Disruption of Port of Montreal during Rush Hour in Solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en Fighting Coastal GasLink.

Filed under: Action, Development, Indigenous, Quebec, Solidarity—Montreal Counter-Info

Report on recent action in Montreal in solidarity with the ongoing Wet’suwet’en struggle against Coastal GasLink and the RCMP. Originally posted to Montreal Counter-Info.

This morning around 7:30am, about sixty people enraged by the invasion of Wet’suwet’en land by Coastal GasLink and the RCMP gathered in the east of Montreal. They blocked the intersection of Pie-IX Boulevard and Notre-Dame Street East in the middle of rush hour, in order to disrupt access to the Port of Montreal as well as downtown via Autoroute 720.

Banners were deployed reading “GTFO of Wet’suwet’en land” and “Solidarity with Indigenous Sovereignties”, and flyers explained the reasons for the action to motorists.

Leaving flaming barricades, the group marched westward on Notre-Dame, forming a roving blockade and building more barricades on its way.

Flaming barricades in solidarity with #Wetsuweten this AM in #Montreal https://t.co/7mUZo6EPxA pic.twitter.com/p0qMnrA9TW

— Franklin López (@Franklin__Lopez) January 16, 2020

The repressive anti-demonstration arsenal of the Montreal police fortunately did not show up, because the call to action was not spread using social media. A couple cop cars showed up toward the end.

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After Hundreds Mobilize to Defend Occupied Home, Riot Police Evict Mothers With Tanks & Robot

Filed under: Action, Featured, Housing, Police, Repression, Southwest—It’s Going Down

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On January 14th, a massive, militarized eviction by the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department ended a nearly two month long takeover of a formerly vacant property by the collective, Moms 4 Housing, in West Oakland.

Despite the raid, the movement surrounding it shows no signs of letting up, as grassroots anger grows at law enforcement and the deepening housing crisis.

This is what showed up to evict black mothers from their home in Oakland last night. This is the weaponized arm of speculative real estate investment capital. #Moms4Housing pic.twitter.com/xoRUnhaSgC

— imperfect produce 🍃 (@LeeHepner) January 14, 2020

On Monday, January 13th at around 6:30 PM, word went out that a locksmith had been seen outside the occupied West Oakland home which had been re-appropriated by a collective of formally houseless African-American mothers and their children.

The lock smith explained that they were waiting for the police and that an eviction was going to be carried out that night. Within minutes, through text and social media, people mobilized and surround the house in solidarity.

#Moms4Housing
ACSO brought inciident command center vehicle, Swat truck full of gear, ambulance at the ready,

and they even brought their GI Joe armored tank-truck. pic.twitter.com/xFO7v6P2Vx

— IWOC Oakland (@iwoc_oakland) January 14, 2020

Protected by dozens of cops in armor and riot gear, flunkies are packing in plywood to seal off every window from the inside.

Now 3 arrests reported.
Noise from news choppers overhead.

That this is a war is being made clear.#Moms4Housing pic.twitter.com/mrT0ROroMv

— IWOC Oakland (@iwoc_oakland) January 14, 2020

Soon, the crowd swelled to between 200-300 people, with a line of supporters locking arms in front of the house in defense. Supporters also dropped off piles of food and supplies, while both the mothers inside and supporters outside gave short speeches and statements of solidarity.

As the evening wore on, word came down that the Sheriffs were claiming that the eviction would not be carried out that night and the crowd largely dissipated. Over all, the mobilization of hundreds of supporters in a matter of minutes was seen as a key victory and a sign of the movement’s growing strength.

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Chile. A-Radio Berlin has recorded the following call by the Coordinating Committee for the Freedom of the Political Prisoners of October 18th.

Originally published by A-Radio Berlin.

Complete call in English

International Week of Solidarity with the prisoners of the revolt in Chile: January 13th to 19th 2020

After more than 80 days since the popular revolt started in Chile, the struggle and social organising persists, with an unyielding conviction to confront and break with this economic and power model which has perpetuated inequalities, injustices and abuses for decades.

Without a doubt, the revolt that is still in the air in Chile has meant an inflection point, a point of no return in a long road of struggles, but it has also brought heavy costs with it: Hundreds and hundreds of prisoners of this territory. Every week this number increases. In a clear phenomenon of massive arrests, the state looks to scare and criminalise social protests.

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Semana de agitación internacional pro-presxs de la revuelta en Chile -13 a 19 de enero- (audio)

Coordinadora por la libertad de lxs presxs políticxs 18 de octubre

A mas de 80 días del estallido social en Chile la lucha y organización social persiste en la inquebrantable convicción de confrontar y romper con el modelo económico y de poder que ha perpetuado desigualdades, injusticias y abusos durante décadas. Sin duda la revuelta que aún se respira en Chile a significado un punto de inflexión y de no retorno en un largo recorrido de lucha pero también ha traído consigo un duro costo: cientxs y cientxs de presxs de la revuelta que hoy se encuentran en las distintas prisiones de este territorio. Cada semana este número aumenta y en un evidente fenómeno de encarcelamiento masivo el Estado busca amedrentar y criminalizar la protesta social. Hablamos de presxs políticxs de la revuelta porque el hecho de encarcelar masivamente a lxs luchadorxs sociales tras el estallido del 18 responde a una decisión política de Estado y no a criterios técnicos/jurídicos dando cuenta de las complicidades de los distintos poderes del Estado con el fin de perpetuar el modelo de control existente. Es por eso que hacemos este llamado de solidaridad internacional con lxs presxs de la revuelta para así develar la condición política de su encarcelamiento y exigir su inmediata libertad. Extendemos esta convocatoria apelando a las múltiples iniciativas y acciones solidarias que surgan en cada territorio.
QUIEN OLVIDA A LXS PRESXS POLITICXS OLVIDA LA LUCHA¡¡

LIBERTAD INMEDIATA A LXS PRESXS DE LA REVUELTA¡¡¡

[Tomado de http://barcelona.indymedia.org/newswire/display/529532.] Para oir el audio (duración: 2 min., 42 seg.) ir a https://archive.org/details/aradioberlinsemanainternacionalchilejan2020es

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We talk about political prisoners of the revolt because the massive arrests of those fighting after the explosion of the revolt on the 18th of October responds to a political decision of the state and not to technical or judiciary criteria, putting in evidence the complicities of the different powers of the state, all with the purpose of perpetuating the existing control model.

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Russia: prosecutor demands prison sentences of 6 to 18 years for anarchist defendants in “Network” case

World, Dec 28th

The prosecutor in charge of the so-called “Network” aka Penza/St Petersburgh case demanded on 26th December prison time between 6 and 18 years for seven defendants. If convicted, all but two will serve their sentences in a high-security prison colony.

The Network case had begun in October 2017, when the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) arrested six people in Penza, western Russia, accusing them of participation in a terrorist organisation “The Network”.

Two other Penza residents disappeared and were put on the wanted list by the FSB. They were subsequently detained in Moscow. In January 2018, two more people were arrested in the same case, and, in April that year, charges were brought against one more person… continues below

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Two speeches by Russian antifascists in London,20 January 2019 (original post on People and Nature) AntiNote: Just days after the speeches featured here were delivered, the string of arrests and torture of anarchists in Russia continued. Meanwhile, the first “Network” trials approach, and solidarity and legal defense efforts are still building.

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Caroline Norma reviews the bestselling “Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982,” a radical gift to #MeToo activists in the West, who are likely unfamiliar with the foundational Korean women’s liberation movement.January 7, 2020 by Caroline Norma … Shared with thanks from Feminist Current

Jamie Chang’s English translation of the best-selling Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 will soon be available to Western readers, and its film adaptation is already screening throughout Asia. The novel, originally published in 2016, describes the sexism faced by a young South Korean woman from childhood to early motherhood, when it eventually breaks her.

Korean women leading anti-Beauty Slaves Movement against misogynist culture, extortionist products and surgery

How Radical-Feminist Koreans confront Misogyny

Fictional accounts of sexism’s impact on women are quickly genre-ed part of the #MeToo literary cannon these days, but Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 was published in Korean before the country’s feminist uprising in late 2016. In fact, the novel’s narrative is underpinned not by the #MeToo movement, but the politics of the women’s liberation movement that came before it. Its upcoming English-language release in March 2020, therefore, is an opportunity for Western #MeToo activists to learn the politics of the movement that preceded it, and catch up to Korean sisters.

#MeToo is fuelled by indignation at the misogynistic excesses and sexual abuses of overly powerful men. Extraordinary practices of woman-hating, like assaults on women in the American entertainment industry and fatal gang rapes of girls in India, drove the global feminist outrage that launched #MeToo. The movement responds to sexual excess, so is focused on rampant, long-standing perpetrators like Harvey Weinstein and Donald Trump, who represent everything #MeToo stands against.

But the earlier women’s liberation movement was the inverse. Consciousness-raising groups stoked women’s indignation at everyday, routine practices of sexism that drove them to examine even mundane aspects of their lives, from housework, to feminine beauty practices, to penetrative, heterosexual sex. Outrage at unremarkable practices of household and labour inequality, including male segregationist pursuits of work and leisure, led to feminist actions like “pub liberations,” wherein groups of women took over men-only bars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f-XGrn_7Kk

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