Process and Political Culture - Anarchism in Montreal

Description

CRAC is a feminist anti-authoritarian/anarchist research collective in
Montreal studying our own movement. We have interviewed over 100
participants in anti-capitalist, queer, anti-racist, anti-colonial,
feminist and environmental groups and networks. Although these groups and
networks might seem unrelated, we are united by a shared political culture
and vision of revolutionary social change as a process that takes place
through political grass-roots networks, mutually supported campaigns,
housing collectives, shared resources, activist spaces, and social events.

Within the milieu in Montreal and within our affinity groups, this means
that we have developed anti-oppression strategies for sharing power and
radicalizing our thinking and actions. One group summed this up as
queering anarchism and anarchizing queer movements, which might also apply
to race, colonialism, feminism and the environment. In other words, rooted
within anarchism, anti-racist, feminist, queer, and anti-colonialist
groups, networks and individuals have had a huge impact on the anarchist
movement in Montreal.

Questions for discussion: Is this an apt portrait of the anarchist
movement more broadly? How does this vision of our movement (as shared
political culture and revolutionary process) help us to develop strategies
and understand or evaluate successes and failures so that we do not become
the fragmented disconnected movement the mainstream sees us as? And how
might it be important in understanding what is happening in the Occupy
movement today?

Presenters:
Sandra Jeppensen and Anna Kruzynski, Research Group on Collective Autonomy
(CRAC), Montreal

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