![Laurel disrupting a public-relations presentation by Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly and her German homologue Annalena Baerbock. The event was hosted by the Montreal Chamber of Commerce. She carries a sign that reads No NATO, Peace as others look on.](https://worldbeyondwar.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Disrupting_Compressed-768x407.jpg)
Disrupting Business-As-Usual at Montreal Colloquium
On August 3, 2022, two Montreal activists, Dimitri Lascaris and Laurel Thompson, disrupted a public-relations presentation by Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly and her German homologue Annalena Baerbock. The disrupters spoke out against Joly and Baerbock’s support for NATO expansionism and increased military spending.