Jennifer Pawluck, a 20 year old woman from Montreal, was taken into police custody yesterday [April 3] and questioned after she posted a photo of a graffiti mural on her Instagram. The mural showed a caricature of a Montreal police spokesman Cmdr. Ian Lafrenière, with a bullet hole in his …
Solidarity against police repression in Montreal: We will not submit to the municipal by-law P-6 With this public declaration, we assert our opposition to by-law P-6: we will continue to demonstrate without negotiating our demo routes with police, and we will systematically challenge all tickets that arise from this by-law. …
We are living in exciting times, with large numbers of people clearly fed up and taking action, no longer content to wait for the right moment or the right ideas or the right leadership to tell them what to do. Whether we think of Occupy, the Arab Spring, or the …
A very important message, sent from friends at defenstrator: Now in it’s 2nd day with rumors the strikes have spread to up to ten prisons. Prison officials are reported to be threatening disproportionate levels of repression. Please show support!! FWD: Please urgently call each of the numbers below to protest …
The following is an Action Alert from the HRC-FedUp! Emergency Response Network, about prisoner-advocate Andre Jacobs who is being tortured in retaliation for his speaking up in defense of a fellow prisoner who was being deprived food. Take action for one who has taken action for others! Please take action …
A call for action at Federal Buildings and FBI Offices. We denounce the Federal Bureau of Investigation harassment of anti-war and solidarity activists. The FBI raided seven houses and an office in Chicago and Minneapolis on Friday, September 24, 2010. The FBI handed subpoenas to testify before a federal grand …
i’ve been wanting to post something about the G20, but the list of things to say has just been expanding faster than my time-to-type allows… which is why this contribution from Zig Zag is particularly welcome – a 32-page report on the resistance in Toronto, from a militant perspective. A …
undercovers jump and run at Monday’s anti-cop demo One of the most disheartening aspects of the 2009 March 15th Anti-Police Brutality demonstration in Montreal was the diffuse nature of resistance, so that people would do various things but even when undercover cops were identified in the crowd there was no …
comrade throwing a firecracker at cops at yesterday’s demo From the McGill Tribune, a report on yesterday’s march against police brutality in Montreal: Police arrest 100 during March Against Police Brutality Protestors, journalists detained for hours on STM buses Matt Chesser | Published: 3/16/10 Protestors clashed with Montreal Police at …
These are tags. One says “Fuck the Police”, another says “All Cops Are Bastards.” We have also seen these slogans at demonstrations in the past, so we can surmise that the group we are dealing with here is a group that we see in demonstrations.– Yannick Ouimet, Service de police …