Please forward and come in great numbers! — JUSTICE FOR ANAS COALITION — :: PICKET TO DEMAND A PUBLIC INQUIRY AND TO DENOUNCE THE MONTREAL POLICE BROTHERHOOD’S MOTION TO PREVENT A CORONER’S INQUEST :: Wednesday, October 22, 2008, 4pmOffices of the Montreal Police Brotherhood480 Gilford (Laurier Metro, St Joseph street …
The following is the callout for a demonstration next Saturday, to protest the police murder of Freddy Villanueva in Montreal-North: A year ago, Quilem was killed by being tasered six times in St-Michel. NEVER AGAIN! OCTOBER 11th 2008 BIG FAMILY FRIENDLY DEMONSTRATION 2:00PM at Parc Pilon (corner Henri-Bourassa & Pie-IX) …
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 …
Jean-Pierre Lizotte From today’s Montreal Gazette, an excellent op ed piece by No One Is Illegal member Jaggi Singh, about the 1999 police murder of Jean-Pierre Lizotte, a homeless PWA, in the trendy Plateau Montreal neighbourhood: The ‘poet of Bordeaux’ spent many years in prison, but he possessed a simple …
Demonstration in Montreal North!A Call to Mobilize!The Breach Has Been Opened in Montreal-North! Montreal-North is burning. After the murder of Fredy Villenueva by the Montreal Police (SPVM), and the riots which broke out to express the people’s anger, the community of Montreal-North remains angry. The time has come to organize …
Communiqué by the Collective Opposed to Police Brutality (COBP) Justice for Freddy Villanueva, the 43rd Montreal police killing in 22 years! Montreal, August 13, 2008 — On Saturday August 9, 2008, at about 7pm, a police officer from Station 39 fired four bullets that injured two youth and killed Freddy …
The Canadian Press and Info690 are reporting a man was caught setting fire to a police car in Montreal’s east end last night. It seems unclear whether or not this is connected to the attack on police cars which took place in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve a couple of months back. Here is …
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 …
Do you like hockey? i don’t. Never have. Memories of “playing” it as a child stall at about age ten. All i have is images of rainy days when the school didn’t want us kids getting too dirty we all got shoved into a gym with these ridiculous plastic hockey …
The following from the tadamon blog: Confronting Israeli Apartheid in Montreal: Activists disrupt Israeli Ambassador to Canada Montreal, Wednesday, April 9th, 2008: Israel’s Ambassador to Canada, Alan Baker, was humiliated by demonstrators at the posh Queen Elizabeth Hotel in downtown Montreal. Protestors successfully disrupted a lunch-in sponsored by the Quebec-Israel …