[Montréal actions against prisons, police, and the world that needs them]

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Montréal actions against prisons, police, and the world that needs them

“We refuse to be complacent in the misery around us. The police are an occupying army in our streets and any act to further remove them from our lives warms our hearts.”

2011

July :
• Condo developer attacked ; its windows were broken and building was painted.
June :
•Demo in response to two murders by the SPVM that attacked police with rocks and paint bombs, built street barricades, and broke windows.
May :
•Police cars attacked with paint stripper.
•Night of anarchist graffiti and disruption of the Greek consulate in solidarity with anarchists in
Greece fughting the police and fascists.
April :
•Bank attacked and three banner drops in solidarity with anarchists in Chile on hungerstrike.
•Unclaimed long-term sabotage of 61 personal cars of police.
March :
•Two security companies had their windows broken and paint thrown on their walls and cameras
in solidarity with anarchists in Puget Sound fighting the police and Montréal anarchists facing state
repression.
•Several Public Security Ministry of Québec vehicles were doused in paintstripper and had their
tires slashed. The Ministry oversees provincial prisons and police forces.
•Annual anti-police demo in which people threw projectiles at police and smashed corporate windows.
January-March :
•Slew of unclaimed condo development arsons.
New Year :
•Third anti-prison noise demo in six months outside federal prisons with fireworks, banners, and chants.

“Prison is much more than four walls of a vile institution ; prison is a condition that surrounds us. It is the cameras on every street corner surveilling our comings and goings, it is the borders and constant threat of detention and deportation that would keep us from freely choosing where we want to live.”

2010

December :
•12 Bell vehicles were covered in paintstripper and had their tires slashed on the anniversary of the police murder of Mohamed-Anas Bennis. Bell refused to make camera footage available to the public inquiry at the behest of the SPVM.
•Sodexo, a corporation that manufactures food for prisons, was attacked with rocks and spraypaint in solidarity with : Roger Clement, who firebombed an RBC ; John Graham, an indigenous prisoner ; and Giannis Dimitrakis, an anarchist prisoner in Greece.
November :
•The Russian Embassy in Montréal had its windows smashed and paint thrown against its façade in solidarity with anarchists in Russia facing state repression for defense of the earth.

July :
•An RCMP station had it’s windows smashed by masked anarchists.
•Banque Laurentienne had atms, windows, and a sign smashed with a hammer and rocks in solidarity with those who resisted the G20.
June-July :
•3 RBCs smashed in solidarity with the RBC firebombing and those facing G20 repression in Toronto.
June : •Sodexo had its windows smashed.
May : •CN rail lines west of Montréal were blocked.
March :
•Annual anti-police demo in which people attacked cops with stones, fireworks, and paint, built barricades in the street, and vandalized 6 police cruisers.
•A group of people attacked a police station. 11 police cars suffered broken windows, slashed tires, and had their computers smashed. FTP and ACAB were written on the building, and its windows were broken.

“It goes without saying that we did this because we hate the police, and we certainly aren’t alone in this hatred...
continue the fightback.”

2008-09
December :
•Two RBCs attacked in solidarity with resistance to the colonial Olympics.
April :
•Police car was torched.
August :
•Riot in Montréal-Nord after Fredy Villanueva was murdered. Fires were set, and police were attacked with stones, bottles, and guns.
March :
•During annual anti-police demo, dozens of downtown corporate windows were smashed, a molotov was used against a police vehicle, and anti-police graffiti was painted.
•23 cars at Mazda dealership had their tires slashed.
•Three ATMs of National Bank of Canada set on fire.
•Six police vehicles set on fire in Hochlaga.

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“These rails are an integral part of the underpinnings of a world we hate, built by the colonizers who introduced judges, police, and their prisons to this land. We approach this and other bedrocks of capital with an eye for destruction : for every rail blocked, a camera smashed. For every cop car put to ruin, a prison razed.”

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sources :

https://mtlcontreinfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/MTLCI-affiches.pdf
https://mtlcounterinfo.org/montreal-actions-against-prisons-police-and-the-world-that-needs-them/
https://mtlcontreinfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/20082011en.pdf