No SPP – CN’s sabotage in Mtl.

No SPP – CN’s sabotage in Mtl.

[Contributed anonymously to ottawa.indymedia.org, published August 19, 2007]

Montreal, August 19, 2007

Tonight, at around 3:10am, a group of autonomous individuals claiming no association, in solidarity with the actions and demonstrations which are set to take place in Montebello, blocked a pair of train tracks belonging to Canadian National (CN) with cement blocks. The tracks were blocked near the Outremont train yard. We chose to carry out this act of sabotage because we openly oppose the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) of North America, and we express our direct solidarity with indigenous peoples in their struggle for self-determination and the defense of their lands. We believe as well that the tactics of choice of coalitions and convergence groups have a limited impact in the face of intense economic, political, state, social, and police repression under which we live, and we firmly assert that the time has come to pass to action.

The history of the CN corporation clearly demonstrates its racist and colonialist attitudes in creating pressure to obtain land which was clearly stolen from indigenous people. This pattern continues to reproduce itself year to year throughout the ages.

Let us not forget that the Canadian and Quebecois ‘nations’ were built on the genocide of entire populations. This ongoing genocide continues with our current capitalist system today. Now more than ever, CN is persuing its expansion and that of the greed of Western imperialist societies. Its current CEO, Hunter Harrison, now sits on the North American Competitiveness Council (NACC), the main advisory body and lobby to develop the SPP. The NACC is in the middle of developing a plan behind closed doors to enrich the rich and marginalize the most oppressed.

The SPP is no surprise. It seeks to deepen the process of global economic integration while accentuating the repression and militarization against those who unite and raise their voices more than ever against the globalization of poverty. We denounce the fact that the rich and powerful are securing ‘their commerce’, while demolishing all existing barriers, and that they’re creating ‘security’ and ‘prosperity’ plans for the free circulation of goods while closing the borders to human beings. They are creating a complex system of border militarization, creating an entire sub-class of people, marginalization, and devastating repression.

Down with CN!
Down with the SPP!
Free movement for all people!
Freedom and automomy for all indigenous people!