Toronto Activists Target Elite Military Event Backing Indigenous Abuses
Toronto Activists Target Elite Military Event Backing Indigenous Abuses
Published 9 February 2017 (5 hours 52 minutes ago)
The Conference of American Armies, which held a meeting in Toronto, is a group that was formed in 1960 and said to have been behind Operation Condor.
Over a dozen activists with banners and a sound system disrupted Thursday a special meeting of the Conference of American Armies, CAA, which included military leaders from North, Central and South America, as they gathered at a hotel in Toronto to discuss "domestic operations."
The protesters came from different rights groups and movements in the country “who associate the CAA with the repression of political activists and land defenders” in countries across the Americas, a press release by Mining Injustice Solidarity Network said, using the acronym for the military conference.
Jaydene Lavallee, a Metis organizer present at the hotel action, highlighted how these domestic operations often include crackdowns on Indigenous peoples, referencing the recent one by the U.S. state against the North Dakota water protectors.
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