Rally and teach-in: 12pm, Sunday June 27, 2021
The No Pride in Policing Coalition with No More Silence will be holding a Pride Day rally and march on Sunday June 27, 2021.
The rally will begin at 12:00pm at Nathan Phillips Square.
There will be a media conference beginning at 11:30am.
The No Pride in Policing Coalition with No More Silence will be holding a Pride Day rally and march on Sunday June 27, 2021.
The rally will begin at 12:00pm at Nathan Phillips Square.
There will be a media conference beginning at 11:30am.
“Abolition of the police and prisons is not only about getting rid of these institutions, it is part of building a new society based on community safety and care. It requires a massive transfer of resources from policing and carceral injustice, from punishing, imprisoning and disciplining people towards instead meeting people’s social needs and ending racism, poverty, sexism, and social injustice. It is in this context that Black, Indigenous, Two spirit queers and trans and all LGBTQT people can live truly liveable lives.”
“We have already seen these community-based safety initiative emerging from groups like Maggie’s when they did community searches trying to find Alloura Wells when the police were doing nothing; or when the Alliance for South Asian AIDS Prevention (ASAAP) undertook important community safety initiatives when brown men were going missing when the police were doing little. It was these community-based initiatives, and networking and information sharing based on them — which the police actively discouraged — that held the promise of keeping people alive and safe while the police left us to be killed.”
The No Pride in Policing Coalition (NPPC) is an antiracist queer and trans group formed to support Black Lives Matter – Toronto and is focused on defunding and abolishing the police. We initiated the Pride Day 2020 Defund and Abolish All Police rally and teach-in of close to 3,000 people held at Nathan Philips Square, June 28, 2020 and the 600 person rally for defunding and abolishing the Toronto police held outside Toronto Police HQ on July 16, 2020.
For more info or media requests:
The No Pride in Policing Coalition (NPPC) is an antiracist queer and trans group formed to support Black Lives Matter – Toronto and is focused on defunding and abolishing the police. We initiated the Pride Day 2020 Defund and Abolish All Police rally and teach-in of close to 3,000 people held at Nathan Philips Square, June 28, 2020 and the 600 person rally for defunding and abolishing the Toronto police held outside Toronto Police HQ on July 16, 2020.
For more info or media requests: