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I start this letter by sending a sincere greeting to the compas outside these walls, hoping that the unisonous rhythm of rebellion continues to beat in their hearts and that this is reflected in their daily actions. Last week I was very happy to receive a small but important detail which the compañerxs got to me in prior warning. Amidst the monotonous and heavy daily life of imprisonment, one hopes that “something” outside of the routine will happen, and this is why at more or less the indicated time I set my gaze on the sky and the greeting arrived in the form of fireworks. In each one that exploded I could feel your greetings and care. It was impossible to physically see them, but I could feel them close by, and in that moment I could feel complicit in your solidarity-action, to the point of imagining your smiling and mischievious faces, laughing to yourselves at any possible risk, and it left me clearly feeling that when a compañero or compañera is kidnapped by the state, the fight is extended from both sides–inside and outside–of the walls, and each side, from their possibilities uses attacks which can make the fight more effective (here I want to make it clear that for me attack does not only signify the destruction of something material, but also the iconoclastic disobedience of that which is imposed within a system). ...

On Monday June 16 the last hearing was held against Amelie, Fallon and Carlos, the three anarchists arrested Jan. 5 on charges of damages and attacks on public peace. For now, judicially we have to wait for the conclusions by lawyers and judges on the sentencing in the local trial which our compañerxs are facing. As for the federal trial, on Wednesday June 25 will be held the next hearing. While there are set times for the last two stages of the trial, we know that judges may delay the delivery of the sentencing. It’s important to continue to show our solidarity with the comrades kidnapped by the state. Freedom for All!

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Greetings, comrades! I’m writing this letter driven by a strong need to communicate with the comrades outside. I’m convinced of the importance of being updated on all the episodes of struggle against what we normally call ‘the enemy’, that is the State and capital, from their miserable institutions to their fascist methods of control. Anti-prison struggle is important and it is precisely for this reason that I feel the need to talk about my situation as an anarchist prisoner, while making it clear a priori that I have never tried to pass myself off as a victim because of what I’m going through, because as I have said (or written) in the past: I don’t believe in nor do I accept concepts of guilt or innocence in relation to the crimes I’m accused of, and I consider myself an anarchist with his insurrectional and revolutionary projectuality, an anarchist kidnapped by the State (and not the ‘victim’ of a kidnapping, as I read in a communiqué), and the reason why I want to talk about my condition in prison is only to publicly denounce some aspects of the way this disgusting institution functions. ‘If you don’t see it, it doesn’t exist’, and within my limited possibilities, to make my denunciation under censorship is part of my anti-prison struggle. ...

On the morning of May 16th, comrades Amélie and Fallon were notified that they would be taken to the Reclusorio Sur (Mexico City’s Southern Penitentiary) to testify on new charges under federal order. At around 8am, both were transferred to the court, where they met comrade Carlos. After waiting almost all morning, they were finally informed that an arrest warrant was executed for the offense of damage to others’ property, in the form of “arson in a building with some person inside.” The three comrades did not make a statement, and once the hearing was over, they were brought back to the prisons where they’re being held since February 2014 (Carlos to the Reclusorio Oriente, Amélie and Fallon to Santa Martha), after having spent 40 days in federal custody through the arraignment procedure. ...

Daydreaming Today while waiting for roll call by my jailer I set to enjoy a bar of dark chocolate. As the puppet-screw carried out his routine I closed my eyes and began to daydream; I was able to go out for a moment from this reality and imagined myself light and free, strong and determined, my chest filled with love and desire for a new world organized differently, functional for all regardless of gender or the geographic area where we happened to be born and where a barrier of concrete or wire does not interfere with human brotherhood or restrict free movement of individuals from one place to another. A world of people autonomous and free, horizontally, who do not relate competitively but according to basic and fundamental principles such as mutual aid and solidarity. ...

Anti-prison struggle is important and it is precisely for this reason that I feel the need to talk about my situation as an anarchist prisoner, while making it clear a priori that I have never tried to pass myself off as a victim because of what I’m going through, because as I have said (or written) in the past: I don’t believe in nor do I accept concepts of guilt or innocence in relation to the crimes I’m accused of, and I consider myself an anarchist with his insurrectional and revolutionary projectuality, an anarchist kidnapped by the State (and not the ‘victim’ of a kidnapping, as I read in a communiqué), and the reason why I want to talk about my condition in prison is only to publicly denounce some aspects of the way this disgusting institution functions. ‘If you don’t see it, it doesn’t exist’, and within my limited possibilities, to make my denunciation under censorship is part of my anti-prison struggle. ...

(…) Perhaps the words of Fallon, Amélie, and Carlos will inspire you to build friendships based on trust and affinity, to have each others’ backs, and to translate your own rage against the world of prisons and police and borders into actions. As Carlos “El Chivo” wrote, “I know that anarchist solidarity is strong like an oak tree, and that always goes farther than simple words.” And as anarchists everywhere never cease to remind us: it’s easy to attack. Somewhere between Mexico City and Montréal, March 2014. ...

Why do you insist on organizing within or in parallel of larger demos, or given symbolic dates? Moments when not only do you know the attacks from police will come because the whole repressive apparatus will be organized, coordinated, deployed and empowered by their laws and technology, but where you will also be reminded to watch your backs for the hostile masses in the street (have you not seen yet, the masses ready to trample you under their fear?), the whole amalgam of leftists who want to maintain and manage domination alternatively, the snitches, and the paciflics* as we call them in Montreal, already setting yourself up in a kettle between cops and citizens, more so than on a normal day. ...

SCHEDULE: FESTIVAL OF ANARCHY EVENTS a) MAY 1, 6pm: Anti-Capitalist MayDay b) MAY 1, 8pm: Screening: Wal-Town The Film c) MAY 1: MayDay Street Dance Party d) MAY 3, 12-6pm: Post-Mayday Care Day e) MAY 3-31: Occuprint Exhibition at Ste-Emilie f) MAY 4, 12-5pm: À qui la ville? Montreal Organizing Assembly against Gentrification g) MAY 8, 6pm: Radical Film Night h) MAY 10, 11am: Mothers Against Borders Brunch i) MAY 15, 7pm: Book Launch: Le Cirque Diabolique j) MAY 15, 7:30pm: Surrealism in Cinema #1 k) MAY 18, 1pm: Anti-Civilization Day l) MAY 22, 6pm: Defending the Land: Indigenous Resistance to Extraction m) MAY 22, 9pm: ANARCHIST CABARET n) MAY 23, 5-9pm: OPENING OF ART & ANARCHY o) MAY 24-25, 10am-5pm: MONTREAL ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR p) MAY 23, 8pm: Glamarchist Lookfair: Queer Dance Party q) MAY 24, 6pm: DIRA Anarchist Library BBQ r) MAY 24, 6-10pm: Annual Anarchist People of Colour (APOC) Potluck s) MAY 26, 6:30pm: Race politics beyond the official white/black paradigm t) MAY 27, 9pm: Breakfast for Anarchists Book Launch u) MAY 29-JUNE 1: Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal: Session on the Canadian Mining Industry v) JUNE 1-15: Anti-Deportation Days w) JUNE 2-3: Montreal International Theatre Festival x) JUNE 5, 6-8pm: Anarchist theatre of the Belle Époque y) JUNE 7, 2pm: Demonstration: Stop Deportations! Status For All! z) MAY & JUNE: Trauma Support Group: Supporting Each Other When There Is No “Post” Trauma ...

This space is born from the need for hosting and spreading our passed and future publications, but also to support propaganda initiatives which we feel affinity to. You will find here the irregularly published Inflammable in which we compile different texts, reports, analyses, communiques, letters, etc. circulating mostly in Montreal and surrounding areas. In the distro section you will also find publications from other projects in the area which we will share to help spread widely. ...