Intro: There are millions of oppressed people inside the borders of the u.s., but I’m not one of them. I come from a privileged background. I’m not the main victim of the police. Nor am I a leader in the growing struggle against police violence. Recognizing how far I am …
Tuesday, October 21 at 6:00pm 1590 Dr. Penfield (Samuel Bronfman Building, Concordia University), corner Côte-des-Neiges Police violence is everywhere. It is visible not just in police killings, but also in everyday practices of surveillance, profiling, harassment, and coercion. In all of this, racism and colonialism are close by – though not always …
At the last May Day protest, police repression was brutal and a lot of protesters were hurt. Bobette was specifically targeted by the SPVM because of her political activities; they physically attacked her and psychologically harassed her. You can read a summary of what happened to Bobette on May Day …
Monday, April 8, 2013 Contact: Kali Akuno404.567.5938kaliakuno@mxgm.org For Immediate Release: New Annual Report reveals that 313 Black People were killed in 2012, averaging one every 28 hours. Every 28 hours in 2012 someone employed or protected by the US government killed a Black man, woman, or child! This startling fact …
An important public service announcement regarding police invasions of women’s shelters in canada, from the fine folks at No One Is Illegal Toronto: OUT OF OUR SHELTERS! OUT OF OUR LIVES! was the message delivered to the Canada Border Services Agency on March 8th, International Women’sDay, by the 120 plus …
Just passing on this reference for the blog Behind The Blue Wall, devoted to calling attention to the horrendously high number of women who are beaten by their police officer husbands and boyfriends. The war has a home front.
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 …
News today that an armed group is claiming responsibility for attacks on police in Greece: An unknown Greek group has threatened to indiscriminately kill police officers and expand its target list to include prominent members of society. The Sect of Revolutionaries issued the warning on a CD left on the …
Since 2007, police & intelligence agencies have targetted anti-2010 Olympics opposition as a ‘security threat’ to the Games. This has included media articles based on reports from CSIS and police specifically mentioning Indigenous and other social movements in Vancouver. Police have publicly stated their need to increase surveillance of anti-2010 …
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 …