Support Justice for Anthony Aust

Fundraiser Description:

Please help us raise funds to organize a community dinner and dialogue with victims, families, and community members in honour of International Day Against Police Brutality. We are also raising funds to help cover the Aust family's ongoing organizing under the Justice for Anthony Aust Collective, legal fees, survival costs, and other essential costs the family is unable to afford due to the trauma and the income loss they endured due to the murder of Anthony.

On March 15th, 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm, the Justice for Anthony Aust Collective will organize a community dialogue and dinner with families of victims of policing and activists from across so-called "Canada".

Please help us pay for accommodations, food, and other expenses while the families gather on unceded and unsurrendered Algonquin Anishinabe Territory ("Ottawa") to support the Aust family during this traumatic and heavy day. The Aust family needs all the support they can get to seek justice alongside victims of policing while trying to live their lives, although policing shattered the Aust family's life in irreversible ways the day the Ottawa Police took Anthony's life. Please support this fundraiser and spread the word as much as you can.

We are grateful for your support, contributions, and for spreading the word.

About Anthony Aust:

Anthony Aust was a beloved member of our community and was extremely important to his family, like the other five siblings he was violently wrenched from. He was Afro-Indigenous and German. Anthony believed that nobody should go hungry or be in the streets. He was against wars, hunger, poverty, racism, and domination. He was selfless and believed that everyone should share with each other. Anthony was also a peacekeeper and possessed the ability to pacify people in conflict gracefully. Anthony was sentenced to death before he could live his life to the fullest and mature. He was only 23 years old when his life was cut short by police violence the morning when he was awakened to his death by the Ottawa Police Services officers who conducted a militarized raid at his family house on 7 October 2020.

On that tragic morning, OPS broke the door and threw a grenade to force themselves into the cramped Jasmine Crescent apartment where Anthony resided with his late grandmother, who was on palliative care at the time, his mother, sibings, and step-father. The police acted violently despite surveilling Anthony's whereabouts 24/7 via the ankle monitor he was ordered to wear. They knew he was sleeping. They knew the door was unlocked and that caregivers came in and out of the house to care for Anthony's grandmother. They knew Anthony's family was compliant and would not have put up resistance if they had asked to come in without throwing smoke grenades. Why didn't they install a net under the apartment's windows if they knew the level of violence they were deploying might cause someone to fall from a balcony, for example? Because they assign more value to the alleged drugs and weapons they were looking for than the life of a human. The family is the collateral damage to the police's murderous intervention.

OPS added Anthony's name to a long list of names of Black, Indigenous, racialized, disabled, queer, trans, poor, and other oppressed people killed by police, prisons, long-term homes, hospitals, border enforcement, and other colonial institutions of domination and control. The Aust family commits to organizing for a better world where everyone's needs are met, policing is obsolete, and public safety is not predicated on violence and genocide.

Support Our Community Dinner & Panel on the International Day Against Police Brutality

On March 15, we are coming together to honor the voices of those impacted by police violence and to foster critical conversations on justice, accountability, and community resilience.

We’re hosting a Community Dinner & Panel—a space to connect, reflect, and organize for change.

To make this event truly accessible and impactful, we need your support. Your donation will help us:

Police brutality disproportionately affects marginalized communities, and addressing it requires collective action. By donating, you’re directly contributing to a space where people can find strength, resources, and solidarity.

No amount is too small—every contribution helps. Stand with us in the fight for justice.

Donate today and help us make this gathering possible!

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