Anonymous submission to MTL Counter-info
On the occasion of International Women’s Day (March 8) and International Day Against Police Brutality (March 15), the group Witches Against Power (WAP) simultaneously attacked the facades of three buildings, all linked to the company GardaWorld. This action is a response to the call sent by the River’s Uprisings to attack the architects of the end of the world, to interrupt the normality of domination.
The first site, located downtown (1390 Barré Street), is one of the company’s headquarters, where many armored vehicules dedicated to the transportation of cash are parked. The windows have been coated with a potion of acid and the walls, sprayed with paint. Cameras have been destroyed and the door lock is now filled with crazy glue. The other two sites are the private residencies of two board administrators : François Plamondon (residing at 4450 Sherbrooke Street West) et Jean-Luc Landry (residing at 90 Willowdale Avenue). Their houses have been covered with paint and messages over their entire length. Board members of GardaWorld are not accomplices, they’re perpetrators of the horrors we’re witnessing. Their front doors will be easier to wash than their consciences. The paint on their windows will go away, while the blood on their hands won’t.
GardaWorld is a Quebec company playing an increasingly important and controversial role in the international private security sector. Since 2022, the company has received more than 300 millions of dollars from the Quebec government and 26 millions of dollars from the canadian government (Observatoire pour la justice migrante, 2025). Our « very own company » provides security staff at the Everglades prison in Florida – also known as Alligator Alcatraz – a detention center for migrants, where people who’ve been kidnapped by ICE in the United States are sent. The company is also in charge of surveilling so-called « high-risk » migrants at the Immigration Detention Center of Laval. Here and abroad, GardaWorld has been rooted for years in the immigration detention system. The company watches, controls and imprisons bodies. It reinforces, hardens and militarizes borders. But our sisterhood doesn’t recognize any of them.
Every year in the West, March 8 becomes this day of celebration of women, of festivities even ! We’re offered flowers, we get Facebook posts dedicated to us, we highlight the progress made by companies on their “equity, diversity, inclusion” policies. We hear ridiculous things like “behind every great man, there’s a woman”. We emphasize the “brave resiliency of women in war-torn countries”. But we don’t give a shit about your flowers or your compliments. We don’t want any of these rights that you grant us, nor any other fake form of recognition for that matters. Neither lady cop, nor girlboss, nor stateswoman, we don’t see our integration to “male fields”, as gains from our struggles, but like the bars of a golden cage keeping us at bay of what really matters.
Far from being History’s passive victims, women have been and will still be pillars of the resistance worldwide. We hold camps and fallback positions, just like we hold baricades and frontlines. We are political subjects capable of attack, and what we aim for is nothing less but freedom. Think of that night’s action as proof of that last statement.
Fuck GardaWorld. Fuck the police. Fuck ICE. Fuck borders.
Fuck the control and surveillance of bodies : ours, and all our sisters’.
Witches Against Power (WAP)