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    We strive to build the capacity of communities to resist police violence.

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    We hold harassment, intimidation, surveillance, carding, planting of evidence, racial profiling, excessive force, police brutality, entrapment, provocation, concealment of evidence, and other repressive actions as acts of police violence.

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Research

The usual suspects: police stop and search practices in Canada by Scot Wortley and Akwasi Owusu-Bempah

The usual suspects: police stop and search practices in Canada

"This paper explores police stop and search activities in Canada using data from a 2007 survey of Toronto residents. The paper begins by demonstrating that black respondents are more likely to view racial profiling as a major problem in Canada than whites or Asians. By contrast, white and Asian respondents are more likely to believe that profiling is a useful crime-fighting tool. Further analysis reveals that the black community’s concern with racial profiling may be justified. Indeed, black respondents are much more likely to report being stopped and searched by the police over the past two years than respondents from other racial backgrounds. Blacks are also much more likely to report vicarious experiences with racial profiling. Importantly, racial differences in police stop and search experiences remain statistically significant after controlling for other relevant factors. The theoretical implications of these findings and their meaning within Canada’s multicultural framework are discussed."

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YSU Akua Benjamin

Come out and commemorate the 24th anniversary of the Yonge Street Uprising that took place on 4 May 1992. The event starts at 6:00PM on May 4.

We will be facilitating a discussion on the relevance of the Yonge Street Uprising to the present experience of police/state violence, social neglect and the general economic exploitation of racialized working-class communities in Toronto. 

We are going to examine the experience of that youth-led rebellion and the lessons that must be drawn from it by today's organizations and movements that are organizing or mobilizing oppressed peoples for liberation.

 

WHEN: Wednesday, May 4, 2016

TIME: 6:00 - 8:00PM

WHERE: Yorkgate Mall, 1 Yorkgate Blvd, Toronto
Seneca College in Yorkgate Mall (north west corner of Jane Street and Finch Avenue)
Room 218/219 (2nd floor of the mall)

Free public event 

Refreshments and childcare provided

Let's have a frank talk on neighbourhood uprisings in response to police violence, economic exploitation, racism and resistance in Toronto:

How are uprisings and resistance criminalized in neighbourhoods and the wider society by the state and its police?

What actions should we take to protect ourselves from police violence and economic exploitation?

What was the social climate that inspired the Afrikan youth-led Yonge Street Uprising and what were some of the achievements of this rebellion?

What lessons should we draw from the Yonge Street Uprising in our struggle for freedom, justice and a liberated society?

How would we situate the Yonge Street Uprisng in the debate about organizing for liberation and mobiling people for events or public spectacles?

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