
CENTRE : Space. To meet and converge, create and exchange, change and transform.
SOCIAL :: Collectivity. The ASC only exists because of our encounter, only because of our will to be together to build this reality.
AUTOGÉRÉ :: Liberation. From hierarchical structures and merchant exchanges, to build there the project wich we dream of, by ourselves, for ourselves.
ASCs are spaces of conviviality, self-managed, more often established in abandonned buildings in different urban areas around the world. They are centers of cultural, social and political activities. The particuliarity of ASCs, wich differentiate them from community centers, is altogether their autonomy from the State, their refusal of hierarchy and of illegetimate authority, and their their management by direct democracy.
Squatted Social Center Opens in Montreal
Montreal - Autonomous Social Centre Brutally Evicted by Police!
A collection of audio in english and french from before, during, and after the eviction.
Plus de 70 groupes, collectifs et organismes appuient le Centre Social Autogéré!
Une partie du documentaire "Zones d'autonomie" réalisé par des étudiantEs en sciences sociale à l'UQAM en 2008. Le reste du documentaire est disponible sur google video.