Hamilton. ON. As of April 2021, The Tower is temporarily closed and will be moving.
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#Hamilton, #Ontario: Response to the “Pride in Hamilton” Report: We Want a World Without Cops, Not Another Investigation
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 InvestigationPiles of Bricks and Other Things That Are Beside the Point: 11 Arguments Against Protest Conspiracies
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: Statement by the Tower after cops raided home of Anarchist Bookfair organizers
Hamilton, Canada: On Friday cops raided the home of some of the anarchist bookfair organizers. A stament by the Tower.
#Hamilton Tower Defence: Holding space against the far-right
Ontario: On Sunday, March 25th, various far-right groups from South-Western Ontario organized what they called a “Patriot Walk” up Locke St. in Hamilton. This was ostensibly a show of support for small businesses on the street who had their facades shattered during a mini-riot a couple of weeks earlier. The far-right hoped to capitalize on bourgeois outrage in Hamilton to put forward their ultra-nationalist form of anti-leftism, but their internal disfunction and overall shittiness, along with antifascists in the area being on point, led them to failure at every step of the way.
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#Hamilton: What Are We Fighting For?
I rarely read fiction. I regret that truth and so every few months, when I get given a book of dystopian sci-fi or imaginative history, I stumble through it halfheartedly. I know that fiction has a lot to offer in terms of expanding our realm of possibility, of inspiring creation of new worlds. Someone near and dear to me once advocated for changing my reading habits by explaining that non-fiction changes what we know but fiction changes how we think. And yet, I find myself falling back into the practical guides for non-monogamy, the exposés of political corruption, the treatises on decolonial feminism. I’m driven by the internal desire to dismantle systems of dominance and hierarchy. If I can learn enough about them, maybe I’ll be better equipped to aid in their destruction. Theory to practice to theory to practice.
#Hamilton: The Tower’s Statement on Recent Events
Hamilton, Ontario: After a riot on Locke St Saturday, the windows of the Tower, Hamilton’s Anarchist Social Centre, were smashed Sunday night, and then their door kicked in Tuesday night.
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