CLAC PAY'S ME TO LAUNCH BRICKS ZINES🚫🧱✅📚

Hey !

You are invited to a launch of three new zines pulled out of the podcast the Whole Orchard by CLAC this Thursday October 3rd at 6PM, at Café Philanthrope de l'UQAM (N-S1100, we'll put up some posters with arrows). ❗️❗️❗️☕

The three zines launched will be:

Le Centre Social Anarchiste l'Achoppe vous invite à ses projections un jeudi sur deux. Durant le mois de mars 2024, la thématique est l'abolition de la police et des prisons.

Jeudi 14 mars: Whoses Streets? (2017)

Jeudi 28 mars: Do Not Resist (2016)

Portes 18h30, Films 19h. Contribution volontaire. BYOP (bring your own popcorn)

Nous partageons l'appel du Collectif 15 mars en vue de la manifestation annuelle contre la brutalité policière 2024.

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Both police and prisons are institutions set up to maintain a capitalist and racist social order. Whether it's the commission of inquiry into the SQ after the Oka crisis, or the one following the 2012 student strike, there are always recommendations to restructure organizations or re-evaluate the use of this or that type of weapon. While the list of victims of police services and prisons grows longer in Quebec and elsewhere, the idea of investigations and reforms is still being bandied about. Worse, some are calling for more training or technological gadgets like cameras, which would only increase police budgets. If the current American crisis has taught us anything, it's that cameras are useless: Ahmaud Arbery's death was filmed, but it was only when the public rose up against the police, prosecutors and judges who tried to sweep the case under the carpet that the murderers were arrested. George Floyd's death was filmed, but it was only after three days of protests that charges were laid, initially against just one of the police officers involved. The total impunity of the police and the massive injustice of the prison system will not be solved by yet another reform. This impunity must be addressed by abolishing these institutions.

Liberal society tells us that prisons exist to protect us from people that cause harm, but the history of prisons, along with their current social functions tell a very different story. Prisons have always existed to lock up poor people, runaway slaves, people in debt, people society doesn’t want, and everyone who dares to resist the way this world is organized.

As has been written elsewhere in this journal, the federal government has commissioned a new prison for migrants of all ages, and construction is beginning in spring of 2019. The catch: they don't want this new building to seem like a prison. They've requested it have warm wood panelling to give it a homey feel, window furnishings to hide the iron bars, and fences camouflaged by shrubbery, but high enough to block passersby from seeing the children in the courtyard.

En ce moment-même, des migrantEs sont en prison juste à côté de nous dans une prison à Laval. Plutôt que de se poser la question s’il est normal d’enfermer des migrantEs, le gouvernement canadien travaille plutôt à leur construire des murs neufs. Une nouvelle prison, dédiée pour enfermer des familles, parents et enfants.