Canada Reportback!

antifainternational:

This past Saturday was supposed a huge show of force for the various Islamophobic hate clubs across Canada.  Let’s review how things went for them coast-to-coast (which much thanks to Anti Racist Canada for the research!):

Peace Arch Border Crossing: 

In the foreground: less than 20 “anti-illegal immigration” protesters stare at each other in a circle, after discovering that anti-fascists had taken their rally spot underneath the Peach Arch itself.  

Edmonton: The “Storm Alliance had at least two supporters attend its anti-foreigners/Islamophobia rally.  Can’t confirm numbers higher than that. 

Regina: Here is the turnout for the World Coalition Against Islam’s Islamophobia rally:

Enough for a bridge game but just barely.

Hamilton: not pictured b/c the Islamophobic hate fest was cancelled @ the last minute!

Niagara: the big anti-immigrant rally at the Canada-U.S. border here drew a whopping ten bigots.  

Ottawa:  A sad collection of “proud boys,” “storm alliance,” “northern guard,” and whatever comic-book sounding name neo-nazi dorks wearing mom jeans are calling themselves this week tried to rally on Parliament Hill, only to be outnumbered at least 4-to-1 by people showing up to confront them.  One of the “proud boys” had a knife seized by the cops after he tried to start something and wound up closely inspecting the ground in short fucking order.  

(foreground, racist fuckwits – TWO WITH MATCHING T-SHIRTS!; background: antifa!)

London (Ontario): 

Two completely-reasonable looking women turned up to shout Islamophobic slogans.  At each other.  Since no one else was their to listen to their bullshit.  They literally had 2x more flags than attendees to their “rally.”

Windsor: 

Windsor Storm Alliance sure showed up London, with double the numbers turning up for their hate rally!  However, this racist quartet didn’t like the reception they received from local SHARPs, IWW, & other antifa, cancelling their rally & going home before things even got started.

Peterborough:

This one was our favourite!  Local neo-nazi laughingstock and would-be tough guy Kevin Goudreau somehow got it together to apply for a rally permit with city hall, which received tentative approval!  This, in turn, garnered national media attention.  But it was all for naught when in true “master race” style, Goudreau failed to complete the paperwork and his permit was pulled.  But we swore on twitter that his white power rally would go on!

Peterborough Against Fascism & 300 of their friends showed up early, but Goudreau was a no-show, prompting a lot of #whereskevin tweets.  Ancient white supremacist Paul Fromm came out for it but stayed far, far away from the action and slunk off home before anyone could “chat” with him.  But one solitary bonehead – who we guess didn’t get the message – did turn up at the rally and received a warm welcome from the crowd:

(Peterborough nazi welcomed to his anti-immigration rally by local antifa)

This of course, resulted in the cops arresting the one anti-fascist woman near the action that had nothing to do with it @ all.  Which in turn resulted in the whole crowd surrounding the cop car and demanding she be released!  AND THE POLICE COMPLIED!  

So basically, it was a total win for our side in Pbo.

Québec:

(the antifa crew arrives @ the border)

via one antifa: “We arrived early at the Lacolle US-Quebec border crossing, we took over the entire area in front of the refugee camp, and right near the border. When the Storm Alliance anti-immigrant racists arrived, we formed a line to block them, and they were basically demonstrating in front of a hotel parking lot. It was amazing to spend the day on the anti-racist side – with a message of welcome and support for migrants and refugees – with so many awesome people, both old friends and new friends too.”

Fredericton:

Above: both attendees of the “Storm Alliance” anti-immigration “rally.”  We have heard that their numbers doubled a while afterwards, though.  Which was still not even a third of the opposition that turned out to jeer them.

So Saturday wasn’t exactly the anti-immigrant “show of force” the racists were hoping for, but it was a great day to demonstrate to them what some antifa organizing can do to their plans!