Working & Solidarity Groups

Accessibilize Montreal! aims to make Montréal a more accessible place in every way: from the mindsets and interactions between Montrealers to the infrastructure that surrounds us. By holding workshops and providing trainings, we seek to challenge mainstream perceptions of disability, and through advocacy and direct action we protest transit and systemic discrimination. Join us in our movement beyond ableism and in respect of diversity!

https://www.montrealaccessible.wordpress.com

access4mtl@gmail.com

Anakbayan Montreal is a group of revolutionary Filipino youth struggling for national liberation and genuine democracy in the Philippines. Our goal is to garner support for the struggles of migrant workers, international students, diasporic Filipinos, and our kasamas in the Philippines who strive for a future
where no one has to leave their home country to survive.

Instagram: @anakbayanmtl or Facebook: Anakbayan Montreal

anakbayanmtl@gmail.com

The Artemisia Mutual Aid Collective is an alliance of community herbalists, medicine makers, gardeners, and activists living and working on the unceded lands of the Kanien’keha:ka and Omamiwininiwag Nations (Montréal and western Québec). Our goal is to provide support in the form of herbal medicine, knowledge sharing, and herbal consultations to communities and individuals made vulnerable by systemic oppression.

artemisia.mutualaid@gmail.com
www.instagram.com/artemisia.mutualaid/

The Atwater Community Pantry is an anti-capitalist mutual aid project founded in 2021 by students at Dawson College. It’s a 24/7, no-barrier, outdoor pantry founded on the belief that our communities are safer when we look after one another and that food should be free for all, not commodified.

atwaterpantry@gmail.com
https://www.instagram.com/atwatercommunitypantry/

• Funding Non-Qualified Donees, who are often excluded from charitable giving
• Funding advocacy work that’s considered too “radical” or not “proven” enough for governments or foundations to support
• Proactively engaging with (and supporting) emerging community leaders who wouldn’t know how to ask for funding from mainstream institutions, or don’t have the time to fill in the heavy paperwork involved
• Providing survival funds to grassroots community members, based on the belief that there isn’t a truly meaningful distinction between “organizing” and “survival” for communities on the front lines of oppression and state violence

https://sites.google.com/view/article47/english

Black Healing Fund is a growing, volunteer-run initiative that exists to provide low-income Black folks in the Tio’tia:ke / Montreal area with discretionary funding and resources that contribute to mental health and wellness.

blackhealingfund@gmail.com
https://linktr.ee/black.healing.fund
www.instagram.com/black_healing_fund

BIHRA is a grassroots collective that organizes around issues of health & harm reduction for Indigenous & Black people in Tio’tia:ke, with a special focus on the needs and experiences of drug users, incarcerated people, sex workers, and 2SLGBTQIA. Through peer-to-peer outreach, advocacy, and mutual aid, we work to build kinship, empowerment, and holistic well-being in our communities.

bi.harmredux@gmail.com
blackindigenousharmredux.org

Brûlances is a self-managed radical queer collective composed of activists from different backgrounds, entirely organized by volunteers, with a feminist, anti-colonial, anti-capitalist, anti-racist, intergenerational, and ecologist perspective. Since its creation in 2022, the collective has been organizing a radical queer festival at the beginning of june at the Centre culturel Georges-Vanier (CCGV).

En français :

Brûlances est un collectif queer radical autogéré composé de militant.e.xs de différents horizons, entièrement organisé par des bénévoles, dans une perspective féministe, décoloniale, anticapitaliste, antiraciste, intergénérationnelle et écologiste. Depuis sa création en 2022, le collectif organise un festival queer radical début juin au Centre culturel Georges-Vanier (CCGV).

brulances@pink-bloc.info
https://brulances.wordpress.com/

We are a health justice collective based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. We organize around various campaigns (Health for all, Joyce’s Principle, prisoner solidarity, Palestine)

soignonslajusticesociale@riseup.net
http://www.soignonslajusticesociale.ca/

The Certain Days Political Prisoner Calendar Committee works to support, educate about and fundraise for political prisoners through the production of a yearly calendar. The calendar is a project produced by organizers in Montreal,Toronto and New York City, with the support of 3 political prisoners in New York State. We work with an anti-imperialist, anti-racist, feminist, queer- and trans-liberationist perspective to help free our movement’s political prisoners.

514-848-7585
info@certaindays.org
www.certaindays.org
https://www.facebook.com/certaindays

Le Collectif Opposé à la Brutalité Policière (COBP) est un collectif autonome qui regroupe des personnes victimes, témoins et/ou concernés par la brutalité policière et tout abus perpétré par la police. Le COBP a pour but non seulement de dénoncer les harcèlements, violences, intimidation, arrestations et abus de pouvoirs policiers et d’informer les gens sur leurs droits face à la police, mais aussi de soutenir les victimes en les aidant par exemple à porter plainte en déontologie et autres recours à faire face à des accusations abusives.

514-395-9691
cobp@riseup.net
www.cobp.resist.ca

Community Advocacy Tiohtia:ke is a grassroots collective that aims to improve people’s experiences in shelters and aid organizations by facilitating dialogue between staff and service users. Through direct advocacy, we promote the rights of homeless and underhoused people, encouraging organisations to adopt higher standards of compassion and care.

advocacytiohtiake@gmail.com
https://www.instagram.com/communityadvocacytiohtiake/

The Convergence des luttes anticapitalistes (CLAC) is a coordination space for the radical anticapitalist community in Montreal. The CLAC’s mandate is to distributed anticapitalist information through the organization of campaigns and protests, including the annual anticapitalist MayDay protest. The CLAC is explicitly an anticapitalist, antipatriarchal, anti authoritarian and anticolonialist space.

info@clac-montreal.net
www.clac-montreal.net
twitter.com/CLACMontreal

We are a Tiohtià:ke / Montréal based mutual aid collective offering free masks, rapid tests, and information related to COVID. We believe that the “new normal” should be about community care and creating a world where everyone is free.

On est un collectif d’aide mutuelle basé à Tiohtià:ke / Montréal offrant des masques et des tests rapides gratuits, ainsi que de l’information sur la COVID. Nous croyons que le « nouveau normal » devrait inclure un esprit de solidarité et de communauté, pour créer un monde où toustes sont libres.

Instagram: (@covid_action_now)

Email: covidactionnow@proton.me

Facebook: (Covid Action Now Montréal)

Cultur’elles MTL is an organization dedicated to the advancement of BIPOC women in the fields of culture, arts, and media through creative workshops, digital content, and artistic/cultural events.

https://culturellesmtl.com/
https://www.instagram.com/culturelles_mtl/

Defund La Police is a coalition bringing together 80+ Montreal-based groups and organizations to demand that the city of Montréal reduce the power, presence, and budget of the SPVM in order to create real safety by reinvesting in communities, meeting people’s needs, and eliminating state violence.

defundlapolice@riseup.net
https://defundlapolice.com/
https://www.instagram.com/defundlapolice
https://www.facebook.com/DefundLaPolice
https://x.com/defundlapolice

Food Against Fascism is a food security project run by a collective of antiracists and antifascists. We distribute home cooked, healthy meals to people in need, as well as offer solidarity servings to like-minded organizations and collectives. If you want to volunteer with us, or if you want us to cook for your event, contact foodagainstfascism@gmail.com.

www.facebook.com/bouffecontrelefascisme

FNB NDG is a mutual aid collective against funding war when so many of us go hungry. We serve free weekly vegetarian meals to all.

ndgfoodnotbombs@gmail.com
www.instagram.com/ndgfoodnotbombs/

GWU Montréal is the Montréal chapter of Game Workers Unite, an international grassroots movement and organization that seeks to connect pro-union activists, exploited workers, and allies in the name of building a unionized game industry. We aim to achieve better working conditions, recognition, and mutual support for Montréal’s game workers.

GWUMontreal@gmail.com
www.GWUMTL.com
www.twitter.com/GWU_Montreal

The goal of IJV Concordia is to organize and mobilize the strong contingent of Jewish students on Concordia’s campus who support Palestinian human rights, oppose the occupation and genocide, and are calling for immediate ceasefire in Gaza, we say, not in our name, and furthermore, fight to negate the equation of antizionism being antisemitism. We also work to provide a safe space for the Jewish community because of their support for Palestine, and their criticism of the state of Israel.

IG: @ijvconu

ijvconu@gmail.com

In Pain and Insane is a collective that brings together a community centred around Disabled/Sick/Mad/d.Deaf stories, histories, and realities. We centre accommodations and accessibility and aim to deinstitutionalize forms of care to address the systemic barriers that keep members of our community
isolated.

inpainandinsane@gmail.com

Planted in 2024, Kahéhtaien Jardin Lumb is a decolonial, intercultural garden rooted in the heart of Chinatown. In partnership with Projets Autochtones du Québec, it cultivates Indigenous and Asian plants while nurturing food security, shared knowledge, and community through inclusive, intergenerational workshops, gatherings, and the collective care of land and culture.

kahehtaienlumb@gmail.com

La Grange Apothecary is a garden and herbal medicine project based in Montreal, Laval and Boucherville, QC. We grow, tend to, and transform herbs and plants into high quality medicine, which is then made available to the broader community. All funds raised from our medicine is redistributed back to various community land based projects with a focus on politicized farming, food production, harm reduction, education and other modalities specifically working with marginalized communities.

lagrangefarmprojectmtl@gmail.com
www.facebook.com/La-Grange-Farm-1478465339056267/

Les Nocturnes is a street-solidarity group committed to collective liberation, community-care, and fostering connection with people facing systemic oppression.

lesnocturnes@riseup.net

Based in Tio’tia:ke / Mooniyang / Montreal, Lueurs was formed during a revolutionary strategic gathering in the summer of 2022 to think about the question of justice from an abolitionist perspective aimed at ending Canadian prisons, police and the colonial justice system. We want to organize ourselves to develop the tools and skills we need to respond to the violence and conflicts running through our activist, artistic and queer communities.

Our approach is twofold: on the one hand, to intervene locally to take direct care of the destructive dynamics that undermine our relationships, communities and projects; on the other, to disseminate transformative justice practices in order to contribute to large-scale abolitionist social transformation.

lueurs@proton.me

The Montreal Anarchist Bookfair, brings together anarchist ideas and practice, through words, images, music, theatre, and day-to-day struggles for justice, dignity, and collective liberation. The Bookfair is as much for people who don’t necessarily consider themselves anarchists, but are curious about anarchism, as they are spaces for anarchists to meet, network, and share in a spirit of respect and solidarity. All are welcome!

info@salonanarchiste.ca
www.anarchistbookfair.ca
www.facebook.com/SalonduLivreAnarchisteMontrealAnarchistBookfair
www.twitter.com/AnarchyBookfair

A union of tenants situated in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal) using direct action to fight landlords. Our tenants’ union is built on principles of individual

autonomy and initiative. We are a direct democracy of

tenants looking to organize within their own buildings,

or to help others to do the same.

slam.matu@protonmail.com

IG: slam.matu

The Pride Therapy Network of Montreal is a collective of independent mental health practitioners who strive to offer culturally informed and accessible services to LGBTQ2IA+ communities. Members of our network are committed to working from anti-oppressive, holistic and intersectional approaches that affirm LGBTQ2IA+ lived experiences, relationships and identities.

info@montrealpridetherapynetwork.com
www.pridetherapynetworkmontreal.com
www.facebook.com/PrideTherapyNetworkMontreal
www.instagram.com/pride_therapy_network_montreal

The Montreal Trans Patient Union is a collective by and for trans and nonbinary patients. We advocate for better care practices at clinics in Tio’tia:ke (colonially known as Montreal) and provide resources and individual assistance to help trans people navigate their transitions in the city.

unionrep.tpu@gmail.com
https://transpatientunion.org/

Open Door Books (ODB) is part of an informal network of Books to Prisoners programs throughout North America. ODB seeks to support and work in solidarity with imprisoned people. We believe that prisons and the (in)justice system act as institutions of social control and oppression, further targeting marginalized people as a result of patriarchy, racism, homophobia, transphobia, classism, ableism, and colonialism.

514 848 7585
bookstoprisoners@gmail.com
opendoorbooks.wordpress.com
www.facebook.com/odbmontreal

We are a group of Park Ex residents who have come together to ensure that the development of Plaza Hutchison centers its residents and ends up belonging to and run by the community. We have town halls where all Park Ex residents are welcome and where decisions are made collectively.

parcexunited@gmail.com

Papineau pour la Palestine is a community group responding to the call from the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) for more escalated and targeted action to end Canada’s support for Israel and their genocide of the Palestinian people, profiting off this violence. Papineau for Palestine sees Israel as an illegitimate settler-colonial and apartheid regime that perpetuates oppression and violence against Palestinians. 

This project from Papineau pour la Palestine aims to implement a comprehensive doorknocking and outreach strategy to foster stronger relationships within the Papineau federal riding (Villeray, Saint-Michel, and Parc-Extension neighbourhoods), mobilize support for Palestine, and organize collective action to influence government policies. Through targeted outreach efforts, education, and strategy sessions, we aim to empower the community to actively participate in advocating for justice and change.

papineaupourpalestine@gmail.com
www.instagram.com/papineaupourpalestine/

The Prisoner Correspondence Project is a solidarity project for gay, lesbian, transsexual, transgender, gendervariant, two-spirit, intersex, bisexual and queer prisoners in Canada and the United States, linking them with people a part of these same communities outside of prison.

info@prisonercorrespondenceproject.com
www.prisonercorrespondenceproject.com
www.facebook.com/prisonercorrespondenceproject

Politics & Care is a space to weave links between collective well-being, care and politics. All that with a little bit of magic! We are a collective of artists-community organizers dedicated to integrating care in our politics. We hold collective discussions and facilitate workshops for collectives, community organisations and more.

You can write to us at : www.politicsandcare.wordpress.com politics.and.therapy.are.one@gmail.com

Re-Con is a prisoner-initiated re-integration program created in 1999. The group is made up of people serving a life sentence at one of two federal prisons in Laval, formerly incarcerated members now serving
their sentence on parole, and outside volunteers. It is Re-Con’s main goal to establish links between prisoners and the community after a long period of incarceration and isolation. We aim to diminish the effects of institutionalization through personal development workshops and by introducing our incarcerated members to community resources which may help re-integration into society upon release from prison.

recon.ftc@gmail.com

Resource Movement is a community of young people with wealth and/or class privilege working toward the redistribution of wealth, land, and power. We educate ourselves about the roots of inequality, encourage each other to take bold action in solidarity with social justice movements, and open space for critical voices within philanthropy, business, and public policy sectors.

https://www.resourcemovement.org

The Sankofa Farming Cooperative is an intentional, slow-growing, and community-centered charitable working cooperative focused on Black Indigenous healing and empowering our relationships to land. We emphasize learning Afro-Indigenous agricultural-cultural practices and distributing free food to community members and students. Our collective is composed of Concordia alumni, undergraduate, and graduate students with diverse Afro-Indigenous backgrounds.

sankofa.farming@gmail.com
www.instagram.com/sankofa.cooperative/

Solidarity Across Borders is a migrant justice network based in Montreal, active since 2003. We are comprised of migrants and allies, and we organize together to support individuals and families who are confronting an unjust immigration and refugee system. We engage in popular education, support work, as well as political mobilizations, including demonstrations, pickets, delegations, and direct actions.

www.solidarityacrossborders.org/
514-809-0773
solidaritesansfrontieres@gmail.com
www.facebook.com/CiteSansFrontieres
www.twitter.com/SolidariteMTL

We are a grassroots group based in Tio’tia:ke (Montreal) who act in solidarity with the struggles of various oppressed groups, activists, movements & peoples in South Asia and here in our communities. (Formerly called, India Civil Watch-Montreal).

IG: @sadac_mtl

sadac_info@riseup.net

www.facebook.com/sadacmtl

twitter: sadacmtl

Montreal and area writers, join THE UNRULY WRITERS CLUB, a space to create our work, grounded in disability justice. What to expect: Hands-on exercises, mutual support, the opportunity for sharing and feedback in a supportive setting. And – dedicated time to write!

write.futures.group@gmail.com

https://metonymypress.com/unruly-writers/