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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.

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.

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The aim of Touski is to offer affordable, quality meals as well as a meeting place for residents, workers and, above all, families in the neighbourhood, providing an informal and welcoming space which breaks isolation and encourages local social movement. It hosts exhibits, shows, theatre, music, citizen meetings and family parties. It is also offers a space for meetings and distributes alternative journals.

Contacts:
2361 Ontario St. East
Montreal  (Quebec)  H2K 1W2
Telephone: (514) 524-3113
Email: info@touski.org

As its name indicates, the main aim of SHAC is to close the Huntingdon Life Sciences laboratory, because it does tests and experiments on animals. To this end, SHAC targets the lab's business clients around the world. SHAC organizes information tables, protests in front of these companies as well as home demos.

Contacts:
PO 47579, 1550 rue de Maisonneuve
Montreal  (Québec)  H3G 2V7
Telephone: (514) 432-1666
Email: shaccanada@riseup.net

Following the Overdale squat, this squat at 3100 Rachel, Montreal lasted from 1 August to 3 October 2001. During the final month, the aim was to maintain a place to live but also to create a self-managed social and cultural centre (show room, invite groups to hold meetings there, have staff, etc). People in the squat did a tour of the neighbourhood, organized two neighbourhood parties, had outside political film screenings in the evenings and more.
 

Squat which took place in Montreal from 27 July to 1 August 2001. Initially intended as a symbolic action to denounce the housing crisis and private property in the housing sector. The squat was really focused on survival, and there was thus a lot of emphasis on security and surveillance, but the building was also fixed up, food was found and prepared, etc.

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.
 

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Solidarity across Borders (SAB) is a network of immigrants, refugees, groups and allies which organizes protests, public campaigns, community dinners, distributes a journal, does popular education, defends the rights of its members and offers support to immigrants and refugees. The group has four central demands: 1) the regularization of all non-status people; 2) an end to deportation; 3) an end to the detention of migrants, immigrants and refugees; and 4) the abolition of security certificates.

Contacts: (514) 848-7583

RAME strove to "unite anarchist forces in the student milieu through a visible, formal and regular network. In the medium term, RAMÉ aims to set up local groups in order to become a network of groups.” RAMÉ produced propaganda and did conscientization work by organizing activities (workshops and panels) and publishing a bilingual bulletin "Marmite" or “The Boiling Point”. It also tried to "contribute to establishing anarchist practices".

RAME has been defunkt since 2007.

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

PASC is a Montreal-based collective which is developing a direct solidarity network with rural Colombian communities using civil resistance to fight for their rights to self-determination, life and land. Concretely, this direct solidarity takes the form of sending international accompaniers to lend political support to communities, carrying out popular education and participating in urgent actions in response to human rights violations.

Contacts: 514-966-8421

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NOII is part of a global movement of resistance struggling collectively for the self-determination of migrants and indigenous people. The collective organizes workshops, presentations, discussions and does popular education work around immigration, emigration, borders, and the struggles of migrants and indigenous people. NOII has a radio show and news bulletin. They also organize direct actions against deportations and detentions, racial profiling, war and capitalist imperialism as well as support people who are directly affected.

Email: noii-montreal@resist.ca

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Radical feminist affinity group which aimed to unlearn attitudes and behaviours of internalized domination, to put anarchist and feminist beliefs into practice, to encourage the creation of affinity groups and direct action. This collective gave numerous trainings on "Women and globalization" and "Radical nonviolence". Nemesis also organized and participated in many actions with other feminist groups.  

Founded in 2000 as the Women's committee of SalAMI, it assumed its new name in 2002 when it became an autonomous collective. It ceased to exist in 2005.

ASSÉ is a union which brings together, across Quebec, CEGEP and university student associations representing more than 40,000 members. It embodies the continuity of the current that has, for the past forty years, made the student movement an unavoidable actor in Quebec society and an important agent of social progress in education. It has struggled for free education at all levels since its foundation.

Contacts:
2570 Nicolet St., #301
Montreal (Quebec) H1W 3L5
Telephone : (514) 390-0110

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Monday to Friday from 10am to 5pm
**Please contact us before dropping by.
 

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Koumbit encourages Quebec community groups to adopt free and open source software by developing a collective platform and by providing support for the use of freeware. It acts as an information and communications technology consultant and offers web hosting. It also educates the community sector about open source software.

Contacts:
6833 de l'Épée Ave., Suite 308
Montreal (Quebec)  H3N 2C7
Tel.: (514) 387-6262
Fax: (514) 387-6262

Café-bar providing a "cultural space for (…) shows, screenings, and performing arts (improv, theatre, poetry, etc) as well as exhibits of all sorts. The AgitéE cooperative encourages independent artists of all kinds and collaborates with numerous community and social groups to organize events." L'AgitÉe is also, "A space celebrating the values of solidarity and democracy. The place to organize panels, meetings, discussions, benefit shows and other politically engaged and constructive initiatives."

Contacts:
Café-bar L'AgitéE - Coopérative de solidarité
251 Dorchester St. (corner of Prince-Édouard)
Quebec (Quebec)
Telephone: (418) 522-6133

Radical feminist collective active against the oppression of women. They publish a journal by the same name which serves as a "space of expression, analysis, creativity and subversity which, from the perspective of struggle, can have an influence across the collectivity (…) to move, transform, create a momentum away from the stagnation into which the mass media attempts to sink us." They also organize launches, workshops, and direct actions. The Sorcières also try to denounce machismo in activist circles and to carry out feminist conscientization.

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Radical queer affinity group which fights heterosexism and pink capitalism through festive and bizarre direct actions, workshops, DJ film nights, artistic production of all kinds (clothing, video, design), etc. The struggle is also carried out by connecting with other sex and gender rebels (transgenders, prostitutes and others), as well as people who challenge the advertising industry, the church, psychiatry, ultra-capitalism and so on.

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.

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
 

The main aim of this collective is to work in the political field to create a movement towards the self-management of Point St. Charles (a neighbourhood in Montreal) by its residents. To this end, the group writes texts on current or upcoming neighbourhood issues, carries out diverse actions, and proposes projects (such as a social centre on CN rail yards). The collective also works with other anarchist and community groups in the neighbourhood. It was formerly known as La Pointe d’espace libertaire – LAPEL (literally, Point of anarchist space).

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.

A collective with brings together artists, friends and all who feel a need for change at the cultural level. La Goupille is a platform for the cultural promotion of emerging, independent arts (dance, theatre, music and more). It organizes events and concerts and provides artists with an internet site where they can post and express themselves.

The main goal of this group is to make local internet access more accessible. ISF is currently installing and creating wireless access point software and is working on a roof-to-roof, high speed communication infrastructure open to all. It also spreads artistic content. ISF believes that all the infrastructure necessary to carry out these projects can be developed, financed and maintained by and for the community.

Contacts: info@ilesansfil.org

Hommes contre le patriarcat is a pro-feminist, radical affinity group which recognizes that the feminist struggle is a class struggle and a struggle for the freedom of women and thus accepts that it  belongs entirely to women. The collective supports feminist activists, specifically by addressing men. Its main aim is to quell masculinist groups, but it also tries to bring radical change to their so-called private lives, attempting to eliminate sexism and patriarchy in their behaviours and attitudes.

Genr’Radical is a music collective with four members (two guitars, one bass, one violincello and four voices) which is, first and foremost, politically engaged. Their songs – composed, written and arranged by the group – engage with various issues related to their main political orientations. Gen’Radical produced an album in January 2004 and has appeared on different stages in support of activist struggles, here and elsewhere.

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"A perpetual festival is a network of individuals who, every once and a while, decide to open their place to everyone interested (capacity permitting) and offer diverse, free activities that each host decides upon. (…) The only criteria to participate in the festival is that the event be free of charge, legal, residential and non-promotional. Among other things, it is an opportunity to experiment with different kinds of community and cultural relations in the urban context.”

The project existed between 2003 and 2005.

DIRA was founded to encourage a critical spirit, countering the disinformation that misrepresents anarchist thought. It is an independent, free library disseminating anarchist ideas and containing many kinds of documents on different issues. The space also serves as a free location for meetings and discussions.

Contacts:
2035, St. Laurent Blvd., 3rd floor. St-Laurent metro, Montreal
Telephone: (514) 843-2018

MONDAY: 1pm to 5pm
TUESDAY: 2pm to 5pm
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY: 2pm to 8pm
FRIDAY & SATURDAY: 2pm to 5pm
SUNDAY: 2pm to 6pm

“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.