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[De-gentrification action agains “3734”]

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[De-gentrification action agains “3734”]
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. — Montréal : Montréal contre-information = Montreal counter-information = MTL Contre-info,
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In a society that values property over life, we must destroy property in order to live.

“Just over a year ago, a masked crowd looted the yuppie grocery store attached to the “3734” restaurant on Notre-Dame street and redistributed the food to people in the neighborhood, one of dozens of actions against gentrification in recent years. The grocery store shut down several months ago, but we noticed that the 3734 restaurant was still serving business lunches and expensive dinners to local yuppies. So last Wednesday night we paid them a visit, breaking a window and covering the inside of the restaurant with paint, using a fire extinguisher. [...]

Gentrification is an operation of displacement, alongside more longstanding processes such as colonialism and mass incarceration, that those in power use against anyone who stands in the way of development, control, and ‘progress’. We wreck gentrifying businesses in our neighborhood(s) for the same reasons others might attack the police, sabotage industrial development, make borders unenforceable, and injure fascists.

We’re told that we just need to vote, write to elected officials, or peacefully protest if we want to change things, but anyone knows better than to trust this tired lie. We want to change infinitely more than what would be possible by performing the role of the good citizen or by getting good media coverage for a list of demands to those in power. The ‘legitimate’ channels that this society gives us for change may bring about reforms to the specific details of oppression, but they do nothing to undo the systems of oppression themselves, and often are designed to make us ever more dependent upon them. That is why we refuse to dialogue with a gentrifying business, and instead break their windows and destroy their commodities ; actions that directly impact our environment, unmediated by politicians and their world. In a society that values property over life, we must destroy property in order to live.

Tired of useless meetings or sitting at home alone with your Facebook feed ? Try a nighttime stroll with a friend, a mask, and a sledgehammer. Attacking is very possible, no matter who you are, and if you’re careful you can do quite a lot without being caught – check out this recipe for nocturnal actions for some tips1. Let’s keep making St-Henri a hostile place for yuppie business, developers, the police, and the rich they serve !"

1. Full communiqué and A recipe for nocturnal direct actions ! available on mtlcounter-info.org


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https://mtlcounterinfo.org/de-gentrification-action-against-3734/
https://mtlcontreinfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/propertyoverlife.pdf

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