Big Brother is Watching Us
And censoring information on Antifascists&Antiracists across North America involved in the G8/G20 in TO
And censoring information on Antifascists&Antiracists across North America involved in the G8/G20 in TO
We are trying to gather info to write a story on what's been happening on the internet for the past month or so according to a comrade of ours from Montreal QC, someone who has directly been affected by this, and more so during this past week I have really noticed this Anomaly...
No one else in the antifascist or anti-racist
community has contacted me or our collective about this- But I find this to be quite alarming and I feel that it is something that needs to be addressed.
Multiple websites, either independent websites belonging to organizations with certain political views, personal blog posts on social networking sites by individuals mentioning certain subjects/exposing something, photos and graphics that were normally very easy to find through a search engine- Have all completely vanished. Without a trace.
Another comrade of mine in Spokane said to look on Archive.Org for any trace of the missing info/pics. I have tried so many search engines, and under different geographical locations (ie- abc.ca, abc.fr, etc).
Absolutely Nothing came back in the search.
No one else in the antifascist or anti-racist
community has contacted me or our collective about this- But I find this to be quite alarming and I feel that it is something that needs to be addressed.Multiple websites, either independent websites belonging to organizations with certain political views, personal blog posts on social networking sites by individuals mentioning certain subjects/exposing something, photos and graphics that were normally very easy to find through a search engine- Have all completely vanished. Without a trace.
Another comrade of mine in Spokane said to look on Archive.Org for any trace of the missing info/pics. I have tried so many search engines, and under different geographical locations (ie- abc.ca, abc.fr, etc).
Absolutely Nothing came back in the search.
*The Connection?
Now, the comrade of ours from Montreal, QC that has been affected by this strange turn of events on the net happens to have been in Toronto to protest against the G8/G20.
He was wrongfully arrested, experienced extreme racism, brutality and cruelty from law enforcement, due to the very fact he was a francophone [french speaking] Quebecois. But then they found out he is an Anarchist Activist who has a long history of being politically and socially involved in Montreal and France. He was beaten and questioned relentlessly in prison, and remained in custody without a reason for over 70 hours. The scene inside the prison was something he has never experienced in his entire life, and it was because of the mass arrests of over hundreds of people- Hundreds of law abiding citizens who were exercising their right and freedom to protest peacefully. Because of this, the extreme police brutality, the blatant disregard of human beings and their Rights and freedoms on such a mass scale, Toronto is now referred to as "Torontonamo".
He and his comrades have written detailed affidavits. They are taking this matter to the high courts. I actually have copies of all of them. What I've read so far is pretty disturbing...
He just so happened to mention his ordeal on a certain networking site, along with an endless amount of pictures (Probably around the 500 mark). They were all taken down without any notice. So were all of his posts. His page was completely wiped clean with no explanation.
Every time he mentions something about where he was, what did he did/what was done to him- Anything to do with the G8/G20- it disappears.
There is a certain Anti-Fascist Collective in the Northeast who was present at the G8/G20, who also had a ton of various material on the internet- It is like they have completely vanished off of the face of the planet. I couldn't find Anything about them except for 1 small iron on patch being sold by a company from Europe.
We'll keep you posted on what we could find, I will also translate our comrade's Affidavit, so that if anyone is interested in reading about his experience with what happened to him and thousands of other peaceful/innocent protesters who did nothing wrong, you guys will be able to read it first hand.
In the meantime, I urge you to check this site out:
http://www.torontonamo.net/
It is french, but you can use http://translate.google.com/ to translate whole websites.
Solidarity,
SARA
He was wrongfully arrested, experienced extreme racism, brutality and cruelty from law enforcement, due to the very fact he was a francophone [french speaking] Quebecois. But then they found out he is an Anarchist Activist who has a long history of being politically and socially involved in Montreal and France. He was beaten and questioned relentlessly in prison, and remained in custody without a reason for over 70 hours. The scene inside the prison was something he has never experienced in his entire life, and it was because of the mass arrests of over hundreds of people- Hundreds of law abiding citizens who were exercising their right and freedom to protest peacefully. Because of this, the extreme police brutality, the blatant disregard of human beings and their Rights and freedoms on such a mass scale, Toronto is now referred to as "Torontonamo".
He and his comrades have written detailed affidavits. They are taking this matter to the high courts. I actually have copies of all of them. What I've read so far is pretty disturbing...
He just so happened to mention his ordeal on a certain networking site, along with an endless amount of pictures (Probably around the 500 mark). They were all taken down without any notice. So were all of his posts. His page was completely wiped clean with no explanation.
Every time he mentions something about where he was, what did he did/what was done to him- Anything to do with the G8/G20- it disappears.
There is a certain Anti-Fascist Collective in the Northeast who was present at the G8/G20, who also had a ton of various material on the internet- It is like they have completely vanished off of the face of the planet. I couldn't find Anything about them except for 1 small iron on patch being sold by a company from Europe.
We'll keep you posted on what we could find, I will also translate our comrade's Affidavit, so that if anyone is interested in reading about his experience with what happened to him and thousands of other peaceful/innocent protesters who did nothing wrong, you guys will be able to read it first hand.
In the meantime, I urge you to check this site out:
http://www.torontonamo.net/
It is french, but you can use http://translate.google.com/ to translate whole websites.
Solidarity,
SARA
No comments:
Post a Comment