CKUT Radio: GUTS to Resist Police Violence

Sexual assault used as a police weapon in Guelph, Ontario

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.

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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

Produced for the CKUT (90.3FM) community news collective in Montreal by
Aaron Lakoff. Contact aaron@resist.ca