Toronto Community Mobilization Network – Statement of Clarification for incorrect interpretation in the mainstream media

So what does the Toronto Community Mobilization Network do? The Toronto Community Mobilization Network works to support education, outreach, infrastructure such as food and housing, coordinate legal and medic teams, and community based mobilizations leading up to and during the G20 Summit in Toronto. We do so within the framework of solidarity and respect (http://g20.torontomobilize.org/SolidarityRespect).

A calendar of events from June 21-27, 2010 is hosted on our website so that people struggling for social justice are able to attend events that fit their political viewpoint and their expectations of effectiveness and safety. The Toronto Community Mobilization Network does not speak for these individual actions.

The Toronto Community Mobilization Network organizes for justice and dignity through supporting community groups and concerned residents to share their outrage and their hope in the months leading up to and during the G8/G20 Summits in June 2010.

“The G8/G20 causes immense violence on Indigenous people, poor people, on women and on people of color around the world. The G20 and its banks are responsible for the global financial meltdown and the resulting austerity measures that have deprived many communities of choices”, says Syed Hussan of the Toronto Community Mobilization Network.

“Canada hosts the Tar Sands, exists on stolen native land, has enforced exclusionary immigration policy, cut social support for women and poor communities, is inaccessible to disAbled people and has been named as one of the worst global environmental culprits time and again”, he adds.

“Communities in Canada and around the world oppose Canada and the G20 policies and in their place are implementing their own people based solutions to resolve the ongoing economic and social crises in our lives”, says Sharmeen Khan of the Network.

Khan adds, “Forms of resistance and solutions are diverse because the majority of communities impacted by the G20 are not homogenous. But our diverse communities are our strength and we respect and learn from these different alternative perspectives.”