At 10 am, five hundred headed out on the street. "No Olympics on stolen Native land," chanted marchers. Pylons began flying into traffic; traffic made way for the marchers. A few police on bicycles followed behind.

This is the fifth part of the booklet From Nationalism to Internationalism. We will publish it in six parts. This booklet tells the story of an activist over a period of about 35 years. His booklet is both intended as a criticism of past activities (for example, a critique of the Maoist current in which he’d long evolved) and to show that these same activities were alien to the proletariat.

Internationalists Communists of Montreal (ICM)

http://www.cmaq.net/en/node/38437 First part
http://www.cmaq.net/en/node/38799 Second part
http://www.cmaq.net/en/node/38837 Third part
http://www.cmaq.net/en/node/38948 Fourth

The 2010 Winter Olympics will take place in Vancouver & Whistler, on unceded Indigenous land, from February 12-28 2010. We call on all anti-capitalist, Indigenous, housing rights, labour, migrant justice, environmental, anti-war, community-loving, anti-poverty, civil libertarian, and anti colonial activists to come together to confront this two-week circus and the oppression it represents. We are organizing towards a global anti-capitalist and anti-colonial convergence against the 2010 Olympic Games.

* This report originally appears in issue #57 of Venezuelan anarchist newspaper El Libertario www.nodo50.org/ellibertario [website in Spanish, English & other languages]. It is a detailed examination of the events behind the mobile telephone manufacturer Vetelca, in which the notion of a socialist industrial production model in Venezuela is unmasked.

MONTREAL- December 10 2009- In response to a call sent out by the Olympics Resistance Network in Vancouver, more than two hundred anti-olympics protestors noisily disrupted the celebration of the passage of the Olympic Torch Relay in Montreal. The group, made up of indigenous solidarity activists and other groups and individuals affiliated with the Montreal chapter of Peoples Global Action (PGA), an international anti-capitalist movement, heckled and disrupted for several hours the planned activities of the celebration, despite a massive police presence and a tense atmosphere at Place Jacques-Cartier, in Old Montreal.

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Upcoming Events:

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 5pm
Art Auction: Creative resistance against the 2010 Olympics
Party begins at 5pm, auction from 7pm-10pm
3942 Ste. Emilie, corner/coin St. Augustin
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=182621237549
Presented by the Ste-Emilie Skillshare

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6, 6:30pm
No Olympics on Stolen Land Panel and Film Night
Featuring Indigenous speakers from the interior of “British Columbia” and films about Defenders of the Land and the Native Youth Movement.
De Sève Cinema, 1400 de Maisonneuve Ouest (metro Guy-Concordia)
Presented by the Indigenous Solidarity Committee and No One Is Illegal-Montreal
More details below …

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 6:30pm
Movie and Discussion Night: Resistance from Vancouver to Montreal
Includes excerpts from “Five Ring Circus” and other films
3600 University Avenue, room 112 (metro McGill)
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=184893838998
Presented by the Ste- Emilie Skillshare and Q-Team.

All culminating with:
PROTEST AGAINST THE OLYMPIC TORCH RELAY IN MONTREAL
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2009, please arrive at 5:30pm (sharp)
Corner of Notre-Dame est and Place Jacques Cartier, between St-Laurent & Gosford, métros Champ-de-mars or Place d’armes
Bring your noisemakers!!!
More details below …

* The latest demonstration of political criminalization of autonomous social movements by the Venezuelan government is exposed by Rafael Uzcategui, a member of the anarchist collective El Libertario.

As this text is written, Lusbi Portillo, professor at Zulia University (in Maracaibo) and environmental activist in solidarity with the indigenous movement is in hiding to protect his life and physical integrity. During the events of October 13 in the Sierra de Perijá two yukpas were killed and five more wounded in a conflict arising from the demarcation of indigenous land. The regional police announced that an arrest warrant against the professor for “drug possession” was imminent. This is not the first time the professor is criminalized for his active solidarity with the demands of the original peoples, but because the way the events are evolving – an investigation of the events has been decreed “national security” by the authorities – he decided to take preventive measures by going into hiding.

Looking at health inequalities in Canada, and how class and nation have affected the course of the H1N1 pandemic here, and what is likely in the months to come.

* The editorial collective of El Libertario denounces the criminal attack that took place on October 13, 2009 against the Yukpa people in the Sierra of Perija in Western Venezuela, resulting in two indigenous persons dead and several wounded. The following article –about the tactic and strategy of “Revolutionary Venezuelan” Ethnocide- describes the events.

We have just published a booklet, "From Nationalism to Internationalism. "

A friend of mine brought my attention to this story a few weeks ago and since it hasn't received much media attention in Montréal so I spent some time today putting together this summary.

It's now been more than a month that the Cornwall Customs office and the Seaway International Bridge linking Cornwall with Massena, New York have been closed. Border guards left their position overnight between May 31 and June 1st, because of opposition from the Akwesasne Mohawk community (where the office is located) to see armed Canadian Customs officers on their territory.

An invitation from the Fédération des femmes du Québec, the Committee for Human Rights in Latin America  (CDHAL) and the Comité de solidarité avec les femmes de Ciudad Juarez

BARRIO TERRAZAS PERSONA NON GRATA

Friday, April 3, 2009 from 12h to 13 h

In Montréal :
Mexican Consulate in Montreal
2055, Peel, between Maisonneuve and Sherbrooke (Peel Metro).

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:: Féminicides au Mexique, par le CDHAL

* The following article was originally published on Jan. 30 2009 in El Mundo, a Caracas daily. Written by a member of the editorial collective of El Libertario www.nodo50.org/ellibertario , it calls attention to what we fear is a bloody attack against these original inhabitants of the western part of the country.