There was a demo in #Montreal today organized by queer bipoc coalitions calling for police abolition. Around 200-300 people showed up in the rain. The crowd succesfully toppled an often-vandalized John A. Macdonald statue, the first prime minister of Canada in 1867. Amongst other colonial projects, he was an architect of the genocidal residential schooling system and responsible for the hanging of Métis rebel Louis Riel.

It's the first statue that goes down in Montreal and it warms our collective spirits.

https://twitter.com/noreornot/status/1299787441998639104

This flyer was circulated in the crowd as the statue fell and provides more background to the statue, it's legacy, and the action.
It also links to a petition to remove the statue, started this summer, which has received over 45,000 signatures but was never acted on by the city.

Folks on the ground, its time we normalize live streams again and teach live stream etiquette. We don't support live streaming protesters. We do support live streaming the police and their violence during events. We need folks to stream on twitch because when police shut off scanners and use encrypted networks, it is our best intel source for our RUST teams. RUST or Remote Uprising Support Teams are your official eyes on the sky monitoring from remote locations to assist those on the ground or in the areas of protest. Live streams help confirm the information we hear and help us get a better understanding of what is happening. We may be turned off by live streams by their usage to doxx protesters to police. But live streams are also helping our intel teams and documenting what happens when police and militia go to far. What is even better is being a live streamer gives you some extra legal protection while participating at protests. Help us watch the cops.

Also, twitch streamers can help raise funds for their local communities protests or your affinity group when subscribers donate. You can support your local activist chapters and fund encampments and medic groups by raising funds as a twitch streamer. Being an ethical live streamer has a huge role!

Think of live streaming as your legal right to spy and collect intelligence on police in public spaces. As long as you are in public space you cant be arrested for documentation. The whole point of being on a Remote Uprising Support Team is to be a functional intelligence system for demonstrators. Being journalists gives us certain rights to limited ability of espionage on police and militias in public. While filming a militia may be dangerous, filming police is absolutely our legal right and can help legally protect those on the ground.

The most important thing folks should know about RUST is we are decentralized. You can form your own RUST channel to support locations not already supported. We can teach you how to build a training room for your own rust and provide you curriculum and infrastructure support. RUST gives the people an equal playing field in creating decentralized spies as volunteer revolutionary journalists. If you ever need to drop intel to RUST nationwide, please send to @BLMProtestsbot. We share our civilians platforms and focus on intelligence that can protect civilians and actions. We know how many police there are. We know how many police get put in locations. We can know where police are not. We can pressure our police forces with accountability and public knowledge of vulnerability. We are not responsible for what folks do with the information they obtain from us. We simply just report on the intelligence like every other journalist who gets good tips.

I am a huge NBA and 76ers fan. But the Sixers will not get money for a new stadium when there are 18000 homeless people in our city. Until all 18000 homeless folks are housed, we will block any stadium construction if public money is used for it.

https://www.whyy.org/articles/sixers-4b-arena-bid-vows-black-and-brown-inclusion-goals-similar-projects-failed-to-meet/amp/