By Elroy Yau - September 24, 2010

My name is Elroy Yau. I was the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) employee arrested in full uniform for going to work and detained for over 30 hours...I have been off work since July 4th 2010. The Ontario Workers Safety Insurance Board (WSIB) has more or less denied my claim because I refuse to sign a form that forbids me from suing Toronto Police Services or the City of Toronto for their blunders.

The 34th annual Prison Justice Day, held at Trout Lake Park on August 10th, was a sobering realization of the harsh conditions in Canadian prisons, relieved only by the sheer amount of solidarity work being done in conjunction with those in the correctional system.

By Natalie Gray - July 21, 2010

...I went to Toronto to exercise my civil rights and march in active opposition to the G8 and G20 meetings being held there. On Sunday June 27th, I attended a jail solidarity protest that was peaceful. Without warning a line of riot police started moving towards us, and while running away, I was shot twice with rubber bullets, then arrested and incarcerated for 30 hours. I have been charged with obstruction of a peace officer. I have never been more terrified, more dehumanized or more in pain than I was that day. I wish my story were unique.

June 30, 2010

My name is Lacy MacAuley, and this is the story of my arrest, including my being violently assaulted, strangled, and punched while riding into the police station in the back of the van...I had come to Toronto from Washington DC to protest the G20 by helping to write about and photograph events that question and deconstruct the G20’s authority.

The atmosphere in the Alternative Media Centre (AMC) was like nowhere else: tense yet anticipating.