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out

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omm

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all t

hear

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ees

befo

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rand

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whe

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ring

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sis

ter

(our

cond

olea

nces

, co

mra

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and

And

rea

Pilo

te,

arre

sted

on

the

high

way

in

stra

ngel

yth

e sa

me

man

ner

they

sho

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e le

gend

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if w

e do

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know

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m,

our

hear

ts b

urn

with

bla

zing

sol

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or t

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of p

olic

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e al

so fe

el a

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the

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fol

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a, a

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und

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plan

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till a

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trug

glin

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r th

eir

land

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e E

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46

We can

't always pin point w

hat creates situations of social unrest andit is often difficult to predict w

hen they will surface. T

here is no onew

ay to revolt just as there is no prime subject to be in struggle. W

espend days, m

onths and years on the project of liberation in a society that

promises us everything and gives us nothing. In this society nihilism

is notan option but a state of being w

hich means that often anarchists are forced

into a role of fighting for a future that w

ill never come, not because w

e live forconflict but because w

e strive for freedom; an insatiatble disposition that lives

in permanent conflict w

ith every aspect of what this society has to offer.

The possibility of a student strike has lingered in the air since the culm

inationof

the last one in 2007. T

he months before the

strike were steady

with

demonstrations

and anarchist activity, a normality for the city of M

ontreal.T

he indications that this strike might becom

e something bigger than us felt like

whispers and w

avering intentions. What it becam

e was som

ething beyond anyspecific social group or intervening force. W

hat became of that five letter w

ordw

as uncontrollable.

For reasons that w

e cannot fabricate, the strike marked a coalescing of so m

anydifferent crew

s, groups, organizations etc. who all contributed to creating the

current social temper in M

ontreal. Like a thunderstorm

in July, the presenceof

activity had

no one

source but instead

came from

everyw

here. What

differentiated these mom

ents in time from

all of the other days spent meeting,

writing, plotting and planning is th

at this time, w

e were not alone.

What has com

e out of the 'student strike' is unquantifiable and difficult to

capture in words. T

he daily struggle against domination and its totality w

illnever end, and in this w

ay there cannot be a start or an end of the 'studentstrike,' nor the general strike, nor the unlim

ited strike or any other strike forth

at matter.

With the strike cam

e a series of experiences, street fights, relationships, personaland com

munal grow

th and a collective mem

ory of all of those mom

ents when

we felt closer to a life w

orth living.

This com

pilation has been put together to share with those w

ho weren't w

ithus in M

ontreal to understand what w

as happening during all those days and toextrapolate these narritives upon your reality. F

or those of us who w

ere presentduring the strike, this com

pilation is to help us remem

ber.

The texts in this pam

phlet are a compilation of anonym

ous writings that w

erepublished through various new

s sources and websites during the student strike in

Montreal 2012.

Many of these pieces originally surfaced in french. T

hanks to everyone who

focused on translation and helped to encourage comm

unication across languagebarriers.

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EB

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- C

LA

IM F

OR

R

AIL

RO

AD

S

AB

OT

AG

E

A m

ajor railroad w

as sab otagedduringthe evening of Wednesday June 13th, in a farm

ingarea near F

arnham, Q

uebec, in response to the call by the CLASSE for a day of nation-w

ideactions againsttheM

ontrealConferenceofthelnternationalE

conomicF

orumofthe

Am

ericas.

The train signals system w

as turned on by sabotaging the electric box that controls thesignals near an intersection, w

hich eventually prompted the train traffic

to be suspendedfor a m

oment. This location w

as carefully picked up, not only for the easy task it w

as, butabove that for the crucial nature of the m

erchandise it transports, including a lot of filthyoil com

ing from the tar sands in the W

est, before this sole railw

ay divides into different

destinations such as Sherbrooke city, Brom

ont's techno-park (which hosts som

e of thebiggest nam

es in the high-tech industry, including the infamous IBM

) and further down

on to New

England.

This w

as just a beginning. T

here are many m

ore fluxes that are crucial to the

functionning of this system of oppression and its H

oly Merchandise, and w

e arecom

mitted to do it again, and strike targets th

at will alw

ays hurt them m

ore. Given

our indefinite number (that ain't an «invisible com

mittee » for nothing), it is strongly

recomm

ended that each and every striker or supporter gets her/his hands

dirty,alone or into groups, because w

e do not believe that these feel-good dem

osntrationsw

ill be enough to make Pow

er change his mind. A

nd the proof is in plain view...

months

of strikes, and even w

ith our m

any fine hits and great achievements,

especially in the face of the judicial/police despotism, the governm

ent still won't

give a damn about our m

ost basic demands, and the cops are now

clamping dow

non m

ainstream dissenters like they'd do w

ith dangerous criminals. W

e are under adictatorship, because liberty is now

being considered a high crime.

To let this train ride -this very train th

at allows them

to profit from the devastating

exploitation- is to collaborate in silence. We say: « E

NO

UG

H W

ITH

TH

IS SHIT

! »T

his can't go on like this. The techno-industrial society, because it intoxicates the

living and destroys conditions of life, must be FO

RC

ED to a stop, or else it'll soon

be forcing us into mass graves! F

ukushima w

as only the first sign of this ongoingcatastrophy.

So we w

ill make sure that the capitalists are paying for their abuse. M

aybe the billw

asn't very heavy, but we all can add our tw

o cents!

Sabotage isn't som

e vanguardist tactic or some childish vandalism

, neither it isa provocation on the part of « sm

ashers from outside of the m

ovement » just as

the filthy cops dare to spit in our ears (but who's still stupid enough to even listen

to them?). It has long been a com

pletely rational and legit course of action, that

empow

ered AL

L of the strikes that changed history. In the face of a m

achine that'llnever discuss anything and alw

ays enforces its conditions through dictates, sabotageis one of the m

eans to comm

unicate revolt by putting it in relation with a w

ideruprising, and by im

posing our own conditions to the crooks in pow

er; that they walk

along with these, or die along w

ith their system!

This sm

all gesture of resistance to the one-way train of industrial capitalism

that

45

At t

he M

ontr

eal c

ourt

hous

e, tw

o of

the

June

6th

arr

este

es,

Sim

on a

nd X

avie

r, w

ere

rele

ased

und

er s

tric

t co

nditi

ons.

BE

GIN

NIN

G

OF

T

HE

IN

TE

RN

AT

ION

AL E

CO

NO

MIC

F

OR

UM

O

F

TH

E

AM

ER

ICA

S

Mar

ches

und

er s

urve

illan

ce b

y th

e SP

VM

and

the

SQ

wer

e he

ld f

or th

e fi

rst

day

ofth

e In

tern

atio

nal

Eco

nom

ic F

orum

of t

he A

mer

icas

whe

re a

few

of t

he w

orst

shi

t on

the

plan

et m

eet t

o ta

lk a

bout

how

they

can

rape

us

even

mor

e in

tens

ely.

Loud

cro

wds

mar

ched

thro

ugh

the

stre

ets

of th

e bu

sine

ss d

istr

ict

with

ant

icap

italis

tan

d an

ticop

cha

nts.

A U

QA

M (

univ

ersi

ty) w

indo

w w

as s

mas

hed

in th

e ev

enin

g.

Two

arre

sts

acco

rdin

g to

the

cops

. DU

NE

1

2T

H

OT

HE

R

HO

ST

AG

ES

O

F T

HE

S

TA

TE

R

EL

EA

SE

D

UN

DE

R

PA

RO

LE

At t

he M

ontr

eal c

ourt

hous

e, Y

alda

, Zac

hary

, M

atth

ew G

. and

Mat

hieu

M. w

ere

rele

ased

und

er c

ondi

tions

.

Yal

da i

s ac

cuse

d of

ran

sack

ing

the

offic

es o

f th

e fo

rmer

Edu

catio

n M

inis

ter

Lin

eB

eauc

ham

p an

d th

e U

nive

rsity

of

Mon

trea

l in

an

occu

patio

n in

Apr

il, a

s w

ell

asas

saul

ting

a ph

oto j

ourn

alis

t fro

m th

e Jo

urna

l de

Mon

trea

l at t

he c

ourt

hous

e in

May

.

Zac

hary

is a

ccus

ed o

f ran

sack

ing

at th

e U

nive

rsity

of M

ontr

eal f

or th

e sa

me

even

ts.

Yal

da

and

Zac

hary

w

ere

rele

ased

un

der

the

follo

win

g co

nditi

ons:

a ba

il of

$ 2

,000

and

a c

omm

itmen

t of $

10

000,

repo

rt t

o po

lice

ever

y tw

o w

eeks

, at

all t

imes

hav

e a

copy

of t

heir

con

ditio

n, n

ot to

be

with

in 3

00 m

eter

s of

a g

over

nmen

tin

stit

utio

n, a

col

lege

or

univ

ersi

ty,

obse

rve

a cu

rfew

fro

m 2

2h t

o 6h

, pr

ohib

ition

to a

ppea

r at

the

cou

rtho

use

unle

ss t

hey

have

bee

n su

mm

oned

and

pro

hibi

tion

topa

rtic

ipat

e in

a d

emon

stra

tion

decl

ared

ille

gal

(all

dem

onst

ratio

ns r

ight

now

) or

"non

-pea

cefu

l".

Dur

ing

"pea

cefu

l" d

emon

stra

tions

, th

ey c

anno

t ha

ve a

bac

kpac

k or

disg

uise

.

In th

e ca

se o

f Yal

da, s

he w

ill a

lso

be p

rohi

bite

d fr

om b

eing

with

in 5

00 m

eter

s of

the

phot

ojou

rnal

ist.

Mat

hieu

G. a

nd M

athi

eu M

. are

cha

rged

with

mis

chie

f ov

er $

5,0

00,

cons

pira

cy a

nddi

sgui

se w

ith t

he i

nten

t to

com

mit

a cr

imin

al a

ct i

n co

nnec

tion

with

the

bag

s of

bric

ks th

row

n at

the

subw

ay tr

acks

on

Apr

il 16

.

They

wer

e re

leas

ed u

nder

var

ious

con

ditio

ns.

Am

ong

othe

r th

ings

, to

pay

a ba

il of

$ 2,

000,

obs

erve

a c

urfe

w, p

rohi

bitio

n on

dem

onst

ratio

ns,

proh

ibiti

on t

o ap

proa

chw

ithin

300

met

ers

of a

sub

way

, a c

olle

ge o

r un

iver

sity

and

not

to

be in

con

tact

with

anyo

ne w

ith

a cr

imin

al re

cord

or w

ho is

cur

rent

ly fa

cing

just

ice,

exc

ept m

embe

rs o

fth

eir

fam

ily o

r wor

k.

The a

ccus

ed w

ere

appl

aude

d as

they

left

, out

side

a c

row

d ha

d ga

ther

ed to

gre

et t

hem

.

Solid

arit

y w

ith

all

rebe

ls i

n t

he s

tree

ts a

nd i

n t

he c

ages

of

the

Sta

te!

The

str

ugg

le c

an o

nly

con

tin

ue!

44

TIM

EL

INE

O

F E

VE

NT

S

MO

ME

NT

S

OF

R

EV

OL

T

DE

CE

MB

ER

, 2O

1O

-AS

SE

and FEU

Qhold a dem

o outside a beaurocratic meeting

in Quebec C

ity in response to the proposed tuition fees.

MA

RC

H,

2O

11

- Dem

o and attempted occupation of the L

oto Quebec building,

where the M

inister of Education have their offices.

NO

VE

RM

BE

R

2O

11:

-Large dem

onstration against the proposed hikes. Paint bombs are throw

n on JeanC

harestss office. Riot police enter the M

cgill Cam

pus for the first time in decades in

response to students occupying the administration building and support dem

o. Severalpeople are arrested.

FE

BR

UA

RY

13

TH

2O

12

-Th

e Strike is called-Cegep and university student

associations hold general assemblies w

here a strike vote is passed.

FE

BR

UA

RY

16

TH

2 0

12

: Occupation of the C

egep de Vieux M

ontreal. The studentbody of C

egep de Vieux M

ontreal occupy their school. Others join in. B

arricades areerected. Police raid the C

egep in the middle of the night, 37 arrests are m

ade. The

school is put on lockdown the follow

ing day.

MA

RC

H

1O, 2

O1

2: S

tudents block the Loto Q

uebec building for several hours,shutting dow

n trafic on the surrounding streets and errecting a fence barricade accrossSherbrooke. Police attem

pt to disperse the crowd by firing rubber bullets and tear gas.

Francois Grenier is hospitalized and looses an eye after the shrapnel from

a tear gascannister hits him

in the face. That night, an anti-police dem

o occurs in respose, with

confronations and the vandalism of police vehicles.

MA

RC

H

12, 2

O1

2 : «C

reations Night » at U

QA

M university. S

tudents occupya block of St. C

atherine street and hold a street party that goes late into the night,w

ith art, music, and food. A

round 11 pm this transitions into a spontaneous dem

othat m

archers around downtow

n. Window

s are broken at the La Presse offices,

confrontation with pacifists ensues.

MA

RC

H

13, 2

O1

2 : L

arge demonstration against the tuition hikes. T

he Chilean

consulate is occupied in solidarity with student and other anti-capitalist struggles in

Chile.

MA

RC

H

15, 2

O1

2 : International day against police brutality. P

reemptive arrests

are made. A

militant anti-police dem

o - a yearly tradition - ensues, with youths and

others joining in from the street and engaging in confrontation w

ith police.

MA

RC

H

22, 2

O1

2 :A

very large demonstration of hundreds of thousdands of

people in support of the strike heads through downtow

n Montreal.

MA

RC

H

23, 2

O1

2 : « G

rand Mascarade » - four dem

os of mostly m

asked anddressed up participants take different routes through dow

ntown. G

raffitti is put up,,

paintbombs throw

n at police cars. Several arrests are made.

evil-blackblocs-thugs-maskedw

ithcriminalintension-provocateurs could be seen

helping people affected by the gases, as was seen in the sm

ogs of Victoriaville.

As the evening progressed the riotsquads seem

ed totally disorganized, going inany direction. S

treet signs, fencing and containers spilled into the street. Severalcruisers w

ere vandalized and window

s were shattered. A

hotel was attacked

after cops took refuge there with som

eone they arrested. The clashes lasted until

about 1 am

.

23 arrests according to the pigs, 14 under criminal charges.

JU

NE

1

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H

- L

AS

T D

AY

OF

TH

E G

RA

ND

P

RIX

INT

EN

SIF

ICA

TIO

N

OF

T

HE

P

OL

ICE

S

TA

TE

Even m

ore than the day before, cops are deployed dow

ntown, in the subw

ayand on Sainte-H

elene and N

otre-Dam

e islands where the F

l race is, on foot,horseback, bicycle, by car, helicopter and boat. Profiling is even m

ore intenseand system

atic. On S

ainte-Helene and N

otre-Dam

e islands people are forcefullysearched at the m

etro exit and people are expelled from parks m

ore or less closeto the race and sent back to the m

etro. In the whole m

etro system people w

earinga red square or som

e black clothes are detained, searched and questioned. Peopleare kept in custody for hours in chartered buses or jail cells w

ithout accusations.T

he cops designate, arrest and eject random

people they say they have seen

in a demonstration or w

ho have a "suspicious behavior". Dem

ocracy fully andunscrupulously exposes itself as w

hat we alw

ays knew it w

as: the same old shit

that extends totalitarian control in the im

mediate interests of a crass elite under

the doctrine of security.

The cops claim

that 34 people w

ere arrested and 40 people were expelled from

the islands during the day, but from peoples testim

ony the number is probably

much higher, perhaps even hundreds of people w

ere expelled from the islands

and the metro or detained tem

porarily without receiving charges. In a testim

onyam

ongst many others a w

oman reports how

she was expelled from

the metro for

reading parts of 1984 out loud and then spent hours in a jail cell without accusations

for having taken the metro once again.

Dem

os took the streets into the evening. Hundreds of people gathered to m

archfor the 48th

consecutive night. For a fourth night in a row

clashes erupted.

Paint balls w

ere thrown at cop cruisers

and some w

indows w

ere sm

ashed,notably those of the C

aisse de depot et placement du Q

uebec, while a gang of

uberparasites, including the governor of the B

ank of Canada and P

resident ofthe B

ank of France, w

ere inside for a reception.

The cops reported 12 arrests, 3 under crim

inal charges.

DU

NE

11T

H

A young m

an, Mathieu G

. was arrested on the highw

ay while he w

as traveling with

his family headed to the funeral of his sister. H

e was im

mediately brought into

custody and therefore was prevented from

getting to the funeral. He w

as arrestedin connection w

ith the juin 6th arrests. 43

DU

NE

8

TH

-

GR

AN

D P

RIX

D

AY

T

WO

The

sieg

e by

the

for

ces

of la

w a

nd o

rder

int

ensi

fies

eve

ry d

ay. E

ach

day

mor

e co

psan

d ea

ch d

ay m

ore

prof

iling

. Pe

ople

wea

ring

the

red

squa

re (

sym

bol o

f th

e st

uden

tst

rike

) ar

e fo

rbid

den

acce

ss to

the

site

of t

he f

estiv

ities

of t

he G

P.

Oth

er r

allie

s w

ere

held

thr

ough

out

the

day

incl

udin

g on

e ag

ains

t po

lice

repr

essi

onan

d so

lidar

ity w

ith B

ahra

in.

TH

EIR

JU

ST

ICE

At t

he M

ontr

eal c

ourt

hous

e, o

f the

six

peo

ple,

two

wom

en a

nd f

our

men

targ

eted

in

the

crac

kdow

n th

e da

y be

fore

, all

wer

e de

nied

the

ir re

leas

e ex

cept

, And

rea

who

was

rele

ased

und

er c

ondi

tions

.

Xav

ier,

Yal

da, S

imon

, Mat

hieu

, And

rea

and

Zac

hary

- w

hich

we

nam

e he

re t

o m

ake

solid

arity

and

und

erst

andi

ng t

he r

est

of th

eir

case

eas

ier

- fa

ce v

ario

us c

harg

esin

clud

ing

brea

k an

d en

ter,

mis

chie

f ov

er $

500

0, t

heft

of

less

tha

n $

5000

, di

sgui

sew

ith in

tent

, co

nspi

racy

, ass

ault

of a

pho

togr

aphe

r in

the

corr

idor

s of

the

cour

thou

se,

intim

idat

ion

of a

mem

ber

of P

arlia

men

t, as

saul

ting

a co

p, a

nd t

o ca

use

fear

of

ate

rror

ist

act,

the

latt

er b

eing

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ITIE

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ight

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cop

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n an

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re w

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erri

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itica

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tem

atic

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ple

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ring

a re

d sq

uare

or p

eopl

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ho s

eem

lea

st b

it y

oung

are

det

aine

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earc

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and

ques

tion

ed. T

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lico

pter

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n be

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rd t

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e da

y. O

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tops

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ntow

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arch

es w

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held

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day

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th n

ight

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rote

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hat

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ops.

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pite

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bec

(the

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trea

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contracts, builds prisons around the world and also built the 10 m

illion dollar fenceduring the G

20 in Toronto). T

wo poeple are arrested.

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ontreal office window

s are busted and "medias partout" (m

ediaeveryw

here) is spray painted on the building.

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12

- While th

e student "delegates" recently negotiating with

the government declare a tw

o day truce and call for students to not do "actions ofdisturbance," a dem

o is held during which police cars are vandalized and the w

indows of

an HSB

C bank are shattered. Protesters shout "to negotiate is to get fucked!"

Three people are arrested for m

isdemeanors and "breach of conditions."

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25, 2O

12 -

Smoke bom

bs interrupt the service on two subw

ay lines at9:45am

and again one hour later on one line, once again disrupting the « official» truce.D

uring a demonstration in the afternoon sm

oke bombs are used in the C

omplexe

Desjardins (shopping center and business offices).

At the M

ontreal court, two people appear before the judge for breach of conditions

related to demos, both are denied release and sent to T

anguay prison. This marks the

beginning of people getting imprisoned in the context of the student strike.

CLA

SSE is kicked out of the negotiations by the Minister of E

ducation for "disrespectingthe truce \Q

and FEC

Q w

alk out in solidarity and negotiations are suspended. The

same night a riot breaks out dow

ntown during a m

assive demonstration of thousands

of people. Several banks, a police station, offices of the armed forces and state lottery

are attacked and several street battles against the cops take place. This marks the

beginning of what is to becom

e nightly demonstrations.

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- Noise dem

onstration to Tanguay in solidarity w

ith imprisoned

comrades

MA

Y

1, 2O12

- May D

ay anti-capitalist demonstration. Several hundred people

in black bloc are present in a demo of several thousand, bringing together m

any ofthe city's different radical factions. T

here is a very heavy police presence. Some street

confrontation ensues before the demo is quickly dispersed w

ith an unusual intensity bythe police.

MA

Y

4, 2O

12 —

Liberal party convention is held in V

ictoriaville, QC

. Many buses

of protesters converge on the town. A

s demonstrators breach the security perim

iter,the SQ

deploy large amounts of tear gas. Intense rioting insues, w

ith several seriousinjuries.

MA

Y

1O, 2O

12 -

Smoke bom

bs in three subway stations cripple the m

etro network

during morning rush hour.

MA

Y

11, 2O12

— Follow

ing the media publicizing pictures of several people, houses

are raided by the police. Four people are arrested and detained.

MA

Y

16, 2O

12 —

noise demonstration at T

anguay prison in solidarity with the

people arrested earlier that week.

8

RE

VO

LU

TIO

NA

RY

A

RM

ED

F

OR

CE

S

OF

Q

UE

BE

C

Since June 6th, more than fifty letters containing w

hite powder and a statem

entsigned "Forces A

rmees R

evolutionnaires Quebecoises (FA

RQ

)" were received in

several offices of ministers, including that of C

harest and other elected mem

bersof the L

iberal Party and of the CA

Q, the tw

o parties having passed Bill 78. A

lsoseveral m

edia offices, businesses and capitalist institutions were targeted, causing

evacuations throughout Quebec. T

he letters containing a statement claim

ing theycontained A

nthrax have so far revealed to hold baking soda.

There are apparently tw

o different texts that have been received, one of them w

aspublished by the m

edia and a pdf can be found on their servers (in french): http

://fr.canoe.ca/sections/fichier/frq-1339021546.pdf

DUNE 7TH - OPENING DAY OF THE F1 GRAND PRIX

Protests have continued every day while Pow

er reports the running out of steamof the

"student m

ovement" after each dem

onstration. The m

ass mobilizations

that focused in Montreal have given w

ay to smaller crow

ds, but more frequent and

dispersed. Popular assemblies have form

ed in some places, those w

ho remain in

confrontation with Pow

er are getting to know each other. W

ith the coming of the F

lG

rand Prix and threats of disruption escalating again, the Police State was to send a

clear message, "w

e are watching you and and w

e will com

e and get you."

TH

E

SH

OW

B

EG

INS

: S

EA

RC

HE

S A

ND

AR

RE

ST

S

June 7th at 6 am, on the opening day of the festivities surrounding the G

rand Prix,the cops have conducted a series of searches in connection w

ith the actions thatoccurred in the M

ontreal metro, at the U

niversity of Montreal and the office of the

former E

ducation Minister L

ine Beaucham

p. 11 people were targeted by w

arrantshaving been issued follow

ing the investigation according to the pigs. Six people were

arrested during the day. The m

edia already prepared for the show, focused on one of

them, Y

alda, being the daughter of Am

ir Khadir, only elected m

ember of the leftist

Quebec Solidaire party at w

hom the cops w

ere essentially looking for black clothes.

DIS

RU

PT

ION

O

F

TH

E

GR

AN

D

PR

IX

OP

EN

ING

C

OC

KT

AIL

P

AR

TY

AN

D F

ES

TIV

ITIE

S

Throughout the day the SPV

M, the SQ

and private security forces were deployed

heavily in the city center and in the St-Henri neighborhood w

here the luxuriousG

P opening reception was taking place. G

atherings of hundreds of people marched

in late afternoon and tried to approach and disrupt the events fenced and guardedby the cops, resulting in clashes near the opening reception and later near C

rescentStreet in the center of the G

rand Prix festivities. At one point a group w

as kettledand the cops m

ade arbitrary arrests on them. Several form

ed a human chain to try

to prevent the arrest and the cops finally let the crowd disperse.

Confronting gas, batons and stun grenades, the disruptions continued until about

midnight.

There w

ere 37 arrests according to the cops.

41

CLA

SSE,

too

k th

e st

reet

s on

Apr

il 24

th,

the

gove

rnm

ent

refu

sed

to s

it do

wn

with

CLA

SSE

any

long

er, a

nd th

e ot

her

two

fede

ratio

ns w

alke

d ou

t in

solid

arity

. Whe

ther

the

gove

rnm

ent k

new

it a

nd w

as b

eing

man

ipul

ativ

e, o

r did

n't a

nd w

as b

eing

stu

pid,

it sh

ould

hav

e be

en c

lear

that

the

fede

ratio

n bu

reau

crat

s no

long

er h

ad a

ny c

ontr

olov

er t

he p

eopl

e in

the

str

eets

—an

d th

is w

as n

o lo

nger

sim

ply

abou

t in

crea

sing

tuiti

on f

ees.

Whe

n fu

rthe

r ta

lks

two

wee

ks la

ter

prod

uced

an

actu

al p

ropo

sal

for

ade

al, t

he f

eder

atio

n m

embe

rshi

ps r

ejec

ted

it. T

here

is n

o re

ason

to

thin

k th

ere

will

be a

ny m

ore

talk

s fo

r so

me

time.

Tha

t lea

ves

sign

ific

antly

few

er o

ptio

ns f

or a

lef

tist

recu

pera

tion.

TO

DA

Y

Rig

ht n

ow, t

he g

ener

al s

entim

ent

in th

e st

reet

is

that

we

will

not

sto

p, w

e w

ill n

otbe

con

tain

ed,

and

we

do n

ot w

ant

this

to

end

now

. We

have

wat

ched

the

sit

uati

ontr

ansf

orm

fro

m a

lim

ited

stri

ke w

ith r

efor

mis

t goa

ls t

o a

gene

raliz

ed r

evol

t w

ithre

volu

tiona

ry a

spir

atio

ns. T

he d

iver

sity

of t

actic

s be

ing

used

, the

crie

s th

at ri

ng o

utdu

ring

dem

os a

nd th

e ki

nds

of ta

rget

s th

at g

et a

ttack

ed a

re p

rett

y cl

ear

indi

catio

nsth

at th

is is

abo

ut s

o m

uch

mor

e th

an t

uitio

n fe

es —

and

man

y m

omen

ts h

ave

been

beau

tiful

in

a w

ay th

at is

har

d to

con

vey.

We w

on't

give

up

on th

is.

And

we

wan

t yo

u to

fee

l w

hat

we'

re fe

elin

g. W

e kn

ow y

ou f

eel

som

ethi

ng,

but

we

wan

t you

to fe

el it

like

we f

eel i

t. W

e kn

ow th

at e

very

tim

e on

e of

us

goes

to ja

il, e

very

time

a co

mra

de in

the

stre

ets

lose

s th

eir e

ye to

the

shra

pnel

of a

con

cuss

ion

gren

ade

or t

heir

ear

to

a ru

bber

bul

let

to t

he h

ead,

that

the

re a

re s

o m

any

othe

rs w

ho f

eel

the

heat

of v

enge

ance

sw

ell i

nsid

e th

em. K

now

ing

the

glob

al s

ituat

ion,

kno

win

g th

atpe

ople

are

app

roac

hing

the

brea

king

poi

nt n

ot j

ust

here

but

eve

ryw

here

, it

need

sto

be

insi

sted

upo

n th

at w

hat

is h

appe

ning

in Q

uebe

c is

not

exc

eptio

nal.

Wha

t ha

sha

ppen

ed h

ere

can

happ

en e

lsew

here

and

it n

eeds

to h

appe

n el

sew

here

. Eve

ryth

ing

we'

re d

oing

has

bee

n in

spir

ed b

y th

e re

volts

and

upr

isin

gs t

hat h

ave

take

n ho

ld i

not

her

plac

es. I

f it c

an't

insp

ire

soci

al d

isru

ptio

ns o

f its

ow

n, th

en it

will

die

out

qui

ck.

So th

is is

a c

all o

ut f

or s

olid

arity

as m

uch

as it

's ou

r hea

rtfe

lt ho

pe th

at o

ne d

ay y

ou'll

feel

thi

s ar

ound

you

as

wel

l. T

his n

eeds

to s

prea

d pa

st M

ontr

eal,

past

Que

bec.

Bri

ngit

to y

our c

ities

and

com

mun

ities

in

wha

teve

r w

ay yo

u ca

n, u

sing

wha

teve

r m

etho

dsan

d m

eans

are

at y

our d

ispo

sal.

Our

hea

rts

and

hea

ds a

re ti

red,

but

we'

re s

till

sm

ilin

g.W

e w

ant t

o se

e th

e st

rik

e sp

read

.W

e w

ant t

o se

e th

is s

ocia

l uph

eava

l spr

ead.

Whe

n sh

it is

fuck

ed,

fuck

shi

t up

.

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HE

RA

IDS

AN

D

AR

RE

ST

S,

DIS

RU

PT

ION

OF

TH

E

GR

AN

D

PR

IX,

ET

C.

An

upda

te o

n re

cent

eve

nts

in th

e up

risi

ng fr

om t

he u

surp

ed a

nd r

aped

land

we

call

Que

bec.

DU

NE

6

TH

40

LE

TT

ER

S

CO

NT

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ING

WH

ITE

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OW

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NE

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>

MA

Y

16,

2O12

—

con

fron

tatio

nal

nigh

t dem

o do

wnt

own.

MA

Y

18,

2O12

- B

ill 7

8 is

pas

sed.

Hug

e ri

ots

in th

e do

wnt

own

core

ens

ue. O

ver

ten

thou

sand

peo

ple

take

the

stre

ets,

sho

utin

g "O

n s'

en c

alis

se d

e la

loi 7

8!"

(We

don'

tgi

ve a

Fuc

k ab

out t

he s

peci

al la

w!)

. The

pas

sing

of t

he s

peci

al la

w m

arks

a v

isib

le lo

ssof

con

trol

for

the

stat

e an

d a

gene

raliz

ed o

utra

ge f

rom

man

y, le

adin

g pe

ople

into

the

stre

ets

until

3:3

0am

. A m

an is

hos

pita

lized

aft

er r

ecei

ving

a ru

bber

bul

let t

o th

est

omac

h at

poi

nt b

lank

.i

MA

Y 19

, 2O

12

— A

noth

er n

ight

in

the

stre

ets.

Rio

ters

err

ect

a ba

rric

ade

at o

ne o

f(

busi

est

inte

rsec

tions

of d

ownt

own

and

roam

the

stre

ets

for

hour

s ca

usin

g tr

oubl

e.

' M

AY

2O

, 2

O1

2-

Onc

e ag

ain

seve

ral t

hous

and

peop

le t

ake

to th

e st

reet

s. P

eopl

e ar

em

aske

d an

d th

e de

mo

is,

decl

ared

ille

gal f

rom

the

beg

inni

ng,

as w

ill a

ll de

mon

stra

tions

tha

t tak

e pl

ace

from

thi

spo

int

on.

DU

NE

6,

2O12

- O

n th

e da

y be

fore

the

Form

ula

One

Gra

nd P

rix

Rac

es in

Mon

trea

l,le

tters

con

tain

ing

an u

nide

ntif

ied

whi

te s

ubst

ance

are

sen

t to

over

thir

ty p

oliti

cian

and

beur

ocra

tic o

ffic

es t

hrou

ghou

t M

ontr

eal.

The

guilt

y pa

rty

sign

ed t

he le

tter

s as

the

"Arm

ed R

evol

utio

nary

For

ces o

f Q

uebe

c" (F

AR

Q -

"For

ces A

rmee

s R

evol

utio

nnai

res

Que

beco

ises

).

DU

NE

7, 2

O12

—

Ope

ning

day

of t

he G

rand

Pri

x. N

ine

hous

es a

re r

aide

d, 1

1 pe

ople

are

targ

eted

for w

arra

nts

issu

ed u

pon

them

for

thei

r el

eged

par

ticip

atio

n in

pas

t ev

ents

thro

ugho

ut t

he s

trik

e. S

ix p

eopl

e ar

e ar

rest

ed in

tota

l an

d w

ill b

e he

ld f

or u

p to

five

days

.L

ater

that

eve

ning

a d

isru

ptio

n of

the

Gra

nd S

oire

bri

ngs

out b

oth

the

SPV

M a

nd t

heSQ

in e

norm

ous

num

bers

. Dem

onst

ratio

ns e

ncir

cle

all o

ver

the

neig

hbou

rhoo

d of

Litt

leB

urgu

ndy

and

into

dow

ntow

n. T

he p

olic

e re

port

37

arre

sts

and

seve

ral i

ncid

ents

of

prop

erty

dam

age.

DU

NE

8,

2O12

-

Seve

ral h

undr

ed p

eopl

e ta

ke th

e st

reet

s, w

hich

has

bee

n tu

rned

into

a fe

stiv

al o

f cap

ital f

or th

e ce

lebr

atio

n of

the

Fl.

Ent

ire

bloc

ks o

f dow

ntow

n ar

ero

ped

off w

ith h

eavy

pol

ice

surv

eilla

nce

and

the

dem

o w

eave

s th

roug

h th

e th

ousa

nds

of to

uris

ts u

ntil

even

tual

ly th

e po

lice

are

chas

ing

anyo

ne w

ho is

n't

driv

ing

a po

rsch

e or

;| ou

tfit

ted

in g

old.

Cla

shes

ens

ue w

ith b

oth

Fl f

ans

and,

as

usua

l, th

e po

lice.

t) i D

U N

E 9

, 2

012

- T

he po

lice

are

stat

ione

d at

sev

eral

met

res

cora

ling

peop

le in

to t

he;

met

ro c

ars

as a

"se

curi

ty m

easu

re"

to th

e m

etro

sys

tem

s. O

nly

peop

le w

ith ti

cket

s to

the

Fl r

aces

are

allo

wed

acc

ess t

o th

e ye

llow

line

whe

re th

e ra

ces

are

taki

ng p

lace

. Ade

mon

stra

tion

that

eve

ning

per

mea

tes

the

mai

n ev

ent a

rea

and

cont

inue

s th

roug

h th

est

reet

s.•I I

DU

NE

1O

, 2

O1

2-

Eve

ry m

etro

sta

tion

has

at le

ast

two

cops

insi

de o

f it o

n ei

ther

' di

rect

ion.

Bag

s are

bei

ng c

heck

ed a

t the

ent

ranc

e to

the

mai

n m

etro

sta

tion,

peo

ple

are

j de

nied

ent

ry f

or w

eari

ng a

red

squa

re o

r bla

ck c

loth

ing.

' H

undr

eds

of p

eopl

e ga

ther

ed t

o m

arch

for

the

48th

con

secu

tive

nigh

t. Fo

r a fo

urth

9

night in a row clashes erupted. Paint balls w

ere thrown at cop cruisers and som

ew

indows w

ere smashed, notably those of the C

aisse de depot et placement du Q

uebec,w

hile a gang of uberparasites, including the governor of the Bank of C

anada andPresident of the B

ank of France, were inside for a reception.

DU

NE 13,

2O12

-A

major

railroad was sabotaged during the evening, in a

farming area near F

arnham, Q

uebec, in response to the call by the CLA

SSE for a day ofnation-w

ide actions against the Montreal C

onference of the International Econom

icForum

of the Am

ericas.

10

ranging between $7000 and $35,000. If a student association as a w

hole is foundguilty of the above, they w

ill be subjected of a fine between $25,000 and $125,000.

The am

ounts are doubled for second offenses, and student associations can lose onesem

ester of mem

bership fees for every day that the law is violated. It is also illegal to

encourage any other person to attend an illegal demonstration, and it is potentially

illegal to livetweet w

here the demo is and w

hat it's up to at any given time.

In the three days that the Special Law

has been in place, its tangible effect on them

ovement has been that C

LASSE (B

road Coalition of the A

ssociation for Student

Syndicalist Solidarity), the most radical student union, has taken dow

n its calendarof events, w

hich listed all of the actions that were happening in M

ontreal and othercities across Q

uebec. A new

anonymous w

ebsite has gone up.

In and of themselves, these tw

o new law

s will probably not contribute m

uch toputting m

ore people behind bars in the same w

ay as the federal government's

project of prison expansion and criminal justice overhaul. Instead, the aim

is todestroy the finances of organizations that have accom

modated them

selves to thesystem

and perhaps recoup some of the enorm

ous costs incurred as a result ofeconom

ic sabotage, traffic and comm

uter chaos, and police overtime over the last

few m

onths. To be clear, the fat bank accounts of the student federations w

ere acrucial com

ponent of this situation beginning, and since they could be helpful in thefuture, they're w

orth defending. Sustaining the revolt, however, does not require

money as m

uch as courage, will and creativity. W

e will get w

hat we need to keep

fighting, even if it becomes som

ewhat harder to do so.

Still, what happened in legislative assem

blies and city council meetings has had

and will have an effect on the streets. D

emos are being declared as illegal from

them

oment they begin, w

hich emboldens the SPV

M (local cops) and SQ

(provincialcops) to use m

ore intense dispersal techniques and greater levels of force earlier on.Prior to this law

, they'd taken eyes, broken arms, shattered jaw

s, and put people intolife-threatening com

as. But people are still in the streets, throw

ing asphalt at riotcops and building burning barricades...

TH

E

ST

RIK

E

To contextualize things, the

strike—if

defined as students refusing

to attendschool—

began at the start of February w

hen most of the C

EGEPs (public colleges)

in the province of Quebec, as w

ell as two of the largest universities voted to strike.

Through a series of consistent general assem

blies, the student unions and specificfaculties of these schools have m

aintained that they are on strike, each of the bodiesdefining their intentions and goals. For som

e of the schools, continuing the strikehas been a w

eek-to-week renegotiation w

hile others voted right from the beginning

to participate in an unlimited general strike, and still others voted to strike until all

education was free.

At first, the governm

ent refused to negotiate with the student federations, insisting

that the decision had already been made. It took until the latter half of A

pril beforetalks could happen, thanks in large part to the unilateral call for a truce by C

LASSED

executive without the consultation of the m

embership. This truce took the form

ofC

LASSE stating that no actions w

ould happen under their name w

hile negotiationsw

ere in progress. Talks broke dow

n when a confrontational dem

o, not planned by 39

decl

ared

ille

gal

from

the

get-

go. A

gain

man

y pe

ople

are

mas

ked.

The

cop

s tr

ied

todi

sper

se th

e cr

owd

on s

ever

al o

ccas

ions

, bu

t th

e cr

owds

dis

pers

ed a

nd r

efor

med

for

5 ho

urs

whi

le t

here

wer

e ba

rric

ades

and

in

ten

se s

tree

t b

attl

es a

gain

st b

ruta

lco

ps.

Sho

p w

indo

ws

wer

e sm

ashe

d (m

akin

g th

e au

tho

rita

rian

pac

ifis

ts

whi

neag

ain)

and

att

acks

on

polic

e ve

hicl

es,

incl

udin

g on

e ar

sone

d du

e to

a "

failu

re"

acco

rdin

g to

the

cop

s. A

t one

poi

nt,

a cr

owd

of y

outh

s w

ho h

ad b

een

caug

ht i

nbe

twee

n tw

o li

nes

of r

iotp

igs

cam

e to

geth

er a

nd c

harg

ed a

t on

e of

the

lin

es o

far

med

cop

s, b

reak

ing

and

disr

upti

ng th

e li

nes,

mak

ing

it p

ossi

ble

for

seve

ral

toes

cape

. C

omra

des,

you

r co

urag

e w

arm

s ou

r h

eart

s an

d poin

ts t

owar

ds a

new

wor

ld.

Pigs

mad

e se

vera

l m

ass

arre

sts,

wit

h a

tota

l of

300

. A

mon

gst

doze

ns i

njur

ed,

seve

ral

peop

le w

ere

seen

unc

onsc

ious

aft

er b

eing

att

acke

d by

the

pig

s, a

man

was

tak

en t

o ho

spit

al u

ncon

scio

us a

fter

rec

eivi

ng a

pla

stic

bul

let

in t

he h

ead.

Som

e sh

itba

g co

ps w

ere

inju

red

as w

ell.

And

it i

s on

ly th

e b

egin

nin

g...

MA

Y

24

™

2O

12

CA

LL

F

OR

S

OL

IDA

RIT

Y

WIT

H

MO

NT

RE

AL S

OC

IAL

UN

RE

ST

"You

can

cut

dow

n al

l of t

he fl

ower

s bu

t you

can

not s

top

the

spri

ng"

—po

ster

cir

cula

ting

aro

und

the

stri

ke

TH

E

LA

WS

On

Frid

ay, M

ay 1

8th,

201

2, tw

o ne

w la

ws

cam

e int

o ef

fect

in

Mon

trea

l. T

heir

pur

pose

is t

o st

ifle

the

ant

i-ca

pita

list

revo

lt th

at h

as e

mer

ged

from

the

stu

dent

str

ike

that

bega

n in

thi

s pr

ovin

ce f

ifte

en w

eeks

ago

, to

rest

ore

orde

r an

d cl

ear

the

way

for

the

impl

emen

tati

on o

f aus

teri

ty m

easu

res

in th

is t

erri

tory

.

The

fir

st i

s a

mun

icip

al b

y-la

w. I

t ai

ms

to d

isco

urag

e pe

ople

fro

m w

eari

ng m

asks

at

dem

onst

rati

ons

by th

reat

enin

g th

em w

ith f

ines

fro

m $

1000

to

$500

0. I

t co

mes

as

the

fede

ral g

over

nmen

t is

cont

empl

atin

g a

law

, to

be i

mpl

emen

ted

acro

ss th

e w

hole

terr

itor

y of

the

Can

adia

n S

tate

, tha

t wou

ld p

unis

h th

ose

who

con

ceal

thei

r id

enti

ties

"whi

le p

arti

cipa

ting

in

a ri

ot"

with

a m

axim

um o

f ten

yea

rs in

pri

son.

The

sec

ond

is th

e pr

ovin

cial

gov

ernm

ent's

Spe

cial

Law

whi

ch d

eman

ds th

at a

ll pu

blic

man

ifes

tati

ons

of p

opul

ar d

isse

nt s

ubm

it t

hem

selv

es t

o fa

stid

ious

con

trol

by

the

Sta

te.

Any

dem

onst

rati

on,

anyw

here

in Q

uebe

c, m

ust

subm

it a

sta

rt t

ime

and

aco

mpl

ete

rout

e to

the

loc

al p

olic

e at

lea

st e

ight

hou

rs i

n ad

vanc

e; if

it d

oes

not,

itis

ille

gal.

The

rou

te c

an a

lso

be c

hang

ed a

t an

y ti

me

by th

e po

lice.

The

re c

an b

e no

dem

onst

rati

ons

on th

e gr

ound

s of a

cade

mic

inst

itut

ions

or e

ven

wit

hin

fift

y m

etre

s of

them

. Any

lead

er, s

poke

sper

son

or ra

nk-h

oldi

ng m

embe

r of

a s

tude

nt a

ssoc

iati

on3g

th

at b

lock

s ac

cess

to c

lass

es,

or c

ouns

els

othe

rs to

do

so, w

ill b

e su

bjec

ted

to a

fine

RE

PO

RT

S,

CO

MM

UN

IQU

s

AN

D A

NA

LY

SIS

11

FE

BR

UA

RY

1

6™

2

O1

2O

CC

UP

AT

ION

O

F

CE

GE

P

DU

VIE

UX

M

ON

TR

EA

L

FR

OM

C

BC

MO

NT

RE

AL

-

Quebec

student u

nrest

over planned

tuition hikes

at the

university level has escalated.

A to

tal of 37 protesters were being kept under police lock and key F

riday, arrestedin the w

ake of a violent overnight clash when M

ontreal officers were called in to

break up an occupation of a downtow

n college building.

Those protesters are expected to face a range of charges th

at include conspiracy,assault by trespasser, assault w

ith a weapon on police officers

and mischief,

Constable A

nie Lem

ieux of Montreal police said.

"We d

on't know

" if all those behind bars are studen

ts enrolled at the CE

GE

P duV

ieux Montreal, w

here the disturbance and subsequent eviction conducted bypolice took place, she added.

Meanw

hile, students protesting

a Quebec governm

ent program

to escalate

university tuitions planned a 1 p.m

. demonstation outside a dow

ntown M

ontrealhotel.

Said L

emieux as the cops w

ere starting

to deal with the crim

inal-court falloutfrom

the early-morning events:

"Thirty-seven arrests. T

hat's a lot of people to check in. ... It's a busy day forpolice officers and investigators."

Som

e of

the protesters

evicted overnight

"were

apparently using

fireextinguishers

and other projectiles like bottles" during their

early morning

confrontation with the forces of order, she said.

Eight

among

those detained

are minors.

On-site

damage included broken

window

s and graffiti. Furniture had been piled up, clearly used as barricades. It

all started about 8 p.m

. Thursday, L

emieux said, "w

ith people inside."

"I couldn't say that they necessarily broke in," she said. "T

hey were invited to

leave" by the CE

GE

P administration, she said.

When they didn't, officers m

oved in, starting

about 2 a.m.

MA

RC

H 1

0™

2

01

2

STUDENT ACTION AND DEMONSTRATION AGAINST THE

POLICE

ACT 1

As the student strike in Q

uebec develops, there have been weekly "m

anif-actions"12

(action demos) w

ith the goal of economic disruption. L

ate yesterday morning, a

a fuck about the special law!) w

ith anti-government and anti-cop chants. Som

e 40m

inutes after the start of the demo cops charged against the crow

d without w

arning,throw

ing bombs at the height of peoples heads, as alw

ays, and so began the clashes.The crow

d responded with rocks, sm

oke bombs and m

olotov cocktails, many groups

splintered and clashes continued until 3:30am w

ith window

s smashed and copcars

vandalized. There were a dozen arrests and a m

an was hospitalized in serious condition

after the cops shot him in the liver point blank w

ith a plastic bullet.

SA

TU

RD

AY

, M

AY

1

9T

H,

Another huge crow

d of thousands of people took to the streets being the 26thnightly dem

onstration in as many nights, no trajectory w

as given to the cops.T

he demo left P

lace Em

ilie-Gam

elin around 9pm as every other evening. T

heSPV

M declared the protest illegal a few

minutes after it began and repeated m

anytim

es the same w

arning with the crow

d chanting "la loi speciale, on s en calisse!".A

convoy of several buses of the SQ

riot-squad (provincial police) followed the

demonstration through parallel streets. S

everal people were m

asked, challengingthe new

municipal rule, effective the sam

e day, prohibiting the wearing of m

asksduring a dem

onstration.

A little after 10pm

cops provoked the crowd w

ith arbitrary arrests and startedto gas. T

he clashes started and barricades w

ere erected, notably one at the

corner of O

ntario and

Saint-D

enis - having lots of bars an

d nightlife - w

herea flam

ing barricade was erected and m

aintained for several hours. Meanw

hilecop cruisers and riot-squad buses w

ere attacked. The S

Q cam

e as reinforcement

to the SPVM

and at some p

oin

t firefighters arrived and went up to the fire, but

they received orders to leave. Probably they w

anted pictures of the interventionof the riots-quad against a background of fires to legitim

ize the power-tripping

cops attacking anyone on the street or on the terraces of bars on St. D

enis. Infact the next day, the m

ayor said to some journalists w

ho questioned the work

of the cops, that "the rioters set fire to M

ontreal".

There w

ere 69 arrests according to the cops, arresting just about anyone at anytim

e. 9 of 69 people are accused of assault against police officers, assault with

a weapon and arson. T

hree people still in the cages of the state were released

on bail on May 22 (note th

at another person is still in the cages of the state inrelation to charges of m

ischief and assault against a police officer during the rioton A

pril 20th during the Plan N

ord job fair).The ow

ner of a restaurant was also

arrested because he wore a red squarre (sym

bol of the student mouvem

ent) andlet people inside w

hile the cops were on a ram

page, another announced that he

would sue the SPV

M after they attacked people on the terrace of his bar.

SU

ND

AY

, M

AY

2O

TH

,

Once again several thousand

people in the streets of Montreal, the p

rotest is

3

WH

ILE

T

HE

S

TA

TE

S

HA

RP

EN

S

ITS

K

NIV

ES

:

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nesd

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May

16,

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le t

he s

tate

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rpen

s its

kni

ves,

dem

os a

re t

akin

g pl

ace

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vera

l citi

es a

gain

st th

e ex

tens

ion

of th

e Po

lice S

tate

by

anno

unci

ng th

e pr

epar

atio

n of

a sp

ecia

l law

and

new

mun

icip

al re

gula

tions

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espe

rate

att

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gain

con

trol

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min

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crow

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ray

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crow

dre

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h a

few

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nes

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age

cans

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he c

ops

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ted

thro

win

g sh

ock

gren

ades

and

fir

ed p

last

ic b

ulle

ts.

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utes

late

r th

e w

indo

ws

of s

ever

al b

anks

wer

esh

atte

red

into

pie

ces.

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per

son

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ing

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w w

as a

ttac

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beh

ind,

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omra

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cted

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ckly

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pers

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ack

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ts w

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sts.

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peo

ple

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e ar

rest

ed a

ccor

ding

to

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cops

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ay 18

th.

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"spe

cial

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alr

eady

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ng im

plem

ente

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d th

e m

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ipal

reg

ulat

ion

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be

impl

emen

ted

tom

orro

w [

May

19t

h].

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ong

man

y ot

her

thin

gs t

hey

rend

er i

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l de

mos

th

at d

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t gi

ve t

he c

ops

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r ro

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ear

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ask

in a

dem

onst

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on i

n M

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eal

and

man

y o

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cit

ies

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rted

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repa

ring

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cro

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ted

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loi s

peci

als,

on

sen

cdlis

se!"

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e do

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ve

man

if a

ctio

n w

as c

alle

d to

beg

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t 11

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am a

t S

quar

e V

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re w

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ral

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y no

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any

par

ticu

lar

stat

us. T

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arch

wen

t up

to th

e L

oto-

Que

bec

build

ing

on S

herb

rook

e an

d ru

e C

ity C

ounc

illor

s an

d se

t up

hard

bloc

kade

s of

all

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entr

ance

s ar

ound

the

bui

ldin

g, e

ffec

tivel

y sh

utti

ng i

t do

wn.

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buil

ding

con

tain

s th

e of

fices

of

the

orga

niza

tion

rep

rese

ntin

g un

iver

sity

pri

ncip

als

and

rect

ors,

whi

ch s

uppo

rts

tuit

ion

hike

s, a

nd h

ad a

lso

been

occ

upie

d in

Mar

ch20

11.

Aft

er m

aint

aini

ng a

pre

senc

e fo

r a

whi

le, s

ome

peop

le g

ot i

nsid

e th

e bu

ildi

ngw

hile

oth

ers

bega

n bu

ildin

g ba

rric

ades

on

She

rbro

oke

stre

et u

sing

fen

ces

as a

lin

eof

rio

t po

lice

bega

n to

ass

embl

e ne

arby

. T

he p

olic

e pe

pper

spr

ayed

dem

onst

rato

rsan

d th

rew

sou

nd g

rena

des

(and

pos

sibl

y te

ar g

as)

in t

he m

ass

of p

eopl

e as

the

ydi

sman

tled

the

fenc

ing

and

push

ed p

eopl

e ba

ck. S

hrap

nel

from

one

of

the

cani

ster

sfl

ew in

to o

ne p

erso

n's

eye.

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is n

ow in

a h

ospi

tal

and

will

like

ly lo

se h

is e

ye fo

reve

r.

As t

he m

ain

dem

o go

t spl

it up

into

thre

e pa

rts,

peo

ple

mad

e an

eff

ort

to s

tay

toge

ther

and

hold

the

str

eet.

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thre

e de

mos

man

aged

to

cont

inue

and

reg

roup

ed in

to o

ne,

and

then

hea

ded

east

tow

ards

the

Jaq

ues

Car

tier

bri

dge.

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bri

dge

was

sw

arm

ing

wit

h po

lice

by t

he t

ime

the

dem

o ap

proa

ched

, so

we

figu

red

we'

d le

t th

e po

lice

doth

e bl

ocki

ng f

or u

s an

d co

ntin

ued

at a

jog

to

the

Min

istr

y of

Edu

cati

on b

uild

ing,

as p

roje

ctil

es w

ere

thro

wn

at a

few

bik

e co

ps. A

s se

vera

l bu

reau

crat

s sc

urri

ed o

utof

the

bui

ldin

g, t

he d

emo

bloc

ked

the

entr

ance

for

10

min

utes

, th

en s

wun

g ar

ound

back

wes

t al

ong

the

Not

re D

ame

high

way

. An

atte

mpt

was

mad

e to

occ

upy

the

SA

Qhe

adqu

arte

rs

(the

sta

te l

iquo

r co

ntro

l an

d sa

les

boar

d of

Que

bec)

. Pe

ople

mad

eit

int

o th

e lo

bby

of t

he b

uild

ing

but

beca

use

the

door

s to

go

furt

her

wer

e lo

cked

,th

e de

mo

cont

inue

d w

estw

ard.

It

stop

ped

at t

he H

ydro

Que

bec

build

ing,

whe

repe

ople

cha

nted

"Po

ur u

ne m

onde

lib

erta

ire,

san

s P

lan

Nor

d ni

fra

is s

cola

ires

" (f

oran

ana

rchi

st w

orld

, wit

hout

nei

ther

the

Plan

Nor

d* n

or t

uiti

on f

ees)

. So

on a

fter

the

dem

o di

sper

sed

by c

olle

ctiv

ely

hopp

ing

the

met

ro t

oget

her.

AC

T

2

Aft

er t

he d

emo

disp

erse

d, i

t was

n't

unti

l th

e ev

enin

g th

at w

ord

had

spre

ad a

bout

the

trag

ic o

utco

me

of e

arlie

r th

at d

ay.

A s

olid

arit

y de

mon

stra

tion

w

as s

pont

aneo

usly

calle

d fo

r at B

erri

Squ

are

at 9

pm

. A h

undr

ed a

nd s

ome

peop

le g

athe

red

here

and

left

prom

ptly

, aft

er y

ellin

g do

wn

self

-app

oint

ed l

eade

rs w

ho w

ante

d th

e de

mon

stra

tion

to b

e 'm

edia

fri

endl

y'.

It t

ook

rue

St.

Cat

heri

ne f

irst

and

mov

ed i

ts w

ay t

hrou

ghdo

wnt

own

tow

ards

the

St.

Urb

ain

polic

e he

adqu

arte

rs,

whi

le s

ome

peop

le t

hrew

up a

nti-

poli

ce g

raff

iti i

nclu

ding

"Fl

ics=

Ass

assi

ns".

Whe

n it

got

to

the

head

quar

ters

,pe

ople

att

acke

d it

s w

indo

ws

with

gla

ss b

ottl

es, m

etal

gar

bage

can

s, a

nd fe

nces

, whi

chth

e pa

cifi

sts

wer

e qu

ick

to p

ounc

e on

. As

a lin

e of

rio

t po

lice

form

ed o

n th

e no

rth

side

of

the

head

quar

ters

, th

e de

mon

stra

tion

hea

ded

sout

h to

war

ds R

ene-

Lev

esqu

ean

d th

en b

ack

up r

ue S

t. L

aure

nt.

As

peop

le g

athe

red

info

rmat

ion

to d

eter

min

ew

here

to g

o, th

e de

cisi

on w

as m

ade

to h

ead

tow

ards

the

pol

ice

stat

ion

on th

e co

rner

of R

ue S

t. E

lisa

beth

and

Ren

e-L

eves

que.

The

fron

t of

the

dem

o hu

rrie

d so

uth

dow

nS

t. E

lisa

beth

tow

ards

the

sta

tion

whi

le th

e po

lice

form

ed a

line

blo

ckin

g th

e ba

ck o

fth

e de

mo

from

adv

anci

ng.

At

the

fron

t, on

e co

p ca

r w

as g

uard

ing

the

inte

rsec

tion

at R

ene-

Lev

esqu

e and

as

abou

t a

doze

n pe

ople

rus

hed

at i

t, th

e cr

uise

r ba

cked

out

and

drov

e of

f, le

avin

g th

e in

ters

ecti

on m

omen

tari

ly f

ree

of p

olic

e. P

eopl

e to

ok th

isop

port

unit

y to

gra

ffiti

the

cru

iser

s in

the

park

ing

lot,

as w

ell a

s br

eak

the

win

dow

s 13

of several police cars. Projectiles and insults w

ere hurled at the unprepared cops asthey drove up and scurried to don their riot gear.

For a mom

ent, bodies occupied the entire eight lanes of Rene-L

evesque as peoplehurried to m

ake the decision of whether to turn back to dow

ntown or disperse.

Some people decided to return to the larger dem

o and managed to rejoin it at S

t.C

atherine while others dispersed here.

At this point the dem

o began to head north on St D

enis. Som

e people in the crowd

severely beat up a person with a cam

era who w

as taking pictures of them, as others

tried to diminish the scuffle. T

he police blocked off the main intersection of O

ntarioand rue S

t. Denis, and before anyone had tim

e to come up w

ith any quick plan ofaction, recycling bins w

ere strewn into the street. B

ottles fell first to the ground,then w

ere thrown at the line of riot cops at the end of the street. A

t this point,the pacifist portion of the dem

o (?!) began booing at the people throwing bottles,

explaining that this is a peaceful demonstration. T

he next three minutes dim

inishedinto the crow

d engaging in shouting arguments, pushing each other and getting up

in each other's shit over the merits of violence and the explicit "peacefulness " of the

demo.

At this point, sensing an im

pending mass arrest, m

any people ditched out over ahigh fence, leaving the pacifists to fend for them

selves. As people w

ere dispersing asm

all group stayed there picking up the trash and put it back into the recycling bin,10 yards from

the line of riots cops at which the bottles had just been throw

n.

Several minutes later in the sam

e spot from w

hich people had just dispersed, riotpolice began to clear the streets pushing everyone out and ending w

hatever was left

of the demonstration.

EN

DN

OT

ES

(stop here if you're sick of reading about pacifists).

A continuing problem

of the student movem

ent is the way th

at university activismseem

s to breed pacifists in the same w

ay it breeds politicians and bosses. The

student strike to this point has been centered around demonstrations and actions

of thousands of people gathering in the streets with nothing to do but stare at itself.

Now

, when the police have seriously w

ounded a comrade, w

e see tensions rise as thestudent m

ovement has to deal w

ith itself and its place in society. In this situation,no longer w

as the issue about "the issues", so well laid out and articulated w

iththe appropriate politician to be blam

ed and the solution devised through fundingalternatives (such as the P

lan Nord, as one m

ember of A

SSE** suggested). The issue

becomes the reality of engaging against pow

er, outside of the classroom, w

hen thesense of ow

nership and entitlement

of one's struggle is challenged. The student

struggle has now

exited the w

orld of liability to administration

and academic

probation and has begun to engage society as a whole.

Last n

igh

t, race and class dynamics em

erged in the way different people engaged

in their response. A

t one particular poin

t it was hard to ignore how

a primarily

white group

of pacifists were actively

trying to hold back a crew of young

people of colour who w

ere confronting the police (w

ith oth

er people in the

The crow

d dispersed around 10:30 pm

the following is a text w

e've received:

Since the beginning of the strike, there have been over 1000 arrests, many injuries

(two people of w

hich have lost an

eye, while tw

o other dem

onstrators found

themselves in com

a after being attacked by the police), many are facing charges

and increasingly restrictive conditions

like curfews and non-association, several

comrades are in political exile (they are not allow

ed to be on the island of Montreal,

and are thus also kept far from those they care about), and others are currently

in prison. This is happening in a context w

here the state is becoming increasingly

fascist. The anti-m

ask law the governm

ent is trying to pass is exemplary: w

earing am

ask during a demonstration punishable by a ten year sentence.

Since the beginning, the social peace necessary for capitalism

to run has beendisrupted by an im

aginative social movem

ent. At the sam

e time as the state raises

tuition and slashes social services in order to maintain profits for the elite, it is also

subsidizing companies involved in resource extraction looking to m

ake profits bygutting Indigenous territories in the north and setting up new

security measures

and spending millions on the construction and expansion of over thirty prisons; this

is capitalism in all its glory.

This system

has been imposed on us by force. T

he police, the courts, and the prisonsaren't there to protect us; they are m

eant to enforce a system of dom

ination. The

same ones throw

tear gas and plastic bullets the instant a demonstration escapes

their control and support the bosses during each strike. They are the ones w

ho putthem

selves between the hungry and the superm

arket shelves teeming w

ith food,the hom

eless and vacant buildings, between im

migrants and their fam

ilies.

Their violence is not accidental; it is essential to their existence. T

his system uses

intimidation

and isolation to try to discourage any form of resistance. F

reedomis held captive in the hands of a judiciary w

hich zigzags between bail, restrictive

conditions, criminal charges, and im

prisonment.

Faced w

ith this,

an active

solidarity, involving

neither condem

nation nor

dissociation, with all those crim

inalized by the State becom

es essential. Denouncing

the criminalization of dem

onstrations, opposing targeted arrests and snitch culture,providing legal, financial, and m

oral support to the arrested and demanding th

atthe state drops their charges, keeping an eye on police practices, taking care of thoseinjured, supporting each other, as w

ell as continuing, expanding, and intensifyingthe struggle of our arrested com

rades - these are all the foundations of a culture ofstruggle th

at we need to build and develop.

Let's break the isolation of the prison w

alls. Shut dow

n the prisons that are yetanother m

ethod that the state uses to try to subject us to its control.

Fuck th

e prison

s!L

ong live the strik

e! (again an

d alw

ays)

MA

Y

16TH

35

The

nex

t m

orni

ng t

he c

ops

raid

ed a

n ap

artm

ent

in t

he H

oche

laga

nei

ghbo

rhoo

d.L

ater

, fo

ur p

eopl

e de

liver

ed t

hem

selv

es t

o th

e po

lice.

The

thr

ee w

omen

and

one

man

wer

e ar

rest

ed a

nd r

emai

n de

tain

ed. T

hey

appe

ared

Sat

urda

y in

cou

rt v

ia v

ideo

conf

eren

ce.

The

y ar

e ac

cuse

d of

"in

citin

g fe

ar o

f ter

rori

st a

ctiv

ity",

of

cons

pira

cy a

nd m

isch

ief

over

$50

00.

The

y ap

pear

ed o

nce

agai

n M

onda

y M

ay 1

4th,

bef

ore

an o

vati

on f

rom

the

peo

ple

inth

e co

urtr

oom

. The

y w

ill b

e he

ld h

osta

ge b

y th

e S

tate

at l

east

unt

il M

ay 2

3rd.

Not

e th

at a

gat

heri

ng i

n su

ppor

t w

as h

eld

outs

ide

duri

ng t

he c

ourt

app

eara

nce

and

that

the

med

ia w

ho w

ere

on s

ite w

ere

conf

ront

ed a

nd d

enou

nced

for

the

pie

ces

ofsh

it t

hey

are.

Ter

rori

sm c

harg

es w

hen

no l

ife h

as b

een

enda

nger

ed,

com

ing

from

tho

se w

hose

arm

ed w

ing

aim

peo

ple'

s he

ads

wit

h pl

asti

c bu

llet

s an

d sh

ock

gren

ades

, le

avin

gpe

ople

hos

pita

lize

d w

ith e

yes

in l

ess,

bra

in c

ontu

sion

s,

skul

l fr

actu

res,

etc

.. et

c...

add

to

that

a m

unic

ipal

rul

e dr

aft

that

see

ks t

o ou

tlaw

any

pro

test

tha

t do

esno

t gi

ve i

ts r

oute

in

adva

nce,

thu

s co

nven

ient

ly o

utla

win

g an

y sp

onta

neou

s or

impr

ovis

ed d

emon

stra

tion

, w

hich

is

not

dire

cted

, or

gani

zed

and

supe

rvis

ed b

y a

grou

p th

at w

ill c

olla

bora

te w

ith

the

cops

, co

uple

d w

ith a

n an

ti-m

ask

rule

in

a ci

tyth

at h

as f

ucki

ng c

amer

as e

very

whe

re, w

hich

has

a p

oliti

cal

polic

e sq

uad

dedi

cate

dto

pro

fili

ng "

anar

chis

ts"

and

"mar

gina

ls"

and

whe

re w

e're

bei

ng f

ilm

ed a

nd g

etti

ngpi

ctur

es t

aken

by

cops

, hel

icop

ters

, "j

ourn

alis

ts"

and

the

inte

llige

nce

agen

cies

, no

tto

men

tion

fac

eboo

k...

and

fina

lly

med

ia th

at w

ould

mak

e Jo

seph

Goe

bbel

s pro

ud...

Tho

se w

ho d

o no

t bu

ry th

eir

head

s at

the

bott

om o

f the

ir o

wn

ass

can

see

that

wha

tlie

s be

hind

the

thin

ning

vei

l of d

emoc

racy

is to

tali

tari

anis

m,

and

as in

all

tot

alit

aria

nSt

ates

, w

ho li

ke th

is o

ne h

ave

appl

ied

the

sam

e m

easu

res

to c

rush

dis

sent

, th

ey w

illsu

ccee

d in

not

hing

mor

e th

an a

mpl

ifyi

ng a

nd r

adic

aliz

ing

the

revo

lt.

Act

ive

soli

dari

ty w

ith

the

host

ages

of

the

Stat

e!

MA

Y

16

™

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12

NO

ISE

D

EM

O

IN S

OL

IDA

RIT

Y

WIT

H A

RR

ES

TE

D

CO

MR

AD

ES

Wed

nesd

ay M

ay 1

6th

arou

nd 9

:30

pm.

abou

t a

hund

red

peop

e sh

owed

up

atth

e T

anga

y de

tent

ion

cent

er f

or w

omen

on

Hen

ri-B

oura

ssa

in M

ontr

eal,

whe

reth

ree

youn

g w

omen

acc

used

of

thro

win

g on

e of

the

sm

oke

bom

bs t

hat

par

alyz

edth

e M

ontr

eal

met

ro l

ast

Thu

rsda

y. T

he S

Q d

irt-

bags

wer

e al

read

y on

the

sp

ot.

The

dem

o w

as c

alle

d ".

..to

mak

e so

me

nois

e an

d br

eak

the

isol

atio

n of

the

pri

son

wal

ls,

show

ing

to o

ur c

omra

des

they

are

not

alo

ne.

Thi

s is

als

o a

dem

o ag

ains

t th

epo

litic

al a

nd p

olic

e re

pres

sion

hap

peni

ng s

ince

the

begi

nnin

g of

the

stri

ke,

agai

nst

the

char

ges

agai

nst

our

com

rade

s, a

nd in

sol

idar

ity w

ith

all t

hose

beh

ind

bars

."

The

cro

wd

appr

oach

ed th

e do

ors

and

com

mun

icat

ed w

ith

the

pris

oner

s by

usi

ngm

egap

hone

s, m

any

fire

wor

ks w

ere

set

off

and

a sm

oke

bom

b w

as t

hrow

n to

the

34

mid

dle

tryi

ng t

o ge

t th

e pa

cifi

sts

to b

ack

off)

. Thi

s w

as o

bvio

usly

not

the

onl

ydy

nam

ic i

n th

e de

mo

- th

ere

wer

e di

ffer

ent

crew

s of

peo

ple

ther

e an

d th

rou

gh

ou

tth

e ev

enin

g a

mix

ed c

row

d of

peo

ple

enga

ged

in c

onfr

onti

ng

the

polic

e -

but

asan

ana

rchi

st p

arti

cipa

ting

in t

he d

emon

stra

tion

, th

is w

as a

par

ticu

larl

y st

riki

ngsi

tuat

ion.

At

the

po

int

in w

hich

som

e be

gan

pick

ing

up b

ott

les

and

thro

win

gth

em a

t th

e po

lice,

the

pac

ifis

ts,

by tr

ying

to p

reve

nt t

his,

act

ed m

ore

effe

ctiv

ely

at b

reak

ing

up t

he d

emo

than

the

pol

ice

did.

Not

hing

in

the

wor

ld a

roun

d us

can

hone

stly

be

calle

d pe

acef

ul,

and

the

heig

ht o

f ir

ony

is a

pac

ifis

t th

row

ing

punc

hes

tryi

ng to

con

vinc

e an

oth

er o

ther

wis

e.

Mor

e in

fo a

s it

com

es.

*Pla

n N

ord:

Q

uebe

c's

new

pl

an t

o co

ordi

nate

and

pro

mot

e la

rge

scal

e re

sour

ceex

trac

tion

(m

inin

g, h

ydro

-ele

ctri

city

, an

d lo

ggin

g) o

f th

e In

dige

nous

ter

rito

ries

in

nort

hern

Que

bec.

**AS

SE:

"L'A

ssoc

iatio

n de

Sol

idar

ite

Synd

ical

e E

tudi

ant"

whi

ch i

s on

e of

the

mor

e'ra

dica

l' pr

ovin

cial

fed

erat

ions

of

stud

ent

unio

ns. A

mem

ber

ofA

SSE

on

ce s

ugge

sted

to th

e m

edia

that

free

edu

cati

on c

an b

e fu

nded

thr

ough

the

Pla

n N

ord.

MA

RC

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20

12

A

DA

Y

OF

S

TR

UG

GL

E

IN M

ON

TR

EA

L:

INN

U S

OL

IDA

RIT

Y,

CIT

IZE

N C

OP

S,

WIL

D P

RO

TE

ST

A

ND

TH

E

CO

PS

RE

VE

NG

E.

tran

slat

ion

from

fren

ch b

y A

ntid

evel

oppe

men

t

On

Mon

day,

Mar

ch 1

2th,

a c

hain

of

even

ts h

as s

pann

ed f

or th

e w

hole

day

unt

il l

ate

in th

e ni

ght.

It a

ll b

egan

ear

ly in

the

day

wit

h a

prot

est

in s

olid

arit

y w

ith

the

Innu

peo

ple

who

rece

ntly

suf

fere

d re

pres

sion

fro

m t

he S

Q (

prov

inci

al p

olic

e) i

n th

eir

bloc

kade

of

road

138

aga

inst

the

Hyd

ro-Q

uebe

c pro

ject

s on

thei

r la

nd. T

he p

rote

st o

f abo

ut 1

50pe

ople

sta

rted

at

Squa

re P

hilli

ps a

t ar

ound

12:

30

to g

o in

fro

nt o

f th

e of

fices

of

Hyd

ro-Q

uebe

c (w

here

cop

s ob

viou

sly

wer

e bl

ocki

ng th

e do

ors)

by

chan

ting

slo

gans

like

« N

orth

Pla

n, D

eath

Pla

n »,

« N

o Q

uebe

c, N

o C

anad

a, D

eath

to a

ll St

ates

» w

hile

dist

ribu

ting

leaf

lets

on

the

Nor

th P

lan

(a se

ries

of m

ega

proj

ects

in n

orth

ern

Que

bec;

fore

stry

, hy

dro,

min

ing

etc.

) to

pas

sers

bies

. A

fter

a f

ew s

peec

hes

the

peop

le t

hen

mov

ed t

o th

e ad

min

istr

ativ

e of

fice

s of

the

UQ

AM

and

fro

m t

his

poin

t th

e st

reet

in

fron

t of

the

buil

ding

was

occ

upie

d w

ith

a cr

owd

that

kep

t gr

owin

g in

num

bers

-as

are

actio

n to

the

new

s of

a lo

ck-o

ut o

f U

QA

M- a

ll u

p un

til t

he n

ight

whe

re a

« C

reat

ion

Nig

ht »

eve

nt h

ad b

een

plan

ned.

Dur

ing

this

Cre

atio

n N

ight

, som

e w

ere

pain

ting

on

the

stre

et, o

ther

s pl

ayed

mus

ic,

amon

g ot

hers

loc

al b

and

Mis

e en

Dem

eure

pla

yed

a fu

ll se

t of

son

gs m

akin

g fu

n of

paci

fist

s an

d co

ps. M

any

wer

e dr

inki

ng b

eer

sitt

ing

on a

par

t of

the

furn

itur

e fr

omth

e U

QA

M b

uild

ing

who

end

ed u

p in

the

str

eet;

cha

irs,

des

ks,

tabl

es a

nd s

ofas

.

cops

.15

Around 11 P

M, tension has started to rise as the citizen-cops started to attem

pt aclean up and enforce the law

by «putting things back in place» as others kept takingthe furniture out in the street. A

person ripped chairs from the hands of a hooded

comrade and tried to rip the com

rades mask off, w

hich got the person a well-deserved

punch in the face. It's simple : if you act like cops you are joining the enem

y so youw

ill be treated as such. Wanna play cops? Face the consequences.

After a short confrontation betw

een the citizen-cops and the hooded ones, a crowd

of about 200 people detached itself and zig-zag'ed in the streets shouting anti-pacifist slogans and leaving on their tracks m

any walls and one cop car covered w

ithanti-police and circled A

graffiti. When the crow

d arrived near the building of La

Presse -the m

ost mainstream

bourgeois, reactionary newspaper in Q

uebec, one ofQ

uebec's "Fourth B

ranch" of the State- its w

indows w

ere shattered to bits (the news

outlet itself was forced to report on it... dow

nplaying it as a mere "isolated" act) and

once more the citizen-cops or undercovers -the only difference being their w

age-show

ed up and attacked a hooded comrade, but this tim

e the hooded ones foughtback collectively and, defending their com

rade, pushed back the attack. The crow

dthen dispersed not long after w

ith any arrests, even though there are rumors that

one was arrested during the protest.

A bit later at around 1 A

M, about fifteen people w

ho were chilling out drinking

beer in a collective space received a visit from an entire squad of cops. T

he situationquickly escalated seem

ingly after someone w

as seen by the pigs with a bottle of beer

outside. Many people w

ere pepper sprayed, about twenty cops rushed in aggressively

as if it were a raid, w

ith batons in hand, some in riot gear and w

ith a dog. There w

erefive arrests. O

utside the riot-squad deployed for dispersing the people who gathered

at the street corner.

Social war an

d com

plicity!

Citizen

-cops FU

CK

OFF!

Translated byA

nabraxas ("To the victor goes the spoils of w

ar, fuckers!")

MA

RC

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2

KID

NA

PP

ING

, P

RE

-EM

PT

IVE

AR

RE

ST

S A

ND

H

OL

LY

WO

OD

ST

YL

E

RA

CIS

M

This is related to events that happened on M

arch 15th, a few hours before

the anti-policeprotest th

at becam

e famous in the m

edia these last few days.

On M

arch 15th, around N

oon, a comrade w

as kidnapped by policemen in plain

clothes as she was doing her m

orning jugging run near her place, in the Hochelaga

neighborhood. AS

she was exiting a backstreet, her run w

as interrupted par thearrival of a grey fam

ily minivan. A

tall and muscular m

an came out of the m

inivan.A

t the same tim

e, another car cutted in diagonally, and a third one, from behind

in the backstreet. Our com

rade was cornered. T

he tall and muscular m

an adressedher by saying : « H

i ***, I am an agent of the

Montreal Police departem

ent.x-

You're under arrest,

we have a w

arrant against you. You m

ust follow us. »

I will not go in

to descriptive detail of the injury he had, but these w

ere lacerations,w

hich couldn't have been the result of plastic bullets or pool balls, even rocks.A

lexander had no mask, no hood, he w

as in a t-shirt. My guess is th

at he was

overcome by tear gas, found him

self blinded and disoriented. Shots from

bothsides w

ere made, and he w

ould have received a grenade at that m

oment. W

em

ust rem

ember th

at all this happened at the beginning of the so-called "R

iot",w

hen the pro

testers had little projectiles. On the other hand,

the grenades

thrown by the police are m

etal objects that deploy on contact, triggering

theexplosion of the container and therefore can cause severe cuts. T

his is what I

believe happened to Alexander.

What I experienced is a confrontation w

ith violence which is close to the aesthetics

of war. F

or two days now

, I explain the images th

at pass through me, I think of

the police intervention, the sm

ell of tear gas. I was disturbed to later see health

status of A

lexander in the media, to see th

at what I felt really fit in proportion

to the severity of the injury. It was not sim

ply a dramatic structure th

at I hadbuilt. I am

also angry to see that once again, the m

edia serve the interests ofthose w

ho govern and hold the monopoly on violence. It has been said th

at we

had been infiltrated by a minority of thugs, th

at there was no police brutality,

the repressive response was norm

al since we had crossed a "sym

bolic boundary"th

at had been drawn around the hotel. W

e were show

n a pile of rocks, sticksand tie-w

raps, obviously picked up at random, to dem

onstrate the agitation ofthe dem

onstrators. W

e were served an entirely assem

bled narrative to justifym

ilitary interv

entio

n to pro

tect officials and government representatives.

They try to m

ake us swallow

that A

lexander was injured by other dem

onstratorsor protesters, th

at ultimately it is "our fault". If there is an investigation of the

Surete du Q

uebec in this event, it will be again to conclude th

at they are notresponsible. A

lready, the press conferences have shown us: asserting

a "symbolic

boundary" in no way allow

s the extent of physical attacks on people in any way

equipped to fight on equal terms.

In sho

rt, no matter w

here this account finds itself, I w

ant it to be able to resonatew

ith oth

er people who saw

, who heard, th

at it contributes to a critical discourse.T

o make our collective m

emory allow

us to say that w

e will not forget, th

at thereis no forgiveness for those w

ho claim to defend the justice of the social elite.

MA

Y

1O

TH

2O

12

SMOKE BOMBS IN THE METRO- WHO ARE THE

TERRORISTS?

On

the m

orning of

May

10th, sm

oke bom

bs in

three subw

ay stations

crippled the entire netw

ork for over two and a half hours during rush hour.

Montreal police called for denouncem

ent and the media, notably la P

resse, showed

pictures of four people taken by rat citizens and also gave their identities andinform

ation.33

turn

ed, m

oved

his

hai

r an

d sa

w th

e st

ate

of h

is e

ar.

At

that

tim

e, I

was

afr

aid.

Rea

lly a

frai

d th

at s

omet

hing

ver

y ba

d w

as h

appe

ning

whi

ch w

as b

eyon

d m

e. P

eopl

e st

eppe

d ba

ck, s

eein

g th

e w

ound

, I fe

lt h

e w

as d

ying

.B

ut I

put

mys

elf

in "

inte

rven

tion

" m

ode.

Kno

win

g he

was

slig

htly

con

scio

us,

cons

tant

ly t

alki

ng t

o hi

m t

o ke

ep h

im a

wak

e. I

intr

oduc

ed m

ysel

f, t

hen

I sp

oke

to o

ne o

f m

any

who

wat

ched

the

sce

ne a

nd h

ad a

cel

l ph

one,

I to

ld h

im i

t w

asse

riou

s, t

hat

we

need

ed a

n am

bula

nce

imm

edia

tely

, th

at h

e w

as in

dan

ger

. The

pers

on c

alle

d. S

ever

al p

eopl

e tr

ied

to r

each

res

cue

assi

stan

ce d

urin

g th

is e

vent

,an

d it

was

ext

rem

ely

com

plex

to g

et h

elp

in a

hum

ane

dela

y an

d ne

cess

ary

for

the

surv

ival

of t

his

pers

on.

The

fir

st p

erso

n w

ho h

ad a

firs

t aid

kit

has

trie

d to

sto

p th

e bl

eedi

ng w

ith

gauz

esof

cot

ton,

but

the

re w

as n

ot e

noug

h m

ater

ial.

Ano

ther

per

son

from

the

med

ical

team

of

the

even

t to

ok o

ver,

a f

rien

d of

the

wou

nded

als

o ca

me

near

, w

e st

ayed

toge

ther

unt

il th

e pa

ram

edic

s ar

rive

d.

The

wou

nded

had

epi

sode

s of

ret

riev

ing

cons

ciou

snes

s, h

e w

as r

estl

ess,

sho

wed

pain

and

pan

ic.

Aro

und

us,

ther

e w

ere

lots

of

nois

es,

crie

s, a

ctio

n. I

tri

ed t

ore

assu

re h

im v

erba

lly, I

told

him

he

had

cour

age

to s

tay

wit

h us

, to

focu

s on

his

brea

thin

g, h

e ne

eded

hel

p, h

e w

as w

ound

ed a

t his

ear

, th

at I

und

erst

ood

his

fear

,th

at w

e w

ere

doin

g ou

r bes

t to

kee

p hi

m s

afe.

I to

ld h

im a

bout

his

fri

end

who

was

wit

h hi

m,

his

frie

nd s

poke

to

him

, and

hel

ped

to k

eep

him

lyin

g do

wn.

It m

ust

of b

een

ten

min

utes

th

at w

e w

ere

on t

he g

roun

d. I

hea

rd s

hots

ver

ycl

ose,

and

whe

n I

look

ed u

p I

foun

d th

at t

he S

Q o

ffic

ers

wer

e on

the

gro

unds

,th

ey a

ppro

ache

d us

by

thro

win

g te

ar g

as.

Pro

test

ers

had

a se

curi

ty p

erim

eter

arou

nd u

s, s

hout

ing

that

ther

e w

as a

cas

ualty

. Peo

ple

spok

e di

rect

ly t

o th

e po

lice

offi

cers

to

mak

e th

em u

nder

stan

d th

at t

here

was

a p

erso

n on

the

gro

und

inse

riou

s co

nditi

on.

Des

pite

my

dist

rust

of

the

polic

e, m

y cr

itiq

ue o

f th

eir

actio

nsan

d be

havi

ors,

the

ir f

ound

atio

ns,

thei

r id

eolo

gy,

I st

ill

naiv

ely

beli

eved

th

atin

the

urg

ency

, th

ey w

ould

hav

e su

ffic

ient

jud

gmen

t to

giv

e us

a m

inim

um o

fsa

fety

. The

y sh

ot t

ear

gas

cani

ster

s a

few

met

ers

away

fro

m u

s. W

e ha

d to

mov

eA

lexa

nder

tw

ice

beca

use

of t

he i

ncom

pete

nce

of t

he

SQ

, m

ore

impo

rtan

tly,

beca

use

of th

e m

ilit

ary

beha

vior

tha

t re

flec

ts th

e in

tens

ific

atio

n of

the

viol

ence

used

by

the

arm

ed b

ranc

h of

the

Sta

te.

Thr

ough

thi

s ch

aotic

sit

uati

on,

the

offi

cers

con

tinu

ed t

o fo

llow

ord

ers,

the

y de

liber

atel

y le

ft u

s th

e re

spon

sibi

lity

for

thei

r ac

tions

and

the

man

agem

ent

of th

e si

tuat

ion

whi

le w

e co

uld

not

prov

ide

the

nece

ssar

y ca

re.

At

som

e po

int,

whe

n w

e fi

rst

mov

ed A

lexa

nder

, he

tri

ed t

o ta

lk t

o us

. H

e w

asun

able

to

utte

r a

wor

d, h

e re

peat

ed s

ound

s, s

eeki

ng a

refe

renc

e po

int.

His

frie

ndsp

oke

to h

im,

othe

rs c

ame

clos

e. I

told

the

m t

o to

war

n th

ose

who

wer

e w

ith

him

, fo

r hi

m t

o ha

ve s

uppo

rt w

hen

he g

ot t

o th

e ho

spit

al. T

he s

econ

d ti

me

we

mov

ed h

im,

we

wen

t on

to

the

Nau

d ro

w, a

nd t

here

wer

e m

ore

peop

le f

rom

the

med

ical

tea

m o

f th

e ev

ent

who

took

car

e of

him

. T

he a

mbu

lanc

e fi

nally

arr

ived

,es

cort

ed b

y ag

ents

of

the

Sur

ete

du Q

uebe

c. I

t to

ok a

whi

le f

or i

t to

rea

ch u

s,~~

th

en A

lexa

nder

was

pla

ced

on a

str

etch

er,

and

his

frie

nd w

ent

wit

h hi

m.

Our

com

rade

the

n an

swer

: W

ho a

re y

ou?

Wha

t is

you

r w

arra

nt?

Why

are

you

arre

stin

g m

e? W

here

are

you

tak

ing

me?

» a

s th

e un

derc

over

cop

was

put

ting

her

hand

cuff

s, r

ight

in

the

stre

et.

Our

com

rade

scr

eam

ed in

the

hop

e of

bei

ng h

eard

by p

asse

rsby

s. T

wo

min

utes

lat

er,

she

was

in t

he m

ini-

van,

on

its w

ay to

the

Eas

tO

pera

tion

s C

ente

r es

cort

ed b

y tw

o un

derc

over

cop

s w

ho r

efus

ed t

o ex

plai

n th

em

otiv

es o

f her

arr

est w

arra

nt.

In fa

ct, t

hey

com

plet

ely

igno

red

wha

t the

se w

ere.

Arr

ived

at

the

Est

Ope

rati

ons

Cen

ter,

cop

s se

em c

onfu

sed

on t

he m

otiv

es o

f th

ear

rest

war

rant

. Our

fri

end

calle

d he

r la

wye

r, w

ho tr

ies

to s

et t

he r

ecor

ds s

trai

ght.

Her

and

the

law

yer

are

bot

amaz

ed, s

ince

her

judi

cial

file

was

up

to d

ate.

At l

ast,

the

cops

rev

eal t

he m

otiv

es o

f th

is w

arra

nt. I

t w

as a

bout

a w

arra

nt r

elat

edto

her

abs

ence

at

the

cour

t dur

ing

an o

rder

that

was

to h

appe

n a

mon

th a

nd a

hal

fba

ck, o

n Ja

nuar

y 31

st 2

012,

ove

r a

bull

shit

bre

ach

of c

ondi

tion

tha

t ha

ppen

ed o

nSe

ptem

ber

12th

201

1. O

ur f

rien

d an

d he

r la

wye

r bot

h ig

nore

d th

e ex

iste

nce

of th

isal

lege

d co

urt a

ppoi

ntm

ent.

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ce w

hy s

he d

id n

ot s

how

up.

Fol

low

ing

her a

bsen

ceat

this

alle

ged

date

of c

ourt

, an

arre

st w

arra

nt w

as e

mit

ted

agai

nst

her,

on

Feb

ruar

y20

12.

(We a

re s

orry

for

the

ambi

guit

y of

det

ails

... o

ur f

rien

d de

sire

s to

not

exp

ose

her

crim

inal

reco

rd to

o op

enly

).

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onth

and

a h

alf

has

pass

ed a

nd n

ow it

's M

arch

15t

h, i

nter

nati

onal

day

aga

inst

polic

e br

utal

ity,

that

thi

s w

arra

nt h

as b

een

used

.

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by

mee

ting

wit

h th

e ch

ief i

n(ve

)stig

ator

for t

he o

pera

tion

s of

repr

essi

on p

lann

edfo

r co

ntro

llin

g th

e pr

otes

t on

Mar

ch 1

5th

that

our

com

rade

was

con

firm

ed t

hat

her

arre

st w

as li

nked

to th

e M

arch

15t

h de

mo.

The

man

in

ques

tion

was

nam

ed in

spec

tor D

'Am

our

(or

L'A

mou

r). B

ragg

ing

to h

ave

28 y

ears

of e

xper

ienc

e in

the

polic

e, th

is b

asta

rd s

aid

to b

e in

cha

rge

for

the

case

of

the

Mar

ch 1

5th

prot

est a

nd c

onfi

rmed

to

our f

rien

d th

at t

he t

arge

ted

arre

sts

wou

ldbe

par

t of

this

yea

rs r

epre

ssio

n of

this

yea

r's p

rote

st.

So, t

hese

mor

ons

wai

ted

for

Mar

ch 1

5th

to u

se th

eir

war

rant

aga

inst

our

fri

end

(a le

gally

obt

aine

d w

arra

nt, b

utth

at w

as c

ompl

etel

y un

nece

ssar

y in

this

con

text

and

was

ope

nly

used

to i

ntim

idat

ehe

r). T

he n

ext m

orni

ng, o

n M

arch

16t

h, o

ur f

rien

d w

as b

roug

ht to

mun

icip

al co

urt,

whe

re a

judg

e re

leas

ed h

er u

nder

the

pro

mis

e th

at s

he w

ould

be

pres

ent

at e

very

upco

min

g co

urt o

rder

s.

Acc

ordi

ng t

o ou

r co

mpr

ehen

sion

, the

und

erco

ver c

op c

ars

wer

e pa

rked

in f

ront

of

our

frie

nd's

resi

denc

e wai

ting

for

her

to g

et o

ut, f

or a

per

iod

of ti

me

we

don'

t kn

ow,

so th

ey'd

then

be

stal

king

her

.

We

also

kno

w th

at t

here

are

oth

er p

lace

s/pe

rson

s who

are

bei

ng fo

llow

ed, w

atch

ed,

take

n pi

ctur

es of

. We'

re n

ot in

tent

to

feed

par

anoi

a, b

ut w

ant t

o sh

are

this

expe

rien

ceso

eac

h an

d ev

eryo

ne s

tays

vig

ilan

t. T

hese

mor

ons h

ave

noth

ing

bett

er to

do

in th

eir

lives

than

sta

lk u

s in

our

eve

ryda

y lif

e. F

uck

them

.

This

sce

ne w

as w

orth

y of

a H

olly

woo

d m

ovie

. As

far

as w

e kn

ow, t

here

has

bee

not

her

targ

eted

arr

ests

, bu

t no

ne o

f th

is k

ind.

So

it's

very

im

port

ant

to m

ake

this

info

spr

ead

beca

use

the

situ

atio

n is

ver

y w

orry

ing.

The

se f

ilthy

cop

s m

ust

know

that

thei

r in

tim

idat

ion

tact

ics

does

not

im

pres

s us

and

that

, to

geth

er,

our t

houg

hhe

arts

are

stro

nger

than

eve

ryth

ing.

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Translated by Anabraxas

MA

RC

H 1

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2

01

2

MARCH 15™ - FUCK THE POLICE

On the evening of M

arch 15 (international day against police brutality) in Montreal,

although riot pigs were all over, they clearly lost control of the city center for several hours.

Already

in the

afternoon, the

Berri-U

QA

M

station w

as filled with riot

copsinside and outside, the

sky with helicopters, patrols of pigs in the streets and

later riotsquads and horsemen. E

ven with this display of force they w

erent up tothe task. Proof th

at here as elsewhere revolt is m

ore than possible. We can even

thank in part the cops on Thursday for the riot, they fed it and gave it strength.

They gave it strength w

hen they charged on the demo of a few

thousand peopleon S

herbrooke after twenty m

inutes of sloganeering and anti-cop graffiti, which

resulted in several pacifist hippie parasites and the selfdescribed students with the

bourgeois leftist mentality to go hom

e. The ones w

ho wanted m

ore than to take aw

alk wondering w

hat the fuck they were doing in another pathetic ritual of slogans,

divided into smaller m

obile groups that dispersed and reform

ed to fuck shit up allnight long.

The cops also fueled it w

hen they attacked the people downtow

n with their arsenal,

on St-C

atherine street. From

then on the rage was unleashed on the streets. T

herew

ere probably also many bored young people w

ho are regularly targets of profilingand saw

there a great opportunity for their turn to piss on the cops and it wasnt to

long for it to come. A

s this same line of cops w

as advancing they took a volley ofstones, bottles and a m

olotov and in an attempt to block the road further, the riot

pigs fled from the crow

d earning on each side. Mom

ents later, while bins w

ere flyingdow

n the street and into a few shop w

indows, the crow

d fell on a brand new cop car,

pigs included. The car w

as attacked with projectiles and you could see the terror and

panic in the face of the two cops as they fled the crow

d charging on the car. Later a

vandalized cop car was flipped over.

By late evening a crow

d gathered again at the B

erri Square, w

here it had all begun,to leave once again. It's w

hen the crowd dispersed to M

aisonneuve and Ontario

that the cops surrounded people on the sidew

alk to make a m

ass arrest. They

held the crowd of about 200 people surrounded for several hours and th

en filled

some buses and took them

to a police station in Langelier, far from

downtow

n,w

here they proceeded to identify people and give them tickets for "gathering

endangering peace" and release them, but not before having photographed them

one-by-one. There w

as also during the day and evening several random arrests

and others targeted.

18M

arch 15th is every d

ay!

we receive and transm

it

To w

rite one's experience is a means of expression. T

o put it outside of oneself,and be able to understand, to regain pow

er. If I write w

hat I experienced Friday

in Victoriaville, it's to put a distance from

what I've felt since, to share it for

deconstructing the m

edia discourse

and misinform

ation, so that

ultimately

these events, instead of dividing and defeating us, bring us collective power.

This account is intended as a revisiting of the events surrounding a dem

onstratorw

ho's head was severely injured. I w

as present in the case of A

lexander, them

oment

he found him

self on

the ground,

until he left in

an ambulance.

Little tim

e separated the mom

ent when the crow

d control barriers fell fromw

hen the officers of the Quebec P

rovincial Police used tear gas projectiles. In

more or less 15 m

inutes, those in the crowd w

ho had no masks or scarves had

to quickly step back and take refuge to avoid the drafts of tear gas. With no eye

protection and because of the inten

se effect of the gas, I was forced to m

ove. At

times, I w

as completely blinded and had trouble finding m

y breath, I had thereflex to seek the support of dem

onstrators to find a safe place. I th

en cleanedm

y eyes with a solution of m

ilk of magnesia and w

ater, then went back to w

herethe largest crow

d was the located w

ith a friend.

There w

ere easily 300 to 400 people who w

ere near the hotel; either in action,th

at is to say close to the police, or further back. There w

as an atmosphere of

tension, anger, but also solidarity. The them

e of challenging the power of the

Liberal party w

ove cohesion through the crowd and support for a diversity of

tactics.

All th

is lasted probably another 10 to 15 minutes.

So we w

ere on Steve street near the

Sonic gas station, w

e redirected peoplebothered by the tear gas so th

at they could get treated, and then w

e crossedthe street, passing behind the shops on A

rthabaska East street. T

hen we cam

eto a grassy field behind the N

aud row. T

here were a lot of drafts of the gas, but

as it dispersed quickly, people were not affected m

uch. At th

at time, there w

ereno officers on the grounds. W

e decided it was a w

ell-placed spot to observe theevents and decide about w

hat to do next. From

the point where I stood, it w

aspossible to see th

at there w

ere clashes with the SQ

officers on Arthabaska, again

I emphasize the am

ount of tear gas that w

as launched to scare the crowd.

Then I heard people shouting th

at there w

as someone injured, to m

ake space. Isaw

a group of people carrying the body of a man in his tw

enties. He w

as laid onthe ground and I knelt beside him

. I didn't have a first aid kit with m

e, but I havefirst aid training so I proceeded: I checked his state of consciousness, I m

ade surehe w

as stable and maintained his position, I then looked to see if he had any

injuries. Every stage happened very quickly. H

e was first clearly unconscious, he

was foam

ing out of its mouth, he seem

ed about to choke. I opened his mouth

and moved his tongue, he coughed and started breathing m

ore regularly. Then

I noticed that on the side of his head a large quantity of blood w

as flowing. 1

31

Que

bec

Lib

eral

Par

ty's

gen

eral

cou

ncil

whi

ch w

as g

oing

to

be h

eld

in M

ontr

eal,

but

had

been

mov

ed a

t th

e la

st m

inut

e fo

r fe

ar o

f th

e up

risi

ng r

agin

g th

ere.

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er s

ever

al s

peec

hes

the

mar

ch a

rriv

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t ar

ound

6 p

m n

ear

the

Con

vent

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at L

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e SQ

riot

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etal

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bast

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t peo

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head

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ith

plas

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ulle

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cop

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t pe

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with

sto

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spha

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irew

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, pa

int

bom

bs,

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the

m, s

ome

pool

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ls.

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les

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e va

ndal

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affi

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cop

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lead

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ly b

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revo

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st o

live

bran

ch in

a 5

2-da

y st

uden

t st

rike

ove

rtu

itio

n hi

kes.

Hun

dred

s of

locu

sts

infe

sted

a c

lass

room

and

tw

o ba

thro

oms

at H

EC

aro

und

8:30

a.m

.

A le

tter

left

at t

he s

cene

mad

e a

dire

ct re

fere

nce

to th

e bo

ok o

f Exo

dus

that

reco

unts

plag

ues

that

hit

Egy

pt in

bib

lical

tim

es.

[Now

it is

tim

e to

esc

ape!

]

"Pha

raoh

har

dens

his

hea

rt b

ut j

usti

ce is

ser

ved,

" rea

d th

e no

te.

"May

it s

tain

you

rw

alls

and

you

r air

duc

ts."

The

inse

ct i

nfes

tati

on w

as o

ne o

f tw

o in

cide

nts

at Q

uebe

c sc

hool

s T

hurs

day

asth

ousa

nds

of s

tude

nts

cont

inue

thei

r pr

otes

ts a

gain

st tu

itio

n hi

kes.

In S

ague

nay,

200

km

nor

th o

f Q

uebe

c C

ity, a

sec

urity

gua

rd s

uffe

red

a dis

loca

ted

shou

lder

in a

scuf

fle w

ith

stud

ents

who

trie

d to

occ

upy

a ca

mpu

s bui

ldin

g. A

seco

ndgu

ard

suff

ered

a k

nee

inju

ry.

Que

bec

stud

ents

hav

e bl

ocke

d br

idge

s, m

ajor

roa

ds a

nd g

over

nmen

t bui

ldin

gsne

arly

eve

ry d

ay si

nce

the

stri

ke b

egan

in F

ebru

ary.

Prem

ier J

ean

Cha

rest

has

held

firm

on

his

deci

sion

to in

crea

se tu

itio

n fe

es b

y $1

,625

over

fiv

e ye

ars,

but

tw

o to

p m

inis

ters

ple

dged

Thu

rsda

y to

sw

eete

n st

uden

t loa

npr

ogra

ms

in a

n at

tem

pt to

dif

fuse

the

dem

onst

rati

ons.

Edu

catio

n M

inis

ter

Line

Bea

ucha

mp

and

Fina

nce

Min

iste

r R

aym

ond

Bac

hand

anno

unce

d an

inco

me-

base

d lo

an p

rogr

am th

at c

ould

take

effe

ct i

n Se

ptem

ber

2013

.

The o

vert

ure

imm

edia

tely

div

ided

stu

dent

gro

ups.

The

har

dlin

e CLA

SSE

orga

niza

tion

reje

cted

the

pled

ge, w

hile

the

mor

e m

oder

ate F

EC

Qsa

ys it

will

dis

cuss

the

offe

r ov

erth

e E

aste

r bre

ak.

Bea

ucha

mp

told

a n

ews

conf

eren

ce t

hat

stud

ent

grou

ps h

ave

so f

ar r

efus

ed

tone

gotia

te a

nd th

at m

any

youn

g pe

ople

ris

k lo

sing

an e

ntir

e se

mes

ter.

"The

stud

ents

are

in a

cri

tical

dec

isio

n ph

ase,

" sh

e sa

id. "

It w

as o

ur re

spon

sibi

lity

to t

ake

actio

n af

ter

havi

ng la

unch

ed a

ppea

ls fo

r di

alog

ue fo

r se

vera

l day

s."

19

Bachand added, "W

e listened, we w

aited, and no one sat down w

ith us to discussthis."

Charest, m

eanwhile, said he hopes the striking students return to class.

Students have blocked both entrances to the P

ort of Montreal

The striking students held another action of econom

ic disruption by blocking bothentrances to the P

ort of Montreal for over an hour this m

orning.

About 200 students gathered at M

etro Prefontaine headed for the station L

angelier,w

here they arrived around 10am. T

hey then took the boulevard Langelier contraflow

south, then Haig S

treet, where they m

ade a short jog. Arrived at N

otre Dam

e, thegroup split.

Part of the dem

onstrators went to block the entry of B

ossuet Street, w

est side, andthe other group, m

ore importantly, prevented the access of B

oucherville Street.

Dozens of truckers w

ishing to travel to the port were hostages of the situation. S

ome

supporting young even if it makes them

lose money, since they are paid to travel and

not by the hour.

A driver w

ho was going to port to take com

mand of a ship regretted the delay that

this action was taken to the boat. "B

ut at least young people take action. I hope theyw

ill mobilize against by it for other things. Like to vote, "he said.

Around 11:15, a representative

SPVM

came to inform

the protesters near the

Boucherville S

treet they had to leave, "for their own safety and avoid arrest" because

the port authority asked that young free places .

The protesters decided to resum

e their march w

estward, to m

eet their colleaguesstationed at the entrance B

ossuet.

There they rem

ained until about 11:45.

At th

at time, a com

mander of the SPV

M advised, the m

icrophone of his patrol van,th

at the protest was now

considered illegal. An ad that has received answ

ers to thefingers of honors and other insults.

Mom

ents later, two team

s in the intervention group, helmeted and arm

ed with

shields and batons, the protesters took sandwich on N

otre Dam

e.

But a sm

all core more stubborn, m

any on their faces masked, one carrying a shield

same craft, did not blink until one of tw

o response teams in the load striking their

sticks on their shields . Assaults by a sm

all block away, they rejected the last resisters

north of Bossuet, before letting them

go.

The group w

alked to the subway C

adillac to return to the city center.

This is not the first tim

e that students are challenging the activities of the Port of

Montreal. T

hey did the 22 March 28 M

arch and 5 April.

20

tear gas and throwing stun grenades into the crow

d which responded by throw

ingstones and sm

ashing a few w

indows, like one of L

oto-Quebec. A

fter several minutes

being chased, the crowd began to disperse and reform

ed shortly after in St. L

ouisSquare to m

arch towards the E

milie-G

amelin park w

here a student demonstration

was called for the evening.

The cops deployed everyw

here and began jumping on anyone. O

ne hundred arreststook place including a m

ass arrest of 70 people just before 19h. Many people w

ereable to converge at E

milie-G

amelin P

ark. Cops cars w

ere splashed with red and pink

paint and a clash with riotpigs arresting people took place before they dispersed and

distanced themselves w

hile the more pacified student crow

d gathered for their 8thnightly dem

o.

Each d

ay is a struggle an

d ever w

here revolt is p

ossible!

Solid

arity with

the in

surgen

ts of Oakland, S

eattle, Greece, C

hile, Spain,T

urkey, Ind

onesia,

and w

ith all grou

ps an

d in

divid

uals in

confron

tation w

ith p

ower an

dd

omin

ation.

The b

attle contin

ues on

all fronts!

Total lib

eration for all in

side an

d ou

tside th

e walls!

Note: W

e've received information

that amongst several people injured a young m

anis in the hospital w

ith multiple skull fractures after being brutally assaulted by police

during the demonstrations

MA

Y

3R

D

2012

MO

NT

RE

AL

: S

OL

IDA

RIT

Y

GA

TH

ER

ING

WIT

H

TH

E

DE

TA

INE

D. F

OR

A

WO

RL

D W

ITH

OU

T B

OS

SE

S,

CO

PS

,

NO

R P

RIS

ON

Sgathered from

their media:

The 2

8th

of April a gathering of som

e 75 people to denounce political and policerepression and in solidarity w

ith detainees, marched w

ith a banner reading "fora w

orld without bosses, cops nor prisons" to the T

anguay detention center for

wom

en. Firew

orks were fired on site before the group dispersed.

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Y

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2

TH

E B

AT

TL

E O

F V

ICT

OR

IAV

ILL

E

translated from french by sabotagem

edia

we receive and transm

it

On M

ay 4th, 2012

Charest ran aw

ay to Victoriaville w

ith his gang, the big Liberal "Fam

ily" as they liketo call them

selves, but they were quickly caught up w

ith. Thousands of people

from all over the province gathered in V

ictoriaville during the first day of the ^

in Q

uebe

c is

ref

ered

to

.

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2012

SIX

C

OP

C

AR

W

IND

OW

S

SM

AS

HE

D

gath

ered

from

the

ir m

edia

:

Frid

ay b

efor

e Sa

m,

six

Mon

trea

l co

p ca

r w

inds

hiel

ds w

ere

smas

hed

in

the

park

ing

lot

of p

olic

e st

atio

n 44

. Gra

ffiti

was

als

o le

ft o

n a

clos

e-by

adm

inis

trat

ive

buil

ding

of

the

Mon

trea

l po

lice

and

anot

her

on a

noth

er c

op c

ar, a

ppar

entl

y th

ew

ord

"hau

sse"

(hi

ke).

A p

erso

n ha

s be

en a

rres

ted.

MA

Y

1S

T

2012

AN

A

CC

OU

NT

O

F

MA

YD

AY

M

ON

TR

EA

L

from

the

str

eet:

Ano

ther

day

of c

lash

es w

ith t

he c

ops

and

atta

cks

on th

e St

ate

and

Cap

ital

(TD

and

BM

O b

anks

, so

me

stor

es,

Lot

o-Q

uebe

c an

d co

p ca

rs)

in t

he o

ngoi

ng u

pris

ing

inM

ontr

eal.

Tho

usan

ds o

f an

ti-ca

pita

lists

, m

any

anar

chis

ts,

but

also

fem

inis

ts,

com

mun

ists

,st

riki

ng

stud

ents

an

d va

riou

s gr

oups

for

soc

ial

just

ice

join

ed i

n th

e st

reet

in

Mon

trea

l. A

con

side

rabl

e pa

rt o

f th

e cr

owd

was

mas

ked

and

dres

sed

in b

lack

.

Eve

n be

fore

the

dem

onst

ratio

n be

gan

a m

embe

r of

the

Rev

olut

iona

ry C

omm

unis

tPa

rty

was

arr

este

d. T

he d

emo

left

Cha

mp-

de-M

ars

arou

nd 5

:15

pm

, re

calli

ng t

hest

arti

ng p

oint

of

the

firs

t M

ayD

ay d

emon

stra

tion

in t

he h

isto

ry o

f M

ontr

eal.

The

crow

d ap

plau

ded

each

tim

e fi

rew

orks

wer

e sh

ot,

but

over

all

rem

aine

d re

lativ

ely

sile

nt d

urin

g th

e fi

rst

45 m

in.

Apa

rt f

rom

the

SQ

hel

icop

ter

[Que

bec

prov

inci

alpo

lice]

whi

ch is

now

par

t of t

he l

ands

cape

, a r

iot s

quad

fol

low

ed o

n th

e si

dew

alk

toth

e ri

ght

of t

he c

row

d as

to p

rovo

ke p

rote

ster

s. T

ensi

on w

as s

o pa

lpab

le w

e co

uld

have

cut

it

with

a k

nife

. A

t one

poi

nt w

hat

seem

ed t

o be

a f

lare

was

fir

ed in

the

irdi

rect

ion

and

earl

ier

a gr

oup

of p

eopl

e st

arte

d na

ggin

g th

em w

ith d

onut

s ha

ngin

gfr

om m

akes

hift

fis

hing

rod

s.

Aft

er a

bout

45

min

aft

er t

he m

arch

tur

ned

nort

h an

d he

aded

for

St.

Cat

heri

neSt

reet

, th

e co

ps d

ecla

red

it ill

egal

on

a lo

udsp

eake

r w

ith p

eopl

e ye

lling

bac

k "w

edo

nt g

ive

a fu

ck".

A fe

w m

omen

ts l

ater

at t

he c

ross

ing

of S

t. C

athe

rine

Str

eet

a lin

eof

riot

pigs

cha

rged

on

the

crow

d, g

rabb

ing

som

eone

, but

eve

n w

hile

sho

otin

g ru

bber

bulle

ts a

nd t

earg

as t

hey

soon

ret

reat

ed b

efor

e vo

lleys

of p

roje

ctile

s; s

tone

s bo

ttles

,fi

rew

orks

, etc

. It i

s cle

ar th

at w

hat C

apita

ls' m

ilitia

wan

ted

was

to p

reve

nt a

t any

cos

tth

e w

ave

of b

lack

-cla

d to

spi

ll m

ore

deep

ly in

to d

ownt

own

Mon

trea

l, sp

ecif

ical

ly t

hepa

rt w

here

cor

pora

te s

hops

and

ban

ks a

re s

tack

ed i

n a

big

lum

inou

s di

spla

y of

the

capi

talis

t sp

ecta

cle.

In

fron

t of

ret

reat

ing

cops

the

cro

wd

still

dec

ided

to

cont

inue

nort

h w

hile

ano

ther

lin

e of

cop

s w

as c

omin

g fr

om s

outh

. T

he p

rote

st

turn

ed2g

ea

stw

ard

and

the

cops

gra

sped

the

oppo

rtun

ity

to ru

n be

hind

firi

ng ru

bber

bul

lets

,

SU

BM

ITT

ED

T

O

SA

BO

TA

GE

M

ED

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IN M

ON

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EA

L

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IN

FO

RM

AT

ION

F

OL

LO

WS

}

AP

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TH

A m

ass

of y

outh

bro

ke in

to a

nd r

ansa

cked

the

Uni

vers

ity o

f M

ontr

eal

afte

r a

cour

tin

junc

tion

was

gra

nted

to

the

univ

ersi

ty a

gain

st s

tude

nt s

trik

er.

The

sam

e ev

enin

g a

crow

d st

oned

the

win

dow

s of

ban

ks,

vand

aliz

ed a

cop

car

and

trew

pro

ject

iles

to th

e co

ps.

AP

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H

Off

ice

of

the

Min

iste

r of

E

duca

tion

, L

ine

Bea

ucha

mp,

w

as

rans

acke

d.T

he n

ext

day

a pe

rson

was

arr

este

d an

d he

ld i

n cu

stod

y be

fore

bei

ng r

elea

sed

a fe

wda

ys la

ter

with

hou

se a

rres

t.

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H

Ove

rnig

ht f

our

min

iste

rs'

offic

es h

ad t

heir

win

dow

s br

oken

and

left

with

pai

nt a

ndgr

affi

ti.

Off

ice

of th

e M

inis

ter

of J

ustic

e, J

ean-

Mar

c Fo

urni

er.

Off

ice

of th

e M

inis

ter

resp

onsi

ble

for

Seni

ors,

Mar

guer

ite

Bla

isO

ffic

e of

the

Fina

nce

Min

iste

r, R

aym

ond B

acha

ndO

ffic

e of

the

Min

iste

r of

Lab

our,

Lis

e T

heri

ault

AP

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H

At t

hree

pla

ces

bags

of b

rick

s w

ere

left

on

subw

ay tr

acks

int

erru

ptin

g th

e se

rvic

e.

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H

A s

mok

e bo

mb

in th

e su

bway

sto

pped

the

ser

vice

on

the

gree

n lin

e ar

ound

7:3

0 a

m.

AP

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TH

Dur

ing

a "m

anif

-act

ion"

(ac

tion-

dem

o) c

alle

d "D

ownt

own

Shut

dow

n" a

cces

s w

asbl

oque

d to

the

Om

ni a

nd t

he C

IBC

tow

er,

whe

re a

re s

ituat

ed

the

offic

es

of t

heE

mpl

oyer

s C

ounc

il of

Que

bec,

the

Mon

trea

l E

cono

mic

Ins

titu

te a

nd t

he J

unio

rC

ham

ber

of C

omm

erce

of

Mon

trea

l.

Red

pai

nt b

ombs

wer

e th

row

n at

pol

ice

cars

. Fur

nitu

re a

nd b

ags

of g

arba

ge w

ere

thro

en i

n th

e st

reet

.T

wo

peop

le w

ere

arre

sted

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H

Var

ious

gro

ups

incl

udin

g st

uden

ts o

n st

rike

dis

rupt

ed t

he P

lan

Nor

d jo

b fa

ir a

nda

riot

bro

ke o

ut d

ownt

own.

Int

ense

str

eet b

attl

es w

ith t

he c

ops

insu

ed a

nd m

any

21

places had their window

s busted including the Montreal W

orld Trade C

enter, Palaisdes congres (the m

ain conference center), media m

onopoly Quebecor and various

banks and a dozen copcars.

AP

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ST

Another disruption of the Plan N

ord job fair this time called by the R

RQ

(a nationalistgroup) and InnuP

ower (an Innu first nations group) ends w

ith mass arrest of about a

hundred people. The job fair is closed for a second day in a row

.

AP

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D

Overnight

paint bom

bs w

ere thrown

against the

front of SN

C-L

avalin (hugeengineering firm

that amongst

other things

receives military contracts, builds

prisons around the world and also built the 10 m

illion dollar fence during the G20 in

Toronto). T

wo poeple w

ere arrested

Overnight Journal de M

ontreal office window

s were busted and a graffiti "m

ediaspartout" (m

edia everywhere) w

as sprayd on the building.

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H

While the student "delegates" recently negotiating w

ith the government call not to

do "actions of disturbance," a demo is held at w

hich police cars are vandalized andthe w

indows of an H

SBC

bank are shattered. Protesters shout "to negotiate is to get

fucked!"

Three people w

ere arrested for misdem

eanors and "breach of conditions."

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5T

H

Smoke bom

bs interrupt the service on two subw

ay lines at 9:45am and again one

hour later on one line.

During a dem

onstration in the

afternoon smoke bom

bs were triggered in the

Com

plexe Desjardins (shopping center and business offices).

At the

Montreal court , tw

o young wom

en went before a judge for breach of

conditions related to the demos. O

ne of them w

ill remain hostage to the S

tate atleast until her bail hearing, on M

ay 1. The other young w

oman, E

mm

a, whom

them

edia recently demonized w

as released with a prom

ise to appear in court but while

walking to a bar w

ith a friend downtow

n, bike pigs went by, recognized her and

decided to harass and arrest her. She w

asn't actually breaching anything - she didn'thave a condition against being dow

ntown. T

his is simply the S

tate trying to fuckw

ith her. She appeared before the judge the next day and the crow

n argued againsther release. S

he is currently being detained at Tanguay prison until her bail hearing

Monday.

Depending on how

the bail hearing goes, she would then either get released M

ondayor be held inside all the w

ay until her trial (!), ie. possibly months. T

he bail hearing isin room

5.07 at the Palais de Justice at 9:30 am this com

ing Monday, A

pril 30.

The sam

e night a riot broke out downtow

n during a massive dem

onstration ofthousands of people. Several banks, a police station, offices of the arm

ed forces22

and

state lottery were attacked and several street battles against the cops took

station 21 had its window

s thoroughly smashed w

hile the cops inside were shitting

themsleves and there w

ere paint bombs for L

oto-Quebec. T

he disinformation m

ediareported that people booed the actions of "thugs" but doesn't report that as m

anypeople applauded. T

hey may talk of a "social crisis", w

e call it an uprising.

According to the cops there w

ere a total of 85 arrests of some 10,000 dem

onstrators.

As to be expected in all the m

ass protests, some citizen-cops and dogm

atic pseudo-pacifists

booed and even

attacked hooded people who strike-back against

theoppressive system

, having understood that to transform the w

orld around us ittakes m

uch more than just orderly m

arches, no matter how

massive and peaceful.

Those w

ho have no interest in things changing, the privileged of this world w

hoare reaping the benefits of the m

onopoly of violence, defend the logic of the abuserw

ho says that violence is always legitim

ate when it is he w

ho uses it. The so-called

"pacifists" in their hypocritical dogmatism

are collaborators with the violence th

atis perpetrated every day around the globe against the poor, against w

omen, against

children, against indigenous people and people of different color, against animals

and all of Nature, at the hands

of the racist, patriarchal, colonial, mercantilist,

totalitarian and genocidal social order. When w

e mention these things w

ith theseautom

atons we are system

atically criticized for being apologists of violence... Do

these same "pacifists" jum

p on the cops when they throw

bombs, shoot gas and

charge with batons on young people protesting?

Or w

hen these cops shoot andkill people in the street or the subw

ay? Do they attack soldiers returning from

abom

bing mission in a "far aw

ay" country because those who have the m

onopoly ofviolence w

ant the oil there? No, never. T

hey rationalize this violence. In the heightof absurdity, these pacifists perpetuate the system

atic violence of this shit society byattacking those w

ho, destroying symbols of pow

er and attacking those who are paid

to be violent, put themselves at risk and revolt in any possible w

ay in solidarity with

the oppressed of this world.

While the m

ass disinformation m

edia are stuck on denouncing violence ever sincethe first fart from

the first student protest of the strike, mobilizing their w

holebrain eating m

achine to manipulate, dum

bdown and divide... that the governm

entthought it could let the youth rot and see them

disappear under the weight of an

aging and resigned population... that the cops thought they'd have but a few m

oreanecdotes for jokes around som

e beers about the protesters they frightened andbeat the shit out of... this m

ovement continues to radicalize itself, to overcom

e itsconfined and reductive student identity and to break w

ith the monopoly of violence

belonging to the sociopaths of above and their mercenaries. B

ecause Freddy, Michel

and Farshad w

ere murdered by the sam

e cops who profile us socially, racially and

politically, who deported our fam

ily, friends and lovers, who throw

us out of everyneighborhood w

hile cardboard condos spring up everywhere for "real people", w

hobeat up, pepper spray, and throw

bombs at their heads of the youth show

ing us th^irsocial conscience. In N

itassinan,the Innu and those who rem

ain living on this cornerof the E

arth are getting run over and stepped on by a bunch of parasites and th^irsponsors; the sam

e bastards that shit on us everyday and find it funny looking at us

always sinking deeper into their shit... th

ere are loads of reason

s to smash

it all!

translators note: the title is in reference to what is claim

ed to be the "revolution tranquille"(the quiet revolution) w

hich is how the reform

ism and social unrest of the 6(&

and 7(M$

27

Que

bec

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mie

r Je

an C

hare

st's

cab

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that

wer

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rget

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cas

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vand

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e th

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teri

or w

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alls

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thr

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hat

appe

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to

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nstr

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to t

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uild

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sw

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repo

rted

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no

one

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inju

red.

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se i

ncid

ents

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ore

clea

rly

linke

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the

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stu

den

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rote

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inM

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wit

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min

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ffic

es.

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o on

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day

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ork

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cor,

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of

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per

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cin

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pro

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clea

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nesd

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A

pril

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sand

s of

pe

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(u

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10

,000

acco

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ps)

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the

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mon

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enad

es w

hich

bro

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dem

onst

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into

sev

eral

gro

ups.

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even

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t th

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bat

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lea

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sev

eral

inju

red

in th

eir

rank

s. T

hey

are

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inin

g to

set

tle.

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y al

soon

ce a

gain

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plac

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and

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gain

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mok

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hat

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foun

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the

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atio

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2:1

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in v

anda

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is a

fter

noon

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2:12

p.m

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refi

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ere

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sta

tion

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e on

site

, th

e fi

refi

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that

it

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a s

mok

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achi

ne w

hich

see

med

to

have

bee

n la

unch

ed in

to a

tun

nel.

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mos

t im

port

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stat

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of t

he c

ity w

as c

ompl

etel

y ev

acua

ted,

and

a s

impl

eve

ntil

atio

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ickl

y m

ake

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air b

reat

habl

e ag

ain.

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ing

the

oper

atio

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he G

reen

and

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lines

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e cl

osed

, whi

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aste

d a

bit

over

ten

min

utes

.

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one

has

been

aff

ecte

d by

the

smok

e.

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s of

bri

cks

on th

e tr

ack

s th

is m

orn

ing

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s m

orni

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subw

ay w

as p

aral

yzed

in

wha

t th

e So

ciet

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tra

nspo

rt

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ontr

eal c

alle

d "a

co-

ordi

nate

d ac

t of

van

dalis

m."

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ious

act

ions

int

erru

pted

the

ser

vice

as

of 7

:15

am.

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s of

bri

cks

wer

e th

row

non

the

tra

cks

of s

tati

ons

Pre

font

aine

Col

lege

, Lau

rier

, Uni

vers

ity

of M

ontr

eal

and

Geo

rges

Van

ier.

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erge

ncy

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es w

ere

also

trig

gere

d at

five

site

s fo

r no

rea

son.

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gre

en, o

rang

e an

d bl

ue l

ines

hav

e be

en s

topp

ed.

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n th

e tr

ain

stop

ped

on th

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ange

line

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ann

ounc

er at

the

mic

roph

one s

aid

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now

if it

was

dem

onst

rato

rs w

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ser

vice

has

res

umed

on

the

Gre

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to 7

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sho

rtly

aft

er t

he O

rang

e an

dB

lue

line

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nter

rupt

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of

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t du

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act

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it

affe

cted

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lines

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wor

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as c

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d a

slow

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n w

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d th

e ti

me

it to

ok t

o re

sum

e th

ese

rvic

e.

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Isab

elle

Tre

mbl

ay, s

poke

sman

for

the

STM

, "it

is c

lear

that

this

is a

co-

ordi

nate

dac

t of v

anda

lism

". S

he h

as n

o gr

oup

sing

led

out f

or th

e m

omen

t, bu

t th

e st

uden

ts w

illce

rtai

nly

be i

nto

the

prio

riti

es o

f M

ontr

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inve

stig

ator

s re

spon

sibl

e fo

r sh

eddi

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ht o

n th

is s

erie

s of

mis

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Today, A

pril 20th, was the start of the Salon de 1'em

ploi du Plan Nord at the Palais des

congres [the main conference center in M

ontreal] as two dem

os were called to disrupt

the unfolding of this government propaganda operation w

here notably the prime

minister C

hares t was to put on his little show

promoting his industrial m

egaprojectof destruction (forestry, m

ining, dams, infrastructure, etc.) of northern so called

Quebec, one of few

places on Earth w

here there still remains w

ild untouched areas.

A dem

o called by the CLA

SSE (the main student coalition in the ongoing Q

uebecstudent strike) gathering over 1000 people headed tow

ard the Palais des congres.W

ith the repressive apparatus already deployed, around noon a group was able to

enter the first floor through an inside parking lot and tried to get to the second floorw

here the Fair was taking place. T

he cops pushed some people dow

n the stairs. Ascuffle w

ith the cops and some vandalism

followed as the prim

e gangster Charest

was to do his clow

n thing. The cops finally pushed people back out. L

ater, after beingset back by the events, C

harest gave his speech with an introduction now

making

its rounds in the media; "T

o all those who w

ere knocking on our door this morning,

we have jobs to offer the furthest north possible." T

he veil of political hypocrisy isthinning, not because of the already obvious joke that is dem

ocracy, but because we

can now see clearly w

hat the "North" represents in the m

ind of the spokesperson ofthe rapacious; a place far aw

ay, which they feel disconnected from

, that they don'tgive a shit about w

ho live there or whatever goes on there as long as their bank

accounts keep growing. W

hy not construct gulags while w

ere at it.

Meanw

hile another demo called by m

any groups on anti-colonial, anti-capitalist,environm

entalist and eco-anarchist basis gathered a few hundred people and left

square Phillips stopping at various places implicated in the pillage of the north,

like the Hydro-Q

uebec offices where Innu w

omen w

ere also gathered to recall thecolonialist assault by the S

tate and its institutions against their comm

unities. Many

texts were distributed.

When new

s came th

at shit had started at the Palais des congres, part of the thedem

o broke off to bring reinforcements. O

ver there, as people were gathered in front

of one of the entries, a youth who w

as close to the doors got shot with gas at point-

blank and shortly after this people attacked the doors throwing paint bom

bs andbusting its w

indows. A

riot squad came to disperse the crow

d and the street battlesstarted. F

or the rest of the day mobile groups attacked in w

aves and stirred shitaround the Palais des congres and financial district of M

ontreal, raising barricadesw

ith anything around, pelting the cops with rocks, m

aking them back up m

anytim

es, the cops shooting rubber bullets and constantly throwing their new

flashbanggrenades. T

he official assessment from

the cops is 17 arrests and six injured, fourof those being cops, but w

e strongly suspect the number of people injured to be

much higher being the level of arm

ament and brutal force used by the pigs from

thebeginning of the day. T

he Fair w

as finally canceled in the afternoon but no one was

24 allow

ed to enter already from noon on. T

he disruption was a success.

There w

as graffiti, attacks on C

CTV

cameras, a dozen cop cars and m

edia, andm

any places had their window

s busted, notably the Montreal W

orld Trade C

enterw

hich was attacked on three sides, banks and som

e luxury hotels. As w

indows w

ereshattered the crow

d applauded and sometim

es cheered Test pas des pacifistes qui

vont changer I'histoire! On pitche des paves pis on briile des chars!" [Its not pacifists

who w

ill change history! We throw

pavement and w

e burn cars! - translated lyricsfrom

a song by local band Mise en D

emeure]. T

he fighting spirit was clear.

The experience of crow

ds unleashing uncontrollably in the streets in front of sucha brutal enem

y as the State, C

apital and their mercenaries, that m

oment w

here we

take back our lives, where w

e free ourselves from m

orality, fear and the identitiesim

posed on us, cant be stopped around a table of negotiations, isn't the start of norw

ill die with a m

ovement: It is to b

e alive, free and

wild

!

It has been almost 40 years since the slogan N

o Future becam

e the standard bearer of ageneration, now

its of the whole planet. The w

orld they impose on us is decaying, it w

asn'tm

ade to last, and while they are accum

ulating whats left, during this last big liquidation

sale, their last big pillage, while they are pushing and fucking us up against the w

all, asthey w

ant us paralyzed in the trauma of this ongoing generalized rape, even after centuries

of denaturation imposed through force around the globe: W

e still know how

to bite

back!

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L - The offices of the Journal de M

ontreal were vandalized early M

onday, thelatest in a string of overnight attacks on buildings belonging to various businesses andgovernm

ent organizations in Montreal

According to M

ontreal police C

onstable Yvon D

elorme, a group of five or six

masked suspects threw

rocks at the window

s lining the sides of the building at4545 F

rontenac St. at about 3:30 a.m

.

A total of nine w

indows

were sm

ashed, and beige p

aint w

as tossed into thebuilding.

The m

essage "medias p

artou

t" or "media everyw

here" was also scraw

led acrossthe side of the building using spray p

aint.

A security guard on duty reportedly didn't get a good look at the group before

they fled.

No one had been arrested in connection w

ith the incident as of 6:15 a.m.

Over the w

eekend, someone also vandalized the exteriorof the headquarters of

engineering giant SNC

-Lavalin, throw

ing green and yellow paint balloons at the

side of the building on Rene L

evesque Blvd. T

wo m

en, 18 and 20, were arrested

and charged in connection with th

at attack.

A few

days before that, it w

as the offices of several high-profile mem

bers of 25