(en) Canada, UCL Collective Emma Goldman - Side by side with the police? never!!! (fr)

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Extract the last Common Cause express produced during the protests against the austerity 
of October 31, 2014 (1 of 3) ---- It is disturbing, even shocking to see the police to 
exaggerate and call for solidarity especially because today the government decides to cut 
their retirement funds. The same people who, year after year, punish, condemn, intimidate, 
manipulate, humiliate, film, do not care, beat up, sprinkle Product irritating those who 
through various means, such as the event, express dissent against injustice and austerity 
measures raging. ---- No, but they have and they really thought they were untouchable and 
they that austerity was for others? Although Police today fall from their pedestal. For 
despite their weapons, despite their enthusiasm for the task and their excessive zeal, 
they and they are neither more nor less than pawns of the system. And if they want to take 
to the streets to shout their indignation. We tell them: NOT US!

Because, make no mistake. We want a more egalitarian human freer society,. The police, the 
armed wing of the state at the service of capital, only wants to maintain this order of 
privilege and inequality. The current situation does not change anything. We sadly seen in 
recent years in the region what led to the systematic repression of social struggles by 
different police forces: * paternalism, sexism, prejudice, contempt, arbitrary arrests, 
threats, intimidation, social and political profiling of protestors who are stuck-drowning 
in fines. * The proposed routes for a certain visibility refused, routes proposed by the 
Police often more dangerous (because everything is made to that traffic is not 
interrupted). * aggressive police presence, and children protesters disrupted by the 
behavior of the police, contacts and near-accidents with police cars too close to the 
events, repression and developing a sense of fear, etc. For these reasons, solidarity with 
the police is impossible. We have nothing but shame and disgust when he saw the police 
walk around with costumes and cover their paramilitary stickers cruisers. The street 
belongs to those who fight AGAINST injustice, not to those who defend. Neither austerity 
nor Police