1TBM: A WISHLIST FOR THE G20 CONVERGENCE

Thursday, June 17, 2010

A WISHLIST FOR THE G20 CONVERGENCE

got this via Second Waver's facebook feed...

*Housing/Space/Vehicles
*Materials we need/Scavenger Hunt (June 15!)
*Cooking/Childcare/General
Support
*Legal/Police/Supporting each other
*Banners/Placards/Puppets/Music/Filming/Photography

For latest mainstream and convergence news, updates and schedule of
actions: http://g20.torontomobilize.org/
For news, June 21-27: http://2010.mediacoop.ca/

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Housing/Space

Have extra space in your home? Extra beds? Space on the floor? A backyardvto pitch a tent? Don't just let it go to waste - put some activists in it! Go to www.g20.torontomobilize.org/housingform and sign up to billet! More: http://g20.torontomobilize.org/adopt-an-activist

Vehicles

Do you have a vehicle and a license to drive it, and are willing to help with the transportation effort during the week?
Do you have a vehicle that you are willing to allow others to drive during the week of action?
Do you have a license and time to drive that week?

We'd like to hear from you! Please email us at g20transportation@gmail.com

Folks with vehicles: Please let us know what kind of vehicle you have, if you are willing to drive it or let others drive it, and when if (and you) are available.

Folks without vehicles: Please let us know what kind of driving you can do, if you have a specific license, and when you are available to help with driving.

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Materials we need/Scavenger Hunt

The convergence space will be opening soon and the welcoming committee has identified some preliminary needs. If you have any of these items to donate, or can scavenge them (we could use a craigslist watcher), please email heatherhax@gmail.com with your bounty. Ask her for details of Scavenger Hunt on Tuesday, June 15!

*Wish List*You can drop everything at 1266 Queen West or email us for pick up*

Refrigerator; Power/Extension Chords; Tables and Chairs; Cleaning products; Ethernet splitter; Computers; Flip Charts; Tape; Paper Towels; Sound system; Shelves; Sleeping bags; First Aid kits *Please note that we can not ensure the return of any donated items.

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Cooking

During the week of the G8/G20, the Toronto Community Mobilization Network will be running a Community Kitchen from Monday June 21st to Sunday June 27th to help feed people who have come here to voice their concerns about the G20. We need food donations, volunteers to cook, industrial kitchens and chefs to pull it altogether. Contact Tom Malleson (tommalleson@hotmail.com) and Brett Rhyno (brett_rhyno@hotmail.com) to get involved

More: http://g20.torontomobilize.org/support

Childcare

To correspond with the days of action we will be organizing a childcare traveling circus of sorts. Organized in manner similar to that of the street medics, childcare volunteers will be on hand at the various actions with kid’s activities, snacks, water, sunscreen, first aid etc. to lend some support to parents and their children.

If you can commit to signing up for a volunteer shift, even if it is just for an hour or two, or have anything to donate please contact us at g20childcare@gmail.com.

General Support

Do you have some time between now and June 27, 2010? Drop by the Convergence Centre at 1266 Queen Street West to grab posters and flyers or take some tasks! The Convergence Centre is a community safe space during the G20 and we encourage people to come by.

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Legal

The Movement Defence Committee, Summit Legal Project, is working to ensure the safety of participants. They have great advice that everyone should read and distribute: http://www.g20.torontomobilize.org/node/256

Police

Please note, you do not have to speak to CSIS or identify yourself to police. Please read this and distribute:
http://www.g20.torontomobilize.org/node/38

Supporting each other

It is very important for people coming to mass demonstrations to come together in groups so that there are always people to take care of each other. There is a particular call for autonomous actions on Sunday (June 27) but in general coming with friends is suggested. One way to do this is through an Affinity Group. Read more about it here: http://www.g20.torontomobilize.org/node/200

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Banners/Placards/Puppets/Music

The Toronto Community Mobilization Network is supporting mobilizations for:
~ self-determination for indigenous peoples
~ climate and environmental justice
~ income equity and community control over resources
~ migrant justice and an end to war and occupation
~ gender justice, queer and disAbility rights.

The 21 to 27 of June, 2010 are themed on these issues
(http://g20.torontomobilize.org/schedule). To make the most colorful, welcoming atmosphere possible, make banners, placards and puppets. Bring your own music, pots and pans, bottles filled with pebbles or boom-boxes, anything works. There should be some basic supplies at the Convergence Centre if you are interested.

Filming/Photography

It is important to tell our stories in our own ways and voices. Please visit http://g20.torontomobilize.org/altmedia and http://2010.mediacoop.ca/ to get involved.

IMPORTANT: Recent court cases have ruled that police can demand video, sources or information from journalists or on public websites (youtube, flickr, etc) for use in prosecution. Video-graphing or photographing a crime could be used against those in the video by police who may confiscate your property. Recent court cases have ruled that police can demand video, sources or information from journalists for use in prosecution. During the Olympics the Vancouver Media Co-op Media Center
was inundated by Police attempting to enter the center precisely to get footage related to get to Direct Actions. Be careful filming some types of disobedience! You may lose your camera and get someone you like in trouble!

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Toronto Community Mobilization Network

http://g20.torontomobilize.org/
community.mobilize@resist.ca
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=236150947036
http://twitter.com/g20mobilize
http://www.youtube.com/user/torontomobilize

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tha mission

self homeschooling...

wildbirthing my own radical, anti-authoritarian political according to my own specifications...

absorbing written material (mostly of the radical lefty, anarchist variety) at the speed of light, synthesizing as i go...

shining a beacon out across the net so as to say: i'm here. i've been here. is anyone with whom i can connect/network/ally with there?

this is a place of rampant musing, courageous dreaming, heated creating and inexorable building of personal power.

although i do love to play some music from time to time, don't get too comfy as this is not a proper place, a nice space, an edutaining space, a tidy space or a space for people who want to be associated with surface popularity or cliques.

this is a lone space probe, a craft on a mission seeking other lone defiantly complex autonomous needles in a planetary haystack diseased with domination.

so, if you visit and read and happily see kindred in these lines of mine, write me - tenaciousbabymama at gee mail dot cee eh.
...the more words and ideas the better.

but, if you visit and don't get me, don't feel the love, don't feel safe or don't feel welcome...take some deep breaths and ground.

do not email me invitations into circular debates that have no meaning and no intelligent end in sight. do not write me hate mail under an assumed name.

do not invite your blogland cronies to email me exorcism invitations. don't even botha thinking that the threat of labeling me not nice, troll or bully in an attempt to control my flow will do a damn thang.

just call it a day, back away slowly and close the door on your way out.

"those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are those who want crops without plowing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. power never concedes anything without a demand. it never did and it never will. find out just what people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or both."

- frederick douglass

It's getting hot in here...

Toronto Police and the RCMP are hunting for scapegoats
in order to better criminalize resistance and discourage activism in all its forms.
And so...
From the Movement Defense Committee:

We need donations to support those arrested at the G20. You can support the detainees’ legal costs and help alleviate some of the other costs of navigating the court system, and help us keep organizing. We will be distributing the funds to those with the most need, prioritizing those still in custody on serious charges.

To donate via PayPal go to: g20.torontomobilize.org (link is on right hand side). Make sure to put 'G20 legal defence' in the "Add special instructions for the Merchant" section.

Click here for more details.

i speak english. but it's not my mother tongue. i don't know what that is or would have been. or to be more specific, i don't know the languages of the peoples i'm descended from.

so yeah, english is the language my ancestors were forced to speak after they were stolen from their homes, killed in the millions, raped, force worked, emotionally abused, bred like cattle and generally maltreated on an epic scale.

it was the language of their captors. it is the language the descendants of those captors speak today...with some really fascinating etymological bits and pieces thrown in from all over.

my mother tongue was taken captive and excised. my tongue is colonized.

why do i even bother to point this out?

well, as i travel in blogland i occasionally run across people who threaten to tantrum or disregard or socially shun those who do not utilize the colonizing imperialist queen's "good" english with full deference and exacting perfection. they call themselves sticklers for good grammar, spelling and punctuation. they write posts about how important it is to write in ways that will let people know you are educated and value the written word.

i cringe when i read these people's words so full of arrogance. i am enraged and driven to tears by the ability of certain people to completely preoccupy themselves with a system of communication while manifesting such ignorance about how that system of communication, that language has virulently spread itself across the planet thereby ensuring the dominance of those who speak it. i am disgusted by the ways these sticklers for grammar, spelling and punctuation can serve as vehicles for the spread of an oppressive toxin without realizing who they are or what they do.

i realize that these sticklers will not be interested in learning how i came to be a victim of the virulent toxic system of communication they prize so highly above all else. i realize they will not want to ground themselves politically or historically so as to emerge from their indoctrinated ignorance. i realize they will not want to hear about the contempt and bitterness i feel towards their beloved language which has infected and thereby colonized my mind and my tongue. i realize that they will not want to hear of anything that tarnishes their perception of their beloved english which locates it as part of a centuries old genocidal war machine.

nope. i'm sure they will not be glad to hear of any such cunting tripe. :)

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