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Call for Proposals – CONSTELLATION: Anarchist Festival in Montréal

CONSTELLATION is seeking event proposals. On Saturday, May 25th, during the tabling event at CÉDA and CCGV, there will be space for both pre-planned and spontaneous activities – order and chaos in equal measure. We aspire not to curate a singular experience but rather to create a space for anarchists to gather, conspire, and share in a multitude of experiences. We’ll provide the space but we need you to fill it!

Invitation to the 2024 Montreal Anarchist Zine Fair

an invitation!

From Montreal Anarchist Zine Fair

Our weapons are courage and beautiful ideas.

Every year in May, the blossoming of spring invites anarchists to reflect upon subversive ideas and practices, from throughout history to present day. Total destruction of all authority is the project that sets our hearts on fire. We are wary of political strategies, and instead propose an anarchy wherein the means and ends are coherent, without waiting for the ‘right moment’, without compromise.

Online Calendar Launch: Constellation Anarchist Festival

We're happy to announce the launch of our online calendar platform, where anyone can publish events as part of Constellation. Simply go to https://constellation.noblogs.org/events/ and follow the link to add an event.

One of our goals for this festival is to decentralize the organizing process. We want all anarchists in the region to feel empowered to make the last weekend of May their own. We strongly believe that more people doing more things will create a more interesting and rebellious weekend.

Call for Tablers - Constellation: Montréal Anarchist Festival

CONSTELLATION will feature a bookfair on Saturday, May 25th, at the CÉDA and CCGV buildings in Parc Vinet (métro Lionel-Groulx). We invite booksellers, zine distros, artists, and makers of other material of interest to anarchists and the anarcho-curious to table at the event. Tabling will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., but you can show up as early as 8:30 a.m. for setup. ​​​​​​​

As organizers of CONSTELLATION, we would like to clarify that we see our role as helping facilitate an anarchist bookfair space, not as content arbiters. 

Baby's First Synagogue Protest: A Review

As anarchists in Montréal, though, I want us to finally catch up with comrades in some other cities’ anarchist scenes and start and identifying this half-baked claptrap as not fucking good enough. Not fit for purpose, if it ever was. These are not ideas that uphold revolt, insurrection, revolution, or “positive change” of any kinds; they uphold the management of those energies that could otherwise produce graffiti, food given away for free at the corner, upside-down cruisers with their windshields smashed in, and disrupted supply chains, including those chains that sustain the Israeli national project.

'Sabotage': Nails driven into tree trunks at future Quebec EV battery plant site

From The Canadian Press
January 24, 2024

Anonymous group claims responsibility on anarchist web site

MONTREAL — Swedish manufacturer Northvolt AB says the site of its future electric vehicle battery plant near Montreal was sabotaged after nails were driven into trees that are set to be cut down.

Report-back from the October 21st Counter-demonstration in Defense of Trans Youth

From MTL Counter-info

While the logic of counter-protest can place us on the defensive, intuition tells us that we can move beyond a purely reactive posture — that we have something to gain — when we get organized on a basis of solidarity and put our faith in each other rather than media, law or the police.

Protest Nostalgia

A review of 'Red Squared Montreal' by Norman Nawrocki

The 2012 student strike deserves its own literature, and Red Squared Montreal succeeds at least in capturing the dizzy heights of the protests. As both anarchist and poet, Nawrocki often knows just the right words to capture the elation, camaraderie, and terror of marching in the street and facing off against contemptuous police. However, the lack of curiosity about the people behind the conflict means the novel ultimately fails to communicate the stakes and experiences of the 2012 strike in human terms.

Montreal International Anarchist Theatre Festival Seeking Plays for 2024 season

MONTREAL'S 17th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL ANARCHIST THEATRE FESTIVAL
May 2024

The Montreal International Anarchist Theatre Festival (MIATF), the only festival in the world dedicated to anarchist theatre, is currently seeking plays, monologues, dance-theatre, puppet shows, mime, etc., in English, French and other languages, on the theme of anarchism or any subject pertaining to anarchism, i.e. against all forms of oppression including the State, capitalism, war, patriarchy, etc. We will also consider pieces exploring ecological, social and economic justice, racism, feminism, poverty, class and gender oppression from an anarchist perspective. We welcome work from anarchist and non-anarchist writers.

Yves Engler Should Have to Walk to the Couche-Tard to Take a Leak

From MTL Counterinfo

It is always an interesting question as to how, and to whom, we should assign blame for things that bother us. On Sunday, May 28, a strange scene played out on the footpath between the two venues in Little Burgundy’s parc Vinet, CÉDA and CCGV, where the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair takes place—a small crowd of pro-Ukrainians and/or Ukrainian nationalists waved flags and sang and chanted in Ukrainian in order to drown out the words of an even smaller crowd of tankies with a sound system.

Schedule of Montreal International Anarchist Theatre Festival, May 22-25

The 16th annual MONTREAL INTERNATIONAL ANARCHIST THEATRE FESTIVAL
May 22 to May 25th 2023 with 8 troupes from Chile, Belgium, France & Montreal

The annual Montreal International Anarchist Theatre Festival (MIATF) – the world’s biggest anarchist theatre festival – celebrates its 16th edition presenting 30 artists from eight troupes from Chile, France, Belgium and Montreal for three nights of provocative, socially engaged, freedom-loving theatre, Mon May 22nd to Wed May 24th @ La Sala Rossa, 4848 boul St-Laurent, 7pm. There is also a benefit music show for the MITAF at the Casa del Popolo, Thursday May 25th at 7pm.

Against Your Demands

looks fun /s

Lessons from Occupy McGill

In 2022, I was an active anarchist in the two week occupation of McGill University. In the months prior to the occupation, I was part of the meetings that discussed the idea of pitching up tents in the Arts building. Back then, we were just 6 people at a picnic table. I witnessed the successes and failures of the occupation (and of its offshoots at Concordia and UdeM) but until now have not written anything on the subject.  

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