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Author: Montreal Counter-Info
About Montreal Counter-Info
Montreal Counter-info aspires to provide a space for anarchists in Montreal to diffuse their ideas and actions across overlapping networks and tendencies, outside the realm of leftist or corporate media projects.
Mar 21, 20
Montreal: Rent Strike – Beginning April 1st, 2020
A call for a rent strike starting April 1st, 2020 in so-called Montreal. Poor, unemployed, laid-off, precarious, undocumented, contract and other workers... Read Full Article
Mar 18, 20
Montreal, QC: Report Back from March 15th Day Against Police Brutality
Report back from the 24th annual, day of resistance to police brutality in Montreal, Quebec. Approximately 150 people marched today in downtown... Read Full Article
Mar 8, 20
Solidarity Action with Wet’suwet’en Land Defenders Blocks Access to Port of Montreal
Report back on blockade of the Port of Montreal in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en struggle. Originally published to Montreal Counter-Info. A group of... Read Full Article
Feb 24, 20
Joliette, QC: Banner Dropped in Solidarity with Wet’suwet’en
The following action report was originally submitted to Montreal Counter-Info. Saturday morning, an anonymous group unfurled a banner on the CN bridge... Read Full Article
Feb 18, 20
St-Pascal, QC: Blockade of Railroad in Solidarity with Wet’suwet’en
Report on Wet’suwet’en solidarity action from St-Pascal, Quebec. Originally posted to Montreal Counter-Info. Today, Sunday the 16th of February, at 11am, around... Read Full Article
Feb 14, 20
Montreal, QC: March in Solidarity with Wet’suwet’en Pays Visit to RCMP’s HQ
Action report on Wet’suwet’en solidarity march in Montreal. Originally published on Montreal Counter-Info. A bit over a hundred people marched through downtown... Read Full Article
Feb 8, 20
Montreal, QC: Minister of Justice Office Vandalized After RCMP Invades Unceded Wet’suwet’en Territory
The following communique was originally anonymous submitted and published to Montreal Counter-Info. The Canadian state isn’t invulnerable. As Canada sends an army... Read Full Article
Jan 31, 20
Montreal, QC: Barricades Lit on Fire and Freeways Blocked in Solidarity with Wet’suwet’en
Report back from recent blockade in solidarity with the ongoing Wet’suwet’en struggle. Originally posted to Montreal Counter-Info. In the middle of rush... Read Full Article
Jan 17, 20
Disruption of Port of Montreal during Rush Hour in Solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en Fighting Coastal GasLink
Report on recent action in Montreal in solidarity with the ongoing Wet’suwet’en struggle against Coastal GasLink and the RCMP. Originally posted to... Read Full Article
Jan 13, 20
Sherbrooke, QC: Against the World and Its Prison
Report back from New Year’s Eve noise demo in Sherbrooke. Originally posted to Montreal Counter-Info. To begin our 2020s, with the onslaught... Read Full Article
Jan 5, 20
New Year’s Light Show for the Prisoners of the Quebec City Detention Center
Report back from New Year’s Eve noise demonstration in Quebec City. Originally posted to Montreal Counter-Info. Correction: An earlier version of this... Read Full Article
Dec 30, 19
“État Policier” Newspaper – Call for Submissions of Texts
Call for submissions for annual newspaper, “L’État Policier,” produced by the Collective Opposed to Police Brutality (C.O.B.P.). Originally published to Montreal Counter-Info.... Read Full Article
Dec 17, 19
National Insecurity: The RCMP Knocks on Doors in Montreal
Report on recent door-knock campaign by the so-called Canadian State against local organizers and participants in social movements. When it comes to... Read Full Article
Dec 3, 19
Montreal: Fare Boxes Sabotaged In Solidarity with #NobodyPays Call to Action
The following communique was originally anonymously posted to Montreal Counter-Info. It reads: Over the past several days, motivated by an international call... Read Full Article
Oct 21, 19
John A. Macdonald & Queen Victoria Statues Vandalized by Anti-Colonial Anarchists
Communique originally posted to Montreal Counter-Info. A few anti-colonial anarchists in Montreal decided to “vote” a few days before Canada’s federal election,... Read Full Article
Oct 7, 19
Report Back from Breakaway March & ‘Temporary Autonomous Zone’ at Montreal #ClimateStrike
Report from recent anarchist and autonomous interventions within the massive Montreal #ClimateStrike. On Friday, September 27, in Montreal, between 300,000 and 500,000... Read Full Article
Oct 7, 19
Toward a Revolutionary Environmental Movement
The following text was written by the CLAC, the IWW and Montréal Antifasciste and was distributed at the Montreal climate demonstration on... Read Full Article
May 31, 19
Montreal Counter-Info #8
New issue of Montreal Counter-Info, a print publication featuring stories, action reports, and articles from the website. For distribution at schools, workplaces,... Read Full Article
May 24, 19
Montreal: Macdonald Monument & Queen Victoria Statue Vandalized Again
The following anonymous communique was originally posted to Montreal Counter-Info. As the Victoria Day weekend begins, the Macdonald Monument and the Queen... Read Full Article
May 15, 19
Reportback from Montreal’s May Day Against Borders
A report a recent May Day actions that originally was published on Montreal Counter-Info. On May Day 2019 in Montreal there were... Read Full Article
May 9, 19
Montreal: Architecture Firm Designing Migrant Prison Sabotaged
The following communique was anonymously posted originally to Montreal Counter-Info. It reads: On the night of April 14th, we paid a visit... Read Full Article
Apr 9, 19
Ctrl-Alt-Delete: AI Development in Montreal
An analysis of the growth of AI and machine learning technology in so-called Montreal. Our lives are increasingly characterized by algorithms that... Read Full Article
Apr 3, 19
Montreal: Anticapitalist MayDay 2019 – Cabot Square
On Wednesday May 1st, at 6:30pm, in Square Cabot, the anticapitalist caravan is back at it again to say fuck your borders... Read Full Article
Mar 27, 19
Queen Victoria Statue in Montreal Attacked with Green Paint in Advance of Demonstration Against Racism and Xenophobiza
Queen Victoria Statue in Montreal attacked with green paint in advance of demonstration against racism and xenophobia. Originally published to Montreal Counter-Info.... Read Full Article
Mar 18, 19
Montreal: Notes on Our March 15th
Report back and personal reflection on the annual mobilization against police brutality in Montreal, first published on Montreal Counter-Info. I want to... Read Full Article
Mar 8, 19
Montreal: Callout for the March Against Police Brutality 2019
As is the case each year, the COBP organizes a week against police brutality which starts on March 8th and ends on... Read Full Article
Mar 7, 19
Montreal: Campaign Launched to Fight for Over $20K in Unpaid Wages
Report from Montreal IWW about a current campaign to force bosses to pay back bar workers more than $20,000 in unpaid wages.... Read Full Article
Mar 2, 19
General Contractors: Don’t Bid to Build a Migrant Prison!
The Canadian government is attempting to construct a new migrant prison in Laval, QC. The building, set to be built by 2021,... Read Full Article
Feb 7, 19
Migrant Prison: Excavation Company Loiselle’s Offices Redecorated
The following article was originally published on Montreal Counter-Info. According to this article in a local Salaberry-de-Valleyfield newspaper from January 29th, the... Read Full Article
Jan 16, 19
Counter-Insurgency Paper Argues that Native Resistance Could Bring Canada to a Standstill
Montreal Counter-info has published a video detailing the weak points of extractive industry, transportation, and infrastructure – taken straight from a counter-insurgency... Read Full Article
Jan 14, 19
Reportback from the 2018 New Year’s Eve Noise Demo in Montréal
Report back from the New Year’s Eve noise demonstration in so-called Montreal. This report was originally published on Montreal Counter-Info. On New... Read Full Article
Jan 7, 19
Another End of the World Is Possible: Indigenous Solidarity and Blocking Extractive Infrastructure in Canada
Discussion on the strategy and history of the disruption and blockading of extractive industries in the context of so-called Canada. Not only... Read Full Article
Dec 19, 18
Tomorrow is Far Away: An Anarchist Intervention Against the Construction of the Migrant Prison in Laval
An anarchist analysis and discussion on building an anti-prison strategy in so-called Canada and beyond. Citizenship can only exist and be valued... Read Full Article
Oct 24, 18
Montreal: Report-back and Notes on Recent March Against the Elections
Report back from anti-election march in Montreal. Originally published on Montreal Counter-Info. Late on election night, dozens of black flags lined the... Read Full Article
Oct 8, 18
Montreal: Colonial & Racist John A. Macdonald Monument Once Again Vandalized
In the run up to a massive anti-racist and anti-colonial demonstrations in Montreal, a statue of John A. Macdonald was again vandalized.... Read Full Article
Aug 20, 18
Montreal: Anti-Colonial Action Against John A. Macdonald Monument
Anti-colonial action made in support of removal of John A. Macdonald statue in Victoria, BC. Video and report was originally published to... Read Full Article
Aug 15, 18
Montreal: Property Management Employees Brutally Attack Anti-Gentrification Protesters
Originally published to Montreal Counter-Info, this report comes from a local anti-gentrification group, Parc-Ex Contre la Gentrification, who issued the follow report after... Read Full Article
Jul 23, 18
Montreal Counter-Information #6
Montreal Counter-Info presents the sixth installment of its growing print publication. Read and Download HERE
Jul 6, 18
Multiple Crossing Sites Marked to Help Migrants Cross from US to Canada
The following report on an anti-borders actions was originally posted on Solidarity Across Borders and reposted on Montreal Counter-Info. Signs bearing the... Read Full Article
Jun 27, 18
Anti-Colonial Activists & Artists Vandalize Various Monuments
The following communique was originally sent to and published on Montreal Counter-Info. Montreal, June 26, 2018 — We are anti-colonial activists and artists... Read Full Article