[Cc-webedit] G20 blog post proposal

[Richard Braude]

Hey all,

Here's a proposal for a post on the G20. If it's okay, I'll put it up on the
blog tomorrow.
R.

Last year the Camp for Climate Action faced extraordinary policing at the
G20. The Climate Camp in the City was not only surrounded and kettled, but
between midnight and 1am was removed with force and violence
<http://london.indymedia.org.uk/videos/993>from a quiet street in London,
with the sole reason that the protest was obstructing traffic.

These past few days, social and ecological justice groups protesting against
the G20 in Toronto have come under even greater police violence and
oppression. Today the bedlam continues, as the protesters' convergence
centre is raided<%20http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/bedlam-continues-reign-toronto/3902>and
locked down, just as the Earl Street centre was raided at the London
G20
last year. The vigil for the 500 arrested activists has been kettled and
beaten back, just as the vigil for Ian Tomlinson was kettled and silenced on
April 2nd last year.

Ray, a woman from the Indigenous peoples'
<http://www.ienearth.org/>mobilisation against the summit,
said:<http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/outside-makeshift-prisonfor-us-native-people-what-we-know-canada/3895>
"This is real life, this is the real Canada. This happens happesn everyday
but now you can see it. this is g20 freedom of speech. For us, Native people
this is what we know. This is Canada."

But there is also hope. The Peoples Assembly for Climate Justice
<http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/peoples-assembly-keeps-climate-justice-debate-public/3792>built
on the People's Summit in Cochabamba, trying to find a way forward
after the collapse of the climate talks in Copenhagen in December, a set of
talks which were hurting rather than helping an ecologically just politics.

Just as at Copenhagen, the arrested are starting to be
released<http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/rabble-staff/2010/06/photo-blog-toronto-police-arrest-and-release-g20-protesters>,
one by one. Having destroyed the protests, found excuses for the $1billion
policing bill<http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/judes/2010/06/toronto-burning-or-it>and
attempted to paint the G20 summit as legitimate and the protesters as
criminals, everyone is expected to move on. But as we've shown here in the
UK, we won't let them get away with these actions. The successful legal
action against the Kent Police over the absurd policing witnessed at the
Kingsnorth climate camp shows that even though these governments and
corporations expect us to back down, we keep on resisting.

Over the past few years, the Climate Camp has resisted huge measures to stop
us protesting, but lucky for us, we're just don't seem to get the message.
So while the G20 leaders continue to send out communiques to the rest of the
world, acting as if they have any legitimacy left, we're getting our own act
together and heading up to Edinburgh for the UK
Gathering<http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/get-involved/national-gatherings/next>,
to plan our actions against
RBS<http://climatecamp.org.uk/actions/edinburgh-2010/why-rbs>
.
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