"There is a difference between breaking the law and having a law created to break you."
These words, taken from a speech given during a teacher's strike in 2005, could apply to countless movements and actions in the last hundred years, and recently with #Occupy, numerous high profile strikes and even the Arab Spring, we can see this in full effect. Simple freedoms, like that of assembly and free expression, when pushed so that they actually have force behind them, are swiftly suppressed, even in our more "democratic" societies. I'd like to turn some attention, again, back to the province of Quebec and a law that deserves some more attention, if nothing else.
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