Good one Anarkhia Collective – that’s where the complete communique for last Friday night’s police bonfire has been posted. Here is my complete translation: Setting Fire to the Hochelaga Police Station Parking LotThe night of March 13-14, 2008 Six Police Cars caught fire at Station 23, on the corner of …
What follows is a news item from CMAQ, the Quebec Indymedia, with quotes from a communique claiming responsibility for an attack on empty police cars belonging to the SPVM, the Montreal Police Department, on the morning of March 14th. The news item was translated by yours truly, the original can …
From today’s Gazette: $20,000 QUESTION ARE COPS TARGETING TEENS OF COLOUR?‘ We did not profile because of race,’ police sayIRWIN BLOCK THE GAZETTEOn a steamy August night in 2003, 13-yearold Jonas Cassey, his brother Henri, 16, and four teenage friends were sitting on a low metal fence and chatting. The …
No Olympics on Stolen Land! Great Lakes & East Coast Speaking TourWith Kanahus Pellkey from the Native Youth Movement and Dustin Johnson With the 2010 Winter Olympics scheduled to occur on unceded Coast Salish, St’at’imc and Squamish territory in two years, the spectacle surrounding them continues to wreak havoc on …
The below article in Le Drapeau Rouge; i felt it was well worth translating and sharing with you all. At least in its newspaper, the Revolutionary Communist Party (the canadian one, not the Avakian outfit in the u.s.) is providing welcome leadership in opposing the rise of racism in Quebec, …
A comrade sent me the following article about the capture of some people trying to re-establish the Red Brigades in Italy. It’s from the Wall Street Journal, and so bound to be neither sympathetic nor necessarily even accurate, but nevertheless worth a quick read. For more on the historic Red …
MARCH AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY::::::::::WHEN: Saturday, December 15, 2007TIME: 11AMLOCATION: ST-MICHEL / D’HÉRELLE:::::::::: This past October 18, 2007, Quilem Registre died as a result of injuries suffered after a brutal arrest by police. Subjected to at least 6 Taser Gun shots, as well as the excessive brutality used by the police, …
Sixteen year old Aqsa Parvez was murdered by her father, who strangled her to death, we are told, because she did not want to wear hijab. She had already tried moving out of her Mississauga home, ongoing conflicts about how to dress and behave becoming too much to bear. She …
Well, you know what i think: this is a white stain on the Quebec trade union movement, certainly not the first and certainly not the last. In the present context it is clear that arguing for a “ban on religious symbols” is at best riding the wave of racism for …
Here is an excellent statement on the racist “reasonable accommodation” hearings in Quebec, from Montreal’s Immigrant Workers Centre: Whose Reasonable Accommodation ? The debate raised in Quebec on ‘reasonable accommodation’ is built on a number of false assumptions about the relationship between majority groups (‘we’) and minorities (‘they’) and what …