I rarely get to “catch someone in the act” when I see a rad wheat-pasted poster beautifying the landscape and thus share my appreciation in person, not just on social media.

Yet in this case, that takes on a whole new poignancy, as the city of Montreal has recently sent out notices to several anarchistic efforts to cease and desist from such activities, or get caught in legally unfriendly ways for doing this act.

Such crackdowns, or attempts at them, go hand in hand with skyrocketing rents and luxury development and all the other infrastructural trappings of gentrification—or what’s just plain-old-fashioned dispossession and displacement on these already-stolen lands. For what sticks together far more firmly than wheat paste to a wall is the blend of state and capitalism, with the not-so-secret ingredient of cops.

All the more reason that it’s wonderful to see a new anarchist event, a zine fair, in the midst of winter—creating more space for folks to gather, share subversive as well as liberatory literature, and sustain the fight, or at least the inspiration for it.

Zine Fair Anarchiste
Saturday, March 4, 2023
11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
La Ligne Verte, 2531 Ontario E
Metro Frontenac

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