Montréal, le 25 février 2015 - Nous nous réjouissons de l'annonce de la Ville de Montréal de ne pas porter en appel la décision récente du juge Randall Richmond dans le dossier des constats d’infraction liés au règlement P-6 et de retirer les accusations portées en vertu de P-6 contre les quelque 1 200 personnes dont les dossiers étaient toujours en attente. Cette décision a été rendu possible grâce au travail acharné des arrêtés et arrêtées pour démontrer au tribunal le caractère infondé des accusations portées contre eux, le manque absolu de preuve pertinente ainsi que les irrégularités et divers abus entourant les arrestations. Ce sont ces démarches autonomes qui ont mené à la décision du juge Richmond de la Cour municipale, rendue au début du mois de février, d'acquitter trois participants à un rassemblement organisé le 22 mars 2013.
Contre P6
Bonne nouvelle!
Le 22 août dernier, le juge Sansfaçon de la Cour Supérieure du Québec, a autorisé huit recours collectifs que des millitantes et millitants ont entâmés en lien avec des arrestations relatives au règlement P-6 et qui on eu lieu entre les 7 juin 2012 et 15 mars 2014.
Les requérants réclament donc plus de 21 millions de dollars à la ville de Montréal et au SPVM pour avoir bafoués leurs droits constitutionnels ainsi que pour les conditions de détentions subites par les quelques 1600 personnes arrêtéEs lors de ces encerclements.
Pour lire le jugement au complet :
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B68BR0FYY4U6RXkwN0Q1am9yYXc/edit?pli=1
Pour plus d'informations sur ce qu'est un recours collectif :
Je peux vous résumer le 1er mai anticapitaliste de 2014 selon les médias de Montréal : "Pourquoi, pourquoi y'a pas d'itinéraire ?" Comme si c'était ce qu'il y avait de plus important, comme si le jour du 1er mai était reconnu mondialement comme la journée sans itinéraire. C'est clair, on est anticapitaliste : on s'oppose à cette classe politicailleuse qui décide de se partager tout le gâteau entre eux et qui nous laisse seulement les déchets. Alors, quand on nous dit qu'il faut protester en suivant un itinéraire approuvé par le gouvernement, s'habiller de la manière approuvée par le gouvernement, scander les slogans approuvés par le gouvernement, faire les actions approuvées par le gouvernement ... La protestation approuvée par le gouvernement, ce n'est plus de la protestation. Une perturbation approuvée par les banquiers, ça ne perturbe rien. Une manifestation approuvée par la police, ça s'appelle une parade.
*SOLIDARITY WITH BOBETTE!*
At the last May Day protest, police repression was brutal and a lot of protesters were hurt. Bobette was specifically targeted by the SPVM because of her political activities; they physically attacked her and psychologically harassed her. You can read a summary of what happened to Bobette on MayDay afterward. Due to her injuries, Bobette has since then been force to cancel her contracts as a circus artist, which deprives her of income.
*Police Impunity Must Stop!*
In order, for Bobette, to sue the SPVM for bodily harm as well as moral and material damages, she must raise 4000$ for a medical expertise for her defence. So we are launching a campaign to raise the necessary amount for the expertise and to assist her financially until she can work again
*We're asking for the financial support of people, groups and organizations to help Bobette win her lawsuit against the SPVM.*
For more information, you can contact us at solidarite.bobette@gmail.com
- To make a donation for Bobette's lawsuit against the SPVM, please write a check for:
Convergence des luttes anticapitalistes
Convergence des luttes anticapitalistes
Please indicate "Solidarité Bobette" on the memo line, and send it to the following address:
CLAC-Montreal
c/o QPIRG Concordia
1500 de Maisonneuve West, #204
Montréal, Québec
H3G 1N1
c/o QPIRG Concordia
1500 de Maisonneuve West, #204
Montréal, Québec
H3G 1N1
- To make a donation by PayPal:
Greetings to all!
The City of Montreal will soon be faced with several class actions related to the mass arrests carried out by the SPVM (with the “kettle” tactic) on March 15th and 22nd, April 5th, and May 1st, 2013.
The class actions were launched in September and early October. The respective claimants for the class actions are Sandrine Ricci and Guillaume Perrier for the March 15th mass arrest, Isabelle Baez and Bernice Chabot-Giguère for the March 22nd mass arrest, Jenny Cartwright for the April 5th mass arrest, and Julien Villeneuve for the May Day 2013 mass arrest. The plaintiffs will all be represented by the law office of Melançon, Marceau, Grenier & Sciortino.
Dear all,
If you were arrested and received a ticket for an infraction of the P6 bylaw during a CLAC demonstration on April 5 or May first, please send us your email adress, we will add your name to our list so that we can send you updates and organize collectively against the tickets.
If you haven't already entered a non-guilty plea for your ticket (last page of the ticket) for 1 May, information on how to do so is included at the end of this message. You have to do this within 30 days of the date you received the ticket. Note that sending your ticket to Denis Poitras is not the same as entering a non-guilty plea or challenging the ticket - you have to send or bring it to the Municipal Court.
After you send in your non-guilty plea, you will eventually receive a letter in the mail giving you a date to appear in court to challenge your ticket. Because there have been so many P6 tickets issued in the last few weeks, we will probably have to wait months, even years, before we get a court date.
Yesterday evening, April 23, Montreal City Council voted to maintain the anti-protest by-law P-6. It's not at City Hall that P-6 will be defeated, but rather on the streets with our continued defiance and disobedience.
78 community groups have already endorsed the public statement below, clearly stating that they will not negotiate demonstration routes with the police. We encourage more community organizations to do so as well.
Please share the statement below with local organizations. Send notifications of endorsing groups to: info@clac-montreal.net
Solidarity against police repression in Montreal: We will not submit to the municipal by-law P-6
With this public declaration, we assert our opposition to by-law P-6: we will continue to demonstrate without negotiating our demo routes with police, and we will systematically challenge all tickets that arise from this by-law.
[Media Advisory] [For immediate release]
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE :
WE WILL NOT SUBMIT TO MUNICIPAL BY-LAW P-6
Press Point & “Action”
Monday, April 22, 2013, 10am
in front of the Palais de justice
(corner of St-Laurent & Notre-Dame)
Contact: info@clac-montreal.net - 438-875-7243
Press conference called by the Anti-Capitalist Convergence of Montreal (CLAC) with the participation of endorsing organizations.
Were you ticketed at the anti-P-6 demo on April 5? If so, here's some things you should do:
- Be sure to plead "not-guilty" on your ticket.
- In the portion of the ticket that demands your version of events, ask for complete disclosure of all evidence.
- Do NOT write your version of events on the ticket.
- Be sure to mail back your ticket to Montreal’s municipal court within 30 days.
Demonstration & Civil Disobedience Against Montreal's Anti-Protest "P-6" By-Law
FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 6:00pm (arrive on-time & come with a friend)
at Ste-Catherine and Berri, Parc Emilie-Gamelin (métro Berri-UQÀM)