[Fuck Canada]

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Fuck Canada

VIA Rail celebration of colonial genocide covered in the colours of green anarchy

“Politicians, cops, capitalists and bootlickers across the territories of so-called Canada are celebrating the genocidal legacy of colonial civilization with a year full of grotesque spectacles. Canada tries to whitewash 150 years of colonial violence with fighter jets adorned with the colors of the Canadian flag, concerts and parades, and VIA Rail commuter train advertising.

We see nothing to celebrate about the genocidal campaign waged against indigenous peoples, ecological devastation, or the establishment of a State which represses our wild desires and steals our capacity to live free. Instead, we celebrate the resistance of indigenous peoples across Turtle Island ; from the Gitwilgyoots peoples resisting the construction of a massive LFG (liquified fracked gas) terminal on their territories, to the Mi’kmaq resistance to fracking on their territories.

Earlier this morning, we defaced the Canada 150 propaganda on the side of the VIA Rail train headed from Tio’Tia:Ke (“Montreal”) to Gichi Kiiwenging (“Toronto”). We wanted to celebrate an anti-colonial July 1st a little early, because colonialism isn’t reserved to a few days on the calendar. This is the same railway that was blockaded in solidarity with Standing Rock last November.

Canada’s rail infrastructure played an integral role in the establishment of this settler society built on dead native and immigrant bodies – colonial expansion was contingent upon building these train lines for the transportation of troops and the transformation of “natural resources” into commodities for human exploitation. [...]"

Canada150 Installation Defaced

“On Friday, June 16, an installation in Montreal promoting Canada’s
150th year of killing people and taking their land (among other
shit), was defaced by some anarchists. A large “Canada150” bill-
board above a Parks Canada information booth was covered with
black paint, while anti-colonial posters were wheat pasted on an
adjacent placard memorializing Sir Wilfred Laurier. [...]

Inspiring calls to disrupt Canada150, a celebration of Indigenous
genocide, have circulated widely in recent months. As people li -
ving in Canadian cities who want to sabotage the economic, politi-
cal, and symbolic machinery of the colonial state, we encourage a
multi-pronged attack in engaging with Canada150.[...]

Targets are everywhere. Colonization enlists every facet of Canadian capital and state power. On Friday, for instance, the property of Parks Canada, a federal agency that may seem innocuous at first glance, was damaged. Most parks in Canada are on traditional indigenous territories. The conversion of this land into federal and provincial parks is an important part of Canada’s genocidal history and present project. These areas were transformed from homes, hunting, and harvesting territories, where people could sustain themselves and their communities, into very specifically state-managed parks. It is no coincidence that the first National parks were established during the construction of the Canadian Pacific railway, and at the tail-end of the Métis Rebellion.

Direct action targeting hard-to-defend infrastructure (even in and around urban areas) like highways, railways and pipelines can directly impact the revenue streams of government and corporate colonial profiteers. Doing so breaks with the social control on which colonial governance depends. These attacks build the skills, confidence, and collective capacity that are invaluable in periods of intensified collective action. [...]

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https://mtlcounterinfo.org/fuck-canada/
https://mtlcontreinfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/fuckcanada.pdf