{"id":202,"date":"2010-06-16T20:37:18","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T01:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamaw905.ca\/?p=202"},"modified":"2023-03-12T20:57:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T01:57:48","slug":"g8g20-convergence-justice-for-our-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamaw905.ca\/?p=202","title":{"rendered":"G8\/G20 Convergence Justice for Our Communities!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iamaw905.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Photoblock-EconJustice1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-206\" title=\"Photoblock-EconJustice\" src=\"https:\/\/iamaw905.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Photoblock-EconJustice1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"181\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Event Details<br \/>\nVenue: Allan Gardens (at the corner of Carleton and Sherbourne Streets)<br \/>\nCity: Toronto<br \/>\nStarting: Friday, June 25, 2010 (2:30 pm)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nFrom June 25th and 27th, 2010, the world\u2019s twenty richest countries (the G8 and G20) will send their ruling elite, along with heads of the IMF and World Bank, to meet in Huntsville and then in Toronto, to talk exploitation, wealth, and greed.<br \/>\nThese \u2018leaders\u2019 have shredded the public sector and social spending, criminalized the poor, immigrants and racialized communities, continued to plunder Indigenous lands and trash the environment, deported our families and friends, gutted the unions, and closed hospitals and schools while they grant tax cuts to the rich and corporations and boost police and military budgets.<\/p>\n<p>We are the people most severely impacted by this agenda: we are Toronto-based community organizations, people of color, indigenous peoples, immigrants, women, the poor, the working class, queer and trans people, disabled people, and our allies. Toronto&#8217;s communities are uniting to take back what is ours! Join us on the streets June 25, as we ensure the G20, the G8 and their deadly policies are exposed and challenged!<\/p>\n<p>Some of our organizations demands are:<br \/>\n(To join the organizing and your local campaign demands to this list, email <a href=\"mailto:seetheg8onyourstreet@gmail.com\">seetheg8onyourstreet@gmail.com<\/a> or come to planning meeting)<\/p>\n<p>1.Raising social assistance rates by 40% and creating a decent living wage<br \/>\n2.Status for All<br \/>\n3.Stopping the theft and plunder of indigenous lands: indigenous sovereignty now<br \/>\n4.Housing for All<br \/>\n5.Police out of Schools<br \/>\n6.Stop the Social Cleansing of the Downtown East End<br \/>\n7.Access to Social Services Without Fear<br \/>\n8.Provide a Universal Food Supplement<br \/>\n9.Stop Psychiatric Abuse<br \/>\n10.Remove the Cap on Direct Funding for Attendant Care<br \/>\n11.Accessibility Legislation that Means Something Now<br \/>\n12.Stop Police Brutality, Impunity, and Militarization of Communities<br \/>\n*Wheelchair and ASL Accessible<\/p>\n<p>Regular Planning Meetings<br \/>\nTuesday, at 6:30pm<br \/>\n252 Bloor West, 7th floor<\/p>\n<p>Contact: <a href=\"mailto:seetheg8onyourstreet@gmail.com\">seetheg8onyourstreet@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Event Details Venue: Allan Gardens (at the corner of Carleton and Sherbourne Streets) City: Toronto Starting: Friday, June 25, 2010 (2:30 pm)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-g8g20-converge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw905.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw905.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw905.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw905.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw905.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw905.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw905.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions\/319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw905.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw905.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw905.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}