Craig, Rebecca and I went to the big G8/G20 meeting on Sunday. It seems to be a wonderful group of diverse people who are committed to an intense week of events around the time of the summit. It is in the early organizing stages and they have only carved out an outline so far. However, one of their main purposes, besides protesting the summit seems to be laying the groundwork for a connected movement in Toronto that can support each others issues and projects. Rebecca commented that the various movements have been pretty isolated from each other for a long time. so this seems interesting.
There is a "Peoples Summit" planned (June 18-20th) followed by four theme days during which various activities and actions will take place (June 21-24): climate and environmental issues, Indigenous Sovereignty, economic and migrant issues, and war and occupation. I think the three or four days of the G8/G20 summit (June 25-27) will be for various types of protests.
There was a lot to absorb, but between Rebecca and I this is what we agreed we had heard.
I announced that the MoneyProject would like to screen during this time and people seemed very responsive. One gentleman approached Craig after interested in the project, Vince, so I will add him to our email list.
There are many committees who are going to coordinate this massive event, the "Action Committee" seems to be the one scheduling all the different events together. The Arts committee is gathering the arts people together to see how that can unfold.
THERE IS AN ARTS COMMITTEE MEETING: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28TH, 1-3PM AT THE WELLSLEY COMMUNITY CENTRE, ROOM C. corner of Sherbourne and Wellsley.
I will be going to this, if anyone wants to come let me know and we can meet...
I think it will be great to show the Moneyproject during this time...
here are some links to get in touch or find out about meetings and stuff going on...
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