Ottawa: “Rolling Thunder” incidents and responses database

This is an Ottawa community crowd-sourced database to document and track “Rolling Thunder” convoy incursions on residents’ lives, and also organized community responses, all together in one place.

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RBC: Divest from CGL

Anonymous Submission to North Shore Counter-Info Wet’suwet’en Solidarity Monday April 11th, 2022 Tiohtià:ke/Montreal In the early afternoon, a small group of anarchists snuck into the RBC offices at Place Ville-Marie. Armed with flyers, stickers and spray paint cans, they left a message for the bank: DIVEST FROM CGL. Since the Fall of 2021, the Wet’suwet’en have been actively campaigning for RBC to stop funding the destruction of their land, but Read More …

Canadian Pacific Railway Police Service Charges Dropped Against Land Defender Vanessa Gray

From Vanessa Gray on Facebook My name is Vanessa Gray. I am an Anishinaabe Kwe organizer, community researcher, and Land defender from the Aamjiwnaang First Nation. On November 21st 2021, Canadian Pacific Railway Police Service issued charges against me in connection to an action that was organized in Toronto, in response to the violent raids in Wet’suwet’en territories. This event was attended by hundreds of people. The charges included three Read More …

Punch Up Collective: Getting It Together

From Punch Up Collective Getting It Together: An Online Workshop for Organizing Collectives for the Real World Saturday, April 23rd, 2022 1-3PM Online – Zoom Ottawa, on unceded Algonquin territory Facilitated by the Punch Up Collective, this workshop is for anyone interested in starting a collective, or those keen to discuss how to make a collective they’re already a part of more effective and sustainable. We live in a frightening Read More …

Communique from Operation Solidarity, Ukraine

From Operation Solidarity Greetings, comrades! We are the Ukrainian anti-authoritarian volunteer network, “Operation Solidarity”. Since the first days of escalation by Russia, we have taken part in the resistance against the invasion, as have the majority of Ukrainian anarchists and anti-authoritarian left activists because we believe that this war is imperialist and usurping. This is not a war of “de-nazification”, as the Kremlin claims. The problems of the far-right in Read More …

Albums Against the Invasion from Anarchist Black Cross Musical Solidarity Group

Shortly after the first bombs started falling on Ukrainian cities in the invasion by Russian forces, anti-authoritarian musicians around the world began collaborating with members of Anarchist Black Cross collectives to respond. Now, two compilation albums have been released to raise money for anarchists fighting the invasion on the front lines in Ukraine, and behind the lines in Russia. Read More …

Gridlocked: The Freedom Convoy and the New Canadian Populism

From Submedia Click here to watch and download video Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, a popular movement demanding an immediate end to vaccine mandates and other restrictions on daily life has shaken the Canadian state to its core. Its calls have deeply resonated with members of settler-colonial society in which public health measures and other forms of collective solidarity are seen by some as an affront to individual freedom Read More …

From Embers: Northern Ontario’s Ring of Fire

By From Embers Click here to listen and download A conversation featuring Mike Koostachin from Friends of the Attawapiskat River and Kate Klein from the Mining Injustice Solidarity Network about the Ring of Fire and what’s at stake. Topics include the broader context and history between DeBeers and Attawapiskat First Nation, the greenwashing of mineral extraction, the critical minerals paradigm, Indigenous land defense and sovereignty struggles. Song excerpt from Sounding Read More …