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The Plague and the Fire
MTL Counter-info typically publishes content from Montreal, other regions of Quebec, and neighboring regions. We may make occasional exceptions throughout the weeks ahead, due to the global nature of the COVID-19 pandemic and the fact that anarchists and ...
Why and How to Go on a Rent Strike
From Grevedesloyers.info See also: Legal Considerations Rent strikes are risky. To reduce the risks, the more of us the better. We have strength in numbers.
- Collective direct actions like rent strikes are a good way to change ...
Communiqué from Prisoners in the Laval Immigration Holding Centre: Hunger Strike Until We Are Free
From Solidarity Across Borders Laval, 24 March 2020 Following the petition we wrote [on 19 March, sent to government officials and asking to be released in the context of the pandemic*], which had little impact on our situation ...
Ask a Different Question: Reclaiming Autonomy of Action during the Virus
Anonymous submission to North Shore Counter-Info The situation changes quickly. Along with everyone else, I follow it avidly and share updates, watch our lives change from day to day, get bogged down in uncertainty. It can feel like ...
Montreal Rent Strike – Beginning April 1, 2020
Anonymous submission to MTL Counter-info 11" x 17" Poster 8.5" x 11" b&w Poster / Bilingual Flyer See also: Grevedesloyers.info Poor, unemployed, laid-off, precarious, undocumented, contract and other workers — all of us who live month-to-month — will ...
Post-demo Communique – March 15th, 2020
From the Collective Opposed to Police Brutality (COBP) Approximately 150 people marched today in downtown Montreal as part of the 24th Day Against Police Brutality. In these troubled times, it's easy to retire within oneself and forget about ...
COVID-19 – Solidarity Across Borders Community Advisory
From Solidarity Across Borders Español In light of the pandemic of COVID-19, a rapidly spreading flu-like virus affecting the respiratory system, public health officials are increasingly calling for people to work from home, for self-isolation, and for social ...
From Embers : Reflections from Kanonhstaton
From From Embers Talking with a non-native anarchist who spent time at Kanonhstaton in 2006, a land reclamation led by members of Six Nations blocking the development of a private subdivision on their territory. We discuss his experience ...
Ontario: Three Railway Sabotage Actions in Solidarity with Land Defenders
Anonymous submission to North Shore Counter-Info It seems worth sharing that we have managed to shut down, (if only for a few to several hours), different rail lines in Southern Ontario using the ol’ copper wire technique. We ...
Spring of Action launched with Disruption of Lemay Offices
From Solidarity Across Borders On Friday, community members entered the offices of Lemay, architects of the new prison for migrants in Laval. Chanting slogans, distributing flyers, and carrying silhouettes of friends and neighbours who had been detained and ...
Solidarity Action with Wet’suwet’en Land Defenders Blocked Access to Port of Montreal
Anonymous submission to MTL Counter-info A group of around 100 protesters blocked the Viau entrance of the Port of Montreal Saturday afternoon for about 30 minutes. The group arrived at the port at around 2:15pm today and erected ...
