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ANTI-G7 G7: Statement of the Popular Expression Zone

aced with the hideous is we didn’t want to stay dis- set the living room on fire and Even the possibility of Fdeployment of the secu- couraged while our neighbo- left in a demo into the city. criticizing the state is regu- rity apparatus put in place rhoods were stormed by the Life, or nothing… lated by the cops and fences. during the G7, we decided to cops. The media, hypnotized by Walled-off free speech zones, organize among friends and Euphoric, we placed the couches in flames, chose demonstrations permitted as block the Dufferin-Montmo- couches in the intersection not to relay the communiqué long as they bother no one. rency expressway ourselves. and furnished the space with of the Public Space Brigade The world has been stolen We clearly saw that the gathe- banners, laughter, and songs. (BEP). So we decided to share from us, even the possibility rings and other actions called Comrades put their bodies it here: of putting it in question. And by the RRAG7, the CLAC between the riot police and Public Space Brigade: quietly people stay in their and others had no chance of the space we named Popular Don’t panic, everything is under place, in front of the TV, liste- allowing us to experience so- Expression Zone for the occa- control ning to the radio, suspended mething seriously enjoyable, sion to allow us to enjoy our- and all that needs to be said selves a bit longer. Then we That’s the problem. PAGE 2

WHATS INSIDE

Anti-G7...... 2 Sabotage of Fiber Optic Cables, Banner Drop, Bank Vandalism

Anti-Colonialism...... 4 Two Queen Victoria Statues Vandalised (Again)

Anti-Fascism...... 5 Antifascist Action at the Border, Meet Your Local Alt-Right Nazi FINDING EACH OTHER: AUTONOMOUS AND ANARCHIST SPACES IN MONTREAL Scumbags, Hochelaga Resists

Visit resistancemontreal.org for a La Librairie Racines Open hours are on the website. Anti-Capitalism and Work...... 8 calendar of radical events in the city, and The goal of the Racines Bookstore is to May Day, ZAD Solidarity La Mandragore PIPELINES & EXPLOITATION OF THE EARTH a larger list of anarchist groups, spaces, focus on the histories, cultures, and li- La Mandragore is a collective that shares and news. ving conditions of racialized people. Warm Night: Arson at McInnis Cement Police & Prisons...... 9 a queer and feminist library with La De- 4689 Henri-Bourassa Est, Montréal-Nord. Disruption of Immigration Prison ferle. It also organizes workshops, pro- L’Achoppe FB:Racinesmontreal recent night in June, a Editorial note: Architecture Headquarters jections, and discussions to contribute to Event space in Hochelaga. McInnis Cement buil- the formation and maintenance of queer A 1800 Létourneux, Hochelag’ Le DIRA / L’Insoumise ding burns next to the hor- The Port-Daniel cement plant pushed through without the Posters...... center-fold and feminist communities. FB:achoppepublic The DIRA (documentation, information rible Port-Daniel cement is the largest of its kind in Ca- public consultations that are lamandragore.xyz et références anarchistes) is an anarchist plant. It left behind a blacke- nada and will produce up to normally required by Que- La Déferle FB:bibliothequelamandragore library and meeting space downtown. ned carcass. This fire burns for 2.5 million tonnes of cement bec law, nor did indigenous Disclaimer: Montreal Counter-info publi- Anarchist social space in Hochelaga. shes original work, anonymous submis- L’Insoumise is an anarchist bookstore. our humiliated hearts. May annually. The $1.5 billion people give their consent. sions, and material from other websites Library, workshops, and more! 2035 St-Laurent, 3e étage, près du métro the ashes return to this land plant will be the single big- for educational purposes only. We do not 1407 Valois, Hochelag’. condone or promote illegal, violent, and St-Laurent. they devastated and the trees gest greenhouse gas emitter au1407.org unlawful behavior or actions, or acts of bibliodira.org take over what’s left… in ’s history. It was intimidation against individuals or groups. FB:ladeferle insoumise.wordpress.com 2 Anti-G7 11 Police & Prisons

FROM PAGE 1 G7: Statement of the Popular Expression Zone STOPPONSLAPRISON.INFO - LEMAY

in front of screens. tension between police and protesters, sert you call the G7. It’s the reappropria- rchitecture firm with headquarters Who works at Lemay? > Every year it’s the same theatre the politicians discussing security and re- tion from the bottom, from the street, of A located in the Montreal neighbou- piece that is replayed: everyone is there, pression, colonization and oil extraction, our lives and our bodies, the relearning rhood of St-Henri. Lemay prides itself at their post. The dictatorship of orders war and hatred of migants, exploitation of territory and of the freedom to take on “environmentally sustainable” buil- reaches its peak, and the peoples try as of works and deregulation, have it easy. action against the misery of this rotten dings and projects that create “tangible well as they can to demonstrate an orga- The question of violence must be posed system. and measurable value for our clients, nized opposition to this spectacle. on a different level. Here, we stop the old world. Here, we users and communities.” We say there’s While we’re battered with messages This popular expression zone is on the carve our own in the cracks of its decli- nothing sustainable about a world that of fear with respect to possible rises in opposite end of this buffoonery, this de- ning power. Here is now – life. locks people in cages, and no way that building a migrant prison can create any- thing but pain and destruction for those locked inside and their communities.

Lemay Headquarters 3500, rue Saint-Jacques Montréal, QC Canada H4C 1H2 514 932-5101 Louis T. Lemay Marc Bouchard [email protected] President Partner and Vice-President, Finance and Administration Lemay also has offices in , Calgary, Edmonton, New York. Sabotage during the G7 Summit

he last G7 was held in la Malbaie, following a cutting of the fiber. Twelve Communique: GROUPE A Tin Quebec, the 8th and 9th of June wireless sites were affected by the outage.” 2018 in the Charlevoix castle. While the The Integrated Network of Multimedia While the police and their para-milita- ry weapons invaded the old city’s streets, n architecture and urban de- Who works at Groupe A? entire area was heavily secured, which Telecommunications of the Quebec go- sign firm based in Québec City, we don’t doubt, power also took care vernment (RITM), which allows the sha- looking for some obscure threat; some A shadows slid out of their lair. They at- Groupe A (and its subsidiary, Annexe to reinforce its critical infrastructures, ring of services and information between U) prides itself on “participative design” including cell phone network coverage public organizations throughout Que- tacked the telecommunications system recently updated in Charlevoix by some and the construction of LEED-certi- (with a $15M contract with Bell for the bec, was also affected in Baie-Saint-Paul, fied buildings. The firm is no stranger installation of 13 cell phone relays), but as well as the Ministry of Transportation. generous and powerful people. The need for a good fiber-optic connection for to designing detention centres: they also the installation of fiber optic cable The damages were such that a plan B had are responsible for the design of several in this depopulated and slightly preser- to be activated during the G7: a rerou- the G7 festival relies on a few thousands poles and some big black wires. And no, courthouses and the new LEED-certified ved zone of La Malbaie (with a $6M ting solution requiring the deployment Sept-Îles detention centre, which opened contract with Bell), so that the heads of of a new fiber. it’s not the kind of thing that can ignite by itself… We also want to cheer the bea- in 2016. The firm boasts that its prison state could enjoy high speed internet du- Of course, because it must not be design centers “human-scale residences”, ring the summit. shouted too loudly, and show the vulne- ver who broke the fiber-optic network in 2013 and the ice which did the same in but any firm which proudly specializes in Anyway, everything was supposed to rability of mechanisms always within carceral architecture is a collaborator in go fine on this side, and yet… and yet reach of audacious hands, the state speaks April of this year. We hope that by tes- ting your network, we helped you miss a the violent system of imprisonment and a fiber optic cable caught fire during the of an accident. All the same the odds are incarceration. G7, “making certain communications incredible – a crucial fiber optic cable few tweets… along route 138 leading to Charlevoix catches fire on its own in the middle of We refuse to be bound by your tenta- culary networks. For us, every technolo- Groupe A Headquarters Patrice Beauchemin Rémi Morency impossible,” according to a local paper. the G7 in the red zone, a cable made of 819, avenue Moreau “The outage has affected the wireless ser- glass or plastic, whose properties do not gical advancement comes at the price of Architecte associé Architecte associé another regression in our liberty. Québec (Québec) vice of Telus Mobility and Bell Mobility tend toward spontaneous combustion. Canada G1V 3B5 Visit stopponslaprison.info for more details. between Beauport and Baie-Saint-Paul 418 653-8341 10 Police & Prisons 3 Anti-G7

Journal de Montreal publish far-right fake news to popularize these sentiments. First Anti-G7 Banner Drop in Saguenay With all this in mind, we understand a fight to stop this new detention centre ne cold morning, the anti-G7 have sufficed. We intentionally chose the millions of dollars sucked from public from being built as a fight based in an- Ocollective « Saumons la terreur » Bagotville base, an important internatio- funds which will serve to finance the ri- ti-fascism, as part of the fight against spawned downstream to the Bagotville nal entry point for the region, to show diculous security protecting this political white supremacy. We seek to connect our military base to drop its first banner: our disapproval of the arrival of these masquerade. actions to those of other people in our “G7, Stay Home, Use Skype,” in protest leaders and the deployment of the Cana- The G7, under the cover of a peace- communities, both near and far, who are of the summit being held in June 2018 dian Forces to assure their safety. ful and progressive agenda, seems to us also fighting white supremacy and the in La Malbaie. It is deplorable that the media co- to be nothing more than a manifestation rise of the far right. Even as we fight the We act to point out that the Char- verage of the issues raised by the G7 is of institutional violence. We believe that liberalism of the current governing party levoix region is already completely pa- practically non-existent. The numerous the countries forming the G7 constitute in Canada, we also fight the rise of the ralyzed by drastic and disproportionate substantive criticisms brought forward themselves the principal reasons that the far right and their violent visions for the security measures put in place at a high by various community groups are barely world’s social inequalities exist. Other parole-like system run by NGOs willing you just love it when NGOs step in to future. price by the Canadian and Quebec go- heard in traditional networks of infor- actions against the G7 are to be expec- to act as prison guards. In some ways, make government repression look good? We are inspired, recently, by the cam- vernments to welcome dignitaries, even mation sharing, drowned out by a cam- ted, both in the region and across the these options are better than sitting in a So what do we make of this ove- paign to try and stop the deportation of though a simple video-conference would paign of fear brought to legitimize the province. prison. In other ways, these options will rhaul in the end? It means more money Lucy Granados. We are inspired by the act as a carrot, with prison as the stick. for more repressive prisons, some mo- everyday bravery of people living wit- In the end, these “alternatives to deten- ney for some slightly less heinous ways hout status and by those who get orga- tion” will reinforce the legitimacy of the of controlling people’s movement, and nized and get together to protect each detention centre as an option at all (“we some money for the Red Cross. In a other and our shared communities. We gave you a chance to use the phone sys- context where people are walking across are inspired by all the people who are tem and, even though we gave you no the border from the US to flee Trump’s standing up against borders, prisons, option to regularize your status and, in America, a context where most of those and other forms of domination. We are fact, gave you a deportation date instead, people won’t be granted refugee status inspired to struggle for their freedom to you went MIA, so now we have to put and they could very well end up in im- stay and freedom to move, and to call on you in detention”). Alternatives to de- migration detention, we want to stop this others to join us. tention are more sophisticated forms of new immigration detention centre from Lemay is not the only company in- controlling migrants that allow the state being built. We see this as the perfect volved in the design and construction of to seem benevolent, while still deporting time – in fact the only time – to interve- the prison, and thus not the only pos- and detaining people who don’t submit ne in order to keep this from happening. sible point of pressure. From the archi- to the more sophisticated controls. We mobilize against this new prison, wi- tectural plans of Lemay, to the contribu- The strategy of pursuing alternatives thout forgetting that we also want to see tions of Groupe A, to the materials and to detention would likely lead us fur- the old one closed. We see the prevention construction crews, it takes many hands ther down a road where NGOs collabo- of construction on this new prison as just and many parts to build a prison. This is rate with the government in detaining one part of a much larger fight to tear a call for more research, discussion, and migrants, in exchange for funding for down the others already standing. action around Lemay’s involvement spe- their staff salaries. In 2017, the govern- In addition to understanding this cifically, but also all the other firms and ment signed a new contract with the Red struggle in the context of a global “mi- groups invested in the project. We hope Every Bank is a Blank Canvas Cross to monitor conditions in immi- grant crisis,” we understand that this is to see other anti-construction crews take gration detention centres. However, the also happening in a context of a rise of action in the future, and we hope that n the night of june 14th, some artists a summit that bears little relation to our Red Cross has technically been moni- activity in the far right. Storm Alliance, a this project can become the target of a It is obvious that politics, both the lives and long-term struggles. Instead toring immigration prisons since 1999, far right racist anti-immigrant group, has sustained campaign, capable of bringing who wish to remain anonymous made G7 politician’s and the social activist’s, I of falling for this trap, we enjoy acting this is just the first time they’ve gotten organized a handful of anti-migrant de- together many people to support an end a contribution to MURAL Festival 2018. is a dead end. The problem is figuring when and where the cops are not expec- “core funding” for the program from the monstrations at the border, often joined to prisons and borders. The piece is a postmodern, extinguisher out what to do instead. We choose to ting us. We will continue to do so. government. In exchange for $1.14 mil- by , Quebec’s home-grown po- We hope that the resistance to this acrylic on bank window, measuring (ap- experiment with confronting that which Solidarity with the anarchists facing lion over two years, the Red Cross will pulist far right group. Influenced by an- prison continues to proliferate, faster proximately) 15ft x 8ft. More specifical- seeks to turn every part of our lives into repression in Quebec City, Montreal, keep “monitoring” detention centres and ti-migrant and far-right rhetoric on the and further than thousands of crickets. ly, we sprayed the facade of the National a commodity. We’ve watched the state Hamilton, and worldwide. telling the government that everything internet, Alexandre Bissonnette shot and Bank on Saint-Laurent Boulevard with a waste hundreds of millions of dollars on – Some vandals is a-ok; rubber stamping the continued killed six people in a mosque in Quebec fire extinguisher filled with black paint. a security apparatus for the spectacle of practices of imprisoning migrants. Don’t City a year and a half ago. TVA and the 4 Anti-Colonialism 9 Police & Prisons

Lemay’s head office, 3500 rue Saint-Jacques

Anti-construction Crew Releases Thousands of Crickets into Immigration Prison Architecture Headquarters

ne morning in April 2018, our centre in Laval has been proposed as it’s okay to lock people up. Oamateur construction crew released part of a Liberal government “overhaul” The new prison in Laval seems like it thousands of crickets into the newly of the immigration system. The bulk of will have the same or slightly more capa- built headquarters of the Montreal ar- the overhaul is focused on infrastructu- city to imprison people than the current chitecture company Lemay. We pulled ral changes: $122 million of the $138 immigration detention centre (current a sheet of plywood off the side of the million overhaul project will be spent on capacity is between 109 and 144 people, building and funneled the crickets into building two new immigration detention while the new centre would suppose- a recently completed office space. Lemay, facilities (in Laval and in Surrey, BC) and dly hold 121 people). This is strange in along with Quebec-City based company upgrading an already existing detention a context where the numbers of immi- Groupe A, has been awarded a contract centre in Toronto. The stated reason for grants being detained is down in recent Two Queen Victoria Statues Vandalised in Montreal (Again) to build a new immigration detention this change is that the current detention years and the government claims to plan centre in Laval, a suburb of Montreal. centres are not up to international stan- to reduce these detentions even further. ays before the outdated and insul- supremacy.” ting colonial symbols and monuments It is slated to open in 2020. We oppose dards. The government claims they also It wouldn’t surprise us if they’re just talk- Dting Queen Victoria holiday, two The Queen Victoria statues should for vandalism and eventual removal: borders, prisons, and immigration de- want to move away from detention and ing more bullshit. As someone said, “if landmark statues to Queen Victoria in come down and be placed in a museum Cornwallis in Halifax, John A. Mac- tention centres. We struggle for a world towards alternatives to detention. you build them, they will fill them.” A Montreal were vandalized last night. as a historical artifact. Public statues and donald in Kingston and Montreal, the where people are free to stay and free to The new facilities are being pitched reduction in the number of folks de- The Victoria Memorial in downtown monuments should not represent op- Rhodes Must Fall movement in South move; a world without white supremacy, as “nicer” prisons. They are supposed tained seems unlikely. Montreal (erected in 1872) as well the pression. The presence of Queen Victoria Africa, the resistance to racist Confede- capitalism, colonialism, and patriarchy. to be “non-institutional in design,” and In fact, let’s talk about that a bit bronze statue on Sherbrooke Street (erec- statues in Montreal is, to again quote the rate monuments in the USA, and more. We see the release of these crickets have easy access to outdoor spaces and more. As part of the overhaul to the im- ted in 1900) at McGill University were Delhi-Dublin Anti-Colonial Solidarity To once again repeat the words of the as merely the beginning of a concerted meeting spaces for family and NGO migration system, Public Safety Minister both sprayed in red paint. Brigade, “an insult to Indigenous nations Delhi-Dublin Ant-Colonial Solidarity effort to stop the new immigration de- representatives, but still prioritize state Ralph Goodale announced the govern- This action is rooted in opposition in (Turtle Island) and Brigade: “Our action is a simple expres- tention centre from being built. Crickets security and keeping people locked up ment’s intention to explore “alternatives to colonialism and imperialism, and a Oceania, as well as the peoples of Afri- sion of anti-colonial and anti-imperialist are known to reproduce quickly and are inside. The companies who have been to incarceration.” In the report that was dislike of the parasitic British monarchy ca, the Middle East, the Caribbean, the solidarity, and we encourage others to difficult to exterminate. Their constant awarded the contracts are known for de- written about the overhaul, the govern- (and all monarchies). We are also direct- Indian subcontinent, and everywhere the undertake similar actions against racist noise and quick proliferation through signing LEED certified court houses and ment said that alternatives to detention ly inspired by the recent vandalism (with British Empire committed its atrocities.” monuments and symbols that should be any space they have access to makes prisons as well as libraries and university included “the ability to report by phone green paint) of the same Queen Victoria These statues are also insulting to in museums, not taking up our shared them much more than a nuisance to spaces. So, it’s hard to imagine that this through voice recognition technology statues in advance of St. Patrick’s Day people who represent the progressive public spaces.” have around. The crickets will multiply new prison won’t have an “institutional” to minimize the need to report to the this past March by the Delhi-Dublin struggles of the Irish, as well as Qué- — Communiqué by the Henri Paul* inside Lemay’s new headquarters in the feel. Much like the overhaul of the fede- CBSA in person, maximize freedom of Anti-Colonial Solidarity Bridage becois. However, we denounce the far- Anti-Monarchy Brigade gentrifying neighbourhood of St. Henri, ral women’s prison system in Canada in movement, facilitate compliance and op- These statues represent, to quote the right anti-immigrant racist souchebags * Henri Paul was the driver of the luxu- even after the wall we deconstructed has the 90s and the current attempt by the timize efficiencies.” Sounds like it’s about Delhi-Dublin Anti-Colonial Solidarity in Quebec who coopt the legacy of the ry Mercedes with Lady Diana that crashed been replaced. Meanwhile, we will get Ontario provincial government to soften making border cops’ jobs easier and sa- Brigade, “a legacy of genocide, mass patriotes, but actually represent neo-fas- in Paris in 1997. Every member of the even more organized in our resistance to their prison system, this “overhaul” of ving money. murder, torture, massacres, terror, forced cist ideas. British monarchy deserves a drunk French this new immigration detention centre the immigration detention centre aims More commonly known alternatives famines, concentration camps, theft, Important context: our action last driver! and all that it represents. to put some pretty curtains on a building to immigration detention include elec- cultural denigration, racism, and white night contributes to a tradition of targe- The new immigration detention that people can’t leave and pretend that tronic bracelets and halfway houses, or a 8 Anti-Capitalism and Work 5 Anti-Fascism

Disruption of a Meeting of En Marche Montréal in Solidarity with the ZAD No neighbourhood for

and of buffoons, did you really they spread will always come back to prise when they received stink bombs, fascists, no fascists in our Bthink we would allow your little cli- their nostrils. firecrackers and insults. We would have neighbourhood! que to hold its event, while you’re trying Whereas all across France the Macron thought they would be more favorable to to destroy everything we have built? government pathetically tries to crush the use of violence seeing how their mo- Driven by the force of the intergalac- strikes and evict our friends on the ZAD narch is deploying his attack dogs against he fascist scum think they can ins- tic call for solidarity with the ZAD, we and in the universities, it was the En the movement. Ttrumentalize feminism and invade decided to intervene during a 5 à 7 of En Marche shitbags’ turn to be evicted. Our lives are beautiful, and they are our spaces. Marche (yes, they come bother us all the While our festive arrival and playful worth defending. We stole their banner. And we, en- way in Montreal) to remind the Macro- chants seemed to cheer them up mo- The resistance is on the march: be- raged feminists, made it disappear. We nists that the nauseating odor of the shit mentarily, their coldness took us by sur- cause it’s our project! are everywhere.

Report-back from the 2018 CLAC May Day Demo Antifascist Action at the Quebec/US Border LAC organized its annual May Day then took the street towards 6:30pm on other side, which pushed the rear of the Cdemonstration on the theme of the Sherbrooke, going west. The cops then demo back east and made one arrest. At aith Goldy had called a rally at the suddenly took on greater importance for the intersection looked more like a mi- G7 this year. The planet’s most powerful decided to take the sidewalk on the nor- this moment the police rapidly regained FRoxham border (U.S/ Quebec) at- their forces. litarized zone than a pro-borders demo. will gather June 8th and 9th for a major th side to begin forming a kind of mo- control of the situation, deploying riot tracting roughly 100 far-right groups and Those who showed up on the 3rd re- But, that’s just the thing–the very pre- meeting in the Charlevoix region. ving kettle around the demo. A small but cops on the streets north and south of individuals from Ontario and Quebec, as presented Goldy’s range of appeal. There sence of far-Right demonstrators and This year, May Day saw the unions very determined black bloc did not want Sherbrooke. People had no choice but to well as a few stragglers from as far away were members of the Proud Boys from known neo-Nazis is violent. Their feti- agreeing to accommodate the bosses’ ca- to allow them this space prized by the disperse or return to Parc Lafontaine just as Alberta and Nova Scotia. This is the Ontario, along with other far-Right in- shized need to patrol settler borders on lendar by holding a march Saturday April Urban Brigade which gains considerable five minutes after the start. It wasn’t the first time this sort of collusion between ternet media warriors, such as Ronny stolen Indigenous lands reveals them for 28th, gathering several thousand people. tactical advantage from it. By taking the clash with the cops that forced the dis- provincial groups has ever been observed Cameron (self-described “white natio- the white supremacists that they are and On the first of May, three demonstra- sidewalk, the Urban Brigade is able to persal, but rather the arrival of cops from at the border here. nalist” and supporter of the Alt-Right), the infrastructures of white supremacy tions were called in Montreal: CLAC’s control the whole of the demo, in that all sides in large numbers. Faith Goldy is currently one of Ca- Alex Van Hamme (Free Bird Media), and they uphold (i.e. borders, anti-migrant at Parc Lafontaine, the Revolutionary it can decide where to direct the crowd. The dispersal was also facilitated by nada’s most prominent far-Right inter- Georges Massaad (The Phalange Media). legislation, detention centers, safe third- Communist Party’s in the Golden Square This greatly limits attacks on symbols the lack of closer links between people net personalities. She appeals to both The bulk of those who attended the rally country agreement). Mile, and the IWW’s in Parc-Extension. of capitalism, such as banks. Taking the in the demo. Being able to keep a much populist forces concerned primarily were from Quebec, though. Despite the In the past, anti-fascists have publicly About 200 people gathered towar- sidewalk should be a collective reflex of more compact unity could have limited about “illegal immigration” and “the fact that Goldy had essentially snubbed called counter-demos. We are often pu- ds 6pm at the southwest corner of Parc the demo, because having a demo en- the damage caused by the cops’ interven- Muslim threat,” as well as to actual fas- Quebec organizers, not responding to shed out of the way by SQ riot cops in Lafontaine for the CLAC demo. Lots circled by the SPVM is a problem for tion. Keeping a slower pace and ensu- cists and neo-Nazis. Not only has she not overtures from Dave Tregget and Sylvain order to make way for far-Right groups. of police were deployed all around with everyone. If removing the cops from the ring that no one is isolated at the front eschewed the latter, she has made a point Lacroix, and that her call for “patriots” This time, we made no public call out. bike cops as well as numerous buses of sides remains the work of a small part of or the back could have possibly allowed of pandering to them, i.e. repeating and to bring Red Ensign flags alienated some Instead, we waited to position oursel- riot police. The SPVM had made up its the demonstration, it will remain very the demo to go on for longer. The cops defending the 14 words (a neo-Nazi slo- Quebec nationalists, there was a signi- ves at a strategically advantageous point mind to let no one demonstrate on this difficult to hold the street in Montreal in prepare for annual demos like May Day gan), joking with people from the Daily ficant showing of individuals associated along Roxham Rd and proceeded to set- May Day. The crowd growing gradual- a more combative way. months in advance, and they seek to dis- Stormer in Charlottesville, and being an with Storm Alliance, Atalante, la Meute, up a highway blockade. Our numbers ly, one noticed the presence of about Protected by banners the black perse us as quickly as possible. Finding avid defender of “identitarianism” in Ca- and even the Front Patriotique du Que- were small, we intentionally chose to be forty individuals putting on black clo- bloc decided to empty a fire extingui- ways to unite the intentions of every per- nada, including promoting the Alt-Right bec (which had officially disassociated so. Our objective was to concretely dis- thing, looking to form a black bloc more sher, throw bricks and rocks, and shoot son who shows up is difficult, but it re- Identity Canada group. itself from the rally due to the sensitive rupt their demo for as long as possible. consequential than in recent demos in fireworks at the cops, to force them to mains the key to continuing to hold the Goldy’s fame spiked in far-Right “red ensign” issue). This was an experiment, one that we are Montreal. The riot cops chose to move in make a retreat. While the cops backed up street. circles recently, when she filmed her- In her promo videos, Goldy had as- still evaluating. closer to leave the small crowd no room a bit, a number of them choosing to hide This is a text that calls for others: how self being spat on and ejected from an ked attendees to be on their “best beha- Solidarity with all migrants crossing to maneuver. behind parked cars in fear, the strate- did you experience this May Day, and antifascist counter protest at the Que- vior” but she certainly did not object to borders. Solidarity with all those de- Just before the departure, some gy was not as effective as hoped, as the what could be done so that we continue bec/U.S. border at Lacolle a few weeks Threepers showing up at the Fisher and tained in immigrant detention centers. speeches were given on the ravages of ca- demo found itself split in two with the to find each other in the street? earlier. Many who had never heard of her Roxham Rd intersection, dressed in full Solidarity with all Indigenous folks lea- pitalism locally and elsewhere. The demo arrival of a second Urban Brigade on the before, especially within the Quebec far tactical gear, to patrol the area. The sug- ding the ongoing resistance against the right, took notice, and the June 3 rally gested violence is not lost on observers, settler colonial states and their borders. 6 Anti-Fascism 7 Anti-Fascism

Montréal... Meet Your Local No racists in our neighbourhood, no neighbourhoods for racists! Hochelaga resists. Alt-Right Nazi Scumbags ince the last boneheads (neonazi skin- bar, well we let them drink their beers nationalist activist (this is not a crime) Sheads) were run out of the neighbou- in peace because it seems like these two for years, she is a big fan of the neo-nazi ver the past year, Montreal anti- rhood around 2008, the neighbourhood dudes are no longer involved in a racist group the Soldiers of Odin and she hates Ofascists have identified individuals, of Hochelaga had once again become a group. That’s what we want, so we’re “Antifas.” Recently, she offered her help and finally a small and pathetic scene, little paradise for bums like us, for pu- watching you, but we’ll do nothing as to SOO when they promised 1000$ to of men in their 20s and 30s, active on- nks, for counter-culture overall. It is a long as you don’t do anything stupid… anyone who would provide them with line but trying to establish an “in real multicultural neighbourhood where we Next weekend, on Sunday July 1st, information to find those who attacked life” presence for neo-Nazism in our city. feel good, where everyone speaks to each two racist groups will come demons- them. When she talks about “Fan-fans” Occasionally operating as “Alt-Right other easily and where there is a lot of trate in our city: La Meute and Storm it’s antifas, and “cellules” are what Storm Montreal” or ARM, or Arm and Ham- solidarity… Alliance. These groups are not yet fully Alliance calls antifascists. What the hell, mer, these individuals are also linked to Since the return and the multipli- implanted in Montreal but we must stay what’s your fucking problem when you Generation Identity (rebranded as ID cation of racist groups in Quebec since vigilant. Some of their members live in prefer to help organized crime rather Canada), the phantom Northern Order, 2016, our neighbourhood hasn’t been our neighbourhood! than those who fight against fascism? and other “groups” in the city. immune but continues to resist and hold This is the case with Chantal Graton, These two people are supposed to See mtlcounterinfo.org for a se- itself well! a La Meute activist who lives on Leclaire participate in the demonstration on July ries of reports on this milieu, including We were happy to learn that the duo street, close to the corner of Ontario. 1st with La Meute and Storm Alliance prominent neo-Nazi ideologue Gabriel of fascist youtubers (they don’t even hide We will not give out her address for the in Montreal. We tried to communicate Sohier-Chaput, known only as Zeiger themselves) DMS aka Maxime Morin moment because she has a daughter who with them, we left anti-racist informa- until now. The doxx includes a leak of the and Guillaume Beauchamp were kicked is still in CEGEP and children are not tion at their doors but it didn’t interest private forum of the neonazi “Montreal out of the neighbourhood by antifas- responsible for the racism of their pa- them, they prefer to shut themselves in Stormer Book Club”. cists. We were no longer capable of en- rents. Chantal is a Facebook addict, she with racism, islamophobia, hatred of Hundreds of posters have gone up during them, all the way to Chic Resto shares fake news all day long and she others… when the real problem in Que- in Montreal to expose these nazi scu- Pop where they sometimes went to eat… has persuaded herself that Muslims are bec today, the shit-disturbers, are you mbags. Some posters contain the pre- the fuckers didn’t lack a sense of humor invading, that Muslim “blood” leads to and your pathetic bands of racists! viously-unpublished addresses of Vincent when they ate there, those who hate the criminality, to rape, and to pedophilia. We have shared your addresses so Bélanger Mercure (4350 Melrose Ave- poor! Hey what’s your problem Chantal, what that you realize that actions have conse- nue) and Philippe Gendron (6735 Rue We were also told that the last time do you say to your Muslim neighbours quences. Fabre). Soldiers of Odin visited to come fuck when you run into them in the east of We will unveil more addresses in the The posters are online so you can print with the punks in the neighbourhood Hochelaga where you live? Who poses a neighbourhood very soon. and post yourselves. But be careful, and this winter, the SOO ran away like rab- danger for the security of others, in your Hochelaga hates racists, Montreal watch out for the fash – some have been bits! opinion? hates racists, Quebec hates racists. spotted running around their neighbou- We may be antifascists but we are not There is also Patricia “La Rebelle” Signed: some residents of the neighbou- rhoods removing posters of themselves. psychopaths. When we came across two Ramez, activist in Storm Alliance, who rhood of Hochelaga ex-members of the viking-nazi group the lives at 2660 Théodore street (just a Wolves of Odin at the l’Espace Public couple steps from métro Viau). Proud