In an action specifically designed to attack the system through its infrastructure, saboteurs targeted the Canadian Pacific (CP) Railway in Ontario on October 13, according to an anonymous communiqué posted at Infoshop.org:

“In an attempt to cause a shitload of economic damage to the infrastructure of the CP rail main-line, we cut down two telephone poles across the tracks just to the north of their main intermodal yard outside Toronto. A pile of fallen trees was ignited with gasoline across the tracks, and we molotov’d one of those weird grey box things that look pretty important and are full of electrical shit. We also tied copper wire across the tracks to signal the blockage so no one would get hurt. That was way more exciting than a turkey dinner!”

The communiqué references recent resistance to the Olympic Spirit Train, a cross-country train tour designed to promote the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. A wide variety of direct actions, from protest to sabotage, continue to take place in opposition to the colonialism inherent in the 2010 Olympics. These have included disruptions of the Spirit Train and protests targeting destructive projects affiliated with the highway, such as a July arson in opposition to the Sea to Sky Highway.

“For us the Spirit Train is every train,” the communiqué  reads. “They’re all spreading ‘Olympic spirit,’ or more like the spirit of capitalism…. Every ride on the rails is a ride for the same invasion that’s been goin on since the railway was built to colonize this whole place. This rail system has been developed and is utilized to serve our exploiters and enemies. As long as the exploiters exist, infrastructure will always be their weapon. So we wanna destroy it all… their railway, highways, cameras, telecommunications, it’s all serving the masters and their police.

“We’re not interested in expressing our dissatisfaction at a symbolic part of the problem. We want to actually dismantle the whole system and hit these cracker-ass-capitalists where it hurts. It’s not just the Spirit Train; it’s every train, the tracks and the social structure they maintain! …

“This chaos was for the warriors everywhere who are still facing charges for their involvement in acts of resistance quite like this one. It don’t matter how hard they come down on us cause there are too many of us waiting to explode. Let’s show ’em what we can do and aim for our actual objective!

“Every train – stopped; every track- untied; every jail- destroyed!”

Read the full communiqué here.