Category: News and Analysis

From Embers: New Communication Infrastructure For Anarchists

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By From Embers Interview with the author of the PET Guide, a zine discussing secure digital communication tools from an anarchist perspective. We discuss Signal and its critics, and some new tools being released that incorporate peer-to-peer communication, end-to-end encryption and the Tor network. Further reading: How the U.S. Military buys location data from ordinary apps The challenge of cracking Iran’s internet blockade Catholic bishop / Grindr / App data Read More …

Fall Update on new Prison Construction

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From Escaping Tomorrow’s Cages Project Updates as of October 2022 Here’s a brief round up of updates to a few of the new prison projects, both expansions and new sites. Haven’t been following all the new prison construction going on in Ontario? Get caught up: https://escapingtomorrowscages.org/texts/1summary/ Expansions in Thunder Bay Correctional Center and Kenora Jail As of September 22, 2022, Infrastructure Ontario and the Ministry of the Solicitor General announced Read More …

From Embers: Quebec Nationalism and Settler Futurity – Refusing Innocence

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By From Embers Listen and download here A conversation with two anarchists following a workshop they gave at the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair entitled “10 years since the strike: the place of nationalism within militant struggle.” We discuss the history of Quebec nationalism and its influence in anarchist and radical milieus, responsibilities of settlers in anti-colonial struggle and in relating to land, possibilities and uncertain futures opened up by anarchism as Read More …

Creeker Volume 3

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From Creeker Zine As the rain finally returns and the temperatures drop, we would like to celebrate the change in season by announcing that Creeker Volume 3 has been released. In the summer of 2021 on so-called Vancouver Island, thousands of people moved through a de-facto autonomous zone spanning multiple watersheds. An entire constellation of struggle burned bright, welcoming into its fold a new generation of land defenders. Creeker is Read More …

Between Storms: Anarchist Reflections of Solidarity with Wet’suwet’en Resistance

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From Montreal Counter-Info We have assembled this publication in solidarity with the ongoing Wet’suwet’en resistance to industrial expansion. This struggle for Indigenous self determination and land defence has become a landmark moment of rupture across the colonial nation of Canada and beyond. We felt the need to compile this zine in an effort to take a step back and witness the breadth and fierceness of these last few years – Read More …

Justice for Taresh Bobby Ramroop: Abolish the Police!

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Anonymous submission to North Shore Counter-Info On October 13, 2022, Taresh Bobby Ramroop died after a prolonged, violent encounter involving approximately 20 Toronto police officers, including several members of the Emergency Task Force. Taresh did not need a police response that day, he needed mental health care. Instead, the police staged an hours-long standoff which ended after Taresh tried to escape from a window in his Jane/Finch highrise apartment and Read More …

Come Home Now: Interview with Ateronhiatakon Francis Boots

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From Ill Will The following interview is excerpted from The Mohawk Warrior Society: A Handbook on Sovereignty and Survival, due to appear next month with PM Press. This anthology — the first of its kind — contains a wealth of articles, interviews, and historical timelines composed by members of the Mohawk Warrior Society, and assembled in collaboration with revolutionaries based in Quebec and the United States. This remarkable collection not Read More …

Railway Blockade on Unceded Nitassinan (Saguenay)

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From Montreal Counter-Info Wednesday evening, a collective of Indigenous and settler activists blocked the Roberval-Saguenay railroad belonging to the multinational corporation Rio Tinto in solidarity with the National Committee for First Peoples’ Rights which is paralyzing for a third consecutive day the railroad line located at the border of Labrador and Schefferville, which is used by the mining company Tata Steel. The solidarity blockade lasted one hour. These actions have Read More …

Announcing Creeker Vol 2 and The Creeker Companion Vol 2

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From Creeker Zine Creeker is a grassroots, anti-authoritarian zine series that aims to bring depth, variety, critique and continuity to the ongoing process of reflecting on the Ada’itsx/Fairy Creek blockade and related efforts. It is intended for creekers themselves, land defenders elsewhere, and the land defenders yet to come. Last summer on so-called Vancouver Island, thousands of people moved through a de-facto autonomous zone spanning multiple watersheds. A constellation of Read More …

Vancouver: Multiple RBC branches targeted #AllOutForWedzinKwa

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Anonymous Submission to North Shore Counter-Info Editor’s Note: Our apologies for the late posting, there was an error with our submission form. Early Monday (August 8, 2022) morning, several small groups targeted 7 RBC branches spread across so-called Vancouver. We damaged locks, smashed windows, and left messages. RBC continues to provide funding for the Coastal Gaslink pipeline crossing Wet’suwet’en territory. They are violating Wet’suwet’en law and complicit in the criminalization Read More …