A vile Zionist smear campaign against Montreal-based lawyer, activist and “Reason2Resist” You Tube host Dimitri Lascaris failed miserably to derail an anti-imperialist public forum in Toronto. The August 18 gathering, organized by Socialist Action, featured Lascaris speaking on the topic “The Imminent Decline and Fall of the American Empire”.
Only two days before the event, the location was shifted to Taco Taco, a restaurant in the Kensington Market, just a few meters from the originally booked venue on College Street. This followed a barrage of menacing threats by Zio-Nazis to impose a suffocating Jewish community boycott on The Free Times Cafe.
In the end, over 140 people, on-line and in-person, participated in the re-located socialist forum. Lascaris, who recently reported directly from war ravaged Lebanon and Iran, as well as from Cypress and Greece, gave a 40 minute presentation on the failing hegemony of the western imperial powers, and answered questions for close to an hour.
Cowardly Zionists made no appearance at the venue on Augusta Avenue, which was well defended by volunteer marshals.
At the entrance, dozens of people signed the Socialist Action contact sheet. Donations and purchases at the SA literature display surpassed $270. Supporters of the Capitalism Can’t Be Fixed campaign to Confront PM Mark Carney’s CEO Summit on September 14 grabbed hundreds of leaflets, stickers and large colourful posters to distribute at upcoming events and to paste at busy street intersections in the coming days.