Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 20:32:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: Chris <red-AT-iww.org>
Subject: AUT: active resistance '98 Toronto [Canada] (fwd)


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Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 18:09:52 -0700
From: JACQUELINE PEREZ <perez-AT-total.net>
To: reseau <reseau-AT-lists.nothingness.org>
Cc: zapatismo <zapatismo-AT-mcfeeley.cc.utexas.edu>
Subject: ACTIVE RESISTANCE '98 TORONTO

Subject: (act-mtl) A Call for Participants [please forward]
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 20:21:11 -0400
From: resist-AT-tao.ca (Active Resistance '98 - Toronto) (by way of
QPIRG <qpirg-AT-alcor.concordia.ca>)
To: act-mtl-AT-concordia.ca

One year ago the Active Resistance gathering took place in Chicago
bringing
together some 750 North American anarchists and revolutionary activists
representing Earth First!, Food Not Bombs, Anti Racist Action, the Queer
Youth Movement, Sister Subverter, Anarchist Black Cross, the Youth
Liberation Movement, Love and Rage, the IWW, the Anti-Authoritarian
Network
of Community Organizers, the Network of Anarchist Collectives, the
Animal
Liberation Front, Social Ecologists, the Squatters Rights Movement, and
solidarity movements with MOVE and Mumia Abu Jamal, Fred Hampton Jr.,
the
EZLN, Leonard Peltier and the American Indian Movement.

Eight people from Toronto took part in Active Resistance during August
of
'96.  Following the subsequent Days of Action labour demonstration of
200,000 in the fall, local speaking engagements by Angela Davis and
Peter
Lamborn Wilson during the winter, and historic reenactment of Emma
Goldman's
speech 'The Youth In Revolt' on April 14th at the Labour Lyceum (60
years
after the original presentation she gave while living in Toronto towards
the
end of her lifetime) a small group of local anarchists began the process
of
organizing a Toronto Active Resistance gathering during the summer.

Over the course of 2 spirited meetings, representatives from Earth
First!,
ARA, Food Not Bombs, collective members of the Toronto's anarchist-punk
infoshop 'Who's Emma', an original participant of the 1988
anarchist-organized 'Survival Gathering', and many other individual
activists decided that a full year would be required in order to best
prepare for a large-scale local gathering of anarchists and radical
activists in Toronto, to be held as the ten-year anniversary of the '88
Survival Gathering.

                                ACTIVE RESISTANCE '98 - TORONTO 

Toronto is the most multicultural city in North America, yet has seen a
brutal wave of killings of people of colour at the hands of Metro
Police.
Canada is home to the second-largest community of Nazi war criminals in
the
world, and Toronto has a disproportionate share of boneheads and fascist
propagandists.  The province of Ontario has been rated the third most
polluted in North America, clearcut deforestation has been rampant in
the
Temagami region, and the Darlington nuclear reactor recently closed
following the revelation of massive safety incompetence.  As increasing
numbers of homeless people freeze to death each winter and more kids
take to
the streets to work squeegeeing windshields, new McDonald's, Blockbuster
Videos, and Starbucks are popping up all over and bank profits are
higher
than they've ever been before.

As the number of desperate and homeless increase, right wing provincial
premier Mike Harris has been stripping the city of its social services
and
local democracy, shutting down hospitals, reducing welfare payments,
eliminating the right to strike, giving police powers to avoid
assessment,
avoiding responsibility for the killing of Stoney Point Native activist
Dudley George, amalgamating Toronto into a 'MegaCity' in order to reduce
political accountability, and privatizing everything including the
water.
Campus occupations have taken place across the province by student
activists
frustrated with increasingly inaccessible tuition fees.  And the Ontario
Federation of Labour sits poised for the possibility of an upcoming
province-wide general strike.

Next summer will be ripe for a creative, fun, culturally diverse, queer
positive, Native-solidarity, pro-feminist, youth-friendly,
political-prisoner-supportive, labour-aligned, anti-poverty,
ecologically-minded gathering of anarchist and revolutionary activists
in
August '98 to take action against  neoconservatism, neoliberalism, and
all
other forms of oppression in Toronto, North America, and around the
world.
All anarchists, revolutionary activists and their friends and allies are
welcome to join us in Toronto this coming August.  Please send
information
requests, organizing and outreach ideas, workshop topics, fundraising
and
activity suggestions, contact addresses, political statements, letters
of
endorsement and structural comments to:


                                Active Resistance '98 
                                Toronto Planning Crew
                                P.O. Box 108 Station P
                                Toronto Canada M5S 2S8
                                <resist-AT-tao.ca>




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