Tommy Taylor had one impassioned plea for John Morden, the retired judge leading the Toronto Police Services Board’s independent civilian review of the G20: “Please help me feel safe in this city again.”
Taylor was among a diverse group of citizens who spoke Wednesday night at Metro Hall at the first of three public hearings for the review, which is examining issues surrounding police actions at the G20 summit.
About 50 people attended, and those who spoke included protesters and non-protesters, business owners, academics and some who were not even in town during the summit.
What came across most clearly was that many wounds left on the city that weekend remain unhealed.
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Democracy Gone Astray
Democracy, being a human construct, needs to be thought of as directionality rather than an object. As such, to understand it requires not so much a description of existing structures and/or other related phenomena but a declaration of intentionality.
This blog aims at creating labeled lists of published infringements of such intentionality, of points in time where democracy strays from its intended directionality. In addition to outright infringements, this blog also collects important contemporary information and/or discussions that impact our socio-political landscape.
All the posts here were published in the electronic media – main-stream as well as fringe, and maintain links to the original texts.
[NOTE: Due to changes I haven't caught on time in the blogging software, all of the 'Original Article' links were nullified between September 11, 2012 and December 11, 2012. My apologies.]
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