Listen to an interview with Nicole Freeborn and Alex Tinter of the Guelph Union of Tenants and Supporters (GUTS). On International Women's Day of this year (March 8/06), Nicole Freeborn was sexually assaulted by a cop at a demonstration.
Produced by Aaron Lakoff of the CKUT (90.3FM) community news collective in Montreal.
Contact aaron@resist.ca after rebroadcast.
On International Women's Day of 2006 (March 8), Nicole Freeborn, 27, attended a demonstration with the Guelph Union of Tenants and Supporters (GUTS) at the Ontario Housing Rights Tribunal in Guelph. The demonstration was to demand a raise to welfare rates in Ontario, and to make the links between poverty and institutionalized patriarchy in the province.
At that demonstration, Guelph police intervened violently, and Nicole was grabbed and sexually assaulted by officer Brian Welsh in front of numerous witnesses.
Nicole and GUTS have made a public appeal to denounce this act of police brutality and sexism,to have officer Welsh fired from the Guelph police force, and to launch an investigation into the incident. Nicole has received much support from coast to coast, but her demands have not been met.
GUTS has put a call out for autonomous direct actions to be taken against the Guelph police force, and the Guelph city council. Last week, it was reported in the local news that a group called Anarchist Solidarity sabotaged the construction site of a new Guelph city hall, causing thousands of dollars worth of damage. Anarchist Solidarity released a statement that the action was taken in solidarity with Nicole.
GUTS will be holding a militant night march in Guelph on Friday, April 7 to denounce police violence and patriarchy.
For more information, visit: www.guelphtenants.com www.cobp.ath.cx (Montreal collective against police brutality) www.ckut.ca
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