mercoledì 21 marzo 2012

A Day of Struggle in Montreal: Innu solidarity, citizen-cops, wild protest and the pigs revenge


translation from french by Antidéveloppement

http://www.sabotagemedia.anarkhia.org/2012/03/une-journee-de-lutte-a-montreal-solidarite-avec-les-innus-citoyens-flics-manif-sauvage-et-la-vengeance-des-porcs/

https://antidev.wordpress.com/2012/03/20/1132/

On Monday, March 12th, a chain of events has spanned for the whole day until late in the night.

It all began early in the day with a protest in solidarity with the Innu people who recently suffered repression from the SQ (provincial police) in their blockade of road 138 against the Hydro-Québec projects on their land. The protest of about 150 people started at Square Phillips at around 12:30 to go in front of the offices of Hydro-Quebec (where cops obviously were blocking the doors) by chanting slogans like « North Plan, Death Plan », « No Quebec, No Canada, Death to all States » while distributing leaflets on the North Plan (a series of mega projects in northern Quebec; forestry, hydro, mining etc.) to passersbies. After a few speeches the people then moved to the administrative offices of the UQAM and from this point the street in front of the building was occupied with a crowd that kept growing in numbers -as a reaction to the news of a lock-out of UQAM- all up until the night where a « Creation Night » event had been planned.

During this Creation Night, some were painting on the street, others played music, among others local band Mise en Demeure played a full set of songs making fun of pacifists and cops. Many were drinking beer sitting on a part of the furniture from the UQAM building who ended up in the street; chairs, desks, tables and sofas.

Around 11 PM, tension has started to rise as the citizen-cops started to attempt a clean up and enforce the law by « putting things back in place » as others kept taking the furniture out in the street. A person ripped chairs from the hands of a hooded comrade and tried to rip the comrades mask off, which got the person a well-deserved punch in the face. It’s simple : if you act like cops you are joining the enemy so you will be treated as such. Wanna play cops? Face the consequences.

After a short confrontation between 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 many walls and one cop car covered with anti-police and circled A graffiti. When the crowd arrived near the building of La Presse -the most mainstream bourgeois, reactionary newspaper in Quebec, one of Quebec’s “Fourth Branch” of the State- its windows were shattered to bits (the news outlet itself was forced to report on it… downplaying it as a mere “isolated” act) and once more the citizen-cops or undercovers -the only difference being their wage- showed up and attacked a hooded comrade, but this time the hooded ones fought back collectively and, defending their comrade, pushed back the attack. The crowd then dispersed not long after with any arrests, even though there are rumors that one was arrested during the protest.

A bit later at around 1 AM, about fifteen people who were chilling out drinking beer in a collective space received a visit from an entire squad of cops. The situation quickly escalated seemingly after someone was seen by the pigs with a bottle of beer outside. Many people were pepper sprayed, about twenty cops rushed in aggressively as if it were a raid, with batons in hand, some in riot gear and with a dog. There has been five arrests. Outside the riot squad was deployed for dispersing the people who gathered at the street corner.

http://www.sabotagemedia.anarkhia.org/2012/03/montreal-5-people-are-on-trial-over-arrests-during-the-night-of-monday-to-tuesday/


Social war and complicity!
Citizen-cops FUCK OFF!

Translated by Anabraxas (“To the victor goes the spoils of war, fuckers!”)
with a few changes by sabotagemedia


http://www.sabotagemedia.anarkhia.org/2012/03/a-day-of-struggle-in-montreal-innu-solidarity-citizen-cops-wild-protest-and-the-pigs-revenge/#more-2005

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