the one from two years ago 🙂

We are an activist street band and organize with anarchist principles. We try to reflect this view in the structure of our band, the struggles we support and the music we play. We strive to be culturally sensitive in our choice of costumes and repertoire and are always open to discussion and to reconsidering our choices. We operate on a consensus basis and support grassroots movements, individuals' struggles, and community building. We recognize that we are fighting for social justice on stolen land. We foster an artistic space in which French, English and Franglais are all equally respected.

We support the free movement of people. We stand against all oppression and domination including but not limited to racism/white-supremacy, capitalism, classism, state and corporate violence, war, imperialism, colonialism, poverty, homophobia, gender oppression, patriarchy and ableism. We work to resist these forces and reclaim our communities by playing music in the streets, at rallies and demos, community dinners, and radical artistic events etc. We play songs of a political nature in remembrance of worldwide struggles against oppression; these songs are historical monuments to our own culture of resistance and are played to inspire our communities. We seek to reclaim public spaces, to help make political movements fun and exciting, and to celebrate resistance in a way that reflects our vision of the world we want to live in.

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unique repertoire, expérience with many different types of activism and resistance, contribution to discussions around diversity and queerness and whiteness and cultural appropriation and how to best support groups of resistance that we're working with...

ideas around structuring Honk itself (like many years ago when the "tune-luck" idea was adapted from the cultural insurrection congres we organize every now and then 🙂

committment to getting involved with the way honk works, sharing ideas towards making it a richer and more accessible experience for everyone

demos, occupations, chant support and neighbourhood festivals in support of migrant rights, precarious workers rights, and against gentrification

playing in support of groups who we want to build a trusting enough relationship with, in the hopes that some of those folks will then feel comfortable joining
looking at how we learn music to include folks learning a new instrument, deaf folks, and folks that don't read sheet music
maintaining a majority of women and non-binary folks in the band since 12 years: thinking about recruiting techniques, where and who are we targeting, and is it tokenizing?
regular discussions around white suppremace, anti-oppression, cultural appropriation etc, skillshares and workshops

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