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Toronto action in solidarity with Villa Amalias and LK37

Sat, 01/19/2013 - 10:48 -- Anonymous (not verified)

In the early hours of the morning we struck another small blow against the mechanisms of capital. The street level of one of the many new condo developments under construction in the city, containing building supplies as well as the architectural plans for the building, was smashed and then set ablaze as a small gesture of our rage. Our anger is directed both towards the continuing, and celebrated, gentrification within the city, and the ongoing imprisonment of anarchist comrades around the world.

Gentrification is the celebrated death of community in slow motion. The encroachment of high priced individualized living spaces into a community forces out people to whom boutique living is unaffordable, splitting up life long friendships and personal relations. With this come the chain store vultures picking apart the carcasses of local, independent stores as well as the inevitable “cleansing” of the area, removing any unwanted signs of life or suffering. The aspirational advertisements which accompany these developments hide the secret that instead of a lifestyle change or upgrade, what is being sold is an isolative and vacuous box with the trappings and veneer of luxury, as well as one’s very own role in the destruction of a pre-existing community.

With one change of our clothes we disappeared into the night undetected. This is not an attempt at a gloat or a glorification, but an attempt to show how easily these acts can be replicated elsewhere. Let’s make their lives as difficult as they try to make ours. This is an escalation in regards to our tactics, but we realize these acts are still of small scale in relation to actions of comrades across the world. With this, we also recognize the need to intensify our attacks against the state and capital in North America in relation to the intensity of repression and attacks against the anarchist and anti-authoritarian community. With every wave of repression must follow a targeted, critiqued, and increasingly militaristic response.

This is an act of solidarity with the people of the Villa Amalias and Lelas Karagianni 37 squats in Athens who have had their homes raided by the brutal, fascist Greek police. We chose to target new housing developments, catering to the bourgeois of the city, as they lie in direct contrast to the vibrance, community and solidarity seen in squats across the world. Another stark difference is the economically exclusionary nature of private property. We are not fighting for “affordable housing” or “income-based housing”, we are fighting for housing for every human being, regardless of economic status.

We also send an embrace warmed with love and rage to Panagiotis Argirou. Strength comrade, so you may continue this fight.

For the negation of every oppression this society is complicit in.
Until the last prison walls crumble…

The Toronto Solidarity Cell.

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

"increasingly militaristic response"
militarism is not becoming of the insurgent.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

not to nit pick or be negative, this is just dangerous language

Submitted by Weiner Boy (not verified) on

Help! Help! Protect me from the dangerous language! Oh, no! It's got a word that I don't like. HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLP.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Tell that to the Spanish anarchists circa 1936, the Russian nihilists circa 1872, the Zapaistas circa 1996, the Beaver wars of the Iroquois confederacy circa med-17th century.

Fuck anti-militarism.

Submitted by Fucking Fuck-Fuck (not verified) on

You've confused armed struggle (which can be anti-State) with miltarism (which is always something the State engages in). Duh.

Submitted by Fucking Fuck-Fuck (not verified) on

You are obviously a product of the Amerikkkan school system. "Struggle," "militarism," and "moron" -- these are NOUNS. And when you take a NOUN and put an ADJECTIVE in front of it ("armed" or "complete" yes, that's right: they are ADJECTIVES), you get a COMPOUND NOUN, not an ADJECTIVE.

Submitted by anonymous on

clearly the NOUN militarism was not used, the ADJECTIVE "militaristic" was. So get off the computer and do some real anarchy you fucking dunce, in stead of being pedantic...

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Good point.

I still say fuck anti-militaristic, anti-militarism, and any anti-armed struggle ideology.

Submitted by Fucking Fuck-Fuck (not verified) on

you're delusional. this is the exact quote:

"Tell that to the Spanish

Tell that to the Spanish anarchists circa 1936, the Russian nihilists circa 1872, the Zapaistas circa 1996, the Beaver wars of the Iroquois confederacy circa med-17th century.

Fuck anti-militarism."

BUT THE REAL POINT IS THAT MILITARISM IS A STATIST PRACTICE.

And so you, who advocate militarism, have no business lecturing anyone else about "doing some real anarchy" or calling anyone else "a fucking dunce."

ok bye bye now. take care!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

"Militarism is a statist practice". No it isn't. Unless you narrowly define militarism as armed struggle by the state.

Submitted by Learn English (not verified) on

See the suffix "ism" attached to the end of the word "militarism"? Isms are things to be avoided: they signify an i-d-e-o-l-o-g-y. Yes that's right: ideology. (Look it up.) Militarism is the IDEOLOGY of military power. Unless you narrowly define "anarchism" as an ideology -- and you could easily do that, your idiotic comments would support that idea -- then no anarchist would support "militarism." The "idea" that the State could engage in "armed struggle" is a flat-out betrayal of the very people you claim to be supporting. Armed struggle is something conducted AGAINST the State, not by it! Fuck, you are stupid.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Mythomaniacs!

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