{"id":851,"date":"2011-05-18T15:24:52","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T20:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/?p=851"},"modified":"2013-02-03T16:47:27","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T22:47:27","slug":"montreal-qc-greek-consulate-disrupted-in-solidarity-with-anarchists-and-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/?p=851","title":{"rendered":"Montreal, QC: Greek consulate disrupted in solidarity with anarchists and immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"

from anarchistnews<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

On Monday, May 16th 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, Solidarit\u00e9 contre la repr\u00e8ssion d’\u00c9tat en Gr\u00e8ce” and handed out fliers.
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\nText from the flier:<\/p>\n

In Athens, Greece, during a general strike on May 11th against extensive economic restructuring led by the IMF, the repressive forces of the Greek state brutally attacked the strike demo. Dozens were hospitalized and one man was so severely beaten he fell into a deep coma and is on life support.<\/p>\n

In addition, a Greek man was killed on May 10th in a largely immigrant district, triggering a police-sponsored fascist pogrom that is still taking place in the immigrant neighborhoods. Immigrants had their car windows smashed out while they were driving, many have been beaten on the street, a Pakistani family had their house fire-bombed, and a 21 year old immigrant was murdered by fascists. The police have been directly sponsoring and protecting this racist terror and have also cooperatively attacked anarchist social spaces which have been showing direct solidarity to the migrants by physically confronting this fascist pogrom in the streets.<\/p>\n

In times of economic crisis, immigrant populations are often used as scapegoats as an outlet for people\u2019s frustrations with austerity measures. Such racist and nationalist ideologies have always served to prevent solidarity between immigrants and those \u201cnative-born\u201d exploited who persist in the delusion that they have more in common with the masters who exploit them.<\/p>\n

In Canada, with a different intensity but following the same logic, immigrants are swept off the streets, jailed, and deported according to the needs of capitalism and social control. The raids, border walls, and detention centers serve to terrorize all immigrants into accepting their current conditions, just as prisons and police terrorize everyone into accepting the current order.<\/p>\n

Here, like elsewhere, resistance movements that pose a threat to the continuation of capitalism find themselves necessarily in conflict with the police. As anarchists, we want to destroy police, prisons and the world of exploitation that creates them, which steals away the capacity to create our lives on our own terms.<\/p>\n

Cops, Pigs, Murders
\nSolidarity with anarchists & immigrants in Greece.
\nLet\u2019s destroy the repressive machine wielded against all of us.<\/p>\n

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\u00c0 Ath\u00e8nes, en Gr\u00e8ce, pendant la gr\u00e8ve g\u00e9n\u00e9rale qui eut lieu le 11 mai contre les nouvelles mesures de restructuration \u00e9conomique amorc\u00e9es par le FMI (fond mon\u00e9taire international), les forces r\u00e9pressives de l’\u00c9tat ont brutalement attaqu\u00e9 la manifestation de gr\u00e9vistes. Alors qu’une douzaine d’entre eux furent hospitalis\u00e9s, un homme ayant \u00e9t\u00e9 s\u00e9v\u00e8rement battu est pr\u00e9sentement dans un coma profond.<\/p>\n

En plus de cela, le 10 mai, un homme a \u00e9t\u00e9 tu\u00e9 dans un quartier ou vivent une large proportion d’immigrant. Cela a d\u00e9clench\u00e9 des \u00e9meutes de fascistes desquelles les forces polici\u00e8res sont complices. Les \u00e9meutes ont lieu en ce moment m\u00eame, dans ce quartier d’immigrants. Des immigrants habitant ce quartier eurent leur vitres de voiture \u00e9clat\u00e9s alors qu’ils \u00e9taient en train de conduire, plusieurs d’entre eux se sont fait battre en pleine rue, une bombe a fait sauter la maison d’une famille de pakistanais et un jeune homme de 21 ans, immigrant, a \u00e9t\u00e9 tu\u00e9 par des fascistes. La police a non seulement activement appuy\u00e9 et prot\u00e9g\u00e9 ces actes de terreur raciste mais elle a aussi coop\u00e9r\u00e9 \u00e0 attaquer un centre social anarchiste qui d\u00e9montrait sa solidarit\u00e9 avec les immigrants en confrontant physiquement les fascistes dans les rues.<\/p>\n

En temps de crise \u00e9conomique, les populations immigrantes sont souvent utilis\u00e9es comme bouc-\u00e9missaire ou comme exutoire de frustrations. Des frustrations qui sont cr\u00e9\u00e9es par la pauvret\u00e9 et la sous-employabilit\u00e9. On met la faute sur les immigrants en les accusant de voler les emplois des ”citoyens” alors qu’en r\u00e9alit\u00e9, la sous-employabilit\u00e9 et provoqu\u00e9e par les mesures d’aust\u00e9rit\u00e9s. Des id\u00e9es racistes et nationalistes comme celles-ci ont toujours servies \u00e0 briser la solidarit\u00e9 qui pourrait potentiellement se construire entre les immigrant et les travailleurs natifs du pays qui sont aussi exploit\u00e9s. Ces derniers persistent \u00e0 croire qu’ils ont plus en commun avec les ma\u00eetres qui les exploitent.<\/p>\n

Au Canada, avec une autre intensit\u00e9 mais s’inscrivant dans la m\u00eame logique, les immigrants se font \u00e9liminer du paysage urbain. Soit on les ghettoise, soit on les emprisonne pour ensuite les d\u00e9porter selon les besoins du capital qui a un pouvoir de contr\u00f4le social.<\/p>\n

Les rafles, les contr\u00f4les aux fronti\u00e8res et les centres de d\u00e9tention sont des dispositifs en place qui servent \u00e0 terroriser les immigrants afin qu’ils acceptent leurs conditions, tout comme les prisons et les flics qui am\u00e8nent chacun \u00e0 craindre. Ce sont entre autre ces dispositifs qui permettent \u00e0 l’ordre de perdurer tel qu’il est.<\/p>\n

Ici, comme ailleurs, les mouvements de r\u00e9sistance qui menacent le capital se retrouvent in\u00e9vitablement en conflit avec les flics. En tant qu’anarchistes, nous voulons d\u00e9truire la police, les prisons et le monde d’exploitation qui les fabrique et qui nous vole notre capacit\u00e9 de cr\u00e9er nos vies selon nos propres bases.<\/p>\n

FLICS, PORCS, ASSASSINS,
\nen solidarit\u00e9 avec les anarchistes et les immigrants en Gr\u00e8ce,
\nd\u00e9truisons la machine r\u00e9pressive qui s’exerce contre nous tous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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