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Gaia
4th April 2011, 12:36
Quebec is a wonderful peaceful city and one of the oldest in America. The spring of 2001 still gives me a bitter taste and sadness. I remember the city was under siege, I will never forget...10 years ago...This international meeting was a round of negotiations regarding a proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas. The talks are perhaps better known for the security preparations and demonstrations (Known as the Quebec City protest) that surrounded them than for the progress of the negotiations.

But an extraordinary mobilization against the Summit of Heads of State of the Americas, except Cuba, brought together in Quebec City: Tens of thousands of people from across the Americas came here. 2000 are representative of social organizations and trade unions from 35 countries, including Cuba, attended the second Summit of the Peoples. The central theme: Stop the FTAA ! Another America is Possible ! 15 000 people came, in two contingents to the (Wall of Shame construct by the CIA/FBI) to make him fall. Many focused their attention on the division of the city with the security barrier, and what they saw as the draconic nature of police responses.

There were at Quebec an intensive process of awareness of issues related to the neoliberal globalization of markets, creating links with continental and global anti-globalization movement. This great citizen mobilization in Quebec City stopped the imposition of the FTAA and it was finally routed by popular mobilization and progressive governments in Mar del Plata in 2005. The FTAA is dead, but the neo-liberal capitalism is alive and well. The anti-globalization movement is as alive and growing, here and everywhere since 2001 !

Like Quebec in 2001 the same scenario was repeated in Toronto last summer we thought was any knowledge of events surrounding the summit of the G-20, June 2010, in Toronto. However, pictures taken by mobile phones and cameras protestors victims of police brutality have led us to question the limits of freedom of expression in Canada.

Can you smell it ?

Wrongful arrest, intimidation and ill-treatment of detainees, and closing meetings "As a preventive measure", are common wherever opponents of globalisation meet. On the day of the big demonstration in Quebec, FBI and US secret service agents appeared at the court in Quebec court orders requiring it to disclose the names of The anti-globalization movement leaders(Jaggi Singh) This was in flagrant breach of rights guaranteed under the Canada constitution.

Kindest regards !

Gaia



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They were the most unlikely of troublemakers. There were thousands of ordinary citizens on the streets at Toronto G20 Summit marching peacefully until the police closed in and shut them down. Many had gone downtown simply to see what was going on, only to find themselves forcibly dragged away by police and locked up for hours in a makeshift detention center without timely access to lawyers or medical treatment.

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On this edition of the fifth estate: the summit from the street, and the people who never dreamed it could happen to them. The stories you'll hear will raise questions about what protest means in this country and what the limits to dissent have become.


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