[Gipfelsoli Newsletter] Ontario -- Genoa -- London

Sat Jun 26 09:28:27 CEST 2010

- EVERYBODY TO THE STREETS!
- New police powers could create legal trap for protesters
- Secret law passed by Ontario government gives police special powers  
during G20
- Judge allows police use of sound cannons with limits
- Toronto G20 summit: car with extra gas and weapons found; arrest made
- Second arrest made in G20 security investigation
- Genoa G8 appeal, Diaz school raid high ranking police officers  
convicted on appeal
- Statewatch Analysis: Shock and anger at the violent policing tactics  
used at the G8 Summit - Part One

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EVERYBODY TO THE STREETS!

We make no demands on the violent repressive rich men that come to  
ourcity this week.
We ask nothing of the oppressive, illegitimate and non-representative  
G8,G20 and B20.
We expect only lies from the incompetent, banks, corporations and the  
so-called G20 leaders.

The worlds we wish to live in will be of our making.
Our hopes and our rage will shatter injustice where ever it arises.
Our courage, our solidarity and our unity will create transformative  
solutions.

Our asks, our demands and our expectations are directed at ourselves.
Be strong, have hope, fight with love.
We call upon all our communities,
EVERYBODY TO THE STREETS!

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Source: http://g20.torontomobilize.org/node/311

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New police powers could create legal trap for protesters

Lawyers to assist demonstrators expected to be arrested for following  
legal advice that is no longer accurate

Kirk Makin

Lawyers and civil libertarians are scrambling to set up emergency  
legal help for a deluge of G20 protesters expected to be arrested over  
the weekend for heeding legal advice that is no longer accurate.

Experts sympathetic to their cause say protest groups had no inkling  
the police would be granted sweeping new powers to detain, search and  
arrest them. They said that by asserting what they believe to be their  
rights, the protesters are walking straight into a legal trap.

?The risk is that people are misinformed now,? said Nathalie Des  
Rosier, general counsel of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.  
?Police never mentioned their intention to use these powers.  
Certainly, it was manipulative. And that?s wrong.?

Source:  
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/g8-g20/news/new-police-powers-could-create-legal-trap-for-protesters/article1619146

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Secret law passed by Ontario government gives police special powers during G20

Keith Leslie

TORONTO ? Extra police powers to arrest people during the G20 summit,  
secretly granted earlier this month, had critics likening Ontario to a  
?tin-pot dictatorship? Friday.

A regulation allowing police to stop and search anyone coming within  
five metres of the summit site?s security fence ? and arrest them if  
they fail to show identification ? was passed June 2 by a committee of  
cabinet.

Still, the new rules only came to light after a 31-year-old man was  
arrested Thursday and detained for five hours.

The law, which includes penalties of up to two months in jail and a  
$500 fine, went into effect on Monday. It expires next Monday, after  
the G20 wraps up in Toronto.

Source:  
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/secret-law-passed-by-ontario-government-gives-police-special-powers-during-g8-20--97155269.html

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Judge allows police use of sound cannons with limits

Toronto police will be allowed to use sound cannons with some  
restrictions to disperse G20 protesters, a judge has ruled.

Civil liberties advocates and activists had requested that a court  
impose an injunction to prevent police from using a device known as  
Long Range Acoustic Devices.

Toronto police will be able to use the LRAD?s voice function, but may  
only use a function which emits an ear-piercing pulse once every  
thirty seconds, Justice David Brown of the Ontario Superior Court  
ruled Friday.

?It?s an important aspect of keeping people safe in our city,  
including protesters. We believe it is safe,? police chief Bill Blair  
said Friday.

Source:  
http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20100625/sound_cannon_ruling_100625/20100625/?hub=TorontoNewHome

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Toronto G20 summit: car with extra gas and weapons found; arrest made

Toronto G20 summit is the scene where a car, laden with gas cannisters  
and weapons inside, was found near the summit site.

By Rob Gillies

Police say they?ve made an arrest after searching a car and finding  
containers of gasoline and weapons near the G-20 summit site.

Police spokeswoman Nathalie Deschenes said Thursday there was an array  
of unspecified weapons in the car. A police hazardous unit is going  
through the car.

A chain saw and a cross bow were seen next to the car after police  
pulled it over. Police flagged the Hyundai Elantra after deeming it  
suspicious.

Source:  
http://www.csmonitor.com/From-the-news-wires/2010/0624/Toronto-G20-summit-car-with-extra-gas-and-weapons-found-arrest-made

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Second arrest made in G20 security investigation

A second person has been arrested as part of police investigations  
into G20 security.

Toronto Police say they have arrested Kristen Peterson, 37, of  
Toronto, and charged her with possession of an explosive device and  
possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose.

The arrest came after Toronto police and Ontario Provincial Police  
conducted searches at a home in Toronto, a property in the township of  
Tiny, near Midland Ont., and a property in the Township of Lake of Bays.

Police won?t say what prompted Wednesday?s arrest, but it comes just a  
few days after a second person was arrested on similar charges. Byron  
Sonne, 37, faces several charges including possession of explosives,  
weapons dangerous, intimidating a justice system participant and  
mischief.

Source: http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20100624/G20-security-arrest-100624

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Genoa G8 appeal, Diaz school raid high ranking police officers  
convicted on appeal

On 18 May 2010, the third section of Genoa appeal court overturned the  
acquittal of several high level police officers present at the raid on  
the Diaz and Pascoli schools during the G8 summit in July 2001. The  
Diaz school had been made available by the city council as a dormitory  
for demonstrators, whereas the Pascoli school hosted a media centre,  
the Genoa Legal Forum, Indymedia and other activist media groups, as  
well as providing office facilities. One police official who was a  
defendant in the case, MF, described the scene that he witnessed as a  
"Mexican butchery". 93 people were arrested, 75 were taken to  
Bolzaneto where they suffered further violence in custody after the  
indiscriminate violence they were subjected to in the school (see  
Statewatch vol. 18 no. 4).

Source: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2010/jun/03italy-genoa-g8-appeal.htm

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Statewatch Analysis: Shock and anger at the violent policing tactics  
used at the G8 Summit - Part One

Trevor Hemmings

The policing of the G20 summit in London in April 2009 has been  
severely criticised following an allegation of manslaughter and 270  
complaints of police assault. Part I of a report on what happened and  
its aftermath The London G20 summit of world leaders at the ExCel  
conference centre on 2 and 3 April 2009 was headlined as a platform  
for international cooperation in the face of global economic disaster.  
The ?greatest gathering of leaders since 1946? 1 was estimated to have  
cost £19 million 2, less than a quarter of the cost of the 2005  
Gleneagles summit, and a price apparently considered to be value for  
money by participants hoping to adopt a rescue plan for the global  
banking crisis. However some leaders, such Brazil?s President Luis da  
Silva, pointed out that it was the behaviour of western financiers  
that had brought the economy down in the first place. (download pdf at  
statewatch.org)

Source: http://www.statewatch.org/analyses/no-99-g8-london.pdf