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Bicycle demonstration in Montreal to protest the Grand Prix
Montreal’s Anti-capitalist Convergence (CLAC) is inviting residents to take back the streets!
Montréal, June 5, 2013 – For the second consecutive year, the CLAC is calling for the disruption of Canada’s Formula 1 Grand-Prix activities in Montreal. More specifically, CLAC is calling on the residents of the greater Montreal area to take back the streets by participating in a “critical mass” or spontaneous bicycle demonstration (or any other motorless vehicle) without a pre-established itinerary on the evening of June 7th, starting at 17:30.
International Week of Struggle against Parasites
First Extermination: Turbo-Capitalism
Every year at the beginning of summer, for years now, Montreal has fallen prey to a strange fever. For a period of several days, the air labours under a dense and foul-smelling cloud, residents suffer from a kind of collective tinnitus, a persistent and irritating ringing which disturbs thought and sleep. Many neighbourhoods, especially downtown, are invaded by hordes of blank-faced zombies, stripped of their senses and moving mechanically under the hypnotic influence of a malevolent power.
This disturbing state of affairs is brought on by tens of thousands of parasites who swarm into our beautiful city, stifling its habitual joy of living and injecting it with a paralyzing venom.
Every year, in the month of June, Montreal falls prey to the macho and consumerist virus of the Grand Prix!
Creeping politicians and flashy de luxe dealers are pumping themselves up to suck the blood of this crowd, handed over on a giant checker-board.
Streets are blocked off so that we can be subjected to grosteque advertising and alienating shows.
The forces of repression outdo themselves to maintain the commercial peace.
This year, the Convergence of Anti-Capitalist Struggles (CLAC) is proposing an antidote:
ANTI-CAPITALIST CRITICAL MASS
Friday, June 7th at 5:30pm
Two meeting points:
Place Valois (Ontario/Valois in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve)
Parc Laurier (Laurier/Mentana in the Plateau)
Come on your bicycle, rollerblades, stakeboard, scooter …
and let's take back the streets together, because the city belongs to all who live here!
Let's invade the city and take a ride - for as long as we want!
We won't let car culture drive us off the road!
IT IS TIME TO COLLECTIVELY RE-APPROPRIATE OUR SPACE!
Fuck the Grand Prix! Down with car culture!
6 June to 13 June: call for autonomous action!!!!
More info: http://www.clac-montreal.net/
info @ clac-montreal.net
Ten modest proposals for a successful critical mass
First of all, we suggest you read this fine backgrounder on the history of critical mass :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Mass_%28cycling%29
1. Above all, whatever happens, let's stick together and always keep each other's safety in mind! Let's get to either the meeting points in time (as much as possible), in small groups of friends, neighbours, or family members. Let's take care of each other from beginning to end, and let's avoid any unnecessary risks or dangers.
Montreal, 11 June 2012 -- Two weeks before the Formula 1 turbo-capitalist circus arrived in Montreal, the Convergence of Anti-Capitalist Struggles (CLAC), just like other organizations, issued a call to action.
In the context of the current social crisis, this event - emblematic of the excesses of the wealthy, of environmental destruction and explicit mysogyny - was bound to provoke a strong reaction from those actively fighting for a society free from all forms of exploitation.
Montréal, le 11 juin 2012 -- Depuis jeudi soir (le 7 juin 2012), plusieurs super-larbins du Capital, tel que Jean Charest, l'ancien sous-fifre québécois de Stephen Harper, Michaël Fortier, et Robert Poëti, le verrat à la retraite recyclé en porte-parole des grosses polices, ont affirmé « ne pas comprendre » que l'on puisse vouloir perturber un événement de «charité» comme le gala d'ouverture du Grand Prix, ostensiblement organisé au bénéfice des fondations des hôpitaux Sainte-Justine et Sacré-Coeur.
Montréal le 11 juin 2012 -- Ces derniers jours, plusieurs super-larbins du capital se plaignent de l'image qui est projetée de Montréal sur la scène internationale.
Quelques commentaires s'imposent.
vendredi 18:00 – 20:00
Dorchester Square (Peel and Rene Levesque), Peel Metro
https://www.facebook.com/events/156171464516752/
-English below-
Résistez au Grand Prix Formule 1 et à la répression étatique
De Bahreïn à Montréal (une action de solidarité)
Vendredi 8 juin 2012, 18h00
Square Dorchester (coin Peel et René-Lévesque), Métro Peel
https://www.facebook.com/events/230827713686999/
10 juin 2012
07:00 – 13:00
Combien de personnes le système de Métro peut transporter en une journée? Et si on décidait tous d'aller faire une balade sur l'Île Notre-Dame dimanche le jour du Grand Prix? Juste pour voir combien de personne peuvent entrer dans le métro?
En arrivant sur l'île vous pouvez virer de bord et puis recommencer. Juste pour le plaisir.
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Over the past three months, we’ve seen the student strike evolve into a larger social revolt. It’s clear that this is no longer simply about tuition fees. Now, the Grand Prix is coming to town, and the rich people who’ll benefit from this spectacle are having a gala just one neighbourhood over, in Little Burgundy. This comes in the midst of the intensifying gentrification of Saint-Henri, the government implementing an austerity budget, and the police receiving more leeway to do whatever they want to us.
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Montreal, 4 June 2012 -- The Convergence of Anti-Capitalist Struggles (CLAC-Montreal), responding to a call by the student and popular protest movements, will participate in a week of economic disruption around the Grand Prix Formula 1 in Montreal. In particular, CLAC is inviting itself to the Grand Prix's opening cocktail party, at Arsenal on June 7th.
Montreal, 4 June 2012 -- The Convergence of Anti-Capitalist Struggles (CLAC-Montreal), responding to a call by the student and popular protest movements, will participate in a week of economic disruption around the Grand Prix Formula 1 in Montreal. In particular, CLAC is inviting itself to the Grand Prix's opening cocktail party, at Arsenal on June 7th.
Disrupt the Montreal Grand Prix: An Anti-Capitalist/Anti-Authoritarian Convergence (June 6-10, 2012)
- Disrupt the Montreal Grand Prix
- Support Quebec’s General & Social Strike
An Anti-Capitalist/Anti-Authoritarian Convergence
June 6-10, 2012 - MONTREAL
The Anti-Capitalist Convergence of Montreal (CLAC) is calling for an anti-capitalist/anti-authoritarian presence in Montreal to disrupt the Grand Prix “jet-set”, and to support Quebec's ongoing student strike, which has become a larger "social strike." The Convergence is also in defiance of Quebec’s new special law against protesters and the student strike.
7 June à 5pm: Disrupt the Grand Prix Opening Cocktail!
Gather at the corner of Notre Dame and des Seigneurs
(two blocks west of Guy) (metro Georges-Vanier, Lionel Groulx or Charlevoix)
From 4 to 10 June: Autonomous actions. Wherever they are, we'll be there too!
The nightly protests will disrupt this crass elite at play in western downtown every night. To kick off the week of activities, the Grand Prix is throwing a "glittering" banquet, where a table with a driver costs a mere $25,000! Let's make their "prestigious and festive" soirée our own "Grand Evening".
Against Mayor Tremblay
Tremblay has been outraged for weeks, calling for calm to avoid the inevitable ... Let's give him something he can be proud to be outraged about! Defy his anti-mask regulation!
Against the "special law"
The special law is a desperate attempt by the state to regain control over the popular protest and protect its tourist season. This law unmasks the real face of the police state, which represses and criminalizes in order to impose its policies. Bravo, Charest! You've sparked an unprecedented popular protest movement in Quebec!
Against capitalism
The Grand Prix represents a golden windfall of millions for the very rich. Meanwhile, people working at the Grand Prix will only take home a bit of cash necessary for their daily survival.
Against the capitalist elite
The international elite of white, western men, fascinated by their "big deluxe cars", are dreaming of cruising around downtown Montreal. Their very presence embodies the concentration of wealth and social inequality and symbolizes the causes of the global economic, ecological, political, and social crises.
Against social cleansing!
Each summer, the SPVM pushes the poor and marginalized out of public space in a huge operation of social cleansing designed to please the rich and tourists during festival season. There are only a few days remaining for them to quell the protests which disrupt downtown every night. Let's be more numerous than ever around Crescent Street, where they'll park their Ferraris.
Responding to the call issued by the student movement, CLAC will take part in a week of economic disruption to promote the social strike.
Because Bernie Ecclestone is worth 2.5 billion and Bachand gives him 15 million dollar gifts. Because the F1 is a $10 billion business which sucks up public funds to enrich itself, wherever it takes place around the world.
Fuck the Grand Prix!
DISCLAIMER: THE "GRAND SOIR" ORGANIZERS WILL BRAG THAT THEIR EVENT IS A BENEFIT FOR STE-JUSTINE'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN, AND THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA WILL NO DOUBT RECYCLE THE SHIT OUT OF THIS INFO... WELL IF THE PARTICIPANTS TO THIS CAPITALIST FARCE ARE REALLY CONCERNED WITH THE WELFARE OF SICK CHILDREN, THEY DON'T NEED A BOGUS PRETEXT TO GIVE THEIR DISPOSABLE MONEY TO CHARITY! IF YOU HAVE TOO MUCH CASH, YOU FUCKING WANKERS, JUST GIVE IT TO THE HOSPITALS AND FUCK RIGHT OFF!
