What follows is a rough version of a talk i gave at Montreal’s Native Friendship Center, at the Anti-Colonial Thanksgiving organized by Frigo Vert last night. Many of the articles and documents referenced here are also referenced on the new Kersplebedeb H1N1 page. I’m here to say just a few …
These thoughts are provoked by a number of recent incidents: the assault on Sofia Papazoglou in Greece, bricks thrown through the windows of anti-racists in Bridgeland, Alberta, threats from Blood and Honour boneheads against Barricade Books in Australia, an autonomist youth center burned down by neo-nazis in Germany, as well …
i’ve been thinking about what we call “historical knowledge” quite a bit these days, all the while chewing my way through my annual summer treat, the two “years best” annual science fiction anthologies (Gardner Dozois’ and Hartwell & Cramer’s respectively).Historical knowledge is taken as something of a given, and for …
The above is a video recording of Ward Churchill Speaking On Colonialism as Genocide at Concordia University in Montreal last Wednesday, recorded by Maximilian Forte on Vimeo. i was tabling so i missed the talk, which makes me extra-grateful to have this video available. i certainly don’t agree with …
Every lost battle is a principle of weakness and disorganization; and the first and immediate desideratum is to concentrate, and in concentration to recover order, courage, and confidence. – Carl von Clausewitz, On War By the time the day was over, over two hundred people had been arrested at yesterday’s …
A year-and-a-half after the fact, new details have come to light about the cops’ activities at the 2007 Montebello protests against George Bush.As you may recall, police infiltrators at the demo were identified by members of the Black Block, who isolated them with the help of other demonstrators. The faux-protesters …
Check out the following nice tidbit from the Journal de Montreal, translated by yours truly. Funny how they fail to mention the most high profile attacks over the past two years, the police cars torched in Montreal’s East End by the allegedly anarchist Ton Pere Collective in March of this …
This is a PDF of a 20 page (8×11) booklet: SportsAction: Chronology and Communiques of Anti-2010 Resistance and Direct Action. Just click right here to download it. i received this and was told to print out & distribute it, forward to contacts, or download to your website. So here it …
As most readers will know, Montreal’s unusually cool summer included a very hot August, hot with the bitter heat that comes from tragedy. On August 9, a group of teenagers were playing in a park in the proletarian neighbourhood of Montreal North. Cops drove up and busted one of the …
Yesterday a demonstration organized by a number of radical left organizations, including anarchists and Marxist-Leninist and others, was attacked by police in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, a predominantly working class Quebecois neighbourhood in east Montreal. As can be read below, neo-nazis were used to provoke a minor incident, which was then used as …