Hamilton. ON. Today (july 29, 2020) at noon, we learned that four ranges on the Barton Jail’s fourth floor had resumed a hunger strike, with at least 60 prisoners confirmed to be participating.
Continue reading #Hamilton, #ON: Collective Action For The Win! Hunger Strike in #Barton Quickly Forces Concessions from the Admin
Hamilton. ON. Two Recent Updates From the Barton Prisoner Solidarity Project.
Continue reading #Hamilton, #Ontario: Statement from a Striking Prisoner and Solidarity Demo Reportback
Hamilton. ON. At about 4:30pm on June 19th, 2020, all prisoners of the 4B range, in the Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Center (aka Barton Jail), sent back their trays and announced a hunger strike. Since COVID-19 measures hit jails some months back, the quality of food has greatly declined.
Continue reading #Hamilton, #ON: Hunger Strike in the #Barton Jail
As the deep yellow moon rose we moved deeper into the swamp, past the sweet smells of lilacs and greens and rich earth. Lulled by the moonlight and our headlamps reflecting on the pale survey stakes against the surrounding darkness that marked out Enbridge’s proposed new gas pipeline in Flamborough. One by one we pulled nearly 10 kilometres of stakes, tossing them to the side to be reclaimed by the bush.
Continue reading #Hamilton, #Ontario: (Un)staking their claim: disrupting enbridge’s newest pipeline
Statement on the “Pride in Hamilton” report by some anarchists involved with The Tower.
Continue reading #Hamilton, #Ontario: Response to the “Pride in Hamilton” Report: We Want a World Without Cops, Not Another Investigation
Hamilton. Ontario. We’ve seen a lot of people on social media spreading rumours and sharing conspiracy theories about the uprising currently going on South of the border. These might be rumours about potential white supremacist attacks and interventions or conspiracies about police agents being responsible for violence carried out by protestors. This kind of online behaviour is harmful and undermines the movements you’re probably trying to support, and we thought we’d take a minute to break down why we should collectively push back against this trend.
Continue reading Piles of Bricks and Other Things That Are Beside the Point: 11 Arguments Against Protest Conspiracies
Hamilton. Ontario. The first of May is celebrated in most countries around the world—and by North American leftists—as May Day, or International Workers Day. For most working-class people in Hamilton, however, this year it had a more urgent significance. For the second time since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, rent was due.
Continue reading Keep Your Rent #Hamilton, #ON – Reflections on #MayDay and Organizing in a #Pandemic
Hamilton. Ontario. In the last week, tens of thousands of Hamiltonians have applied for the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB), the government’s COVID-19 income support package which provides payments of $2,000/month for up to four months. In this post we look into the nuts and bolts of the CERB rollout and consider what the government hopes to accomplish by ladling out all this cash.
Continue reading #Hamilton, #Ontario: Keep your CERB, keep your rent! No bailout for landlords
Hamilton. Ontario. The prisoners of Barton Jail continue to feel that they are forgotten. Telling us that ‘No one stands up for prisoners, we don’t have a voice’ and that its a relief to have a number to call to tell the outside about what happening inside.
Continue reading #Hamilton, #Ontario: Update message from #Barton #prisoners
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Yarostan Vochek
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