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 …
From the youtube site: In France, rights groups plan to file a complaint about police brutality, after a video surfaced showing officers using excessive force to evict African immigrants from a Paris suburb. The footage shows police dragging away women with their babies as well as young children. The group …
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 …
protesting the raid on the Eagle From Solidarity, a look at a police raid on an Atlanta leather bar, and reasons for the timid protest that followed: Not quite Stonewall:40 years later the cops haven’t changed, but we have by giseldaSeptember 15, 2009 “Hey, Red Dog: Bored with Grandmothers?” Those …
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.
The following excellent text is from the No One Is Illegal Montreal blog: This coming Saturday at 2pm at Parc Pilon in Montreal-Nord, a diverse cross-section of Montreal groups and individuals are coming together to denounce police brutality as part of a child-friendly demonstration. This is a crucial protest for …
The following summary of the problem of police violence in Montreal which led up to August’s riots in Montreal North is by Charles Mostoller and from ZNet: Montreal-Nord, Montreal–“Why four gunshots? Why?”, asked Patricia Villanueva. “I don’t believe they had reason to shoot four times, just like that. Nothing justifies …
Kahentinetha Horn in happier times, speaking at a demonstration in solidarity with the people of Six Nations The following by Brenda Norrell – for updates check her blog Censored News: Mohawk Kahentinetha Horn beaten and hospitalized at borderBy Brenda Norrell Kahentinetha Horn, publisher of Mohawk Nation News, was beaten by …
On Tuesday night i was one of a hundred people who gathered on the ground floor at the Palais des Congres conference center to protest against the racist reasonable accommodation hearings being held there (on the third floor) that night. (i would have posted about this earlier, but have been …
From the Kabataang Montreal blog: Police brutality continues in Cote-des-Neiges; a 17 year old Filipino teenage girl experiences police brutality by Montreal police officers September 9, 2007 Montreal, Quebec –On August 24th, the latest complaint against Montreal police harassment in the Cote-des-Neiges area is against two police officers for manhandling …