2011-09-16
On June 26th 2010, the witch hunt for the alleged “ringleaders” of the mobilizations against the Toronto G20 Summit were carried out through various house raids and street abductions by the Integrated Security Unit, composed of local, provincial & federal police forces. A total of 20 anarchists/activists would be harshly charged with Conspiracy with the objective of specifically criminalizing the actions of the Southern Ontario Anarchist Resistance, the Indigenous Sovereignty and Migrant Justice Movements through the provinces of Ontario and Quebec. The preliminary hearing of the current 17 co-accused will begin on September 12th, and will continue on through to November of this year.
The three cases presented form part of the same ideological, political, social and cultural criminalization that is intrinsic to an unjust and contaminated system that is fearful of its own disappearance.