Current Working Groups
Accessibilize Montreal!
Accessibilize Montreal! aims to make Montréal a more accessible place in every way: from the mindsets and interactions between Montrealers to the infrastructure that surrounds us. By holding workshops and providing trainings, we seek to challenge mainstream perceptions of disability, and through advocacy and direct action we protest transit and systemic discrimination. Join us in our movement beyond ableism and in a respect of diversity!
Black and Indigenous Harm Reduction Alliance (BIHRA)
Black & Indigenous Harm Reduction Alliance (BIHRA) advocates for self-determined health & harm reduction services, by and for Indigenous & Black people in Tio’tia:ke. We aim to address the lack of representation of these communities as leaders in harm reduction initiatives at a grassroots level, through intra-community collaboration, relationship building, and mutual aid. We are committed to uplifting the wisdom and experiences of women, 2 spirit, sex worker, and incarcerated community members.
CIRCLZ
CIRCLZ is a discussion group for Black people to discuss among themselves about issues that they face inside of their communities but don’t find enough spaces to address these issues deeply. The conversations will be filmed in order to use it as an education tool. Conversations will be filmed and recorded with the consent of the participants. These discussions have the intent to build community outside of moments of reactions due to anti-Blackness incidents happening in Montreal and Quebec.
Food Against Fascism
In 2017, as part of ongoing efforts to oppose and resist the rise of far-right, anti-immigrant, fascist, and colonial ideologies and movements, local anti-fascist organizers and activists launched Food Against Fascism. We gather together regularly to make hot, healthy, tasty meals that we then serve in public spaces. We also have informational materials related to social justice struggles.
Justice climatique Montréal / Climate Justice Montreal
Climate Justice Montreal is a group pursuing environmental and climate justice through education, mobilization and collective action in solidarity with directly affected communities. Climate Justice Montreal strives to act in solidarity by using anti-oppression and decolonization principles, making decisions by non-hierarchical consensus. We are committed to open, inclusive, participatory and transparent organizing in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal, Quebec).
Montreal Anarchist Bookfair / Salon du Livre Anarchiste
The Montreal Anarchist Bookfair—for anarchists and people curious about anarchism—features about a hundred tablers offering books, zines, periodicals, art, and more, along with some twenty workshops, a kidz zone, food, and more. See the website for the full list of tablers and complete schedule:
Prisoner Correspondence Project
The Prisoner Correspondence Project is a collectively-run initiative in Montreal, Quebec. We coordinate a direct-correspondence program for gay, lesbian, transsexual, transgender, gendervariant, two-spirit, intersex, bisexual and queer prisoners in Canada and the United States, linking them with non-incarcerated members of the same communities.
Trans Patient Union
The Trans Patient Union is an advocacy and mutual aid collective by and for trans and nonbinary patients at McGill and in broader Tio’tia:ke (colonially known as Montreal).
Unruly Writers Club
Montreal and area writers, join THE UNRULY WRITERS CLUB, a space to create our work, grounded in disability justice. What to expect: Hands-on exercises, mutual support, the opportunity for sharing and feedback in a supportive setting. And – dedicated time to write! When: 1st Thursday of every month, 12-1:30 pm.
Women of Diverse Origins / Femmes des diverses origines (FDO-WDO)
Women of Diverse Origins is an alliance of grassroots women’s groups and individuals from diverse cultural communities, which has organized the International Women’s Day demonstration for 20 years and other events that reflect our militant stand and our awareness about the world context and the role of our struggles within it.
Solidarity Groups
Prison Radio Show
The Prison Radio Show has been on the air in Montreal for more than a decade. The show seeks to confront the invisibility of prisons and prisoner struggle, by focusing on the roots of incarceration, policing, and criminalization, and by challenging ideas about what prisons are and who ends up inside.