Flyers on Montreal Counter-information

I Know Who Smashed the Mila Institute

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I Know Who Smashed the Mila Institute.

And I think you do too.

Just before quarter to midnight, Tuesday September 15, the Mila Institute in Montreal is smashed. An office that boasts “Ethical” AI, that tells us its mission is to develop safe artificial intelligence for public interest, to work on health and the environment and climate change, to promote open science and collaboration.

Love Your Neighbors, Not Your Cameras!

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Anonymous submission to MTL Counter-info

Comrades, the time is now! The SPVM hath declared a registry of cameras, with nefarious AI to track our every move! We shall not bow to their surveillance! Take up these posters ( FR / EN ), these flyers , and these stickers , and spread them far and wide to ignite the flame of resistance! Quickly, fellow travelers, let us strike the ever-watchful eye!

The second round ends March 15th.

Flyer: REMEMBER 2020, 1968, 1878, 1791

Fri, 04 Apr 2025 12:01:00 +0000

Anonymous submission to MTL Counter-info

Download PDF to print (front/back), cut in half, hand out.

For distribution at protests, festivals, sporting events, waiting rooms, cookouts, libraries, dining halls, courtrooms, traffic jams, emergency rooms, corner stores, public transportation, sideshows, recreation yards, or anywhere else you may encounter others who’ve had enough.

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REMEMBER 2020, 1968, 1878, 1791 — WE CAN WIN

Thousands of years of kings, queens, emperors, presidents, & ministers demanding obedience. 500 years of crackers enslaving & colonizing this planet. 250 years of anglo/yankee domination.

Call to Join the River Camp

Sun, 22 Jul 2018 05:45:57 +0000

From the Committees for Territorial Defence and Decolonisation [ Facebook page ]

Flyer [8.5" x 11"]

Last summer, a barricade stopped gas extraction by the petroleum company Junex at the Galt site, near Gaspé in Quebec. Ever since, the River Camp, established not far from the blockade, continues to keep watch over the territory. We are asking you to join the camp and make it vibrant. The takeover of this region by oil companies and its destruction are not a fatality. Only a sustained presence can put an end to the destruction of the rivers, forests, and all forms of life. Defeating the dispossession of the region’s inhabitants and the pillaging of unceded and unconquered Mi’kmaq territory is possible.

150 years of colonialism is nothing to celebrate!

Fri, 09 Jun 2017 22:06:49 +0000

Anti-colonial and anti-imperialist demonstration in Montreal on July 1st

From CLAC Time and place soon to be announced! Mark your calendars!

As you might know, this year is the 150th anniversary of Canada. The government will spend half a billion dollars in 2017 to organize ceremonies, parades and parties to celebrate the colonialism, imperialism and racism that is so characteristic to nation-states. Those amounts will be invested in questionable projects that will benefit the tourism industry and the friends of those in power, rather than the residents of the area.

What the fuck is anarchism?

Thu, 06 Apr 2017 15:39:12 +0000

We’ve made an ‘introduction to anarchism’ flyer, merging several texts by comrades from elsewhere. The flyer includes a list of local spaces and resources for anyone interested in anarchism in Montreal. For distribution at schools, workplaces, barricades, events, and demonstrations!

[ Print, bilingual, 8.5"x11" ]

Anarchists oppose all forms of oppressive power. we strive for a world based on self-determination and mutual aid. As the world veers towards tyranny, only grassroots direct action can keep our communities safe. If you’re ready to take action without waiting for orders, you’re one of us.

Why warriors at Standing Rock wear masks flyer

Mon, 07 Nov 2016 15:44:51 +0000

For distribution at Standing Rock solidarity initatives, to disprove the accusations against those who wear masks and counter narratives of pacifism.

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A Challenge: Spread the Strike to Every Jail, Juvie, and Prison, in Canada too!

Sun, 21 Aug 2016 02:25:03 +0000

From La Solide , adapted from IGD

This is a challenge to anyone who is supportive of the September 9th prisoners’ strike but who has remained on the sidelines until now.

In order for this strike to not be snuffed out by a handful of prison censors and violent guards, it needs to spread uncontrollably beyond their reach. And because prisons strictly forbid communication between prisoners, it is our responsibility on the outside to facilitate this contagion. Spreading the call to prisons in Canada will further this contagion, and give an opportunity to link our struggle against prison and the world that needs it, through prison walls and across borders.

Mtlcounter-info flyer

Tue, 16 Aug 2016 15:59:13 +0000

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How to safely submit communiques to MTL Counter-info

Mon, 08 Aug 2016 04:50:12 +0000

We thought it would be useful to summarize a basic technique to anonymously submit communiques, using the Tails operating system.

Tails is a computer operating system designed with security in mind, which can boot off a USB or CD, from any computer. After shutting down Tails and ejecting the USB or CD, the computer can start again with its usual operating system. Tails is designed to leave no trace on the computer by not interacting with the hard-disk, and only using the RAM for memory (which is automatically erased when Tails shuts down). In addition, it forces every internet connection to go through the Tor network [1. TOR is a network of proxies run by volunteers with the explicit purpose of maintaining anonymity online. With TOR, your connection goes through three proxies. You connect to TOR and each of the three proxies (nodes) you access encrypts your data. No individual node can know both what you are connected to and who you are. The third node decrypts the data and accesses the website, sending the information back through the proxies in encrypted form.], so is much safer than using just a Tor browser on your normal operating system.

Staying safer in the streets

Fri, 08 Apr 2016 17:26:20 +0000

For the next time… Staying safer in the streets

Why wear a mask? It allows us to take action without fear of immediate identification. It’s not enough to cover half our face. Even if we get away, the police may use photos or video to charge us later. It’s best to cover our hair, face, arms, tattoos, and hands. Cloth gloves are best because they don’t transfer print, unlike plastic gloves. Make sure there are no identifying features on your clothes, shoes, or backpack; it’s nice to have a change of clothing. If we bring any materials with us, let’s wipe them down with rubbing alcohol to remove fingerprints. Bragging and storytelling are natural, but they’re easy to use against us. Don’t post anything on Facebook that we wouldn’t show a cop. The same goes for Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr. Remember that police will read our texts and call-log if they arrest us. If you are arrested, invoke your right to remain absolutely silent; name, address, birthdate and no more.

Resistance to LNG on Gitwilgyoots Territory from an anarchist perspective

Fri, 12 Feb 2016 04:46:58 +0000

Resistance to LNG on Gitwilgyoots Territory

In late August, a crew of women of Tsimshian, Haida, Nisga, and Gitxsan bloodlines initiated the defense of Lax U’u’la (Lelu Island) and the Flora Bank1 from LNG industry destruction. The Gitwilgyoots Tribe Sm’ogyet Yahaan (hereditary chief) and Ligitgyet Gwis Hawaal (hereditary house leader), and their families began a defense camp on Lax U’u’la, which is Gitwilgyoots traditional hunting and fishing territory. They were also joined by various significant hereditary people from other Tsimshian tribes, and a motley crew of native and non-native outside supporters.

Don't need a strike to revolt against the State

Mon, 11 Jan 2016 19:42:33 +0000

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The Black Bloc Takes Back the Streets of Montreal

Tue, 15 Dec 2015 16:09:30 +0000

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Solidarity with the struggle at Lelu island

Fri, 06 Nov 2015 20:40:14 +0000

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.

Solidarity with the Unist'ot'en camp

Thu, 10 Sep 2015 22:49:42 +0000

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The Parties Over : If we’re not gonna fight for Queer Space we may as well go back to the village

Fri, 28 Aug 2015 19:20:22 +0000

The following flyer was distributed during the Trans March of Pervers/Cité (the “radical queer pride”) which had its route approved by the SPVM:

In the last two weekends in Montreal, two of the summer’s bigger queer parties have been shut down by the police (July 18th Cousins and July 25th fundraiser party for perverse/cite). In the first case, a large number of filth conducted an operation against La Vitrola forcing the organizers to finish the party and violently dispersing partygoers - there were numerous beatings and several arrests. In the second case (perverse/cite), one car with two officers successfully ended the fun by threatening people with individual tickets; the response by queers at the party was dismal, lacked solidarity, and in the writers of this article’s opinion was ‘unqueer’ (we’ll explain what we mean by this later). Despite the efforts of some agitators to hand out face masks, the party was swiftly shut down and people drifted off into the night. These attacks by police are only one of many forms of violence against queers, but they are one of the most easy to fight back against since they are attacks on large groups of people; if we take collective action, we can resist and we can win. Below are some reasons why we cannot sit back and let these things happen, we hope they will encourage you to take a mask next time someone offers you one.

Montreal against line 9

Tue, 29 Oct 2013 21:43:45 +0000

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Masked with Intent: an invitation to discussion of anarchist street tactics in Montreal

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 20:40:59 +0000

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By writing this text, we want to open lines of communication and critique regarding anarchist practices in the streets of Montreal, on a tactical level. We continue to see the same mistakes being made in demos and attribute this to how reflection on these matters rarely goes beyond the reach of affinity groups. We feel the limited amount of new information the police can gain from reading these general reflections is outweighed by the possibilities that can arise when we are better able to act as a collective force in the streets. It is our hope that others feel impelled to further these discussions within our anarchist networks, both in the form of anonymous texts and in the relationships they hold dear. Here are some reflections from three affinity groups, which will only be of value if we bring them to life in critical discussion and practical application.

Demo against repression

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 20:49:45 +0000

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In solidarity with those arrested during the strike.

Friday, Oct 26, 6:30 pm Carré St-Louis, Sherbrooke metro

The strike is over. The PQ is now saying that we all fought together to overcome the tuition hikes and special law. The politicians are using the initiatives of people who actually lived that struggle to gain power and further their own careers.

Meanwhile many of those who participated in the strike, beyond drinking champagne and talking to the media in government offices, are still facing charges, conditions, and potential prison time.

Social strike against austerity!

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:24:58 +0000

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It’s clear that this is no longer just about tuition hikes. The tuition hikes go hand in hand with new user fees for health care, and rising rents, food prices and electricity rates. The tuition hikes come in the context of condos taking over our neighbourhoods, evictions and expropriations for the sake of “development”, immigration officials deporting our neighbours, cops shooting people in the street, and the imprisonment of friends and loved ones. Austerity measures are coupled with increasing repression. Law 78, an attack on the right to organize collectively, is only the most recent example of this. Over 2500 people have been arrested during the student strike and some of them have been exiled from Montreal until their trials.

Democracy and its laws will not control our revolt!

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 01:46:52 +0000

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On Friday, May 18, 2012, two new laws came into effect in Montréal. Their purpose is to stifle the anti-capitalist revolt that has grown from the more-than 100-day-old provincial student strike. The first is the municipal by-law that forbids the wearing of masks during any demonstration with the penalty of a $1000 -$5000 fine (additionally, if the Federal government’s proposed law comes into effect, wearing a mask in a ‘riot’ could result in up to 10 years of prison). The second is the provincial government’s Special Law (Loi 78) that requires any public demonstration to submit itself to meticulous control by the police to avoid being declared ‘illegal’. Any leader, spokesperson, or rank-holding member of a student association that blocks access to classes or counsels others to do so will be subjected to a fine ranging between $7000 and $35,000.

An anarchist perspective on the special law

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 22:59:46 +0000

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“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread.” Anatole France

“Violence was the law, and with the cannons in the hands of the whites, the law was white.” Sunera Thobani

The social struggle in Quebec, grown out of a student movement against tuition, has inspired many. But perhaps the central issue causing people to take the streets with pots and pans across the country is Bill 78, known as the ‘special law.’ It criminalizes demonstrations not approved by police and imposes heavy fines for political activity on school campuses. It has been accompanied by a crackdown that has seen more mass arrests than the FLQ Crisis of 1970, at last count over 2,500.

What is a black bloc?

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:44:27 +0000

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In order to have a black bloc, you need to have a group of people dressed head-to-toe in black, including masks, or who are at least doing something as close to that as possible. If you don’t have that, you don’t have a black bloc. The black bloc is a tactic. A tactic is a tool that is used to achieve certain ends.

As a tactic, the black bloc works to anonymize its participants. In an age when facial recognition technology is improving everyday and police departments regularly ask the cooperative public to help them identify participants in riots, a black bloc can be used to conceal the identity of those who break the law in heavily surveilled public spaces, as with almost any demonstration in downtown Montréal.

G20 Solidarity Flyer

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 23:11:58 +0000

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Two banners were hung in Montréal in solidarity with the G20 prisoners. Solidarity with the G20 prisoners / Tear Down the Prison Walls was hung from a building on St. Catherine street downtown. Solidarité avec les Incarcéré(e)s du G20 / Propageons la Révolte (Solidarity with the G20 Prisoners / Spread Revolt) was hung in the St. Henri neighborhood. Flyers were scattered at both sites, and further distributed in the metro system and on the street in the following days. We hope this counter-information action brings a smile to our locked up comrades.

September 11th and Chile

Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:04:52 +0000

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A flyer distributed on Sept.11th, 2011 at an anti-capitalist demonstration against imperialism.

Fuck the police

Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:01:27 +0000

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Two flyers distributed after Montreal police and screws at Millhaven prison in Ontario murdered yet again.

Fascism and Greece

Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:19:44 +0000

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On Monday, May 16th, 2011 a dozen people created a disruption at the Greek consulate in downtown Montreal located at 1002 Sherbrooke West on the 26th floor. We entered the office chanting slogans of solidarity to anarchists and immigrants facing heavy repression at the hands of the Greek state and organized fascists. Furniture and plants were overturned and hundreds of fliers were scattered. One office employee attempted to detain a comrade but failed. Outside people displayed a banner stating “(A) Flics-Porcs-Assassins, Solidarité contre la reprèssion d’État en Grèce” and handed out fliers. The call for international solidarity.

Solidarity with arrested comrades - March 12th, 2011

Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:13:12 +0000

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A flyer distributed after a pre-emptive arrest of several anarchists on March 12th, 2011 during an anti-austerity demonstration.

The insurrection in Egypt

Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:09:22 +0000

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A flyer distributed in the metro while the insurrection in Egypt raged.

Millhaven Prison Uprising

Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:05:15 +0000

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A flyer that was thrown and handed out in the metro during January, 2011 in solidarity with inmates who rioted at Millhaven prison in Ontario.

The RBC firebombing and prison expansion

Thu, 23 Sep 2010 15:58:10 +0000

A flyer distributed in the metro in solidarity with Roger Clement, sentenced to four years in prison Tuesday, December 7, 2010, for his role in firebombing an Ottawa RBC in May, 2010.

More information on Roger, his co-accused, and the case against them.

G20 solidarity flyer

Thu, 23 Sep 2010 15:52:51 +0000

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Tract qui a été distribué lors d’une manifestation de la CLAC en novembre 2010, en solidarité avec les personnes arrêtées lors du G20 de Toronto.