From diffusionlibertaire.org
Since 1982, 2033-2035 Saint-Laurent Boulevard has been a vital space for anarchism in Montreal (Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang). At the time, activists founded the Association des Espèces d’Espaces Libres et Imaginaires (AEELI) with the goal of acquiring the building that today houses three anarchist projects: the feminist and queer self-managed social space Les Révoltes, the DIRA Library, and the bookstore L’Insoumise. The AEELI’s mission is to spread anarchist ideas, for instance through the development of an anarchist bookstore in Montreal. When the association was founded, the bookstore was named Librairie l’Alternative, which opened its doors in 1977.