Something's in the air, and it isn't tear gas

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Monday May 21, 2012 · 8:16 AM PDT

2012/05/21 · 08:16

I wrote a few days ago about a law being proposed here in Quebec. That law is now in effect. In the past three days, at least 491 people have been arrested at three separate demonstrations, the majority (around 300) late last night. The situation is escalating, and even repressive legislation does nothing to control it.

engreve

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Friday May 18, 2012 · 7:35 AM PDT

2012/05/18 · 07:35

"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.

engreve

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Sunday May 13, 2012 · 6:13 PM PDT

2012/05/13 · 18:13

This is a personal account of the student "riot" that was the first event of the longest and largest student movement in Canadian (and possibly North-American) history to receive any international coverage, as far as I am aware. I wrote this the same night that it happened, and have decided to post this finally. It is a bit late, however I feel it is a good place to start talking about what is going on now in Quebec.

Here's an example of the international coverage.

BBC: Scores held as Montreal student protests turn ugly

I hope to continue reporting what I encounter first hand in Montreal, as we enter the 14th week of the strike.

RSS

Something's in the air, and it isn't tear gas

Educational Decree no. 78

A Quebec Spring