{"id":2644,"date":"2011-12-22T14:59:03","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T20:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/?p=2644"},"modified":"2013-02-03T18:27:31","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T00:27:31","slug":"montreal-qc-counter-information-action-in-solidarity-with-the-g20-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/?p=2644","title":{"rendered":"Montreal, QC: Counter-information action in solidarity with the G20 prisoners"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Two banners were hung in Montr\u00e9al in solidarity with the G20 prisoners. Solidarity with the G20 prisoners \/ Tear Down the Prison Walls<\/strong> was hung from a building on St. Catherine street downtown.\u00a0 Solidarit\u00e9 avec les Incarc\u00e9r\u00e9(e)s du G20 \/ Propageons la R\u00e9volte<\/strong> (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.<\/p>\n

Text from the flyer (followed by french):<\/p>\n

Solidarity and Complicity with the G20 Prisoners!<\/strong><\/p>\n

It has now been almost a year and a half since the mobilization against the G20 in Toronto that witnessed the largest mass arrest in Canadian history. A $1 billion security operation caged over 1100 people over the course of a weekend in order to defend a meeting of the bureaucrats from the richest capitalist economies. A group of individuals, many using the black bloc tactic (wearing masks and black clothing), nonetheless broke this militarized social peace; a peace that exists to keep us obedient and passive so that capital can flow smoothly. The large breakaway demonstration attacked corporate property and the police, liberating space from the control of authority and targeting places of capital for destruction. What more human response could there be to a financial district\u2014an urban space devoid of life, deprived of affordable rents, scoured of autonomous livelihoods, subordinated to the needs of traffic and commerce, held under the eye of surveillance cameras, occupied by police, and plagued with corporate outlets and banks\u2014than to destroy it?<\/p>\n

The day before the demonstration, twenty organizers were rounded up and charged with criminal conspiracy for planning the disruption of the summit. This vague charge is increasingly being used against anarchists and is essentially used for \u2018thought crime\u2019. After over a year of non-association conditions, pre-trial detention, house arrest, and a publication ban, six people took a plea deal to lesser charges in which the rest of their co-accused charges were dropped in November 2011. Mandy Hiscocks, Alex Hundert and Leah Henderson are expecting sentences between 10 and 16 months. Peter Hopperton, Erik Lankin, and Adam Lewis are currently serving jail sentences of 3-5.5 months. Others face prison time for alleged participation in the riot.<\/p>\n

Innocence and guilt mean nothing to those who understand law as a structure that does not keep us safe, but that keeps us in line. In the words of the conspiracy defendants, \u201cThere is no victory in the courts\u2026The legal system exists to protect Canada\u2019s colonial and capitalist social structure.\u201d To consider questions of guilt or innocence is to indulge in all the hypocrisy of a judge, a prosecutor, or a cop. It doesn\u2019t matter that most of these people were already arrested when the property destruction occurred, and it doesn\u2019t matter that they didn\u2019t lead any conspiracies because anarchists don\u2019t have leaders. What matters is that when all those workers died, when all those people were evicted, when all that money was taken from us by the banks, when all those bombs fell, when all that air and water were poisoned, it didn\u2019t matter whether rules were broken or followed. To speak of rules and laws is to perpetuate one of the greatest lies of our society.<\/p>\n

Repression is the inevitable consequence of living under capital and the State, whether in a democracy or dictatorship, because few are fully blind to the domination around them and many are willing to fight back against it. To combat this social unrest, the State responds with repression. Many systems of oppression target various identities daily for being a potential enemy to the social order; whether colonized, genderqueer, or not white, to name a few. Imprisonment is structured to perfect control over anybody who\u2019s locked up, and manifests itself outside its walls as a threat towards those whose privileges don\u2019t fool them into identifying with power. Repression tries to prevent us from making the all-too-sensible decision to revolt against the systems that destroy our lives and future.<\/p>\n

The new omnibus \u2018tough on crime\u2019 bill is an intensification of social control, as is the federal prison expansion that will see expansions at 36 federal prisons between now and 2014, along with provincial prison expansions in every province. Correctional Services Canada will be the largest building contractor by 2012. The Montreal police even have a new \u2018anti-gang\u2019 police squad, GAMMA, dedicated to the surveillance and repression of anarchists and other \u2018marginal movements\u2019.<\/p>\n

Prison is the concrete intensification of the alienation, isolation, and exploitation that surrounds us in our daily lives. With a desire for freedom comes the simple realization that prisons, and the world that needs them, must be attacked with revolutionary intentions. The urgency for rebellion makes itself even clearer when the State is tightening its grip on our throats in times of austerity.<\/p>\n

As anarchists, we understand solidarity as lying in action. When we act we expand our own freedom as well. When the State takes anarchists and other rebels captive in its cages of democracy, revolutionary solidarity involves continuing the struggle that they are imprisoned for. Solidarity with prisoners in struggle should not be due to debt or sacrifice, but because our own liberation is intrinsically tied with their liberation and the destruction of prison. By actively pushing their struggles forward outside the prison walls, our solidarity ensures that the State\u2019s attempts to intimidate and control us are only met with escalated resistance. Our struggles against the State and capital must grow into a force that their cages cannot contain.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s lose our fear, and spread rebellion against authority.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

Prisoners to the streets!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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En Solidarit\u00e9 et en Complicit\u00e9 avec les Prisonni\u00e8res et Prisonniers du G20!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Il y a d\u00e9j\u00e0 maintenant plus d\u2019un an et demi depuis la mobilisation contre le G20 \u00e0 Toronto qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 la sc\u00e8ne de la plus grande arrestation de masse dans l\u2019histoire du Canada. Une op\u00e9ration s\u00e9curitaire de plus de 1 milliards de dollars a encag\u00e9e plus de 1100 personnes lors de cette fin de semaine pour d\u00e9fendre la r\u00e9union de bureaucrates provenant des \u00e9conomies capitalistes les plus riches du monde. Un groupe d\u2019individus, plusieurs d\u2019entre elles et eux utilisant la tactique du \u00ab black bloc \u00bb (porter des masques et des habits noirs), a quand m\u00eame r\u00e9ussi \u00e0 briser cette paix sociale militaire; une paix qui existe pour nous garder ob\u00e9issant(e)s et passif(ve)s pour que le capital puisse circuler avec aise. La grande manifestation dissidente attaqua des propri\u00e9t\u00e9s corporatives et la police, lib\u00e9rant des lieux du contr\u00f4le des autorit\u00e9s en plus de cibler et de d\u00e9truire des espaces capitalistes. Peut-il y avoir une r\u00e9ponse plus humaine contre un district financier \u2013 un lieu urbain d\u00e9nu\u00e9 de vie, d\u00e9pourvu de loyer abordable, \u00e9rod\u00e9 de toutes vies autonomes, subordonn\u00e9 aux besoins du trafic et du commerce, sous le regard des cam\u00e9ras de surveillance, occup\u00e9 par la police, et infest\u00e9 par des points de ventes corporatifs et des banques \u2013 autre que sa destruction?<\/p>\n

Le jour avant la manifestation, vingt personnes ayant aid\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019organiser furent rafl\u00e9(e)s et accus\u00e9(e)s de complot criminel pour avoir suppos\u00e9ment planifi\u00e9 la perturbation du sommet. Cette accusation floue est utilis\u00e9e de plus en plus souvent contre les anarchistes et est essentiellement utilis\u00e9 en tant que \u00ab pens\u00e9e criminelle \u00bb. Apr\u00e8s plus d\u2019un an avec des condition de non-association, des d\u00e9tentions provisoires, des d\u00e9tentions \u00e0 domicile, et l\u2019ordonnance de non-publication, six personnes accept\u00e8rent un entente o\u00f9 leurs accusations furent r\u00e9duites et o\u00f9 les accusations de leurs coaccus\u00e9(e)s furent retir\u00e9es en novembre 2011. Mandy Hiscocks, Alex Hundert et Leah Henderson s\u2019attendent \u00e0 recevoir des peines de 10 \u00e0 16 mois. Peter Hopperton, Erik Lankin et Adam Lewis sont emprisonn\u00e9s en ce moment avec des peines de 3 \u00e0 5,5 mois. D\u2019autres font face \u00e0 du temps en prison pour leur pr\u00e9tendu participation dans l\u2019\u00e9meute.<\/p>\n

L\u2019innocence et la culpabilit\u00e9 ne veulent rien dire pour celles et ceux qui comprennent la loi en tant qu\u2019une structure en place non pour notre s\u00e9curit\u00e9 mais pour notre r\u00e9pression. Dans les mots de l\u2019un(e) des d\u00e9fendant(e)s du complot, \u00ab Au tribunal, aucune victoire n\u2019est vraiment possible \u2026 Le syst\u00e8me judiciaire existe pour prot\u00e9ger la structure sociale coloniale et capitaliste du Canada. \u00bb Prendre en consid\u00e9ration des questions d\u2019innocence et de culpabilit\u00e9 c\u2019est c\u00e9der \u00e0 l\u2019hypocrisie des juges, des procureur(e)s ou des flics. Ce n\u2019est pas important que la majorit\u00e9 de ces personnes \u00e9taient d\u00e9j\u00e0 en \u00e9tat d\u2019arrestation lorsque la destruction de biens se produisit, et ce n\u2019est pas important qu\u2019elles et ils n\u2019\u00e9taient pas \u00e0 la t\u00eate d\u2019un complot parce que les anarchistes n\u2019ont pas de dirigeant(e)s. Ce qui est important est que lorsque tous ces travailleurs et toutes ces travailleuses furent tu\u00e9(e)s, lorsque toutes ces personnes furent expuls\u00e9(e)s, lorsque les banques vol\u00e8rent notre argent, lorsque toutes ces bombes tomb\u00e8rent, lorsque l\u2019air et l\u2019eau furent empoisonn\u00e9s, il n\u2019\u00e9tait pas important de savoir si des r\u00e8glements furent bris\u00e9s ou respect\u00e9s. Parler de r\u00e8glements et de lois est la continuation d\u2019un des plus grand mensonge de notre soci\u00e9t\u00e9.<\/p>\n

La r\u00e9pression est la cons\u00e9quence in\u00e9vitable de vivre sous la domination du capital et de l\u2019\u00c9tat, que ce soit dans une d\u00e9mocratie ou dictature, parce que peu de personnes ne sont pas conscient(e) de la domination autour d\u2019elles et que plusieurs sont pr\u00eates \u00e0 combattre. Pour combattre les agitations sociales, l\u2019\u00c9tat r\u00e9pond avec la r\u00e9pression. Plusieurs syst\u00e8mes d\u2019oppression ciblent tous les jours diverses identit\u00e9s per\u00e7ues en tant qu\u2019ennemie potentielle de l\u2019ordre social; personnes colonis\u00e9es, personnes altergenres, ou personnes non-blanches, pour n\u2019en nommer que quelques-unes. L\u2019emprisonnement est une structure perfectionnant le contr\u00f4le de n\u2019importe qui se retrouvant sous verrou, et elle se manifeste \u00e0 l\u2019ext\u00e9rieur des ses murs en tant qu\u2019une menace envers celles et ceux qui ne se font pas tromper par leurs privil\u00e8ges et qui d\u00e9cident de ne pas s\u2019aligner avec les pouvoirs dominants. La r\u00e9pression tente de nous emp\u00eacher de prendre la d\u00e9cision sens\u00e9e de se r\u00e9volter contre les syst\u00e8mes qui d\u00e9truisent nos vies et nos futurs.<\/p>\n

Le nouveau projet de loi de r\u00e9pression plus s\u00e9v\u00e8re de la criminalit\u00e9 est une intensification du contr\u00f4le sociale, tout comme la construction et l\u2019agrandissement de prisons f\u00e9d\u00e9rales qui verra des projets dans 36 prisons f\u00e9d\u00e9rales d\u2019ici \u00e0 2014 en plus des projets d\u2019agrandissement et de construction de prisons provinciales dans chaque province. Service correctionnel Canada sera le plus grand entrepreneur de b\u00e2timent en 2012. La police de Montr\u00e9al a m\u00eame une nouvelle escouade \u00ab anti-gang \u00bb, GAMMA, d\u00e9di\u00e9e \u00e0 la surveillance et \u00e0 r\u00e9pression des anarchistes et autre \u00ab groupes marginaux \u00bb.<\/p>\n

La prison est l\u2019intensification concr\u00e8te de l\u2019ali\u00e9nation, de l\u2019isolement et de l\u2019exploitation qui nous entoure tous les jours. Un d\u00e9sir de libert\u00e9 est attach\u00e9 \u00e0 la r\u00e9alisation simple que les prisons et le monde qui en a besoin doivent \u00eatre attaqu\u00e9s avec des intentions r\u00e9volutionnaires. Le besoin urgent d\u2019une r\u00e9volte devient encore plus flagrant lorsque l\u2019\u00c9tat resserre sa prise sur nos gorges dans des temps d\u2019aust\u00e9rit\u00e9.<\/p>\n

En tant qu\u2019anarchistes, nous comprenons que la solidarit\u00e9 r\u00e9side dans l\u2019action. Lorsque nous agissons nous \u00e9largissons aussi notre libert\u00e9. Lorsque l\u2019\u00c9tat tient captives et captifs des anarchistes et autres rebel(le)s dans sa cage d\u00e9mocratique, la solidarit\u00e9 r\u00e9volutionnaire implique une continuation de la lutte pour laquelle ils et elles sont emprisonn\u00e9(e)s. Agir en solidarit\u00e9 avec les prisonnier(\u00e8re)s en lutte ne devraient pas \u00eatre \u00e0 cause d\u2019une dette ou d\u2019un sacrifice, mais plut\u00f4t puisque notre lib\u00e9ration est li\u00e9 \u00e0 leur lib\u00e9ration et \u00e0 la destruction des prisons. En continuant de faire avancer leurs luttes \u00e0 l\u2019ext\u00e9rieur des murs des prisons, notre solidarit\u00e9 assure que les tentatives de l\u2019\u00c9tat de nous intimider et de nous contr\u00f4ler r\u00e9sulte en une intensification de la r\u00e9sistance. Nos luttes contre l\u2019\u00c9tat et le capital doivent devenir une force que leurs cages ne peuvent contenir.<\/strong><\/p>\n

N\u2019ayons plus peur, et multiplions les r\u00e9bellions contre les autorit\u00e9s.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

Prisonni\u00e8res et prisonniers dans la rue!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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