Crash Carney’s CEO Summit

While CEOs and foreign investors gather at a luxury hotel downtown to buy up what remains of our shared public infrastructure, we will be planning the fightback at the “Many versus the Money” counter-summit at OCAD University.

Convened by the Council of Canadians, 8th Fire Rising and World BEYOND War, the counter-summit will open with a keynote conference featuring journalist Naomi Klein (author of End Times Fascism) and U.S. scholar and activist Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation) on Saturday, September 12 at 5pm. They will be joined by a special musical guest, folk singer Carsie Blanton.

On Sunday, September 13, the counter-summit will continue with an all-day teach-in, bringing together organizers, researchers and front-line activists from various movements (labour, Indigenous, tenants, climate, anti-war, migrant rights, Palestine solidarity, and others).

Panels will look at the role these corporate elites play in the worsening crises working-class people face and how the many can organize to defeat the money.

The counter-summit will end on Sunday evening with a Resistance Concert in Grange Park featuring a range of performers, vendors, and cultural activities.

On Monday September 14, as Carney’s privatization summit starts, we’ll be there to greet it. We will join a broad swathe of movements, communities, and organizations to gather en masse for a major rally, march and protest against Carney’s summit, starting at Nathan Phillips Square at 6PM.

The weekend’s counter-summit and Monday’s protest will also build momentum for upcoming mobilizations in Toronto like the March for Migrant Justice (September 20) and the Grassy Narrows River Run (September 23).