Chinatown is under attack
The working-class residents of Montreal’s Chinatown is facing yellow peril fear-mongering, housing scarcity, predatory landlords, and soaring cost of living. We work hard but we keep finding out that the systems we rely on are failing our community.
Quartier chinois en résistance is a collective of Chinatown youth organizers who know that we can only win by building solidarity. Our people have always fought back, and so are we.
Chinatown's fight isn’t just about the protection of one group — it’s about all of us. May our work stand with Indigenous, Black, migrant, queer, and sex worker communities of the neighbourhood, as well as workers.
MyChinatownMTL is a community journalism hub run by QCR organizers. For latest updates on Chinatown organizing, you may follow their social media or subscribe to their substack.
Quartier Chinois en Résistance (QCR) is an independent working group operating independently and autonomously with funding from the Neighbourhood Action Centre (NAC-CENAQ).
As with all the independent working groups, NAC provides them with unconditional or low-condition funding to support youth organizers engaging in precarious front-line work.
Core Strategies:
Strengthen and support community-led care and organizing in Montreal’s Asian immigrant communities—by collaborating with existing multilingual tenant unions, mutual aid networks, and labor movements or creating new initiatives where needed.
Mobilize and uplift Asian immigrants in solidarity & co-conspiracy with Black, Indigenous, and migrant communities—advancing racial, economic, and climate justice alongside existing movements that dare to imagine & fight for a decolonial future.
Win concrete policy victories for our communities—fighting for tenant protection, protecting migrant rights, and demanding real climate action while supporting grassroots efforts already leading these struggles.
Raise Political Education & Consciousness by creating spaces for learning and dialogue, equipping the community to resist injustice and build collective power through intergenerational collaboration, learning from organizers, and addressing internal contradictions to strengthen solidarity.
Work in progress:
Chinatown Cohabitation Coalition
Supporting grassroots journalism initiative @mychinatownMTL & Substack Development.
Red Light District x Chinatown Archival Research
