translated from french by sabotagemedia
On Wednesday evening, April 25, thousands of people (up to 10,000 according to the cops) took the streets from Place Emilie-Gamelin. After one hour into the demonstration, the cops charged on Peel & St. Catherine, throwing shock grenades which broke the demonstration into several groups.
During the evening the windows of several banks were shattered, graffiti and red paint was everywhere and everything at hand was thrown into the street as barricades. Rocks were hurled at the cops during street battles leaving several injured in their ranks. They are visibly tired and doubt is begining to settle. They also once again called in the SQ as reinforcements.
Several police cars and a Canadian Armed Forces building were vandalized, police station 21 had its windows thoroughly smashed while the cops inside were shitting themsleves and there were paint bombs for Loto-Quebec. The disinformation media reported that people booed the actions of “thugs” but doesn’t report that as many people applauded. They may talk of a “social crisis”, we call it an uprising.
According to the cops there were a total of 85 arrests of some 10,000 demonstrators.
As to be expected in all the mass protests, some citizen-cops and dogmatic pseudo-pacifists booed and even attacked hooded people who strike-back against the oppressive system, having understood that to transform the world around us it takes much more than just orderly marches, no matter how massive and peaceful. Those who have no interest in things changing, the privileged of this world who are reaping the benefits of the monopoly of violence, defend the logic of the abuser who says that violence is always legitimate when it is he who uses it. The so-called “pacifists” in their hypocritical dogmatism are collaborators with the violence that is perpetrated every day around the globe against the poor, against women, against children, against indigenous people and people of different color, against animals and all of Nature, at the hands of the racist, patriarchal, colonial, mercantilist, totalitarian and genocidal social order. When we mention these things with these automatons we are systematically criticized for being apologists of violence… Do these same “pacifists” jump on the cops when they throw bombs, shoot gas and charge with batons on young people protesting? Or when these cops shoot and kill people in the street or the subway? Do they attack soldiers returning from a bombing mission in a “far away” country because those who have the monopoly of violence want the oil there? No, never. They rationalize this violence. In the height of absurdity, these pacifists perpetuate the systematic violence of this shit society by attacking those who, destroying symbols of power and attacking those who are paid to be violent, put themselves at risk and revolt in any possible way in solidarity with the oppressed of this world.
While the mass disinformation media are stuck on denouncing violence ever since the first fart from the first student protest of the strike, mobilizing their whole brain eating machine to manipulate, dumbdown and divide… that the government thought it could let the youth rot and see them disappear under the weight of an aging and resigned population… that the cops thought they’d have but a few more anecdotes for jokes around some beers about the protesters they frightened and beat the shit out of… this movement continues to radicalize itself, to overcome its confined and reductive student identity and to break with the monopoly of violence belonging to the sociopaths of above and their mercenaries. Because Freddy, Michel and Farshad were murdered by the same cops who profile us socially, racially and politically, who deported our family, friends and lovers, who throw us out of every neighborhood while cardboard condos spring up everywhere for “real people”, who beat up, pepper spray, and throw bombs at their heads of the youth showing us their social conscience. In Nitassinan,the Innu and those who remain living on this corner of the Earth are getting run over and stepped on by a bunch of parasites and their sponsors; the same bastards that shit on us everyday and find it funny looking at us always sinking deeper into their shit… there are loads of reasons to smash it all.
translators note: the title is in reference to what is claimed to be the “révolution tranquille” (the quiet revolution) which is how the reformism and social unrest of the 60′s and 70′s in Québec is refered to.