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10 years ago today a decentralized crew of black clad freedom fighters thwarted a multi agency law enforcement apparatus with multi year infiltrations, and successfully laid siege to the financial district in #Toronto during the #g20 
I was there and this is my #g20story (thread)
I was there and this is my #g20story (thread)
To talk about the g20 u need to rewind to Feb 2010 when a #blackbloc disrupted the 1st day of Vancouver winter #Olympics in what was called the #HeartAttack which made international healines & gave a black eye to the IOC & the integrated security unit tasked to protect its brand
What followed was public denunciations by several people including @DavidEby who was the head of the @bccla (British Columbia Civil Liberties Association) and also headed the legal support for the Olympic Resistance Network (ORN), who organized the anti-Olympic convergence.
Another public denunciation came from Vancouver activist @derrickokeefe. What followed was a legendary debate between O'Keefe and @HarshaWalia on the merits of the #BlackBloc and diversity of tactics. Spoiler: Walia won that debate.
Today David Eby is an MLA for West Point Grey, the richest neighborhood in Vancouver and his office is routinely occupied by protesters, O'Keefe ran for Vancouver city council and lost, and Harsha Walia now heads the BCCLA
Despite the haters the antiolympic protests were successful at highlighting what a massive motherfuckin waste of money the Olympics are, the corruption in the IOC & more importantly that Canada is entirely on stolen land. Here's my report for @democracynow https://www.democracynow.org/2010/2/15/olympic_resistance_indigenous_groups_anti_poverty
I should mention that I was visited by the cops cause I coined the term "5 Cockrings of Death" to make fun of the Olympics on the @stimulator show. This is how much $$ the cops had that they could waste their time visiting my ass and following me around https://www.straight.com/article-284394/vancouver/cops-decide-visit-antiolympic-activist
A few months later some people in Ottawa burned a branch of the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), in solidarity with indigenous people and as militant callout for the upcoming protests against the g20 in Toronto.
As you can imagine the cops, the right and the social dems went ape shit.
And we get to Toronto where peeps organized 6 themed days of actions to highlight how G20 policies are fucking up the planet and the people who live in it. This was done under intense cop fuckery and harrassment but peeps managed to pull it together https://www.democracynow.org/2010/6/28/toronto_police_arrest_over_600_in
After the #BlackBloc destroyed half of downtown on June 26 the Toronto cops reeling from their embarrassment started arresting ANYBODY they saw on the streets. Like these folks who thought that singing the Canadian national anthem would protect them from police violence
It was the largest mass arrest in Canadian history. Activist Judy Rebick thought that cops should have arrested the #blackbloc & left everyone else alone perpetuating the "good vs bad protester" trope but also promoted the conspiracy theory that the cops let the riot happen
World renowned Canadian journalist and Bernie Sanders fan, Naomi Klein echoed Rebick in that the police allowed people to burn their cruisers and that the cops should have been doing their job. I wonder how a statement like that would go down in 2020
All in all 2010 was a banner year for radical politics in Canada & despite the repression & betrayals by so called allies folks here were able to push issues to an international stage and showed that decentralized horizontal organizing outside the confines of NGOs can go far.
One last thing since we're talking about anniversaries 2020, is the 30th anniversary of the #OkaCrisis. Don't know what I'm talking about? Then watch this, you won't be sorry
