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Ontario: Attack on CP Rail

Breaking NewsIn an attempt to cause a shitload of economic damage to the infrastructure of the CP rail main-line, we cut down two telephone poles across the tracks just to the north of their main intermodal yard outside Toronto. A pile of fallen trees was ignited with gasoline across the tracks, and we molotov’d one of those weird grey box things that look pretty important and are full of electrical shit. We also tied copper wire across the tracks to signal the blockage so no one would get hurt. Attack on CP Rail!
2008-10-13

In an attempt to cause a shitload of economic damage to the infrastructure of the CP rail main-line, we cut down two telephone poles across the tracks just to the north of their main intermodal yard outside Toronto. A pile of fallen trees was ignited with gasoline across the tracks, and we molotov’d one of those weird grey box things that look pretty important and are full of electrical shit. We also tied copper wire across the tracks to signal the blockage so no one would get hurt. That was way more exciting than a turkey dinner!
It’s shit cool that all you people been bringing the ruckus all over the country to mess with the Olympics and its Spirit Train business. That exhibition of nationalism and colonization has got all the rich motherfuckers greasin’ the pockets of development tycoons. Sure this shit’s been loomin’ round all our hoods for a while, but you throw in the Olympic Games and crackers like Bob Rennie can’t get enough. This spectacle is quickening the pace of yet another yuppie takeover. It aint gonna stop if we ask it nicely; it didn’t before the Olympics and sure won’t after!

For us the Spirit Train is every train, they’re all spreading “Olympic spirit”, or more like the spirit of capitalism: construction materials, military equipment, useless consumer products, tourists... Fuck it all. Every ride on the rails is a ride for the same invasion that’s been goin on since the railway was built to colonize this whole place. This rail system has been developed and is utilized to serve our exploiters and enemies. As long as the exploiters exist, infrastructure will always be their weapon. So we wanna destroy it all... their railway, highways, cameras, telecommunications, it’s all serving the masters and their police. We’re not interested in expressing our dissatisfaction at a symbolic part of the problem. We want to actually dismantle the whole system and hit these cracker-ass-capitalists where it hurts. It’s not just the Spirit Train; it’s every train, the tracks and the social structure they maintain!

This is solidarity with all the comrades raisin’ hell wherever they live. Keep the struggle burning locally, and your solidarity reaches globally. This chaos was for the warriors everywhere who are still facing charges for their involvement in acts of resistance quite like this one. It don’t matter how hard they come down on us cause there are too many of us waiting to explode. Let’s show’em what we can do and aim for our actual objective!

Every train- stopped, every track- untied, every jail- destroyed!
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Ontario: Attack on CP Rail!
Authored by: ScavengerType on Tuesday, October 21 2008 @ 08:16 PM UTC
This is the dumbest article I've ever read on this sight. I'd almost put it for being written by a cop.

I can understand and empathize with your actions if you can show me a grievance and a just cause for them but this just looks like your doing it just cause. For this reason I can understand you attacking the spirit of the Olympics trains, but calling on an attack of all train lines in Canada? That's just stupid is what that is.

I just hope you don't accidentally kill anyone, some of my friends hop trains to get across Canada.
Ontario: Attack on CP Rail!
Authored by: Jizzbug on Tuesday, October 21 2008 @ 10:38 PM UTC

> I can understand and empathize with your actions
> if you can show me a grievance and a just cause

CP == Child Porn

they do it for the children... THE CHILDREN!!

Ontario: Attack on CP Rail!
Authored by: socialrupture on Tuesday, October 21 2008 @ 10:48 PM UTC
We thought it was great. Keep it up and let it spread. It should be a exciting Feburary in 2010. Many people from the Unites $tate$ will be destroying the Olympics in Vancouver.

Some have already started.

Generalize Sabotage.


www.no2010.com

www.confrontation.wordpress.com

www.friendsofgrassynarrows.com

www.socialrupture.blogspot.com
Ontario: Attack on CP Rail
Authored by: anarkid on Wednesday, October 22 2008 @ 12:21 AM UTC
When people dismiss actions like this as the acts of police provocateurs or claim that the above statement is falsified by police you are ignoring the agency of the people taking the action. I don't deny the presence of government agents within our ranks and I'm aware of the historical precedent for this, but you aren't really basing your claim on anything. Anarchists and other radicals definitely take action like this one, and it seems like the main point of the article is about attacking imperialist capitalist and state infrastucture that further invades indigenous territory. Check out some of the links posted above for background on the motivations behind such actions. Just because the article isn't written in academic English with fancy wording doesn't mean it isn't legitimate or real. I for one hope that information like this continues to be posted to Infoshop.
Ontario: Attack on CP Rail
Authored by: ScavengerType on Wednesday, October 22 2008 @ 09:12 PM UTC
Your probibly right, I was probibly impulsive to make those claims because of the friends I have traveling right now and the lack of clarity surrounding this message. I'm sure the proponents of this act were not intending and trying to avoid casualties. In reality the odds of one of my friends dying in one of these demonstrations are astronomical in comparison to all the other ways they could die traveling.
Ontario: Attack on CP Rail
Authored by: hoooody on Thursday, October 23 2008 @ 04:52 PM UTC
this is a ridiculous argument anyway...we shouldn't take down capitalist infrastructure because we need it to sustain our traveler kid culture......
Ontario: Attack on CP Rail
Authored by: ScavengerType on Friday, October 24 2008 @ 08:41 PM UTC
well for one, there adults now so you have to call them hobos. And secondly I'm clear in my earlier post that I was just over-reacting to this badly worded communique because it worried me that some of my friends or even other innocent people could die. I'm sure they have just as much a right to live as any native.

As for the lower dialogue about the poor wording of the communique. I'd like to say that maybe the intent isn't to sell it to the intelligentsia or whatever, but it's still worded poorly with respect to conveying that the action was conducted with respect to human life or what reasons it took place for. No offense meant to anyone who participated in the action but it's possible more could be put into your PR attempt afterward.
Ontario: Attack on CP Rail
Authored by: Oinky on Thursday, October 23 2008 @ 09:18 AM UTC
that was the most badly written communique I've ever read... can we get some quality control on communiques somehow? that was embarassing...
Ontario: Attack on CP Rail
Authored by: socialrupture on Friday, October 24 2008 @ 12:28 AM UTC
There is large precedence for actions like this in Klanada. It is quite common for indigenous warriors to block railroads and highways in solidarity with land reclamation struggles nation-wide. For example some of our anarchist friends up in Guelph, ONT. blocked a highway twice with a flaming barricade and sabotaged the train tracks after the second blockade to show their solidarity with the Mohawk blockade in Tyendinaga.

There is a growing bond between native resistance and anarchist resistance in Klanada that is absent (in most areas) here in the $tate$. With actions taken against the upcoming Olympics in 2010 that bond hopefully will only grow stronger. Actions such as this strengthen those ties and reinforce the need to destroy Klanada. We have to remember that war against colonialism isn't over and people still attack civilization.

As for the language used in this communique, We find it refreshing that people actually wrote this in a down-to-earth non-condescending way. It's nice to read a communique where people were writing it from the heart. One that doesn't sound like it could come out of a Debord, Bannano or Landstreicher book. I don't know who you hang out with, but most of our friends talk like this everyday. Fuck being a pedagogue or a purist. Not everyone expresses themselves in academic language and that's great cause that shit get's boring sometimes.

We're not saying that pamphlets like "Call" or "At Daggers Drawn" and books like "Society of the Spectacle" or "From Riot To Insurrection" aren't important, cause they are, but there is far too much emphasis on how the intellectual class will react to anarchy. We think it's not so important to sell anarchy to the intelligentsia but to actually encourage all people to physically fight back against the totality of civilization.

We're not embarrassed by this communique or action in the slightest and commend those individuals for attacking Canadian Pacific and the 2010 Olympics.


www.socialrupture.blogspot.com

www.no2010.com

Ontario: Attack on CP Rail
Authored by: Tamayo on Friday, October 24 2008 @ 04:51 PM UTC
I'm an insurrectionary anarchist who lives in Canada and personally I didn't like the communique although I appreciate the action itself. I thought the wording of it was very contrived, ridiculous and unnecessary and detracts from what would seem to be the point of it: to communicate something useful to other social rebels. I didn't find it "down-to-earth" or "non-condescending". I found it to be quite the opposite.

I agree that the wording of such writings shouldn't be academic but this communique goes too far in the other direction and seems to be appropriating a language that is foreign to the writer(s). Given that it's partly directed at Natives it seems ironic that it appears to appropriate a kind of "gangsta" language that Natives themselves have borrowed from Black American urban culture. So now it's twice appropriated. Only with Natives, it makes more sense since there are similarities between the cultures in terms of colonization, poverty and resistance. With presumably White Canadians, it seems very fake. What is the point of trying to portray ourselves as something we're not? Is trying to look cool now also a goal of social rebellion? If so, this communique even failed at that. Trying to look cool doesn't actually look cool.

Actions like these don't necessarily represent some growing bond between Native resistance and anarchist resistance in Canada. There are some bonds between Natives and anarchists in Canada but it's not good to read too much into these actions in terms of those bonds. The actions are mostly good. But the actual relationships between Natives and anarchists are not as glamorous in reality as they might appear on the surface, from a distance, over the internet. These actions in themselves don't necessarily strengthen bonds. It's more complicated than that. The actions and the wording of communiques could also potentially harm inter-relations depending on how they're done.

And let's remember, most of what goes into the actions we read about in communiques, the context and hard work of building relations, usually doesn't appear on the internet.. Insurrectionary anarchy is about a lot more than just these actions or communiques about them. And not all actions have or need have a communique.