{"id":1104,"date":"2011-06-18T20:24:31","date_gmt":"2011-06-19T01:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2013-02-03T17:00:21","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T23:00:21","slug":"eastern-townships-qc-elffai-communique-for-anti-development-actions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/?p=1104","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Townships, QC: ELF\/FAI communique for anti-development actions"},"content":{"rendered":"

from Anti-dev (blog)<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

A subversive attack was carried today, in the early hours of the morning against the tourist\/real estate industry right in the middle of the Eastern Townships, Qc.<\/p>\n

The Mount Orford Park has become over the past few years one of the main cornerstones for the invasive suburban developments in the region. A tourist attraction for the rich, the Sherbrooke-based “Orford Express” train -a tourist train\/attraction- was the target of \u201cunthinkable\u201d graffiti, painted on the concrete walls of the new railroad pass right under highway 10, which is symbolically the main entry route for motorists in the region.<\/p>\n

The Orford Express quickly became a well-respected and valuable asset for the region\u2019s tourist industry.<\/p>\n

Now the hundreds of bourgeois\/suburban consumers who were having a posh dinner in the luxurious, old-style train\/restaurant were forced to witness barbaric graffiti, directly aimed at them\u2026 words like (in French) \u201cOrford: Suburbia\u201d and \u201cthe Earth is not for Sale!\u201d (in reference to the many \u201cLand for Sale\u201d panels still mostly left unspoiled everywhere in the region), along with a circled \u201cA\u201d sign, and a frightening, pitch black Jolly Roger. We can only hope it\u2019ll last for the weekend, if not longer\u2026<\/p>\n

This action was made amongst an ongoing string of small \u201cdefacing” actions carried out in the Eastern Townships by different people. Especially as the busiest period of the tourist season begins, its is very likely to be followed by more attacks of the same nature as it is open season for us green & black insurgents.<\/p>\n

We believe that the \u201cface value\u201d is the most sensitive part in this industry, as the more the investors and the invaders will feel compromised, the lesser they\u2019ll be drawn to here and the easier it\u2019ll be to force development to a standstill. That is our long term battle strategy, and this same logic can be applied wherever the same kind of capitalism-driven development spreads<\/p>\n

As long as tourism is a vehicle for more invasion and destruction of life, it\u2019s got to be subverted, disrupted or destroyed, by any way we find.<\/p>\n

Savagery is the only answer to the hypocrisy of civilization.<\/p>\n

In solidarity with Marie Mason and Eric McDavid, the fighting Native people and with all the anarchist prisoners of the Western imperialist wars, here and abroad, who stood up for their love of life and freedom.<\/strong><\/p>\n

– the Appalachian Hydra<\/em>
\n member of the E.L.F.\/I.A.F.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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