{"id":2315,"date":"2013-11-20T13:28:05","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T17:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/?p=2315"},"modified":"2014-10-13T23:17:57","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T03:17:57","slug":"solidarity-against-police-repression-in-montreal-we-will-not-submit-to-municipal-by-law-p-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/solidarity-against-police-repression-in-montreal-we-will-not-submit-to-municipal-by-law-p-6","title":{"rendered":"Solidarity against police repression in Montreal: We will not submit to municipal by-law P-6 (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><em><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/clacoon-smallcolour.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2316\" title=\"Print\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/clacoon-smallcolour-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/clacoon-smallcolour-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/clacoon-smallcolour-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/clacoon-smallcolour.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>(This public statement is endorsed by Solidarity Across Borders.)<\/em><\/div>\n<div>\n<h2><strong>It&#8217;s not at City Hall that P-6 will be defeated, but on the streets! We will not submit to municipal by-law P-6<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>On April 23, 2013, Montreal City Council voted to maintain the anti-protest by-law P-6. It&#8217;s not at City Hall that P-6 will be defeated, but rather on the streets with our continued defiance and disobedience.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>86 community groups have already endorsed the public statement below, clearly stating that they will not negotiate demonstration routes with the police. We encourage more community organizations to do so as well.<\/p>\n<p>Please share the statement below with local organizations. Send notifications of endorsing groups to: info@clac-montreal.net<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>COMMUNITY STATEMENT\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>-&gt; Solidarity against police repression in Montreal: We will not submit to the municipal by-law P-6<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>-&gt; With this public declaration, we assert our opposition to by-law P-6: we will continue to demonstrate without negotiating our demo routes with police, and we will systematically challenge all tickets that arise from this by-law.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The past years have been marked by an escalation of police repression against political protesters in Montreal. As our political movements take to the streets in larger numbers, with more frequency and militancy, we are attacked more brutally and arbitrarily than ever, with batons, pepper spray, tear gas, sound grenades, and rubber bullets. Our friends are mass arrested, humiliated, kettled, and in many cases badly injured.<\/p>\n<p>Within this context of police escalation against political protesters, the Montreal police (SPVM) are attempting to normalize another practice: arresting demonstrators before they can even begin to demonstrate, or even gather to demonstrate. Three times within one week &#8211; March 15, 2013 on the International Day Against Police Brutality; March 18, 2013 before a planned night demo; and March 22, 2013 on the anniversary of student strike protests &#8211; the Montreal police stopped demonstrations before they could begin by surrounding protesters with riot police and arresting them en masse, in the hundreds. One clear goal of the police tactic is to scare demonstrators, and potential demonstrators, from taking to the streets<\/p>\n<p>The SPVM can&#8217;t be bothered to make criminal charges. Instead, they use municipal by-law &#8220;P-6&#8221; which makes demonstrations that don&#8217;t provide an advance itinerary to the police to be a contravention of the by-law. A municipal by-law offense is not a criminal charge, it&#8217;s the equivalent of a parking ticket. However, the P-6 offence was raised to more than $500 ($637 with fees) for a first offence last May in the context of the student strike movement.<\/p>\n<p>The P-6 by-law prohibits \u201cobstructing the movement, pace or presence\u201d of citizens who are also using public space at the same time. How can we take the streets without obstructing vehicular or pedestrian traffic? Moreover, the P-6 by-law demands not only communicating demo routes in advance, but also the approval of our routes by the police. This is the equivalent of giving the police the arbitrary power to refuse our routes if they judge them to be too disruptive, and also to prevent marching to locations that have been chosen as political \u201ctargets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We refuse to negotiate with the police our freedom of expression, our right to demonstrate and our right to disrupt the existing social, political and economic order that we consider profoundly unjust and illegitimate.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the response is in our hands, as part of grassroots, autonomous community organizations. There is no obligation to provide the police our demo routes, and the Montreal police in particular, who abuse their authority with impunity, don&#8217;t deserve any accountability from us. Instead, we&#8217;re accountable to each other, and the social movements we come from. We always retain the right to protest spontaneously, and with demo routes that reflects our needs and demands.<\/p>\n<p>In the face of police repression, let&#8217;s take back the streets with our weapons of solidarity and support.<\/p>\n<p>This statement is endorsed by:<br \/>\n1. La Convergence les luttes anticapitalistes (CLAC)<br \/>\n2. Anarchopanda pour la gratuit\u00e9 scolaire<br \/>\n3. Action Anti-Raciste \/ Anti-Racist Action (ARA)<br \/>\n4. Alliance des \u00e9tudiants et \u00e9tudiantes en beaux-arts \u00e0 Concordia (FASA) 5. Apatrides anonymes<br \/>\n6. Artivistic<br \/>\n7. Assembl\u00e9e populaire et autonome de Centre-Sud (APAQ Centre-Sud) 8. Assembl\u00e9e populaire et autonome de Hochelaga-Maisonneuve<br \/>\n(APAQ-Hochelaga)<br \/>\n9. Assembl\u00e9e populaire autonome de Montr\u00e9al (APAM)<br \/>\n10. Assembl\u00e9e populaire et autonome du Plateau Mt-Royal (APAQ-Plateau)<br \/>\n11. Assembl\u00e9e populaire et autonome de Villeray (APAQ-Villeray)<br \/>\n12. Association des Employ\u00e9Es OccasonielLEs de l\u2019Universite de McGill (AEOUM) \/ Association of McGill Univeristy Support Employees (AMUSE)<br \/>\n13. Association \u00e9tudiante de service social de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al (A\u00c9SSUM)<br \/>\n14. Association facultaire \u00e9tudiante des arts (AFEA-UQ\u00c0M)<br \/>\n15. Association facultaire \u00e9tudiante de science politique et droit (AFESPED-UQ\u00c0M)<br \/>\n16. Association facultaire \u00e9tudiante des sciences humaines (AFESH-UQ\u00c0M)<br \/>\n17. Association pour la libert\u00e9 d\u2019\u00e9xpression (AL\u00c9)<br \/>\n18. Association pour une solidarit\u00e9 syndicale \u00e9tudiante (ASS\u00c9)<br \/>\n19. La Belle \u00c9poque<br \/>\n20. Centre Social Autog\u00e9r\u00e9 (CSA)<br \/>\n21. Centre de travailleurs et travailleuses immigrants (CTI)<br \/>\n22. Centre des femmes d\u2019ici et d\u2019ailleurs<br \/>\n23. Centre des femmes de Laval<br \/>\n24. Centre des femmes de Verdun<br \/>\n25. Centre for Gender Advocacy<br \/>\n26. Cinema Politica Concordia<br \/>\n27. Coalition Justice pour les victimes de bavures polici\u00e8res<br \/>\n28. Collectif de la Marche des lesbiennes de Montr\u00e9al \/ Montreal Dyke March Collective<br \/>\n29. Collectif oppos\u00e9 \u00e0 la brutalit\u00e9 polici\u00e8re (COBP)<br \/>\n30. Collectif de solidarit\u00e9 anti-coloniale \/ Anti-Colonial Solidarity Collective<br \/>\n31. Collectif les Sorci\u00e8res<br \/>\n32. Collectif Volatile Works<br \/>\n34. Comit\u00e9 logement Ahuntsic-Cartierville<br \/>\n35. Comit\u00e9 logement Ville-Marie<br \/>\n36. Council of the Education Graduate Students\u2019 Society (McGill University)<br \/>\n37. La Cuisine du peuple<br \/>\n38. CKUT Steering Committee<br \/>\n39. CUTV News Collective<br \/>\n40. Dignidad Migrante<br \/>\n41. L\u2019Ensemble de l\u2019insurrection chaotique<br \/>\n42. Les Fr\u00e8res et Soeurs d\u2019\u00c9mile-Nelligan<br \/>\n43. Front d\u2019action populaire pour le r\u00e9am\u00e9nagement urbain (FRAPRU)<br \/>\n44. Graduate Student Association (GSA) at Concordia<br \/>\n45. Greenpeace au Qu\u00e9bec<br \/>\n46. Guet des Activit\u00e9s Paralogiques, Propagandistes et Antid\u00e9mocratiques (GAPPA)<br \/>\n47. Independent Jewish Voices-Montreal<br \/>\n48. Justice climatique Montr\u00e9al \/ Climate Justice Montreal<br \/>\n49. Maille \u00e0 Part<br \/>\n50. Midnight Kitchen at McGill<br \/>\n51. Montr\u00e9al-Nord R\u00e9publik<br \/>\n52. M.O.U.S.T.A.C.H.E.S. (Mouvement Or(i)gasmique Ultra Subversif de Th\u00e9orie et d\u2019Action Contre l\u2019H\u00e9t\u00e9ronormativit\u00e9 Et le Sexisme)<br \/>\n53. Mouvement Action Ch\u00f4mage de Longueuil<br \/>\n54. Mouvement Action-Ch\u00f4mage de Montr\u00e9al<br \/>\n55. Mouvement Action Justice (MAJ)<br \/>\n56. 99%Media<br \/>\n57. Organisation populaire des droits sociaux de la r\u00e9gion de Montr\u00e9al (OPDS-RM)<br \/>\n58. Parti communiste r\u00e9volutionnaire (PCR)<br \/>\n59. Parti communiste du Qu\u00e9bec (PCQ)<br \/>\n60. People\u2019s Potato at Concordia<br \/>\n61. Personne n\u2019est ill\u00e9gal \/ No One Is Illegal-Montr\u00e9al<br \/>\n62. P!NK BLOC Montr\u00e9al<br \/>\n63. La Pointe Libertaire<br \/>\n64. POPIR-Comit\u00e9 Logement<br \/>\n65. Profs contre la hausse<br \/>\n66. Projet Accompagement Solidarit\u00e9 Colombie (PASC)<br \/>\n67. Projet De violence et d\u2019intimidation<br \/>\n68. QPIRG Concordia<br \/>\n69. QPIRG McGill<br \/>\n70. Radical Reference Montreal<br \/>\n71. RadLaw McGill<br \/>\n72. Ras-le-bol, soupe populaire de l\u2019UQ\u00c0M<br \/>\n73. R.A.S.H. Montr\u00e9al<br \/>\n74. Regroupement des comit\u00e9s logement et associations de locataires du Qu\u00e9bec (RCLALQ)<br \/>\n75. R\u00e9seau de la Commission populaire \/ People\u2019s Commission Network<br \/>\n76. R\u00e9seau qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois des groupes \u00e9cologistes (RQGE)<br \/>\n77. R\u00e9sistance citoyenne de Qu\u00e9bec<br \/>\n78. Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Bolivarienne du Qu\u00e9bec<br \/>\n79. Solidarit\u00e9 sans fronti\u00e8res<br \/>\n80. Stella<br \/>\n81. Student Print Association at Concordia<br \/>\n82. Syndicat des \u00e9tudiant-e-s employ\u00e9-e-s de l\u2019UQ\u00c0M (S\u00c9TUE)<br \/>\n83. Syndicat \u00e9tudiant du C\u00e9gep de Marie-Victorin (S\u00c9CMV)<br \/>\n84. Tadamon!<br \/>\n85. Union communiste libertaire (UCL)<br \/>\n86. Universit\u00e9 Populaire des Sciences de l\u2019Information (UPopSi)<br \/>\n<em>[If your association, group or organization endorses this declaration, please contact info@clac-montreal.net]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(This public statement is endorsed by Solidarity Across Borders.) It&#8217;s not at City Hall that P-6 will be defeated, but on the streets! We will not submit to municipal by-law P-6 On April 23, 2013, Montreal City Council voted to&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/solidarity-against-police-repression-in-montreal-we-will-not-submit-to-municipal-by-law-p-6\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2315"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5590,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315\/revisions\/5590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}