A-Infos (en) Canada, Anti Prison Demo during G20 in Toronto

On Sunday, June 27 2010 at 5pm there will be a Demonstration Against Prison in Toronto. 
Anarchists are organizing the demonstration as a part of the larger mobilization in 
opposition to the G20 meetings. ---- This is a statement of our perspective and intention 
for the demo, more details to come soon. ---- Prison is everywhere. It is nothing more 
than a reflection of the society in which we live. A society that resembles an open prison 
in which the majority of the population is locked up because of the necessity to find 
money, because of the lack of purpose in life, because of the roles of submission and 
servitude that are imposed by the ruling values. It is a daily threat and reality that has 
permeated every facet of society.

With the deepening of surveillance, the integration of police forces, the increased use of 
private security, the existence of courts, repression and isolation, the walls of prison 
are already built around us. If we don’t accept this miserable life offered to us, they’ll 
always have room for us in their overcrowded cells. The fear of being ripped apart from 
our loved ones and thrown into jail is what we measure, each day, against our existing 
servitude.

In the streets, prisons, psychiatric institutions, detention centres, there are those who 
do not come to peace with their exploitation, who do not bury a taste for freedom, for a 
better life, just because a judge imposes it. There are people who refuse the daily 
humiliation of obeying guards and bosses. For whom the walls and the barbed wire of the 
prisons are not yet marked in their brains but are taken as obstacles to overcome.

We desire to stand with comrades and accomplices who refuse to accept this reality, who 
refuse to be defeated by the System, who taste freedom in the ashes of prisons. We want to 
shed our fear and together confront the prison apparatus – the surveillance cameras, the 
police, the alienating consumer culture, the prison itself.

A question is often raised: what do we do with the murderers and rapists? In this question 
lies the assumption that the current system offers a solution. All the prisons have yet to 
“correct” the elements of society that breed this violence. Let us think instead about 
what we can do with each other, how we create communities of self-determination and 
autonomy that do not breed this rape culture through patriarchy, or genocide through racism.

We want to expand our solidarity in struggle against prison. We want people to join us and 
directly confront the systems of social control. We want to be everything prison isn’t: 
uncontrollable, joyful, creative…

The location for this demo T.B.A.

Keep the date marked off, we’ll see you in the streets!

For updates and more info: fireworksforprisons.wordpress.com
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