Montreal, 11 June 2012 -- Two weeks before the Formula 1 turbo-capitalist circus arrived in Montreal, the Convergence of Anti-Capitalist Struggles (CLAC), just like other organizations, issued a call to action.
In the context of the current social crisis, this event - emblematic of the excesses of the wealthy, of environmental destruction and explicit mysogyny - was bound to provoke a strong reaction from those actively fighting for a society free from all forms of exploitation.
Montreal, 4 June 2012 -- The Convergence of Anti-Capitalist Struggles (CLAC-Montreal), responding to a call by the student and popular protest movements, will participate in a week of economic disruption around the Grand Prix Formula 1 in Montreal. In particular, CLAC is inviting itself to the Grand Prix's opening cocktail party, at Arsenal on June 7th.
Montreal, 4 June 2012 -- The Convergence of Anti-Capitalist Struggles (CLAC-Montreal), responding to a call by the student and popular protest movements, will participate in a week of economic disruption around the Grand Prix Formula 1 in Montreal. In particular, CLAC is inviting itself to the Grand Prix's opening cocktail party, at Arsenal on June 7th.
- Disrupt the Montreal Grand Prix
- Support Quebec’s General & Social Strike
An Anti-Capitalist/Anti-Authoritarian Convergence
June 6-10, 2012 - MONTREAL
The Anti-Capitalist Convergence of Montreal (CLAC) is calling for an anti-capitalist/anti-authoritarian presence in Montreal to disrupt the Grand Prix “jet-set”, and to support Quebec's ongoing student strike, which has become a larger "social strike." The Convergence is also in defiance of Quebec’s new special law against protesters and the student strike.
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More Than 5,000 People Came Out for Anti-Capitalist May Day!
Anti-capitalist demonstration brutally dispersed by SPVM guard dogs
Montréal, May 1st, 2012 – Today, answering the call of the Anti-Capitalist Convergence (CLAC-Montréal) and its allies, for the fifth year running, more than 5,000 people — a record turnout— joined together in downtown Montreal to celebrate International Workers' Day. A diverse array of contingents (queers, feminists, migrants, students, and families) answered CLAC's call, showing the growing reach of the anticapitalist perspective.
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Join us for the ANTI-CAPITALIST MAYDAY DEMONSTRATION, MAY 1, 2012, IN MONTRÉAL
(See below for more calls issued by our allies!)
This is a call to all workers, unemployed, and precariously employed.
This is a call to the poor, the outcasts, the marginalized and the oppressed.
This is a call to the students who are struggling.
To women, and radical feminists, who have always struggled on the side of the disenfranchised.
This is a call to those who are fed up, and who cannot take any more of this shit.
To the anti-capitalists, the anarchists, the communists, the rebels, the insurgents, and revolutionaries.
This is a call for the expression of a justifiable rage!
THIS IS A CALL FOR A GENERAL STRIKE ON MAY 1!
We call for a general strike for May 1, and we call for an unlimited general strike, because we do not want to be the oil that drives the gears of capitalism!
We will be the iron bar that will derail it!
We call for the general strike to put an end to capitalism, because without us, the capitalists are nothing!
Together, we are everything, we can do anything!!
Join CLAC-Montreal (Convergence of Anti-Capitalist Struggles) on MAY 1st!
* We are inviting you to bring your banners, flags and placards, megaphones and noisemakers. And come masked! We also suggest that you form affinity groups!
* We are also inviting groups to support this call for an anti-capitalist May 1 demonstration, to put together your own block for the demonstration, to circulate this call-out in your networks, and to help with mobilization.*
If you are interested, contact us at: info @ clac-montreal.net
Join Us!
For a MAY 1 that is clearly anti-capitalist, and in the spirit of the pioneers of working-class emancipation, this is a call to retake the streets, to break the established order, and to occupy EVERYTHING!
To read CLAC's newspaper, MayDay Special Issue:
http://www.clac-montreal.net/coup_pour_coup
For more information visit:
http://clac-montreal.net
info @ clac-montréal.net
https://www.facebook.com/events/324635217571613/
The following groups have endorsed this call:
Comité des sans-emploi Montréal-Centre (CSE)
Dignidad Migrante
Filipino workers support group
Immigrant Workers Centre (CTTI-IWC)
La Mitrailleuse
No One is Illegal - Montréal
People's Commission Network (PCN)
PINAY
Projet accompagnement solidarité Colombie (PASC)
Queer-McGill Political Action Working Group
RASH-Montréal
Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP)
Solidarity Across Borders (SSAB)
Les Sorcières
[More calls for May Day!: Please note that these calls are not issued by CLAC but by its allies.]
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For a Social Strike on May 1st and 15th, 2012
http://www.grevesociale.info/
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ANARCHIST CONTINGENT, MONTRÉAL, MAY DAY 2012
http://grevemontreal.noblogs.org/post/2012/04/22/anarchist-contingent-mo...
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Les Sorcières vous invite ! Contingent féministe pour le 1 mai
*À toutes les féministes en résistance,*
*Les révoltées et les Insoumises,*
*Celles qui en ont marre,*
Dans le cadre de : *1er MAI ANTICAPITALISTE 2012
*Manifestation anticapitaliste à l'occasion de la Fête internationale des travailleuses et travailleurs* *qui aura lieu à Montréal, le 1 mai, à 16h30 Champ-de-mars (derrière l'hôtel de ville).
*Le collectif féministe radical Les Sorcières* vous invite à *vous vêtir de mauve* et à venir manifester votre colère en vous solidarisant dans un contingent coloré lors de cette manifestation!
Soyez créative ! Perruques, costumes, couleur violette ! Aucune limite !
Car nous refusons d'être soumises, pendant que les mâles capitalisent!
Vous pourrez nous rejoindre !! Nous serons faciles à repérer .
ON VEUT LE PATRIARCAT EN CRISE, LA RÉSISTANCE FÉMINISTE EST DE MISE!
Pour toutes autres informations: sorcieres01 @ gmail.com
radicalement vôtres,
Les sorcières
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Join the migrant justice contingent during ANTI-CAPITALIST MAYDAY:
TUESDAY, MAY 1st, 2012
The migrant justice contingent will gather behind the "ImmigrantEs,travailleurs/euses: même combat!" banner at 4:15pm at the corner of corner
of Saint-Antoine & Gosford.
May 1st gathering at Champ-de-Mars at 4:30pm
Métro Champ-de-Mars
INFO: www.clac-montreal.net/en
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INVITATION à former un BÉBÉ BLOC
*à l’occasion de la manifestation anticapitaliste du 1er MAI 2012*
Le comité de mobilisation des parents-étudiants de l’UQAM et des Parents contre la hausse invitent parents, grands-parents, enfants petits et grands et alliéEs des familles à former un bébé bloc lors de la manifestation anticapitaliste du 1er mai 2012!
*Pourquoi un bébé bloc?*
Dans le contexte politique actuel, où la répression policière est omniprésente et démesurée, il devient difficile, voir impossible pour certaines groupes de participer aux manifestations et autres actions qui nous interpellent. Un des groupes dont la participation est la plus restreinte est celui des parents et de leurs enfants. Le déploiement et les
interventions policières imprévisibles menacent trop souvent leur sécurité. Malgré ce contexte répressif, plusieurs parents veulent se doter de moyens pour continuer à lutter en mettant place les conditions nécessaires pour assurer le bien-être des enfants.
*Qu’est-ce qu’un bébé bloc?*
Un bébé bloc est un espace délimité dans une manifestation où sont réunis des enfants et les personnes qui en ont la responsabilité (parents, grands-parents, oncles, tantes, amiEs, alliéEs, etc.). Ensemble, ces personnes veillent à la sécurité et aux besoins spécifiques des enfants et des ceux et celles qui les accompagnent afin que tout le monde se sente bien durant la marche. Le bébé bloc est donc un contingent autonome dans la manif qui pourra s’en séparer SI le besoin s’en fait sentir.
*Nous sommes parents, grands-parents, anticapitalistes et en colère!*
*Contre la hausse des frais de scolarité et toutes les formes d’oppression,*
*en solidarité avec les laisséEs-pour-compte de notre société et d’ailleurs.*
*Montrons les différents visages de la lutte sans nous laisser intimider!*
*RENDEZ-VOUS le 1er MAI 2012 à 16h30, métro Champ-de-Mars*
*Cherchez des ballounes et du jaune!*
*Apportez vos pancartes, bannières, déguisements, instruments de musique!*
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March 26, 2012, Montreal -- This week, Quebec students escalate their tactics, building on almost one month of a general strike, and last Thursday’s massive demonstration against the Charest government tuition hikes.
The ongoing strike and Thursday’s historic demonstration are a starting point, not an end, as many student organizers have pointed out. The upcoming week of disruptive actions is especially important.
We are writing to support the Coalition Large de l’Association pour une Solidarité Syndicale Étudiante (CLASSE) who have called for a week of economic disruption to pressure the Charest government to cancel the tuition hikes. We agree that it’s not just through symbolic protests and actions – which are important to build solidarity and support – that the Charest government will capitulate. Rather, they will respond to the sustained and tangible disruption of the Quebec economy.
Already, business organizations, politicians, police and mainstream media commentators have referred to the economic impacts of the general strike. More blocked bridges, ports, highways and government buildings, as well as the continued disruption of colleges and universities, will force the hand of the Charest government.
Beyond the immediate demands to cancel the tuition hikes, sustained economic disruption opens up political space to talk about broader social demands. In addition to demands for free access to education (“gratuité scolaire”), some student associations have made broader links, by opposing Plan Nord or taking a stand in favor of full access to schools for non-status persons. Sustained strikes and disruptions opens up democratic spaces in the streets and in our communities for larger demands to confront capitalism, patriarchy and all forms of exploitation and oppression. A social strike puts democracy into the hands of people and their grassroots assemblies and institutions, not the sellout politicians and parties loyal to “representative democracy”.
We are writing, as local grassroots social justice collectives, groups and organizations, to publicly support this week’s economic disruptions. We will encourage our members to lend tangible support, by participating, and by engaging others in support of this week’s escalation. We denounce the use of police to attack students who are using legitimate tactics to force the hand of a government that refuses to listen to popular power. We also express our solidarity with blockaders and resisters on the frontlines, and denounce all attempts to use the media or police to divide movements.
For more information, please consult: www.stopthehike.ca/
Statement endorsed by:
- Solidarité sans frontières / Solidarity Across Borders - www.solidarityacrossborders.org
- QPIRG Concordia / GRIP à Concordia - www.qpirgconcordia.org
- La Convergence des luttes anticapitalistes (CLAC) - www.clac-montreal.net
- Personne n'est illégal / No One Is Illegal-Montreal - www.nooneisillegal.org
- Organisation populaire des droits sociaux de la région de Montréal - http://opdsrm.com
- La Pointe Libertaire - www.lapointelibertaire.org
- Dignidad Migrante - http://dignidadmigrante.info
- Le Centre Social Autogéré - www.centresocialautogere.org
- Réseau de la Commission Populaire / People's Commission Network - www.commissionpopulaire.org
- Ste-Emilie Skillshare - http://steemilieskillshare.org
- Artivistic - http://artivistic.org
- Projet Accompagnement Solidarité Colombie (PASC) - www.pasc.ca
- Collectif opposé à la brutalité policière (COBP) - http://cobp.resist.ca
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[By signing this callout, we will share information actively via our networks (public contact lists, public events, e-mail announcements, website, social media etc.) and publicly support students and their supporters who are organizing economic disruptions this week and beyond. We also support the CLASSE in opposing all tuition hikes, within the perspective of free access to education.]
Toronto G20: The last CLAC organizer still accused of conspiracy sees his charges withdrawn!
CLAC condemns the legal circus and the criminalization of dissent
Montréal, November 23rd 2011 – Yesterday, in a packed courtroom at the Ontario Court of
Justice in Toronto, the Crown counsel in charge of prosecuting the so-called “Main G20
Conspiracy Group” dropped all conspiracy charges against 17 organizers from Southern
Ontario and Québec.
One of the 17, Patrick Cadorette, an organizer from the Anti-capitalist Convergence of
Montréal (CLAC), had all his charges withdrawn by the Crown after almost 18 months spent
under restrictive conditions, including 11 months under house arrest.
This new development is a result of a plea agreement between Crown and Defense counsel.
Of the 17 charged with conspiracy, six pled guilty to “counseling” mischief, while the 11 others
have had all their charges dropped.
“The public has heard a lot about police brutality and mass arrests at the G20 summit,”
Cadorette says, “but the repression went a lot deeper than pictures of angry policemen beating
on demonstrators. We now know that there was a complex strategy aimed at criminalizing
political dissent and anti-capitalist organizing. This strategy included infiltration by undercover
cops, the surveillance of various movements, the intimidation and harassment of activists, and
hundreds of illegal searches and arbitrary detentions during the summit itself. The legal and
penal system also played a major role in this strategy to criminalize dissent. Through imposing
draconian bail conditions like strict non-association with targeted community organizations, long
term house arrest, and banning organizing or attending public demonstrations, legal authorities
clearly meant to weaken movements working for social and environmental justice and to
discourage people who identify with these movements from getting involved. Add to all this the
serious criminal charges targeting organizers, public defamation, and bail hearings held in the
climate of mass hysteria following the protests, as well as the staggering amounts requested
for cash bail, and you have all the elements of a perfect plan to demonize and criminalize
political activism.”
CLAC Media Briefing
Wednesday, November 23rd at 10am
QPIRG Concordia, 1500 de Maisonneuve W., #204, Montreal
CLAC (Convergence of anti-capitalist struggles) invites members of the press to a briefing by Patrick Cadorette, the last CLAC organizer facing conspiracy charges related to the G20 protests in Toronto, and a member of the legal support committee.
Jeudi le 3 novembre à 17h30
Rassemblement au Carré Phllips à Montréal
(rue Ste-Catherine Ouest, entre les rues Union et Aylmer, métro McGill)
Montréal, le 1er novembre 2011 - La Convergence des luttes anticapitalistes (CLAC) appelle toute la population à manifester dans les rues de Montréal contre le Sommet du G20 qui se tiendra à Cannes en France les 3 et 4 novembre.
Association de défense des droits sociaux du Montréal-métropolitain (ADDS-MM)
Association Facultaire Étudiante de Science Politique Et Droit de l’UQAM (AFESPED-UQAM)
Association pour une solidarité syndicale étudiante (ASSÉ)
BASICS Community News Service-Toronto
Centre d'appui aux Philippines / Centre for Philippine Concerns (CAP-CPC)
Centre de ressources éducatives et communautaires pour adultes (CRÉCA)
Centre des femmes d’ici et d’ailleurs (CFIA)
Centre social autogéré (CSA)
la Coalition Justice pour Anas
This morning, in the context of a court appearance by two men and two women arrested following an anti-capitalist protest on May 1st, CLAC (Anti-Capitalist Convergence) held a press briefing in front of the Montréal Palais de justice. A statement signed by more than thirty groups was released to media.
Statement Against Political Profiling by Montreal's "GAMMA" Squad
Montréal –September 20th 2011
[translated from the original French]
We strongly condemn the most recent repressive offensive by the Montreal police (SPVM) whose aim is to criminalize, intimidate and isolate several political organizations. We also condemn the formation of a political police squad (entitled “GAMMA”) which is a unit of the SPVM’s organized crime division.
Montréal, 12th of july 2011- On June 29th 2011, the Anti-Gang Squad of the Montreal Police Organized Crime Division arrested four activists, simultaneously searching their respective homes. The arrests are connected to the last May 1st protest, organized by the Convergence of anti-capitalist struggles of Montreal (CLAC).
Montreal, June 21, 2011 -- Today, Montrealer Jaggi Singh, a member of the Anti-Capitalist Convergence (CLAC), was sentenced for "counselling" people to tear down the G20 security fence in Toronto. Last April 28th, he pleaded guilty to encouraging people to tear down the illegitimate fence that shielded the heads of state of the G20 from popular rage on June 26th and 27th, 2010 in Toronto. The Crown has asked the judge to impose an exemplary sentence of six months' imprisonment, while admitting that no sentence, even the harshest, could make Jaggi change his political views.