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Charleston Chew Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 10:27 AM
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Toronto G20 EXPOSED - Original Full-Length
 
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Posted on YouTube: December 10, 2010
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Posted on DU: February 23, 2011
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(2010 MOVIE) Toronto G20 EXPOSED - Original Full-Length

2Hr 14Mins-This is the Complete Full Documentary
Toronto G20 Exposed -The Movie


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peace13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 04:36 PM
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1. Wow!
Edited on Wed Feb-23-11 04:36 PM by peace13
To anyone who has been out on streets in the last ten years this is really important to see. I remember seeing the initial footage but the rest of the movie is quite impressive as well. It makes me think about the one fellow that we had who came to our small town peace vigils. He was the only person that none of us knew. The last time he came he had a spectacular bloody shirt and a * mask. That was the last time we saw Mark. Who knows if he was a plant. It is all interesting.

The violence brought about by the thugs called police is very disgusting and disturbing.Thank you for posting this. I will pass it on. Peace, Kim
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JohnyCanuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-02-11 11:44 PM
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2. People need to tell their G20 story in a public hearing: CCLA and NUPGE
Nathalie Des Rosiers, general counsel for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, and James Clancy, the National Union of Public and General Employees's national president, spoke to rabble.ca about the release of a report by the CCLA and the NUPGE based on public hearings on the G20 mass arrests. The hearings were held in Toronto and Montreal last November.

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Q: "NUPGE and the CCLA believe the majority of the arrests that occurred during the G20 were excessive and unwarranted." (p. 43 of the report.) Regarding the amount of testimony gathered during the two days of the inquiry, are you surprised that there was only been one arrest (two charges) laid against one police officer --Toronto Police Constable Babek Andalib-Goortani?

James Clancy: I'm really not surprised. I am, however, extremely disappointed that the stonewalling and lack of transparency by police and government officials continues eight months after the G20 and is still preventing justice from being served.

There's ample evidence that many police officers used excessive and unreasonable force and conducted themselves in an unlawful manner. There's absolutely no valid reason why those officers have not been formally charged.

Nathalie Des Rosiers: Massive and illegal arrests may not lead to criminal charges against individual police officers. It could be that orders were given to kettle and detain and massively arrest. We just do not know at this stage.

Q: With this one arrest (and perhaps a few more), how do you feel about the police's approach to singling out a few bad apples as opposed to looking at systemic reasons why there were so many alleged abuses?

Nathalie Des Rosiers: It is obvious from the sheer amount of testimony gathered at the inquiry's hearings in Toronto and Montreal that this issue of police misconduct goes beyond the work of one of two (rogue) officers.

There were several different police agencies on board during the weekend and they were all receiving orders I assume from one central body. Only a public inquiry with the power to dig deeper into these kinds of relationships will reveal the truth regarding who were giving the orders and what those orders were regarding the police's behaviour towards the public, and why we saw a shift in police behaviour from the Saturday (June 26, 2010) to the Sunday (June 27, 2010) in regards to such things as aggressiveness.

http://rabble.ca/news/2011/03/people-need-tell-their-g20-story-public-hearing-ccla-and-nupge

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JohnyCanuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-04-11 04:15 AM
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3. Activist Communique: The G20 and why I'm glad we didn't stay home
This suggestion that it was the activists' and journalists' fault/"we deserved what we got" for acting upon our democratic right to protest and cover that protest that I find troubling.
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It follows that (troubling) notion by police that it is a woman's fault for dressing like a "slut" if we get raped.

Or that it was perhaps my fault that during that weekend I got shoved to the ground for not walking fast enough to evade police (I have a dis/ability that affects my mobility). Or in fact, it was my fault as a person with a dis/ability to even go to a protest. "You should have stayed home, crip!"

Or it was John Pruyn fault for not getting up fast enough when the G20 police began their "MOVE" - BANG - "MOVE" - BANG - "MOVE" chant, causing the police - while in the process of his arrest - to pull off his artificial leg.

Let me set some facts straight.

John Pruyn and I both had the right to attend the G20 demonstrations regardless of our dis/abilities.

In fact, everyone who came out to the G20 demonstrations had the right to attend.

Any attempt to shame, any feelings of anger towards us, are misplaced.

It's curious/troubling that the Canadian public could have such a reaction to the desire for citizen participation in democracy since this is not only a right that our beloved vets fought so bloody hard for.

http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/krystalline-kraus/2011/03/activist-communique-g20-and-why-i%E2%80%99m-glad-we-didn%E2%80%99t-stay-hom
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Bozita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-27-11 02:37 PM
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4. Excellent documentary! ... Five stars
Thank you.
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HolyCity2012 Donating Member (378 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-15-11 03:08 PM
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HolyCity2012 Donating Member (378 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-11 09:43 AM
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