{"id":703,"date":"2011-05-03T20:42:55","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T01:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/?p=703"},"modified":"2013-02-03T16:37:49","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T22:37:49","slug":"montreal-qc-clashes-at-anti-capitalist-may-day-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/?p=703","title":{"rendered":"Montreal, QC: Clashes at anti-capitalist May Day march"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>from <a href=\"http:\/\/sabotagemedia.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/may-day-anti-capitalist-protest-in.html\">sabotagemedia<del><\/del><\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.montrealgazette.com\/news\/decision-canada\/4707018.bin?size=620x400\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.montrealgazette.com\/news\/decision-canada\/4707007.bin?size=620x400\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.montrealgazette.com\/news\/decision-canada\/4706990.bin?size=620x400\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.montrealgazette.com\/news\/decision-canada\/4707082.bin?size=620x400\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nMay Day in Montreal, after the mockery  that was the march organized by the collaborationist major unions who  led people to march in streets where they would not bother anyone to  then end up in a secluded park, a protest worthy of its name was held  downtown united under an anti-capitalist banner.<\/p>\n<p>More than  1200 people, women, children, immigrants, workers, students, artists,  took the main streets of downtown marching peacefully with a festive  atmosphere in the direction of the Conservatives office of  Westmount-Ville-Marie. The <strong>SS<\/strong>PVM very quickly tried to provoke  the protesters with random arrests. A first attempt of arrest for no  apparent reason was quickly pushed back with force by some brave freedom  fighters.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the Baby Bloc, composed  of parents and children answering a call by La Pointe Libertaire,  decided to seperate from the march since the police already clearly had  demonstrated its violent intentions with the strong presence of riot-police (conveniently named by the fact that they start riots) and  cavalry.<\/p>\n<p>After 45 minutes of walking the  protesters were greeted at the corner of Ren\u00e9-L\u00e9vesque \/ Metcalfe by  excessive police presence that was quick to charge into the  demonstrators from various angles without any previous order to disperse  and went ahead with brutal arrests showing once again the systematic  social and racial profiling by the <strong>SS<\/strong>PVM and also showing us the fear of those from above in the face of the expression of freedom and resistance.<\/p>\n<p>see also a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmaq.net\/fr\/node\/43882\">communiqu\u00e9 by the CLAC<\/a> (in french)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from sabotagemedia: &nbsp; May Day in Montreal, after the mockery that was the march organized by the collaborationist major unions who led people to march in streets where they would not bother anyone to then end up in a secluded &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/?p=703\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2532,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[880],"tags":[61,10],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actions","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2532"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6382,"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions\/6382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}