Faced with the upcoming eviction of the community organizations Comité BAILS and
Entraide Logement Hochelaga-Maisonneuve from their premises located on rueOntario Est, the Coalition against poverty Hochelaga-Maisonneuve has decided tooccupy, this Thursday, June 2, the terrace of the microbrewery L'Espace publicwhose second shareholder is Pierre Lessard-Blais, mayor of Hochelaga-Maisonneuve.The goal is to put pressure on the borough so that concrete actions are taken inorder to help the two organizations which have until July 1 to leave the buildingwhich was bought by the Cestar College of Business, Health and Technology, aprivate college in Toronto. On the side of the town hall of the district, it istotal inaction so a little pressure was in order. The occupation and distributionof leaflets (more than 300!) lasted several hours, including during the busyThursday afternoon and early evening. Something to make the mayor-shareholder think.As the BAILS Committee states: "The occupation has borne little fruit since ameeting with a borough employee has been set for us on Monday at 10 a.m. todiscuss the assistance that could be offered to us for our very next relocation.We also had the promise of an imminent meeting with the mayor of the borough todiscuss a future project for a permanent space. ". The struggle continues!In order to fully understand the situation, we are republishing here the openletter written at the end of May by the BAILS Committee - Base for action andinformation on social housing following an article in the newspaper Le Devoirwhere "the City of Montreal declared s to be committed to helping them in theirrelocation process, a process initiated following the acquisition and eviction oftheir workspace by the Cestar College of Business, Health and Technology".*OPEN LETTER - ANSWER TO THE CITY'S LIE*The Comité BAILS and Entraide Logement Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, the two housingcommittees of Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, were surprised to learn in an articlepublished by Zacharie Goudreault in Le Devoir on May 6, 2022 that the City ofMontreal declared that it was committed to help them in their relocation process,a process initiated following the takeover and eviction of their workspace by theCestar College of Business, Health and Technology, a private school in Toronto.She even claimed, through Councilor Eric Alan Caldwell, to have sent one of theborough employees to support our two committees in the search for a new location.She also specified that she was at "another turn of the wheel" with us on thisjourney. And the latter to add that his team "wishes to preserve the popularvocation of the district, with a strong and united social fabric".A beautiful story that we would have liked to see come true, but which contrastssharply with a reality where we had no help from the City of Mrs. Valérie Planteor the Borough of Mercier - Hochelaga-Maisonneuve. Unfortunately, the contact wehad with him was limited to a phone call (requested from us) informing us thatnothing could be done for us.Subsequently, when we reported this information to Le Devoir, the borough mayorPierre Lessard-Blais saw fit to justify himself in the article below by sayingthat a room had been found but that was too small for our requirements, as wewere "12 employees". We have never had information on such a place. And we takethis opportunity to remind that we are, and for a while now, 3 employees. We havenever been more than 5 in total in the past and constantly juggle a huge workloadand modest salaries.So why such declarations Mrs. Valérie Plante, Mr. Pierre Lessard-Blais Mr. ÉricAlan Caldwell? Is communication so loose in your offices that you no longer knowwho you helped? Is this a surprise project that got delayed? Or is your lack ofaction so hard to bear that you hide behind these lies?This is the straw too many for us, housing committees and other communityorganizations, who fight every day to preserve the social fabric of which youspeak as well as you neglect it. This situation adds insult to injury when it iswe who are constantly making up for the lack of public services that youradministration is digging by investing the property income that you ingest inpolice personnel rather than by countering the rental disaster currentlyunderway. . If you make fine speeches, our demands are struggling to be heard. Asa result, people become impoverished and struggle to find housing. You are partlyresponsible for this situation.We've had more than enough of you turning a deaf ear; more than enough that youdon't listen to the organizations that are on the ground; more than enough thatthe City, whose communications give pride of place to housing, is only putting inplace cosmetic measures that continue to benefit large property owners anddevelopers.When will the City understand that we are in an unprecedented crisis that isweakening its population, especially the elderly and the most precarious who arecurrently being expelled from their neighborhoods and pushed in peripheral? Whenwill it choose to implement truly effective measures? When will she publiclyassume that it is not a "regulation for a mixed metropolis" that is veryundemanding in terms of social housing and easily circumvented, as well as a rentregister filled out every 5 years that will change anything??When will she understand that with every rent increase, with every eviction, withevery trauma, there is no going back and that we are only getting closer to acity that is uninhabitable for the vast majority , of a city that is rapidlylosing its social and cultural net?We are waiting for answers Madam Mayor, ladies and gentlemen, mayors and boroughmayors and your teams. We also continue to remain open to constructive andpragmatic exchanges to stem this crisis, and remain available to receivesignificant assistance if your intention formulated in Le Devoir two weeks agofinally materializes.The ball is in your camp.by Collectif Emma Goldmanhttp://ucl-saguenay.blogspot.com/2022/06/montreal-occupation-devant-la.html_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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