Formerly known as the Campement québécois de la jeunesse (Quebec youth camp), the camp exists on the initiative of a horizontal, organic and non-permanent collective which organizes a camp in a different area of Quebec each summer. The camp is a space of convergence for individuals and social groups as well as a laboratory to experiment with the principles of self-management and self-organization. The event also aims to support networking among activists from all parts of Quebec.

A co-habitation project initiated in 2004 and still in progress. “We intend to build a bunch of units (houses and apartments) allowing us to create a warm and pleasant neighbourliness. The plan is to build 30 private units within a common space where a collective house and shared green spaces will be located.”

Contacts:
1090 Raymond–Cassegrain, Quebec, G1S 2E4
Telephone: (418) 527-4205
Email: info@cohabitat.ca

A food action group which distributes vegan and organic (when possible) food on a donate-what-you-can basis at Laval University. The objective of the collective is to promote food self-determination in a context in which the administration of Laval is transforming the university community into a market for sale to the highest bidder (Sodexo, Sobays). The collective is defined concretely through action; by offering a daily ecological, economic and social food alternative.

La RuBrique ('brick street', but a pun on 'rubrique', a column) is a collective which produces a publication by the same name 3 or 4 times a year. It was previously known as the Comité de quartier sud-ouest (South-west district committee). RueBrique aims to distribute credible information, from an anarchist perspective, on issues of importance to the neighbourhoods of Montreal's south-west in order to encourage people to get involved in their neighbourhoods. In collaboration with other groups, the collective also participates in various local struggles.

Collective without a formal basis of affinity. Prepares and serves organic, vegetarian food (almost always) once a week at the University of Sherbrooke. Other activities have also been organized such as readings of engaged poetry and participation in various information tables.

The collective is inactive, but a cooperative café was opened.

Affinity group which prepared recuperated food. The prepared food was served during solidarity actions and activist events. Dada a faim also organized an evening against patriarchy and another action: the night, women without fear. The collective existed from 2002 to 2005.
 

A direct action occupation originally organized by the Comité populaire St-Jean-Baptiste in the context of a FRAPRU campaign. Over time, the occupants decided to transform the squat into a “social centre for different political and community actors. The occupants still demand that the city build social housing, but want this space to be a place for organizing struggle, a self-managed space.” The initiative gave birth to La Page Noire, a self-managed social bookstore.

The squat lasted from 17 May to 20 September 2001.
 

Project to set up a land trust and build an eco-village at St-André-Avelin (Outaouais). The aim is to create a viable model community which protects the environment and respects living beings. In the long-term, it aims to become economically viable and enable its participants to flourish as individuals and as a collective.

The project was formerly called "Projet Écovillage 2006".

“The name Homes not Bombs sums up our basic principle: society should support life, not death. (…) In a way, poverty is a form of violence, and its form of expression is hunger.” On this basis, the collective recuperates food, cooks it and offers free, vegan food during activist events, protests, street festivals, etc, as well as to people living in the streets. Part of the global Food not Bombs movement.

La Maivaise herbe is a collective which publishes an anarcho-ecologist journal of the same name. The collective also distributes new and used books, brochures about anarchism, radical ecology, de-domestication, indigenous struggles, animal liberation as well as critiques of capitalism, civilization, technology/industry and organizational fetishism. It brings together anarchists from diverse tendencies, thus promoting the diversity that anarchism can (and must!) assume.

This collective prepares vegan food once a week at UQAM, and sometimes for activist events, mostly out of recuperated and organic food. They also distribute recuperated food to people in the neighbourhood when the kitchens aren't working. Their actions are guided by principles of food autonomy, free access to good quality food, and creating community spirit. The collective denounces the waste of capitalism and the intrusion of the private sector into the university.

For more information, contact the Public Interest Research Group (GRIP-UQAM)

Local DS-3159, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
(514) 987-3000 poste 4077
 

Starting in autumn 2004, this organic collective farming project in the countryside near Huntingdon has changed greatly over the past years, both in its composition and activities. For the first years, its main goals were to allow participants to learn to farm in a self-managed way and to distribute free, quality food.

In autumn 2006, Jardins de la résistance merged with the Récolte solidaire (Solidarity harvest) project, which produced food baskets in part for sale and in part for donation. A new collective, called Jardins de la résistance, formed, with basket production as its main activity.

In the fall of 2008, the group moved to an adjacent area and began to redefine itself as a work cooperative. The Coop les jardins de la résistance was founded in spring 2009 and is now located in Ormstown, south west of Montreal.

Throughout the years, the group has donated vegetables to diverse activist groups, for suppers or protests, as well as to community groups working for food security.

Contacts: 450-370-6782

*See CRAC's monograph on self-managed gardening projects.

Liberterre (literally, freedom-earth) was an eco-anarchist collective for analysis and radical action which published the magazine Terre et Liberté (Land and Freedom), from 2003 to 2006. In 2007, it re-constituted itself as a non-mixed women’s group before dissolving. To its members, Liberterre was born of revolt against the enslavement of nature to the material interests of humans and against the productivist ideology justifying this servitude. “We are the living rage of a dying earth.”

See the monograph produced by CRAC with members of Liberterre.

RATS is an art collective which aims to add colour to student, environmental and anti-war demonstrations as well as sensitize arts students at UQAM to these issues. “En-RAT-ged, irreverant, creative. We seek to reconcile classic activism with urban poetic guerilla actions in a context of imminent social change.” Contacts: 514-987-3000 ex 2630, room J-M891 at l’UQAM. Email: les_rats_@hotmail.com.

Collective creation and fiesta organized by all and for everyone in one day. "A spontaneous and enthusiastic happening that opens up new social environments. An event for citizens to reappropriate urban space. An opportunity to express the power that we have, collectively, and to change the world in our way. (…) A temporary autonomous zone where everything is allowed, because social rules have been breached. A clandestine, non-legal but completely legitimate gathering!"

Email: reclametarue@resist.ca

L'Union communiste libertaire (UCL) (Union of Anarchist Communists) was founded in November 2008. The new revolutionary organization took over from the regional union of NEFAC Quebec.

UCL is an organization of activists from diverse resistance movements who identify with the communist tradition within anarchism and share the objective of a revolutionary rupture with the established order. UCL’s activities are organized around developing theory, spreading anarchist ideas, and contributing to the struggles of our class, both autonomously and through direct involvement in social movements. UCL publishes Cause Commune (Common Cause).

On the theoretical level, UCL is aligned with anarchist communist principles and draws on the theoretical basis of this specific tradition. On the tactical level, we prioritize involvement in social struggles according to the radicalization of social movements and building counter-power.

Local collectives exist in Quebec (La Nuit), Montreal and Saguenay.  

Contacts:
UCL a/s E.H. 55051, CP Langelier  
Quebec (Québec) G1K 9A4
Email: ucl@causecommune.net

Art collective which works on different community arts projects. It produces collective creations with people from different community groups and groups rooted in communities. The collective also organizes political art projects such as performances for protests or during other events. Vichama offers trainings and workshops to share artistic tools and working methods.

ZOMBIE is an independent website to share ideas and exchange information. “ZOMBIE encourages discussion, reflection, critical analysis, as well as activism, direct action and concrete social initiatives for the advance of humanity.” It is an alternative media for open publication of content;  specifically, texts with information and analysis, events announcements and links to other sites. ZOMBIE encourages critical discussion of its content through discussion forums linked to each article.