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Rebecca Harrison is a Green Party candidate in Whitby who helps to run the Facebook page and group Canadians Demanding an Inquiry into the Toronto G20. I missed the beginning of her speech here at Queens Park on July 17, 2010, , however, the remainder she speaks of civil rights abuses, police voilence, civil rights, what this means that this was allowed to happend and to please join the Facebook page and groups and demand an inquiry.

New York,January 6--"Garbage Dreams", Mai Iskander's first documentary feature, has won 17 Best Documentary awards at film festivals, including the Nashville Film Festival's Reel Current Award, selected by Al Gore. Iskander, the cinematographer, producer and director of the film, shot it over a four-year period mostly in Mokattam, a Zaballeen garbage village outside Cairo. Both a coming-of-age story and a portrait of a close-knit community. the film chronicles the lives of three teen-age boys, Adham, Osama and Nabil at a time when their means of survival, collecting and recycling Cairo's trash, is being threatened by globalization: ie multinational waste disposal corporations hired by the city to replace the zabaleen in the trash business, and with whom they are now competing for trash. ironically, while the Zaballeen are able to recycle 80% of the trash they collect and turn it into raw materials, by contract the multinationals are not obliged to recycle more than 20% of the trash they collect. (The rest is landfilled). The zaballeen are a subculture of 60,000 Coptic Christians who have been collecting and recycling trash for 100 years.For more information go to www.garbagedreams.com