#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #CANADA #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - A particularly bold action has taken place in Roberval in recent days in a context marked by the social tensions that had been described in a previous article. Since an affordable housing project for Aboriginals was put on hold, after more than two years of waiting and for lack of sufficient funding from the Société d'Habitation du Québec (SHQ), the Center Mamik du Lac -Saint-Jean organized a camp on the project site to help homeless Aboriginal people in the city.

 A particularly bold action has taken place in Roberval in recent days in a

context marked by the social tensions that had been described in a previous
article. Since an affordable housing project for Aboriginals was put on hold,
after more than two years of waiting and for lack of sufficient funding from the
Société d'Habitation du Québec (SHQ), the Center Mamik du Lac -Saint-Jean
organized a camp on the project site to help homeless Aboriginal people in the
city. Composed of two large tents equipped with mattresses installed on the fir
tree, the camp accommodated and fed for five days more than a dozen people from
18 to 75 years old. Large posters were installed to claim the right to housing
for Aboriginal people. Very soon, the camp was declared illegal by the city
authorities. Activities such as a corn roast and a drumming group took place on
site. A few groups, including the Collective of Immigrant Women of
Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, also came to lend their support.

After a tolerance of two days at the start, the action bent the mayor who had to
concede that there were no resources for homeless people at night in Roberval and
that it was a real need. Through the voice of its spokesperson, the Mamik Center
showed itself ready to continue camping beyond these two days, and even if a
threat of eviction were to hover, as long as it did not gain of cause. This
determination got the better of the authorities, whose municipal council finally
decided, before the start of a new week, that the camp would be tolerated for a
few additional days for humanitarian reasons. The camp ended after receiving
positive signals from the SHQ for the release of the file.

Direct action brings gains and we can bet that institutions such as the
Secretariat of Aboriginal Affairs, the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing
and the Ministry of Health and Social Services (to which the Mamik Center had
previously reaching requests in vain) will be more attentive to the needs
expressed in the future. The construction of the project is an emergency with the
winter coming.

  "Anyone who has thought, even once in his life, of having to reaffirm a right,
and who, alone or with others, mustered his courage in both hands to do so, has
practiced the action direct". - Voltairine de Cleyre, On direct action, 1912.

An anarchist from Pekuakami

Posted 20 hours ago by Collectif Emma Goldman

   http://ucl-saguenay.blogspot.com/2022/09/roberval-une-lutte-victorieuse-pour.html
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