrasing about the spectacle might bring the protesting culture closer to home in the area.
Alienating violence is generally what the local populace is in fear of. And it isn't an American South culture, people understand that imperial intentions, causing violence worldwide, is landing smack in the middle of their homelands.
People are keen to resist what they don't agree with in the Muskoka area. Recently a strong grass roots protest against a Uranium mining exploration in nearby Haliburton county eventually found backing by local news papers, The Haliburton Echo, and the Voice.
The Uranium mining company was unable to convince the locals that drilling was safe. They were literally shouted down at local town meetings by well organized and informed citizens, some of which had formed into committees.
Anyhow, keeping the 'I love the G8 flag' is difficult enough when faced with some of the difficult problems these powerful governments have caused. The crisis has effected everyone, even them.
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For starters, Haliburton is not part of Muskoka, it's an hour away, so has no bearing on how Muskokans will react. Secondly, Huntsville is not "semi-redneck", no more than anywhere else. In fact, throw in the countless millionaires, hockey players, and movie stars that summer in Muskoka, and you have a very unique area.
Do your research before posting an article like this. Most of Muskoka is very excited to have an event like this in our area.