Anonymous submission to MTL Counter-info

On Saturday, more than sixty people acting in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en land defenders blocked the CN main line in Saint-Lambert south of Montreal for over six hours. It was the longest rail blockade in Quebec since the winter of 2020, interrupting Via Rail service and immobilizing six freight trains. These notes reflect the experience of a couple participants in Saturday’s blockade.

Nostalgia mixed with anticipation as we arrived at the tracks where they cross rue Saint-Georges, with banners ready to hang across the rail crossing and no police in sight. It was a bright morning, temperatures just below freezing and the ground snowless, a contrast with that first night in February 2020, when temperatures sunk to 25 below and snow could be piled into mounds atop the rails.

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Demo
18.12 16:00
Theaterplace, Basel

Down with the EU`s borders!
Against a state of indifference!

For weeks now it has been clear that inhumane conditions also prevail at the Polish-Belarusian border. With the onset of winter, the situation has worsened: Thousands of people are stuck at the Polish border, trying to find their way into the EU through the cold and harsh forests. Poland’s border policy – like the policies of the rest of the Schengen states – leaves no room for doubt: The European Union is building on ever-higher walls. The border is under constant strict technological and military surveillance and illegal push-backs – the deportation of those who do make it across the border – are not the exception but the rule. Journalists and aid organizations are still denied access to the Polish border area. What images are released to the public is part of a political calculation and is solely in the hands of the authorities.

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We share a poster in memory of Sebastián Oversluij Seguel, murdered in 2013 by a bank guard in a region controlled by the chilean state, when when he was preparing to carry out a bank expropriation.

“Take the leap, dream that praxis will grow stronger

lone animals no one can stop us

not even a thousand walls

with the idea held in that head

make your way

imagine every fence is on the ground

to hell with this disastrous society

perhaps romantic friends there is nothing more beautiful

than to feel free of its laws while relishing the delight of death

of civilisation at sunset

I chase a thousand destructive dreams in the dark

fire feeds my senses

the howls of the insurrectionary pack

fertile ground for living and dying in search

of total liberation.

The idea is in the mind with actions it creates

versatile communities

affinities in the struggle

not prisoners of imposed tasks

for the freedoms you desire

and if thousands of limits surround us

you use every resource you can get hold of.”

(Fragment song “La Idea”, Palabras en conflicto, 2012)

COMRADES SEBASTIÁN OVERSLUIJ SEGUEL IS WITH US!

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Actforfree received by email: in Spanish and translated to English

Saturday, December 18th. ANTIPRISON AND KOUNTERCULTURAL DAY FOR SUBVERSIVE AND ANARCHIST PRISONERS

“To advance in an uncompromising way and against all the odds has been our life choice, betting precisely on the confrontation of the struggle through ant-like work, taking tangible millimetric steps, in which each free, solidaristic and conscious individual manages to propagate and spread the message of total liberation”. -Pablo Bahamondes Ortiz

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From the historic Simón Bolívar community we extend the invitation to every individuality, group, network and anti-authoritarian collective to participate in this day that intends to agitate and show solidarity with our captive comrades who today are condemned to decades of political imprisonment for having dealt multiple blows to power and its infrastructures from an autonomous subversive position.

Continue reading Santiago, Chile: Saturday, December 18th. 21, ANTIPRISON AND KOUNTERCULTURAL DAY FOR SUBVERSIVE AND ANARCHIST PRISONERS →

This Saturday, November 13, solidarity activity with the subversive prisoners with long sentences at 14 de la fama and launching of the Compilation Musikarmados hasta los dientes Vol.4 (2021)

Compilation of anticarceral music, bands and voices from Italy, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Germany, Colombia and more.

Continue reading Santiago, Chile: Show and launch of “Músikarmadxs hasta los dientes Vol IV” (Musikarmed to the teeth Vol IV) →

Received 09/11/2021:

FOR THE EXPANSION OF ARMED ACTION IN THE COUNTRYSIDE AND IN THE CITY.

UNRELENTING WAR AGAINST THE STATE AND ITS APPARATUSES OF CONTROL.

FORESTRY, BIG LANDOWNERS, HYDROELECTRIC, YANACONAS [TRAITORS] AND ALL CAPITALIST INVESTMENT OUT OF THE WALLMAPU.

THE CALL IS CLEAR, TO EXTEND VIOLENT ACTION, SABOTAGE AND CONSPIRATORIAL PRACTICES AGAINST THOSE WHO SUSTAIN AND PROMOTE REPRESSION IN THE WALLMAPU AND THROUGHOUT THE LAND.

ARM YOURSELF, CONSPIRE, ATTACK AND SHOW SOLIDARITY (ENCIRCLED A)

Translated by Act for freedom now!

[…] After a first major wave of tagging on the night of Tuesday 23 to Wednesday 24 of November 21 ,it was the same again last night. The taggers struck hard, “bombing” the walls of the cemetery and the Armorin high school, as well as numerous facades. Messages in round letters and written in black paint, with anarchist tendencies, flanked by the acronym of the circled A for some. On the facades or walls of businesses, one could read: “Ecocidal bastards”, “Support for Guadeloupe”, “Let’s free ourselves from slavery” or “If a policeman says papers, if I answer scissors, I’ve won?

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Extractivism is the process of devastating nature in order to transform it into a commodity. Extractivist projects are multiplying all over the world, especially outside the centers of power, to sustain the way of life and the functioning of capital.

Extractivism is not a way of managing capital, but is capital itself with its death machine spreading like a disease. In this sense, its infrastructure, its material dimension, is inherent to its logic of devastation. There is no capital without extractivism, just as there is no production or consumption without the devastation of nature, without the oppression of all living things, including humans…

The world that sustains it expands misery, exploitation, servitude and control. What they call the imbalance of ecosystems is nothing more than the invasion of power transforming nature into merchandise, where the management of capital sacrifices territories, habitats and communities for its anthropocentric benefit.

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[GLASGOW] Banner Drop at the Greek Consulate for the 13 years since the state murder of anarchist Alexis Grigoropoulos.

‘A bullet in the heart of Alexandros to close the circle of the statist machine’s omnipotence. A bloodstain on the Messolonghiou pedestrian street to open the circle of rebellion that wrecked the legal order and sowed chaos and anarchy in all cities throughout Greece.’
– Nikos Romanos, Requiem for a Journey of No Return.

As of today, 6/12/2021, it has been 13 years since the Greek state murdered the anarchist Alexis Grigoropoulos. Alexis was shot by two cops, E. Korkoneas and V. Saraliotis, in the neighbourhood of Exarcheia, following minor clashes with the police. As soon as the news of Alexis’s murder broke, a spontaneous insurrection began. Protests, riots, expropriations and occupations of public buildings were but some of the collective expressions of rage. Despite the attempts of state and capital to depoliticise the murder, we must not forget that Alexis was killed because of his political beliefs – he challenged in practice the authority of the police and, by extension, that of the state. This is the violence faced every day by those whose existence the state deems undesirable, those who are a threat to their social order.

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