#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #CANADA #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) Canada, Collectif Emma Goldman - Roberval: More cops as basic needs are more pressing (ca, de, it, fr, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 In Roberval, the fire at the Georges-Henri Lévesque library on August 24 provoked

many reactions. A regional newspaper, L'Etoile du Lac, speaks of an increase in
the feeling of insecurity in the area. The fire started following two fires of
garbage cans probably lit in a voluntary way in front of the library and the
Plaza Roberval, an adjacent shopping center. Another suspicious fire in the same
town made headlines the next day, this time in a derelict building waiting to be
demolished. Suspicions were then turned towards a "squatter" who may have
accidentally started the fire. While these two incidents strongly testify to the
misery and social problems that plague the community, in the authoritarian
worldview, the culprit is found, it is the poor, and the expected response is
even more police and monitoring.

Meaningful statistics do not exist, but homelessness and poverty have been more
visible in Roberval for a number of years. Some elements of the situation such as
the arrival of prison and a shortage of affordable housing could be pointed out,
but the problem is much deeper. It originates in the widening chasm that
separates the social classes and the different communities of the sector. The
insecurity that the regional press talks about is actually the fear of the poor,
those people they would prefer to see less visible, incarcerated,
institutionalized or moved elsewhere, because the poor disturb the tranquility of
businesses, condominiums and tourists. Thinking of solving the social problem of
poverty by increasing social control and increasing the judicial system is
foolishness. It means doing even more harm to the most vulnerable and further
destroying the social solidarity that is so sorely lacking. Meanwhile, we learned
this week that, despite all the efforts of the Mamik Center of Lac-Saint-Jean in
the direction of the realization of a project of 24 housing units intended for
Aboriginal families in Roberval, the project is still awaiting adequate funding
from the Société d'Habitation du Québec. In doing so, it is a temporary camp that
will soon be erected on the land of the housing project.

Mutual aid and solidarity are the necessary bases for the development of strong,
inclusive and anti-racist communities. Class society and its world do just the
opposite to spread distrust and predation. L'Etoile du Lac shared this week the
slanders of condominium owners in downtown Roberval about a homeowner they
allowed themselves to diagnose with Diogenes syndrome. It goes a long way when
it's published in a newspaper. They demanded purely and simply an eviction of the
lady when she is the owner and has no connection with the fires. In another
article, tradeswomen affected by the fire indicated that the circulation of poor
and itinerant people in the street made them feel in danger. To read this leaf of
cabbage, it is quite a drama for people in means to have to live with a popular
district.

An anarchist from Pekuakami
  by Emma Goldman Collective

http://ucl-saguenay.blogspot.com/2022/09/roberval-plus-de-flics-alors-que-les.html
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