This is horrible. A video has been circulating on the internet of a group of masked individuals vandalising the Université de Québec à Montréal (UQAM) […]
Tag: student protests
Redefining the Obvious: When the So-Called Neutral Media Call it So-Called Austerity
The first rule of reading news articles on the internet: if you don’t want to get angry, stay away from the comments. I broke that […]
Anti-austerity protestors tear gas, arrest and rough up people protesting austerity
It’s all in the headline, really. To be completely honest, I was contemplating just posting that sentence with a picture and a series of arrows […]
Dear Marc Parent
Katie Nelson responds to recent comments by SPVM police chief Marc Parent on last year’s student strike. This post originally appeared on her blog maroisandme.wordpress.com […]
Another Maple Spring: “the social crisis is behind us”
“The social crisis is behind us.” Quebec Premier Pauline Marois made that statement yesterday, concluding her party’s Summit on Higher Education at the Arsenal in […]
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights criticizes Quebec
In an opening address to be delivered today to the 47 member UN Human Rights Council, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay will express her “alarm” at ongoing attempts to restrict freedom of assembly in Quebec…
Love is the movement: it starts in Quebec, but it will not end here…
Our world is upside down, and somehow we have been convinced that walking on the ceiling is normal. But this unsustainable balance of power is a house of cards, a carefully maintained illusion which depends entirely on our subservience to it. If we walk away from our televisions, break the bonds of our isolation and talk to each other about our dreams, our desires, we realize we are neither alone, nor crazy
#GGI – Hot Streets
A week into the application of Bill 78, which criminalizes public demonstrations and imposes fines for student organizers and any protesters, there have already been over 1000 arrests by the Service de Police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM). This is more arrests by far than were carried out during the generation-defining 1970 October Crisis in Québec. With over 2500 arrests of protesters since the beginning of the student strike on February 13, the police crack-down represents the largest number of demonstration-related arrests in Québec history over such a short period…
Black Square Red Square
The liberals in Quebec have passed the Bill 78 to stop the student protests against tuition hikes. Students, who have been wearing red squares on […]