mtlcounter-info

Solidarity with the struggle at Lelu island

Comments Off

Nov 062015

Since late August 2015, Sm’yooget Yahaan, (the Gitwilgyoots hereditary chief of Lax U’u’la and surrounding waters) and his supporters have set up an occupation camp on his traditional hunting and fishing territory on Lax U’u’la (Lelu Island). This camp has been set up to assert title to his traditional territory, as Petronas and Pacific North West LNG are planning on building an $11 billion dollar liquified natural gas (LNG) plant on this traditional Gitwilgyoots territory, at the mouth of the Skeena river near Prince Rupert, BC. This plant will be fed by 3 LNG pipelines, including the recently provincially-approved PRGT, which crosses through Gitxsan territory, which is currently being met with resistance from the Gitxsan people through their Madii Lii encampment.

Who is involved?

The Petronas/Pacific Northwest LNG consortium which have proposed the Lelu Island LNG processing plant have subcontracted their environmental and engineering assessments to Stantec, Inc.

Natural Resources Canada has recently stated that the environmental assessments performed by Stantec on the island “likely underestimated” the environmental impact of the LNG plant on the Flora Bank. Stantec is currently attempting to continue environmental and engineering assessments, despite clear opposition from the Gitwilgyoots hereditary chief and the village of Lax Kw’alaams.

Stantec is also involved in several resource extraction projects targeted by Le Nord Pour Tous/Plan Nord. These include the Deception Bay Port Facility servicing Xstrata’s Raglan Mine and rail development for the Kamistiatusset Iron Ore Mine.

Fuck ’em

Montreal Offices :

300-1080 Beaver Hall Hill
Montreal, Quebec H2Z 1S8
isabelle.jodoin@stantec.com
T: (514) 281-1010

600-1060 Robert-Bourassa Boulevard
Montreal, Quebec H3B 4V3

300-1200 Saint-Martin Boulevard West
Laval, Quebec H7S 2E4
martin.thibault@stantec.com
T: (514) 281-1010

For more information & updates :

www.laxuula.com

https://www.facebook.com/Stop-Pacific-NorthWest-LNGPetronas-on-Lelu-Island-949045868451061/

www.flora-lelu.tumblr.com

8.5″ x 11″ | PDF

Against the electoral circus, abstention doesn’t suffice! To the attack!

Comments Off Tagged with: Action, Action

Nov 062015

Three campaign offices of electoral candidates were attacked in Montreal and Trois-Rivières just prior to the elections. To our knowledge, no claim for these actions has surfaced, so we’ve posted several ~~Media~~ excerpts below.

A window of one of the two offices of the conservative campaign candidate Dominic Therrien was broken over the Sunday night (19/10/2015), several hours before the opening of the voting offices.

The campaign office in Outremont, Montreal of the leader of the NDP, Thomas Mulcair, was vandalized over Tuesday night (14/10/2015).

The front windows of the office, situated on ave. du Parc, were sprayed with orange paint. The contents of a fire extinguisher was also emptied into the interior of the office through the crack of a window.

“There was powder everywhere. It will have to be all cleaned. We lost time to do it”, lamented the director of the campaign of Mulcair in Outremont, Graham Carpenter.

The campaign office of conservative candidate Wiliam Moughrabi in Ahuntsic-Cartierville, Montreal, was vandalized over Monday night (13/10/2015).

“They threw at least two gallons of red paint on the window of the office”, said M. Moughrabi. “We spent the day of Tuesday cleaning it, and we will still clean it today”.

Highway blockade and banner drop against the dumping in the St. Lawrence

Comments Off Tagged with: Action

Nov 022015

Anonymous submission to MTL Counter-info

On Monday morning, during peak rush hour traffic, we blockaded the Notre-Dame highway with debris and construction materials. We dropped two banners which read “CONTRE LE DÉVERSEMENT DANS LE ST-LAURENT” (Against the dumping in the St. Lawrence) and “SOLIDARITY WITH ALL LAND DEFENDERS”.

On November 3, the city of Montreal plans to dump 8 billion liters of raw sewage (including industrial and medical waste) into the St. Lawrence river. This raw sewage is not only polluting the St-Lawrence, but affects all the communities downstream. Residents of Kahnawake have already demonstrated their anger with Mayor Coderre’s careless treatment of this river through several demonstrations, including stopping railway traffic.

Stopping the flow of morning traffic is a small gesture that speaks to the necessity of stopping this city, this economy, this entire civilization whose proper functioning rests on the displacement or outright attack of all forms of life.

– anarchists

Two moments of oil railway sabotage in Montreal

Comments Off

Nov 012015

11 x 17″ | PDF

Illustration from the beautiful “Economic Disruption” poster (by Stefan Pilipa, for Shawn Brant and the Tyendinaga Support Committee’s Defense Fund)

Montreal Counter-information re-launching!

Comments Off

Nov 012015

After several years of scattered activity, Montreal Counter-information is re-launching with new intentions and an expanded moderation/translation crew.

Montreal Counter-info aspires to provide a space for anarchists in Montreal to diffuse their ideas and actions across overlapping networks and tendencies, outside the realm of leftist or corporate media projects. We want to encourage consistent reflection, critique, and engagement with the projects of revolt and struggle happening in this city. We want to clarify our ideas, sharpen our practices, find common points of departure, and explore the differences in our projects and initiatives.

To this end, this website will publish news, report-backs, communiqués, and other written works; and will host an archive of counter-information such as flyers, posters, publications, banners, and graffiti. We would love to see widespread contribution to this project, so please submit content!

Communiqué poster series

We understand offensive attacks on domination to be integral to the anarchist project, and consequentially their communication is crucial for the effects and intentions of attacks to be expansive and inviting. Unfortunately, attacks are often communicated in ways that are limited to self-referential communiqués read only by other anarchists in disparate cities around the world.

We want to transform the relationship of attack claims to the spaces they occur in by spreading communiqués off the internet and into the streets. We want to open as many avenues of communication as possible. We want the ideas and intentions of these attacks to reach all those who share our desires to do away with the forces that dominate our lives. We want to amplify the signals that people are breaking with social control, and in doing so, refuse to let the memories of action disappear into the internet abyss.

Montreal Counter-information will be creating posters for actions in the Montreal region that we find inspiring. When submitting a communiqué, feel free to include a poster of your own design or artwork you would like included in a poster we design.

11 x 17″ | PDF

Illustration from the beautiful “Economic Disruption” poster (by Stefan Pilipa, for Shawn Brant and the Tyendinaga Support Committee’s Defense Fund)

11 x 17″ | PDF

Gentrifiers in St. Henri welcomed with a joyous vandalism rampage!

Comments Off

Nov 012015

11 x 17″ | PDF

Kahnawake Mohawks Block Train Tracks

Comments Off

Oct 222015

From subMedia.tv

Indigenous militants made good on their promise to block train tracks in order to bring a halt to the dumping of billions of litters of raw sewage into the St. Lawrence River. Trains along Canadian Pacific Railway tracks were stopped in both directions and a call has been made for more people to join in on the struggle to stop the dump and block the tracks.

For more info visit mohawknationnews.com and reclaimturtleisland.com

Mohawks Vow Action against Planned Dump of Raw Sewage

Comments Off

Oct 152015

From Submedia.tv

Over a dozen Mohawks from Kahnawake started fires and held a demonstration near the Canadian Pacific Railway tracks to vow that they will take action against a plan to dumb billions of litres of raw sewage into the St. Lawrence River.

Media Statement – Contact savetheriver@riseup.net

Notice of Temporary Obstruction – Thursday, Oct. 15th 2015.

1.Wampum 44 of kaia’nere:kowa, the kahtihon’tia:kwenio of the rotino’shonni:onwe, the women are the “progenitors of the soil” of our nation and caretakers of the land, water and air on behalf of the rotikonso:tatie, the coming faces, and all people.

2.kaia’nere:kowa provides that we must speak on behalf of those who cannot speak for themselves.

3.On October 7, the women sent a notice of objection to the CITY OF MONTREAL [attached]. We have not received a response.

4.The CITY OF MONTREAL is planning to dump 8 billion litres of raw, untreated o’tah including medical and industrial waste into kanaiatarowanen:onwe. It is our great river of life forever as designed by creation.

5.This notice is our warning to the CITY OF MONTREAL to stop dumping waste that is toxic to our lands, waters and life ways.

6.The temporary obstruction on Thursday, October 15th, is to emphasize our objection to this environmentally destructive action.

7.Ohneh’kahnos, the precious liquid that sustains all life, is being threatened by ignorance and monetary concerns. The release of the equivalent of 2,600 olympic-sized swimming pools will result in unknown contamination and multi-generational devastation on the entire ecosystem of our river.

8.As rotino’shonni:onwe we have a responsibility to protect kaniatarowanen:onwe. We ask everyone to stand together.

9.We come to you with the gentleness of a feather, which we hope will be accepted. Should you not respond as soon as possible you leave us no alternative but to take the necessary action to convince you. Skennen

Mayor Denis Coderre, 514-872-0311 maire@ville.montreal.qc.ca; David Heurtel, Quebec Environment Minister, 418-521-3830 info@mddelcc.gouv.qc.ca; Hon. Leona Aglukkaq, Environment Canada, Leona.aglukkaq@parl.gc.ca 613-992-2848.

Counter-info in solidarity with the Unist’ot’en camp

Comments Off Tagged with: Action

Oct 142015

Over the course of the last month, several counter-informational initiatives inspired by the struggle of the Unist’ot’en camp hit the streets of Montreal.

Posters and graffiti in the neighborhood of Hochelaga.

A billboard in the Mile-end was painted with “OKA 25 YEARS, THE RESISTANCE CONTINUES. NI PATRIE, NI ÉTAT, NI QUÉBEC, CANADA

(No nation, no State, no quebec, no canada).

In the neighborhoods of St. Henri, Parc-Ex, and Hochelaga, several moments of indigenous resistance to the Canadian State were chronicled with graffiti and posters. Kanehsatake, Gustafen Lake ’95, Ipperwash ’95, Kanehstaton ’06, Sharbot Lake ’07, Akwesasne ’09, Tyendinaga ’08, Elsipogtog, Unist’ot’en

Tsimshians Confront Petronas

Comments Off

Oct 072015

From subMedia.tv

Yesterday subMedia.tv witnessed the fierce spirit of the Tsimshian people and their supporters as they faced off with the RCMP, Prince Rupert Port Authority and Petronas LNG workers. The Tsimshians attempted to disrupt the delivery of a barge with surveying and drilling equipment. The surveyors are subcontractors for Petronas, a Malaysian owned company that wants to build a fracked gas facility on Lelu Island, unceded Tsimshian territory. The Tsimshians have occupied Lelu island and have built a protection camp, to defend the island, and the Flora banks, a sensitive eco-system essential for the survival of juvenile salmon and migrating crustaceans. The Tsimshians have called on supporters to come to Lelu Island and stand with them, bring boats or send money and supplied. For more information visit bit.ly/leluisland

Download HD • SD • Mobile • Translate

Older Entries Newer Entries