{"id":891,"date":"2024-08-14T17:29:35","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T22:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pink-bloc.info\/?p=891"},"modified":"2025-02-17T20:43:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T01:43:11","slug":"891","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pink-bloc.info\/en\/2024\/08\/14\/891\/","title":{"rendered":"Retour sur la perturbation du d\u00e9fil\u00e9 corpo de Fiert\u00e9 Montr\u00e9al"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republication from the F.A.G.S., click here for the original<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Sunday, the F.A.G.S. and its queer and trans accomplices disrupted Fiert\u00e9 Montr\u00e9al\u2019s corporate, Zionist, colonialist pride parade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We gathered at 1pm in drag bloc outfits and makeup in the spectator zone at Place Ville Marie. Nearly a dozen cops with SIS armbands mobilized to surveil our gathering, as clearly a group of queers at pride protecting each other from COVID is cause for suspicion. At around 1:30pm, towards the beginning of the parade, we took to the street as Helem, Mubaadarat, and Independent Jewish Voices\u2019 Queer for Palestine float passed by. By marching behind their float as part of the parade for a short while, we managed to sooth the fears of the anxious piggies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After briefly marching, we stood in place and deployed an extra-long banner to begin dispersing and disrupting the parade and deliver a speech on Fiert\u00e9 Montr\u00e9al\u2019s corporate pinkwashing. After this, we communicated with the members of the AGIR float behind us, allowing them and several other community floats pass and continue parading, before blocking the Bubly sparkling water float.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We continued marching and zig-zagging backwards through the parade, largely evading police intervention and briefly blocking various floats tied to Zionist corporate interests. Floats and contingents in solidarity cheered us on and raised their fists as we passed. A small contingent carrying Zionist flags approached. We attempted to block them by rapidly deploying a second extra-long banner, but police brutally pushed us to the side of the road and stole our banner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As cop presence began to escalate, we decided to switch directions and march back towards the front of the parade, following and protesting the Zionist contingent. After halting the parade several times on our way back towards the front, we stopped at Jeanne-Mance and Ren\u00e9 Levesque. Here, we blocked the entire back portion of the parade, where almost all complicit floats were located. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pendant ce temps, les cochons, les sionistes, la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 priv\u00e9e et les mar\u00e9chaux de Fiert\u00e9 nous ont attaqu\u00e9s et insult\u00e9s, tandis que les passants nous encourageaient et scandaient des slogans avec nous. Des membres autonomes des contingents Helem, Mubaadarat et VJI sont revenus nous rejoindre apr\u00e8s leur perturbation \u00ab\u00a0die-in\u00a0\u00bb r\u00e9ussie et poignante. D’autres membres de la communaut\u00e9 ont r\u00e9pondu \u00e0 notre appel public de soutien. Notre nombre est pass\u00e9 \u00e0 environ 150 manifestants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As pigs multiplied and donned their riot gear, as prisoner transport vehicles arrived, as Fiert\u00e9 begged us to allow their corporate parade to continue, as Zionists threw projectiles at us, as the hot August sun beat down on us, we stood our ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As cops shoved us, pulled us, hit us with batons, tried to steal our materials, threatened us, and brutalized us in front of a crowd of our fellow queers, we remained steadfast and defiant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We blocked the parade at Jeanne Mance for nearly an hour before police and class traitor Fiert\u00e9 marshals worked together to redirect the parade to the other side of the median.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the parade went by on the other side of the road, we marched down Ren\u00e9 Levesque chanting slogans against pinkwashing and police. The vast majority of bystanders cheered us on, while certain bystanders shouted racist vitriol at us, showing their true colours as Zionist, capitalist, colonialist white cis men. We eventually dispersed into the Metro. No arrests were made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though we didn\u2019t manage to cancel the parade outright, we consider this action successful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We blocked corporate floats long enough that many of their potential spectators further along the parade route left out of boredom. We showed queer bystanders and the media that police are not afraid to brutalize queers during a pride parade. We reminded the world that pride started as a riot against the police, not as a parade sponsored by corporate interests. We showed that as queers of conscience in Tio\u2019ti\u00e0:ke, like in Tkaronto, the Coast Salish territories colonially known as Vancouver, and elsewhere across Turtle Island and around the world, we will not accept a genocide in our names.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fuck le pinkwashing, fuck Fiert\u00e9 Montr\u00e9al, police partout, justice nulle part.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Republication de la-fags.net<\/p>\n

On Sunday, the F.A.G.S. and its queer and trans accomplices disrupted Fiert\u00e9 Montr\u00e9al\u2019s corporate, Zionist, colonialist pride parade.<\/p>\n

We gathered at 1pm in drag bloc outfits and makeup in the spectator zone at Place Ville Marie. Nearly a dozen cops with SIS armbands mobilized to surveil our gathering, as clearly a group of queers at pride protecting each other from COVID is cause for suspicion. At around 1:30pm, towards the beginning of the parade, we took to the street as Helem, Mubaadarat, and Independent Jewish Voices\u2019 Queer for Palestine float passed by. By marching behind their float as part of the parade for a short while, we managed to sooth the fears of the anxious piggies.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pink-bloc.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pink-bloc.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pink-bloc.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pink-bloc.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pink-bloc.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pink-bloc.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pink-bloc.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pink-bloc.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pink-bloc.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pink-bloc.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}