Bill C:10 - Time Does Not Stop Crime

Nov. 8, 2011: 300 Winnipeggers demonstrated at the Manitoba Legislature and the Winnipeg Remand Centre to urge the Manitoba Government to join Quebec, Ontario and Newfoundland and Labrador in opposing the Harper government's omnibus crime bill, misleadingly titled the Safe Streets and Communities Act (aka Bill C-10).

Speakers:
- John Hutton, Executive Director, John Howard Society of Manitoba
- Shaun Loney -- Executive Director, BUILD
- Cora Morgan, Executive Director, Onashowewin
- Tracy Booth, Executive Director, Elizabeth Fry Society of Manitoba
- Jacquie Nicholson, Literacy Coordinator, John Howard Society of Manitoba
- Alex Paterson, Occupy Winnipeg

The protest was sponsored by:
-BUILD Winnipeg
-Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
-Canadian Federation of Students
-Elizabeth Fry Society of Manitoba
-Faculty of Social Work, University of Manitoba
-Initiatives for Just Communities
-Occupy Winnipeg
-Ogijiita Pimatiswin Kinamatwin (OPK)
-Mennonite Central Committee of Manitoba
-School of Social Work, Université de Saint-Boniface
-Social Planning Council of Winnipeg
-Southern Chiefs Organization
-William (Bill) VanderGraff, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition

More information: John Howard Society of Manitoba, http://www.johnhoward.mb.ca

Video Production: Paul S. Graham, http://paulsgraham.ca

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Bill C-10
• Canada
• Winnipeg
• Omnibus Crime Bill
• John Hutton
• John Howard Society

[cdiddyna]

you bleeding heart losers have no clue whos actually in jail..gangstas who love being gangstas and the RON Howard society are clueless morons..cons laugh at these losers

[cdiddyna]

why do u idiots concentrate on weed? how about rapists being in jail longer? morons

[RonSchinners]

@abovetheinfluence555 thats so true...it's pathetic..i don't smoke weed...but even if you have a roach on you...waste of money and time

[MsBeautifulRed]

What a wonderful event! Thanks for this so much. I was thrilled to hear the song at the hand..."It's a hammer of freedom, it's a hammer of justice, it's a hammer of love between my brothers and my sisters, all over this land".....INDEED!!

[jennifer22679]

PREVENTION, PREVENTION, PREVENTION.....STATS SHOW CRIME RATE ARE GOING DOWN NOT UP DUE TO PREVENTATIVE MEASURES...NOT LONGER SCHOOLING BEHIND BARS PRODUCING MORE ANGRY AA WELL AS BETTER CRIMINALS!!!!!!

[abovetheinfluence555]

Canada will no longer be the place I raise my family if this bill comes out. Everybody is going to turn into criminals. Almost everybody I know who smokes weed has been caught with it at least once. This is what happens when senile psychopaths run the country