The following excellent text is from the No One Is Illegal Montreal blog:

This coming Saturday at 2pm at Parc Pilon in Montreal-Nord, a diverse cross-section of Montreal groups and individuals are coming together to denounce police brutality as part of a child-friendly demonstration. This is a crucial protest for all those who oppose poverty, racism and police brutality, as well as support autonomous, grassroots organizing for real justice and dignity.

It comes just two months after the killing of Fredy Villaneuva in Montreal-Nord, one year after the tasering death of Quilem Registre in St-Michel, and more than two years after the unexplained shooting death of Anas Bennis in Côte-des-neiges. It comes in a context where 43 people have been killed by the bullets or electric shocks of the Montreal police in just 21 years.

There are three main demands for this Saturday’s demonstration: 1) a public and independent inquiry into the death of Fredy Villaneuva; 2) an end to racial profiling and to police abuses and impunity; 3) the recognition of the principle that as long as there is economic inequality there will be social insecurity.

On September 29, 2008 around 30 protesters greeted the Canadian Pacific
Railway “Olympic Spirit Train” as it brought its propaganda machine
through Edmonton. Highlighting that the train and the Olympic Games are
interlinked with the same corporations carrying out the largest
industrial project on earth known as the Tar Sands, protesters disrupted
the “spirit train” celebrations with the spirit of resistance. Under the
slogan of “No Games, No Tar Sands on Native Land!” demonstrators from
the the community of Fort Chipewyan in “Alberta” came in solidarity to
act with Native 2010 Resistance, the Olympics Resistance Network,
Edmonton Anarchist Black Cross and the Indigenous Environmental Network
to let the public know what’s wrong with the Olympics and the Tar Sands.
Their message articulated the vast increases in Indigenous land
displacement, homelessness and the expansion of environmental
destruction brought about by the corporate agenda around the 2010 Winter
Olympics and the Tar Sands-- most notably by CP Railways, Petro-Canada
and the Royal Bank of Canada.

Protesters distributed flyers, stickers and balloons for children and
youth with counter-2010 information on both and used their presence and
their voices to confront the “festivities” and alert the larger Edmonton

As anti-racist, anti-colonial feminists in Québec, we have serious misgivings about the Commission de Consultation sur les pratiques d'accommodement reliées aux différences culturelles. The Conseil du statut de la femme du Québec (CSF) has proposed that the Québec Charter be changed so as to accord the right of gender equality relative priority over the right to religious expression and to ban the wearing of "ostentatious" religious symbols in public institutions by public employees.

MONTREAL, Wednesday, November 27, 2007 -- Last night, No One Is
Illegal-Montreal and allies began pickets and speak-outs against the
Bouchard-Taylor Commission on "reasonable accommodation".
At least 75 protesters gathered in the lobby of the Montreal Congress
Center, before proceeding past security guards upstairs, near the
hearing room. The protest was well heard inside by the some 190
participants.

After more than 90 minutes of protesting outside the hearing, at least
20 police officers entered to remove demonstrators. The protesters

Students occupy Montreal Stock Exchange to protest tuition hike
Saturday, November 17 2007

On Friday, November 16th, 150 students and supporters occupied the Montreal Stock Exchange at 8am for approximately an hour. An estimated 60,000 students from various universities and cegeps were on strike this past week in order to protest the lifting of the tuition freeze in Quebec, which has been in place for 13 years. Tuition is expected to rise 500$ over the next 5 years.

Press Release PGA Bloc-Montreal

For immediate release, Montreal, August 20, 2007

Today, despite the militarized security perimeter, despite the fear and paranoia created by the police in the region of Montebello for weeks, despite the steel fences and thousands of policemen, upwards of two thousand protesters still came to the gates of Château Montebello to voice their opposition to the "Security and Prosperity Partnership." We expressed our indignation and fury against colonial and racist policies; the SPP is called a "dialogue" but it's really the continuation of the exploitation of the most oppressed.

Montreal Teach-in and strategy forum

Saturday, 26 May, 1pm to 9pm
Université de Québec à Montréal (UQAM)

WORKSHOPS and a PANEL DISCUSSION with Sherene Razack, Adil Charkaoui, Faisal
Kutty, Salam El Manyawi, Najlaa Bennis, Ross Perigoe .... and many more!

WITH:
* Screening of footage from the People's Commission
* Exhibit of Photos and Banners
* Action materials

:::: Free childcare onsite ::: Free and delicious food ::::

CALL, FAX, OR EMAIL JACQUES P. DUPUIS, QUEBEC MINISTER OF PUBLIC SECURITY AND DEMAND JUSTICE FOR THE POLICE KILLING OF MOHAMED ANAS BENNIS!

On Wednesday, April 11th, the Justice For Anas Coalition and their supporters will be holding a demonstration outside the Montreal offices of Jacques P. Dupuis, the Quebec Minister of Public Security. They will be demanding that Minister Dupuis intervene to release all the evidence and reports surrounding the police killing of Mohamed Anas Bennis on December 1st, 2005, and that a public inquiry be launched into the matter.

From: bloquezlempiremontreal@resist.ca

MONTREAL, Tuesday, April 3, 2007 -- Anti-war protesters disrupted the
beginning of Canadian Defence Minister Gordon O'Connor's speech earlier this
afternoon in Montreal.

Three women had managed to get inside the Grand Salon of the Queen Elizabeth
Hotel, where O'Connor was beginning to address an audience of businessmen,
senior military officers, politicians and the media. They unveiled a banner