The following notice has been put out, for those who were arrested in Montreal at the COBP demonstration a few weeks ago: On March 15, 2008, forty-seven people were arrested during the 12th International day against police brutality. The Collective opposed to police brutality is still currently trying to get …
La Presse and the Montreal Gazette each carried articles today about the three low-level actions carried out in Montreal’s working class Hochelaga Maisonneuve neighbourhood over the past week. Remember everyone: Play safe. Don’t talk to the cops. Don’t guess who is doing what. Don’t ask questions none of us need …
a younger Rolf Clemens Wagner Those of you who appreciated last week’s installments about the Red Army Faction and the events of October 1977 may find the following of some interest. As a result of an interview given to Junge Welt magazine last week, both the right-wing Bild Zeitung newspaper …
“Gudrun, Andreas and Jan were tortured andmurdered at Stammheim prison” the last in a four part series on the events of October 1977, which culminated in three deaths in Stammheim prison exactly thirty years ago today… The Stammheim “Suicides” (1) In previous installments we have seen how the Red Army …
An article from today’s National Post about how the Canadian State tried to capture a former Roma (gypsy) guerilla, who had suffered ten days of torture at the hands of Franco’s secret police, and deport him, presumably to Spain where the “post-fascist” State has expressed its desire to prosecute him …
On August 11th, one week before the protests against the SPP summit in Montebello, the police attacked a communist demonstration in the town of St-Jerome (population 25,000), about an hour north of Montreal. The police attack, IMO, was motivated by two factors.On the one hand St-Jerome is a small town …
For immediate releasePhilippines-Canada Task Force on Human RightsSeptember 21, 2007 Filipinos driven away from their own community by Montreal police intimidation (Montreal, Quebec) During a peaceful demonstration yesterday in front of the Plamondon metro station in Montreal’s Cote-des-Neiges area, peace-loving Filipinos and Canadians were driven away from their own community …
The following from Kahentinetha Horn’s Mohawk News Network: MNN. Sept. 15, 2007. On September 13th at around 4:00 pm. witnesses saw non-native men running out, picking up weapons and going back into the unfinished house. Inside they had ambushed two Indigenous youth. The kids’ backs were against the wall. They …
On September 13th there was another violent confrontation in Caledonia between Indigenous people defending their land and settlers defending what they consider their property. Initially the settler media reported that Sam Gualtieri, a 52-year old man who was “trying to build a house for his daughter” in Caledonia, had been …
The following is a good article by Justin Podur, posted on the Znet site yesterday, explaining the State’s campaign of persecution against Mohawk activist Shawn Brant: On August 30, about two weeks before Canada became one of only four countries to vote against a UN declaration on indigenous rights, Tyendinaga …