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Greetings Troublemakers... 
welcome to Trouble.

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My name is not important.

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Capitalism, as an international 
and inter-connected system of

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economic domination, 
assumes different forms

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in different parts of the world.

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This is partly due to the need to adapt 
to local customs and conditions,

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and partly by design.

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In some territories, local life is 
coloured by the region's significance

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to the global economy as a 
source of agricultural production,

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or a site of resource extraction.

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I come from coal country.

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My grandfather was a coal miner
… actually all my grandfathers.

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Others, such as the Pearl River Delta 
region in southeast China,

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have been selected for their 
deep reservoirs of cheap labour

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and built up into global epicentres 
of low-wage industrial manufacturing.

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Here, high-tech gadgets are mass-produced

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under the watchful eye of
the Chinese Communist Party

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and shipped off to consumer markets
in the Global North,

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ending up in any number 
of metropolitan cities,

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each competing for prominence 
as hubs of cultural production,

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research and development, 
and IT.

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But although the local character 
of capitalist exploitation

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and alienation differs, 
each corner of its global empire

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is connected by a unifying logic,

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one that aims to coerce the vast majority
of us to toil our lives away

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for the benefit of a tiny minority.

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Gentrification, as one of the primary 
methods of urban transformation

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under capitalism,

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plays out differently in different cities 
and neighbourhoods for similar reasons.

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But like the broader 
economic system it's part of,

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gentrification has a tendency 
towards homogenization,

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creating neighbourhoods 
that look strangely similar

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to their counterparts 
half-way across the world.

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As we saw in the 
first part of this series,

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those caught up in this process 
experience these changes

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through the first-hand 
violence of displacement,

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and the general dislocation 
brought about by changes

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to the communities they grew up in.

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Many people, 
rather than be passive observers

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to their own forced removal 
from their homes, decide to resist.

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Over the next thirty minutes, 
we will look at some of

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the stories of resistance coming out of 
the San Francisco Bay Area,

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Berlin 
and Montreal.

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Along the way, we will speak with
a number of individuals

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who are marking their territory,
fighting back against the encroachment

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of tech companies and high-price
boutiques into their hoods

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... and making a whole lot of trouble.

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Silicon Valley is south of
San Francisco and Oakland,

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and emerged as this Cold War project
that was receiving a lot of military and

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government funding to produce
different technology during the Cold War.

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After the Cold War a lot of these
companies became more consumer-oriented.

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And we can really see this moment
coinciding with the birth of the Internet

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and the rise of the dot com boom.

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And what we’re seeing now is that 
the models of Google and Apple

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aren’t going to necessarily
bust in the same ways

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that the companies of the 
late 90s and early 2000s busted.

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In San Francisco there are
lots of smaller start-ups.

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There are also now big companies,
like Twitter, right in downtown.

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These companies in Silicon Valley
have enabled their workers

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to reverse-commute to and from work,

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so that they can live in these
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neighbourhoods in San Francisco, 
or in Oakland.

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Gentrification is impacting 
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There are smaller, personal, 
beautiful acts of resistance

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committed by exploited and oppressed
people in their daily lives everywhere.

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The largest flashpoints of resistance
have been in San Francisco and Oakland.

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Many galleries and artists, 
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participate in this process by
developing spaces and creating works

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that cater to a gentrifier audience.

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And by not honestly engaging with
the dynamics around how their projects

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actually assist the real estate industry
and the erasure of local cultures.

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KHY serves as a graffiti crew, 
a network of creatives and radicals,

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as well as a broader movement
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spaces and communities express 
their love, rage and solidarities.

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We participate in local 
street-rooted projects that produce

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both cultural and material resistance 
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local oppressed and exploited folks.
Many who have had little or no access

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to established activist
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Most street art is legal,

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thereby not challenging
the concept of private property.

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Nor contributing to the fight against
capital for our public social spaces.

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Every act of graffiti challenges the logic
of property and shatters the illusion

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that the state can 
control us at all times.

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Even so, graffiti writers and their work
can align with the goals of gentrification

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if they are aren’t conscious
of several factors.

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When graffiti is both illegal
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it is not only a material 
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but also a way through which 
to communicate and inspire,

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to explore and familiarize ourselves
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and to develop confidence in one’s agency
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alone and as part of 
an affinity group or crew.

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The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project 
is a data visualization

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and digital story-telling collective
that makes web maps,

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that creates community events,

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and that does collaborative research
to fight the eviction crisis.

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We work collectively with a number
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and right now we have probably 
about 50 people working in it.

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We’ve actually found that
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to these phenomenon that 
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But basically they’re bus stops that 
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can use to transport their workers.

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So we’ve found that 69% 
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within four blocks of these bus stops.

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Around 2013, 
we decided we would block one.

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And it was a collective of different 
housing activists in the Bay Area

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that engaged in the first bus protest.

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Afterwards other groups 
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created its own bus blockade.

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Different anarchist collectives in Oakland
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The media got very involved in these.

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And everyone suddenly, 
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but also nationally and internationally,

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of the sort of correlation 
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and eviction and high tech.

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The police are complicit in gentrification


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because they provide 
the physical violence necessary.

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The police carry out evictions,

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intimidate and threaten 
working-class venues and projects,

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harass houseless folks, criminalize 
sex workers, enforce gang injunctions

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and just wage general violence 
against us to show that

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we aren’t “allowed” 
in these spaces anymore.

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In both cities there 
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primarily of Black and Latinx folks, 
related to gentrification.

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Many were of people who were simply 
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such as working-class streets and parks in
areas being targeted for gentrification.

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The city has created apps so that
you can reserve public playgrounds.

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You can pay on this app to reserve, y'know
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And there was this very epic event 
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from Drop Box and from Air BnB 
scheduled a soccer match

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in this public playground
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and proceeded to try to kick youth
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y’know, they had reserved it on this app.

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And meanwhile these youth of colour
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for years on this playground
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Never had to pay
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If you wanna play pick-up, 
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It’s not pick-up. You can book the field.

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Just because you got money 
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you don’t get to book it for an hour, 
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It’s like 80 bucks! 
It’s like 80 bucks per person.

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It’s bullshit. No, it’s bullshit!

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Luckily there was a protest 
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and the youth won their right to keep on 
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Sideshows are essentially large, 
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that perform stunts.

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These shows are hosted by mostly 
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are organized in a decentralized manner
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and sometimes even thousands, 
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Approaching police vehicles have 
their dispersal commands ignored

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and are often attacked with bottles, 
other projectiles, and are stomped out.

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Fuck the police!

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When sideshows hold space in the streets,

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it is a group effort which can 
relieve the alienation,

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anxiety and depression 
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in neighbourhoods struggling 
with violence and poverty.

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In Berlin, average housing prices 
jumped more than 20% last year,

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earning the city the dubious title of the
hottest real estate market in the world.

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Much of this increase has to do 
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triggered in part by the 
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by the city’s former mayor, 
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of over 110,000 social housing units 
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The rapid spike in property values 
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by a flurry of new high-rise 
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that is transforming the character 
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And this is happening in a city 
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Alongside this meteoric rise 
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Berlin has been positioning itself 
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Already home to a growing number 
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the city was recently chosen 
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planned to set up shop in the trendy 
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This announcement triggered an 
immediate backlash from local residents

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and digital privacy advocates alike,

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transforming the proposed 
Google outpost into a potent symbol

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of the city's IT-fuelled 
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and the broader restructuring 
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being led by the tech industry.

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People are very much concerned 
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a new San Francisco, or a new Toronto, 
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where the most vulnerable people
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and pushed towards the periphery.

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Kreuzberg has historically been 
the hot spot for social struggles.

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Anarchist communities have
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and many movements 
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Since last year, 
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mobilized against the implantation
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On the one hand many 
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who are affected 
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are fighting against capitalist 
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They have felt the increase 
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of start-ups moving into the area.

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Google Campus 
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On the other hand more and more people
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is at the center of a growing system 
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In a very decentralized way, 
a network of opponents got together.

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First, posters in the streets,

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then public meetings 
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What is really impressive here is 
to see these decentralized networks

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of actors with no real center engaging 
in many diverse direct actions

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from graffiti on the walls of the 
Google Campus, to paint attacks.

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There have been unregistered 
noise demonstrations

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every month at the campus site,

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and a Molotov attack on tech co-working 
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Also, The newspaper "Shitstorm"
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contains articles criticizing Google 
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from an anarchist perspective.

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Google is one of the strongest forces 
behind the present convergence

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of information tech, cybernetics, 
nano-tech, neuroscience, and bio-tech.

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And this is more than just an 
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it is a fundamental change 
towards power-as-domination.

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Therefore we don’t want 
this entity at all as a neighbour.

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It’s not any form of hyper-capitalist 
driven gentrification.

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It is Google.

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The Google empire responsible for mass
surveillance of everyone on this planet.

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That actually normalized this business 
model based on that mass surveillance.

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Where fighting gentrification 
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Also means fighting 
technological dystopia.

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Also means fighting 
this hyper-capitalism.

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Security around the site of 
the projected Google Campus

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has tremendously increased when activists
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We don’t count anymore the number
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In several fonts and colours 
already was written ‘Fuck Google’

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all over the facade of the building.

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So at first they put some security guards,
then some security guards day and night.

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Then several security guards.

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Then frequently we 
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Google has been trying to counter 
our efforts to articulate this critique

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by throwing money at business owners,

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politicians and other
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and doing their own 
counter public relations.

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Until recently most of the groups
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of not negotiating with officials.

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But divide and conquer 
strategies are starting

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to take hold within this community.

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The Berlin police are reacting as
a way to serve these financial interests

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of Google and the ones 
who want to take over our city.

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We also see that there is a political
will by the local administration

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of the city to accompany 
this tech-based gentrification.

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This ‘start-up-ification’ of 
our lives and neighbourhoods.

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It is clear to us that it doesn't 
matter what politician is in power

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since they will decide 
in favour of capital every time.

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What we hope to do is somehow to lower

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the attractiveness of the city 
for these companies.

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If we kick Google out of Kreuzberg,
we hope that other companies,

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other giants from Silicon Valley, 
would think twice

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before thinking to do the same.

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Within the colonially-occupied 
territories ruled by the Canadian state,

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Montréal stands out among large cities,

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both in terms of its militant 
culture of resistance,

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and its relatively affordable rents.

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But while it hasn't seen 
the same rapid pace of gentrification

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as the country's other 
metropolitan regions,

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such as the Greater Toronto 
and Vancouver Areas,

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Montréal still faces many 
of the same gentrification pressures

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seen in countless other 
urban environments around the world.

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Namely, an increase in condo construction
and other luxury development projects,

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a saturation of Air B&B rentals,

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and the opening of countless boutiques,
trendy restaurants and hipster cafes

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seeking to cater to tourists 
and the city’s more affluent residents.

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We bought a building in, 
you know, what was once considered

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a 'hood’ and transformed what was a, 
you know, disheveled building into this,

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you know, overly-luxurious, 
fantasious, men’s club-type place,

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that we could only dream of attending.

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These changes are leading to
significant levels of displacement

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from working-class 
and immigrant neighbourhoods,

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which in turn has provoked 
widespread community resistance,

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including a good number 
of anonymous attacks

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emerging from the shadowy ranks of 
the city's sizable network of anarchists.

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In a lot of ways people tend 
to use a lot of settler colonial tropes

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as a way of legitimizing 
gentrification in Parc Ex.

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People frequently refer to 
the neighbourhood as being “exotic”,

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as a “hidden gem”, 
or a “newly discovered neighbourhood”.

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People express a lot of interest in 
its restaurants but very little concern

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with respect to the lives of the folks who
actually do live in the neighbourhood.

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Parc Extension is a 
predominantly working class,

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immigrant, and poor 
people of colour neighbourhood

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located in sort of the central north part
of Tio’tia:ke, or so-called Montréal.

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Today Parc Extension is one of Canada's
poorest neighbourhoods.

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Plaza Hutchison has long served 
as a community center

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and meeting place for Parc-Ex residents.

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In Spring 2017, the Plaza Hutchison
building was purchased

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by the BSR group to be converted
into luxury apartment suites.

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From the outset, its manager Ron Basal
has been very up-front

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about stating that the units are all to be
rented out at so-called "market price"

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and are not meant 
to be affordable housing.

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We tried to intervene 
in the permit approval process,

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we also disrupted a number 
of city council meetings in an effort

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to prevent elected officials 
from granting the permit.

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We were fairly violently 
forced out of the room by the police.

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And committee members 
were actually forced to the ground,

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arrested and charged.

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I think it’s very clear from his actions
that Basal is not in the least bit

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interested in the well-being 
of the neighbourhood

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and is only seeking to profit off 
of the displacement of its residents.

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Our experience suggests 
that engaging in municipal politics

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only ever brought us to a dead end.

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There’s a number of instances

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- be it through the rent strikes 
in Toronto and Hamilton,

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or building occupations 
that have taken place in Montréal -

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that there’s actually a number 
of tactics that exist outside

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of administrative and 
political channels that can be

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far more effective 
in terms of stopping gentrification.

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I think we’ve drawn some inspiration 
from Hochelaga and St. Henri

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as places where there have been 
broader based community movements,

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but also autonomous, 
affinity-based groups that have been able

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to engage in much more 
confrontational actions,

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and we believe those groups 
have done really important work

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in terms of highlighting the ways in
which gentrification is a violent process

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and how a lot of the
cafés and vintage stores

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actually are very inaccessible 
to the people who

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live in those neighbourhoods
and we definitely hope to do more work in

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the coming months to sent a clear message
to developers and would-be gentrifiers

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that if they try to get 
these projects off the ground,

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that they will be confronted 
at every step along the way.

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We know that gentrification
tends to be accompanied

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by more police violence 
and state repression.

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And Parc-Ex in particular is a 
neighbourhood where there already exists

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a significant amount of racial profiling,
of police surveillance and harassment.

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An important question we’ve been 
asking ourselves is how we can work

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to make the neighbourhood an uncomfortable
place for would-be gentrifiers,

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but also to try to limit the 
ways in which that could contribute

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to police presence in the neighbourhood.

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So, St. Henri was a historically 
white working-class neighbourhood.

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Well... historically
it’s Kanienkehaka territory

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but this is one of the problems 
when talking about gentrification.

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It can erase ongoing colonial 
violence and dispossession.

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Sometimes, anti-gentrification 
struggles get framed as just

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“we want to stay” and that can lend 
itself to some pretty shitty things,

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especially in the context of a white 
working-class francophone population

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and reactions to displaced folks 
from elsewhere in the world moving here.

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There have been some 
good moments in the South West.

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For example, the squat in 2013 
that the POPIR was involved in

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that forced the city to take a few lots in
the neighbourhood off the private market.

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I have nothing, no sympathy, zero! 


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They’re punks, they’re anarchists.
They’re from the black bloc.

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There is a wide range of tactics 
used by the struggle

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against gentrification in Montreal 
and there always has been.

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The sausage heist was an interesting one.
A very Robin Hood-inspired action.

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Just before closing Saturday night 
at Maxine Tremblay’s store,

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30 people in masks stormed in.

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Half of them came inside with bags,
put food in their bags...

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They told the employee 
‘just shut up, don’t move.’

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'Don’t do nothing, 
we just want to steal some stuff.'

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They threw smoke bombs, 
stole food, spray painted graffiti

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and glued posters to the windows.

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Their message? 
Gentrifiers, get out.

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It was a brazen attack 
on several businesses

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at close to midnight on Saturday.

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A group of individuals 
wearing ski masks at the time,

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broke the windows of four businesses.

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Dressed all in black, 
the vandals damaged store fronts,

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as seen in this security video 
obtained by Global News.

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If we’re just talking about attacks, 
I’d say that most of the communication

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happens through anonymous 
communiques on the internet.

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Sometimes there are posters, 
sometimes there is some graff,

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sometimes, you know, 
people drop off flyers somewhere.

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People have gone door to door 
to put flyers in mailboxes.

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The mainstream media, they pick up 
the most spectacular attacks,

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and they're not on our side and 
I wouldn't say that people rely on them

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to communicate motivations
and rationale fairly.

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It’s no longer vandalism, 
it’s causing terror

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to the people who are living in the area.

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Corey Shapiro owns 
several businesses in St. Henri.

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Two of them were attacked
over the weekend.

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A few years ago, Corey Shapiro,

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the almost comical evil figurehead 
of gentrification in St. Henri…

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Or as they call me in the area 
where we populate in Montreal

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... ‘The Notorious Gentrifier’.

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called for business owners 
to band together

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and hire private security for their shops.

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His super fancy glasses store, 
L’Archive, kept getting spat on

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and he was pissed about it.

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One person got a ticket for spitting 
on L’Archive cause undercover cops

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were stationed outside the store at night.

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Cops have always protected
those with money.

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In Hochelaga specifically, 
the coming of yuppie businesses,

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the place valois, and the condos
were definitely a major factor.

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The city is trying to rebrand the 
neighbourhood by renaming the area HOMA

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- which is just some fuckin’ hipster 
remix of Hochelaga-Maisonneuve.

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They wanna change the image of this 
neighbourhood from a rugged working-class,

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like, somewhat criminal area 
to a yuppie playground.

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And of course that is just a continuation

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of the colonial capitalist 
project of occupation.

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Montreal’s police force plays a huge
role in the process.

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They remove street-based sex-workers, 
drug-users, and homeless folks.

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They can pretend to be 
objective and neutral all they want

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but the laws that they enforce 
benefit business and property owners.

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There’s been numerous 
demands by business owners,

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specifically those who’ve been 
targeted by direct action,

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for an increase in 
cameras in the neighbourhood.

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They wanna make sure that 
if anyone steps out of line

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there’s gonna be proof and convictions.

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The collaboration between the state 
and capitalists is pretty fuckin’ blatant.

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It’s Projet Montreal calling 
for so-called 'social mixity',

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a fucking code word for gentrification.

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These people are friends and they 
just can’t wait for the area to be nicer,

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meaning richer and “cleaned up”.

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There are community groups 
doing harm reduction

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and mutual aid which is good work.

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There’s interesting 
decentralized direct action

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that goes on which has 
been effective in some ways.

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Some businesses were so badly hit, 
they were forced to close for clean-ups.

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It’s scary, 
because it’s not the first time.

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It worries business owners.
It angers the rich.

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It shows that cops 
are somewhat ineffective,

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and definitely allows 
for some cathartic revenge.

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When we think of territoriality, 
we should think about it in terms of land

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and not neighbourhoods 
as clearly defined spaces.

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We shouldn’t be dividing the 
island into lots and smaller lots.

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It’s not our decision to make and 
it’s usually just used by the state

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to map out and better 
control the city anyways.

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Municipal politicians try to 
pacify struggles constantly.

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If we listened to them, action other
than voting would never be the solution.

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They’re inherently against conflictuality.

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While it can often feel like it, 
the struggle against gentrification

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is not a zero-sum game.

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By organizing and mounting 
collective resistance

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to the forces fueling 
and pushing this process,

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communities grow stronger 
and more resilient,

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even as they face the attrition 
brought on by displacement.

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Lessons learned in a campaign 
to stop the construction

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of a luxury condo development 
can be applied to future battles

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to halt the selling-off 
of social housing units.

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Tactics developed 
in a battle against a new cafe

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can be used to bring pressure to bear 
against a notorious slumlord.

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00:25:04,805 --> 00:25:06,894
When we navigate 
new terrains intentionally,

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whether they be darkened back alleyways
to take out surveillance cameras,

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or the hallways of apartment buildings 
to knock on our neighbours doors

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-- each provide us with skills that 
we wouldn't have developed

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if we hadn't first taken 
the initiative to act.

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Confidence and militancy are contagious.

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Tactics and strategies honed 
in one struggle can be catalytic,

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spreading beyond 
their initial participants

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and inspiring others to take similar 
action to defend their own blocks.

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I think a great deal about 
the importance of, you know, of centering,

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directly affected folks in organizing.

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00:25:38,061 --> 00:25:42,471
We believe it’s important to think about
who’s coming to our meetings.

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Who are our events being geared towards?
How are we reaching out to people?

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Are we doing the important groundwork 
of handing out flyers,

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00:25:50,184 --> 00:25:53,208
of you know, 
of knocking on people’s doors,

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00:25:53,208 --> 00:25:54,977
of reaching people where they’re at?

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Start with homies and 
comrades you really trust.

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You can start as small as stickering,
or as big as you’d like,

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00:26:01,427 --> 00:26:03,326
but act as soon as you can.

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Make sure your crew is not only 
rooted in shared views,

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but also in friendship and solidarity.

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00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:12,596
Above all, we also think it’s
important to align ourselves with

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other struggles against poverty, racism, 
and displacement in the neighbourhood. 


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Learn from and grow and build 
with folks who occupy different spaces

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and cultures so that networks grow
beyond smaller, radical circles.

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Organize these networks
from the local perspective

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but with a global objective 
and a global reach.

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Ensure to do all to inspire
the world with what’s happening.

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00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:46,477
I think it’s important for us to 
remember that we’re on stolen land,

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to remember those who 
were initially displaced

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and to continue to support struggles 
for Indigenous solidarity as well.

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To create that knowledge 
and that fight from the ground up

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and to do data work but 
to also do direct action work.

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00:27:02,205 --> 00:27:05,377
Different groups can 
prioritize different things.

461
00:27:05,377 --> 00:27:07,595
Not everyone has to work on policy.

462
00:27:07,595 --> 00:27:09,594
Not everybody has to produce the maps,

463
00:27:09,594 --> 00:27:12,800
not everybody has to, you know, 
organize direct actions.

464
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:15,778
But if different groups can 
kind of take on different things,

465
00:27:15,778 --> 00:27:18,405
or maybe different groups can, you know,
work in different neighbourhoods

466
00:27:18,405 --> 00:27:22,679
or have different regional scopes, 
I think struggles can be

467
00:27:22,679 --> 00:27:24,729
more powerful and effective.

468
00:27:24,729 --> 00:27:29,267
So, you gotta broaden your analysis, you
gotta find ways to connect your struggle

469
00:27:29,267 --> 00:27:31,487
to community autonomy and mutual aid.

470
00:27:31,487 --> 00:27:34,390
You gotta be focused on 
your short-term goal,

471
00:27:34,390 --> 00:27:36,444
but also connecting them 
to the longer term goals.

472
00:27:36,444 --> 00:27:38,112
Try to stay in your neighbourhood,

473
00:27:38,112 --> 00:27:41,422
build relationships with your 
neighbours who aren’t anarchists

474
00:27:41,422 --> 00:27:45,013
… don’t be afraid of combative tactics, 
but don’t fetishize them either.

475
00:27:45,013 --> 00:27:49,042
Fighting gentrification isn’t necessarily 
fighting capitalism and colonialism.

476
00:27:49,042 --> 00:27:52,674
It has a more limited scope, 
and that opens it up to recuperation.

477
00:27:52,674 --> 00:27:56,306
Unfortunately, I think that 
there has been a fetishization

478
00:27:56,306 --> 00:27:58,726
of tactics and discourse on all sides.

479
00:27:58,726 --> 00:28:02,121
Both in community organizing 
and decentralized attacks.

480
00:28:02,121 --> 00:28:04,181
I guess I’d say I’m annoyed 
with populist discourse

481
00:28:04,181 --> 00:28:06,307
and abstract community-building 
on the left,

482
00:28:06,307 --> 00:28:08,825
and badass posing in informal circles.

483
00:28:08,825 --> 00:28:12,363
I think it’s interesting to 
discuss these different tactics.

484
00:28:12,363 --> 00:28:16,618
To be honest about what they accomplish
and what are their limitations.

485
00:28:16,618 --> 00:28:19,161
And to be open to 
different things happening.

486
00:28:19,161 --> 00:28:22,700
And engaging in these fights 
through a variety of scales

487
00:28:22,700 --> 00:28:24,570
and with a variety of tactics,

488
00:28:24,570 --> 00:28:30,262
is really important, and I think 
it’s imperative that these processes

489
00:28:30,262 --> 00:28:36,070
and these struggles maintain 
anti-racist, and anti-capitalist, feminist

490
00:28:36,070 --> 00:28:40,105
approaches to their organizing 
and to their theorizing.

491
00:28:40,105 --> 00:28:42,115
I think that’s extremely important.

492
00:28:42,115 --> 00:28:46,074
The conscious desire for total freedom 
requires a transformation of ourselves

493
00:28:46,074 --> 00:28:49,018
and our relationships in the 
context of revolutionary struggle.

494
00:28:49,018 --> 00:28:52,924
It becomes necessary not merely to rush
into this that, or the other activity.

495
00:28:52,924 --> 00:28:56,391
But to grasp and learn to use all 
of those tools that we can take

496
00:28:56,391 --> 00:28:58,811
as our own and use
against the current existent

497
00:28:58,811 --> 00:29:00,477
based on domination.

498
00:29:00,477 --> 00:29:03,618
In particular, the analysis of 
the world and our activity in it,

499
00:29:03,618 --> 00:29:06,729
relationships of affinity and 
indomitable spirit.

500
00:29:06,729 --> 00:29:09,435
It has also become necessary
to recognize and resolutely

501
00:29:09,435 --> 00:29:12,954
avoid those tools of social change 
offered by the current order

502
00:29:12,954 --> 00:29:16,507
that can only reinforce 
the logic of domination and submission,

503
00:29:16,507 --> 00:29:20,868
delegation, negotiation, 
petition, evangelicalism,

504
00:29:20,868 --> 00:29:24,422
the creation of media 
images of ourselves, and so on.

505
00:29:24,422 --> 00:29:27,639
These wider tools precisely 
reinforce hierarchy, separation,

506
00:29:27,639 --> 00:29:29,626
and dependence on the power structure,

507
00:29:29,626 --> 00:29:32,551
which is the reason why they are 
offered to us for use in our struggles.

508
00:29:33,341 --> 00:29:44,054
Fuck off Google (x 6)

509
00:29:44,054 --> 00:29:45,074
I don’t know if it helps.

510
00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:00,560
As our cities continue 
to be steadily transformed

511
00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:02,382
according to dictates of capital,

512
00:30:02,382 --> 00:30:05,733
tossing more working-class, 
racialized and immigrant populations

513
00:30:05,733 --> 00:30:07,386
into new suburban ghettos,

514
00:30:07,386 --> 00:30:11,299
struggles against gentrification will only
become more urgent and more desperate.

515
00:30:11,299 --> 00:30:13,642
But as long as people 
continue to live in cities,

516
00:30:13,642 --> 00:30:16,860
these urban environments 
will continue to be sites of resistance.

517
00:30:16,860 --> 00:30:20,864
The shape that this resistance takes, 
and the measure of its effectiveness

518
00:30:20,864 --> 00:30:24,617
will depend on the concrete actions taken
to build solidarity among our neighbours,

519
00:30:24,617 --> 00:30:28,409
prepare our collective defences, 
and sharpen our tools of attack.

520
00:30:28,409 --> 00:30:31,680
This process will require 
active and dedicated engagement

521
00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:34,386
on the part of revolutionaries 
equipped with the patience

522
00:30:34,386 --> 00:30:37,296
to build relationships of
mutual trust and respect,

523
00:30:37,296 --> 00:30:41,050
and the humility to learn and adapt
our strategies and tactics as required.

524
00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:44,239
So at this point, 
we’d like to remind you that Trouble

525
00:30:44,239 --> 00:30:45,805
is intended to be watched in groups,

526
00:30:45,805 --> 00:30:49,409
and to be used as a resource to promote
discussion and collective organizing.

527
00:30:49,409 --> 00:30:52,516
Are you interested in getting 
more involved in fighting gentrification

528
00:30:52,516 --> 00:30:54,253
and defending your block?

529
00:30:54,253 --> 00:30:56,470
Consider getting together 
with some comrades,

530
00:30:56,470 --> 00:31:00,337
organizing a screening of this film, 
and discussing where to get started.

531
00:31:00,337 --> 00:31:02,646
Interested in running 
regular screenings of Trouble

532
00:31:02,646 --> 00:31:06,642
at your campus, infoshop, community center
or even just at home with your friends?

533
00:31:06,642 --> 00:31:08,123
Become a Trouble-Maker!

534
00:31:08,123 --> 00:31:11,356
For 10 bucks a month, we’ll hook you up
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535
00:31:11,356 --> 00:31:13,575
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536
00:31:13,575 --> 00:31:16,482
and some questions you can use
to get a discussion going.

537
00:31:16,482 --> 00:31:18,858
If you can’t afford to support us 
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538
00:31:18,858 --> 00:31:22,454
You can stream and/or download 
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539
00:31:25,317 --> 00:31:28,267
If you’ve got any suggestions for show 
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540
00:31:28,267 --> 00:31:29,518
drop us a line at:

541
00:31:31,331 --> 00:31:35,446
This month, sub.Media bids a fond farewell
to one of our collective members,

542
00:31:35,446 --> 00:31:39,721
Tierra Morena, as they leave
to focus more attention on other projects.

543
00:31:39,721 --> 00:31:42,708
Tierra has been an integral 
part of our team here at Trouble,

544
00:31:42,708 --> 00:31:45,008
and we look forward to the chance
for future collaborations


545
00:31:45,008 --> 00:31:45,948
further down the line.

546
00:31:45,948 --> 00:31:48,484
Last but not least, this episode 
would not have been possible

547
00:31:48,484 --> 00:31:50,833
without the generous support of Magdalena.


548
00:31:50,833 --> 00:31:53,035
Now get out there
…. and make some trouble!