World-Wide Protests September 10-17
The fight for freedom continues. We thank everyone who got involved and made a stand for sovereignty!
Post photos from your event in our Cannabis Culture forum thread Protest Photos from September 10th. You can check out many other pictures too! If you have photos but don't know where to put them, or how, please email them to me at Jodie_Giesz@hotmail.com and I will do all of the resizing and posting and hosting work involved.
Make sure to visit and view the whole archive of photos from events around the world at the Marc Emery Gallery at Marihemp.com. There are a ton of resources, images, and photographs available for download and distribution.
Thank you to everyone who took part, and be sure to go to the rallies and fundraising events still taking place this week and beyond! Comedy Benefits, Music Concerts, Marc's Hockey Memorabilia fundraiser - there are many ways for you to get involved and help contribute to Marc Emery and his friends, who all face cruel and unjust punishment at the hands of the USA DEA.
To find out more about upcoming events, please visit this page on the CC Forums, or check out the Upcoming Events listing on the CC Main page, also posted here.
Official Petitions in PDF format:
Please print and distribute these official petitions. We will require them for our legal defence, to show that there are literally thousands of people around the globe who are vehemently opposed to this extradition procedure, and the continuation of the failed and unjust War on Drugs.
USA Petition
Canadian Petition
International Petition
Print out this fact sheet to distribute everywhere you go! Extradition Flyer
We have many printed and ready to send out to anyone who requests a package. Contact me to get some sent your way! Many thanks to the wonderful Dana Larsen for making these available.
What's going on?
On September 10th through 17th, people in cities in Canada, the United States, and across the globe are uniting in protest against this alarming infringement on Canadian sovereignty and unprecedented escalation by the Bush administration of the failed War on Drugs.
The Canadian government must abide by the Extradition Act of Canada and refuse the extradition of Marc Emery, Greg Williams, and Michelle Rainey.
Who has signed up?
So far, these cities have protests planned between September 10th and September 17th. There are at least 40 planned as of September 7th!
Email Jodie Giesz-Ramsay to add a city to the list!
CANADA:
Vancouver, BC
September 10th
2 pm
US Consulate, 1095 West Pender st.
Poster
Victoria, BC
Click here for more info about activity in your area, or attending the Vancouver protest.
Calgary, AB Delayed due to weather
Webpage
September 10th
2 pm - 4:20 pm
US Consulate, 615 Macleod Trail, S.E.
Poster
Edmonton, AB
Contact
September 10th
3 pm
Sir Winston Churchill Square
Regina, SK
Webpage
September 10th
4:20 pm
Victoria Park
Saskatoon, SK
September 17th
2 - 8 pm
Vimy Memorial, off Spadina Crescent
Winnipeg, MB
Webpage
September 16th
3 - 4:30 pm
Courthouse, 408 York st.
Poster
Toronto, ON
Webpage
September 10th
3 pm
US Consulate, 360 University Ave.
Poster
Handout cards
Ottawa, ON
September 10th
Time to be determined
US Embassy, 490 Sussex Drive
Timmins, ON
Contact
September 10th
Noon
The Middle Finger Response, 32 Mountjoy Street South Timmins
Kincardine, ON
September 10th
Time to be determined
Victoria Park
Dunnville, ON
Contact
September 10th
4 - 4:20pm
Dunnville Municipal Buldings, across from Central Park
Montreal, QC
Contact
September 10th
1 pm
Normand Bethune Parc at Guy-Concordia Metro station
2 pm
March to US consulate, 1155 rue St-Alexandre
Flyer
St. John's, NL
Contact
September 10th
2 pm - 3:30 pm
Colonial Building, Military Rd
Halifax, NS
Webpage
September 10th
12-6 pm
Grand Parade Square
Posters, handouts
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
Los Angeles, CA
September 10th
Noon
255 E. Temple
Detroit, MI
Contact
September 16th
9-3 pm
Hart Plaza, Ford Field
Missoula, MT
With the Missoula Hemp Fest
September 10th
Noon-10:30 pm
Caras Park
New York, NY
Contact
September 10th
Noon - 2 pm
Canadian Mission to the UN, 47th St. and 2nd Ave.
Boston, MA
September 10th
Time to be determined
Canadian Consulate, 3 Copley Place
Poster
Maui, HI
Webpage
Contact
September 10th
Noon - 4:20 pm
Location to be determined
Honolulu, HI
Date and Time to be determined
Australian (and Canadian) Consulate, Penthouse Suite, 1000 Bishop Street
Washington, DC
Date and time to be determined
Canadian Embassy, 501 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
Seattle, WA
Contact
Webpage
September 16th
2 pm
Federal building, 7th and Stewart (downtown)
Chicago, IL
Contact
September 10th
2 pm
Canadian Consulate, Two Prudential Plaza, 180 North Stetson Avenue
San Francisco, CA
Contact
Webpage
September 16th
Noon
555 Montgomery @ Clay Sts.
San Diego, CA
Date, location and time to be determined
Tucson, AZ
September 13th
11:30 am
DEA Office, 3285 East Hemisphere Loop
Fayetteville, NC
September 10th
10:00 am
Crown Coliseum/Expo Building, 1623 Hwy 301
Roanoke, VA
Date, time, and location to be determined
INTERNATIONAL:
Email ENCOD to add a European city to the list!
Nimbim, Australia
Webpage
Contact
September 10th
12 hours: 4:20 am - 4:20 pm
Nimbim Hemp Bar, 51 Cullen street
Live web cam online!
Darwin, Australia
Webpage
September 10th
Noon
Raintree Park
Auckland, New Zealand
Contact
Webpage
September 10th
12 noon - 2 pm
Canadian Consulate, 48 Emily Place
Wellingdon, New Zealand
Contact
Webpage
September 10th
12 noon - 2 pm
Canadian High Commission, 61 Molesworth Street, Thorndon
Adelaide, Australia
Date, time, and location to be determined
Kingston, Jamaica
Contact
September 15th
1-4 pm
Canadian High Commission, 3 West Kings House Road
London, England
Contact
Webpage
September 10th
2 pm
Canadian and American Embassies, Grosvenor Square Park
Thursday 8th Sept - Pre-protest lunchtime picket, 1:30 - 2:30 pm!
Moscow, Russia
Contact
Date to be determined
Canadian Embassy, 23 Starokonyushenny Pereulok
Oslo, Norway
Contact
Webpage
September 10th
3 pm
Canadian Embassy, Wergelandsv. 7 (v/Slottsparken)
Paris, France
Contact
September 10th
Canadian Embassy, 35 avenue Montaigne
Prague, Czechoslovakia
Contact
Date to be determined
Canadian Embassy, Muchova 6, 160 00 Prague 6
Rome, Italy
Contact
Date to be determined
Canadian Embassy, Via Zara 30
Brussels, Belgium
Contact
September 13th
Inside European Parliament
Vienna, Austria
Contact
Date to be determined
Canadian Embassy, Laurenzerberg 2
Madrid, Spain
Webpage
September 9 - 11
ExpoCannabis event, support for Marc Emery
Multiusos La Cubierta de Legan?s (Maestro, 4)
Warsaw, Poland
Webpage
Contact
September 10th
4 pm
Canadian Embassy, ul. Matejki 1/5
Mexico City, Mexico
Date to be determined
Canadian Embassy, Calle Schiller No. 529 (Rinc?n del Bosque), Colonia Bosque de Chapultepec
What can I do? How can I help?
Get the word out!
Get 4 or 5 friends, and start printing and handing out posters and flyers for the event.
Call your local newspapers, radio stations, and other media and tell them that there is a world-wide protest being planned for September, and that you intend to start one in your town. (They'll cover anything "global", even in small cities!)
Leave flyers at schools (non-elementary!), bars, clubs, and alternative or pot-friendly stores.
Get some cardboard or old fabric sheets, and use simple paint or even thick markers to make banners and signs for people to hold during your protest.
Use slogans like:
"DEA Go Away"
"End Prohibition"
"Overgrow the Government"
"Free the Vancouver 3"
"No Moral Sanction of US Drug War"
"Drug Peace, not Drug War"
"Pot is a Plant, Bush is the Dope"
"Marijuana is Medicine"
"Free the Weed"
"Prohibition Kills, Marijuana Doesn't"
"Victimless Crime"
"We are not Criminals"
"Regulate and Educate"
"Herb Lover"
"Cannabis Causes No Harm"
"Don't Fear the Reefer"
"Just say KNOW"
"Overgrow the Government"
"God Made Ganja"
Come up with your own!
What else can I distribute or use?
Some of the various posters, flyers, handbills, banners, etc. are hosted at these websites:
http://www.unleashthegreen.com/l/5
http://www.smokeoutamerica.ca/downloads
http://gallery.marihemp.com/marc-emery
Here's the new Free Marc logo, a variation on the popular one that we used when Marc was imprisoned in Saskatoon.
Here are some easy-to-print and easy-to-use black and white pictures for protest posters. You can cut and paste with scissors and glue, or you can use computer programs to create digital files.
Use them! Share them! Make posters and handouts!
Free Marc, hand cuff logo
Black and white pot leaf
Cannabis Canadian flag
Uncle Sam and RCMP puppet with baton
"Free Marc Emery" logo
Cannabis leaf
Gary Wintle's USA and RCMP puppet
Pot leaf heart
Cannabis leaf
Basic pot leaf in circle
Marc Emery "I Want YOU" parody
Here's an example poster I made with very little time and effort. You can do the same!
Websites, tips, and contact information:
CC Forum thread for protest planning
How to put on a pot rally, by David Malmo-Levine
Frank Discussion: Cannabis Event Listing
Marc Emery and cannabis event poster and photo collection
The European Coalition for Just and Effective Drug Policies
Thank you for wanting to take part!
We need to join together to defeat this unjust War on Drugs and Freedom.
Together, we can Overgrow The Government!
