I would like to report that Alex Hundert is now free. Hundert, a community organizer who was allegedly involved in facilitating the G20 Summit protests, was first arrested at gunpoint in a pre-dawn raid on June 26, 2010. He has been charged with conspiracy.
He has been in and out of jail for nearly five months since then, including being arrested for a breach of bail for participating in two university panels speaking against the G20 in September 2010. Regarding the breach of his bail conditions, a JP found that by speaking on these panels, he was participating in a public demonstration — something his bail forbid.
The state’s crackdown on Hundert as an attempt to break the back of the movement has been decried by fellow activists, university staff and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. In fact, the movement rallied around Hundert under the slogan ‘an attack against one is an attack against us all’.
Instead of harming the movement, the state actually galvanized it, through one example of how police and the government illegally infringed on people’s civil liberties. Among many issues brought by Hundert’s imprisonment was the right to free speech.
I would like to personally thank all the activists who came together to support Alex Hundert. So thank you. Giitu!
I will direct you now to Hundert’s own words on the situation: Alex Hundert: Out of Jail
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