Presentation

Sunday, 28 October

Presentation

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Anti - Gentrification Struggle and Repression on Anarchist in Hamilton, Canada

On the 3th of March of this year, in Hamilton, Canada, after an Anarchist Bookfair, there were an illegal demo in Locke street, the gentrified place of this city, where windows of yuppy stores and luxury cars were smashed.The reaction toward such an attack against thesocial peace came immediately from the good citizens, the local right-wings, the politicians, journalists and the cops.

Once more, anarchists were designated as the enemies of the society (whether we see this negative or positive).

As answers to this small destructive event, The Tower, the local anarchist library, was attacked several times by right-wing groups; a house, where comrades were living, was raided by the SWAT, entering with flash-grenades; a comrade was send to jail for 40 days, with the primary charge of conspiracy to commit unlawful assembly while masked, and since then, has been on house arrest (for 6 months); and 7 more comrades got accused of being part of this demo (while the cops were initially claiming to be looking for 30 people).

At the same time, the circle A was classified by the City authorities as a hate symbol.

Also, it took months to the anarchists of Hamilton to realize that informations about this destructive demo came from an infiltrated cop, as it already happened in 2010 for the G20 of Toronto, where two of the co-accused of the Lock street case were also sentenced.

Pretty soon, probably in early November, there will be the trial of the 8 co-accused.In the meantime, if you want to hear more about the case, and discuss about it, you can come on

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Date & Time: 

Sunday, 28 October, 2018 - 19:00

Category: 

  • discussion/presentation

Price: 

  • free
Kalabal!k
Reichenbergerstr. 63a
10999 Berlin
Germany

Directions: 

U Görlitzer Bahnhof

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