Parkdale Defends G20 Protesters
Riali Johanesson, a lawyer in Parkdale, tells how she was arrested by police for being on the scene, This is the first time in my life I’ve been so afraid of the police. Parkdale is…
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Assault by Bubble Blowing
More G20 footage: This video shows a police officer at the G20 protests in Toronto threatening to arrest a protestor for blowing soap bubbles (“If one of those bubbles touches me, it’s assault”) and then…
Being Black in Toronto
Kwame McKenzie talks to Steve Paikin last night on being black in Boston, London, and Toronto. Kwame McKenzie is a Senior Scientist within the Social Equity and Health Research section of the Centre for Addiction…
Never Take an Unemployed Lawyer to a Spa
From Time Magazine: My mom is not a master of subtlety. So when she said, five different times, that the only thing she really wanted for her 65th birthday was to go away to a…
Blame Harper for the G20
It may have been Toronto police on the streets, but the Feds ran the show.
OMG-20: Jon Stewart on G20
Check out Jon Stewart on the G20 at the Comedy Network.
Naomi Klein on G20
“There has been a very powerful attack on freedom of expression in this country. A McCarthyite campaign against people who fall outside of the Harper government’s version of what we should be saying or doing.”
Paikin on police attack against peaceful protest
Paikin: “There’s a distinction that needs to be made… This was not a great day for democracy in Toronto. I saw things I’ve never seen before, I saw things that shouldn’t have happened.”
Violent Protest or Agent Provocateurs?
Trailer: The Response
Sig Libowitz was a law student at the University of Maryland School of Law, where he took a seminar titled “Homeland Security and the Law of Counterterrorism†with Professor Michael Greenberger. He was so intrigued…
When Dan Hamilton Was Put in a Cage
Democracy Now! in Toronto
They’re covering the G20.