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 and marching to his opening gala.

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).

This September, let’s give the 1% the welcome they deserve and let them know Canada is NOT for sale!