Montreal Students Defy Anti-Protest Law

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIO4FgXN1CY

Its loud.

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/...#ixzz1vdbjshYj

[NewFounderHome]

It is the 29 night time manifestation. They are arresting massive amount of peoples. The Liberal government in Quebec did pass a harsh law (law78) and Montreal did pass a law then you can be arrested for having a mask.

[Kerrigan]

On my street, people were on their balcony, banging wooden spoons on metal casseroles at 8pm.

I filmed it:
http://s31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...t=P1020772.mp4

I felt like everyone was thinking "I am mad as hell and I'm not gonna take it anymore!"

Unreal sensation to feel everyone united.

[NewFounderHome]

Well that is normal! There is plainly way too much corruption and bullying done by the provincial and local governments.
They are elected by the population but they really works only for their own personnel interest and money. They are not there to represent the population, not at all. And this has been going for too long.

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Tomorrow might be a big Protest in Montreal.

[NewFounderHome]

It is interesting to see the general media who don't accurately tell the story of what is going one during the protest. They are changing and hipping certain facts.

[NewFounderHome]

Anonymous did stop certain government websites in Quebec and the Montreal police website. That was funny to here on the general media.

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The riot police squad of Montreal even called in the riot police squad of the provincial police SQ.

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It has been a 100 days since the start of protest.

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Now it is and will go beyond student protest. The government wants to pull in the general population in these protest it seems.

[NewFounderHome]

The new law just put in place are not working it seems. The governments are running strait in a wall and they don't seem to see it.

[Cara]

Funny that this month, Quebec's Public Health Direction is in publicity mode about the benefits of fluoridation. Less than 3% of Quebec population drinks fluoridated water (vs 75% in the States). Montreal always rejected fluoridation. Hope it stays that way. Well, back to topic now.

[Cara]

Saturday night on Montreal's Rue Saint Denis, for example, a restaurateur was arrested on his own premises, apparently because he had pinned a red square, emblematic of the protests, to his shirt. As I read Section 30 of Bill 78 — Anyone who helps or induces a person to commit an offence under this Act is guilty of the same offence and is liable to the fine . . . — the restaurateur, (...), might be interpreted as guilty of breaking the law, simply because he'd welcomed protesters into his place. Even if untrue, that makes the law dangerously imprecise and open to abuse.

No surprise, every bright young lawyer in Quebec is now volunteering to work pro bono to help challenge Bill 78 in court, echoing a denunciation by the Quebec Bar Association.

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It might have shifted some attention, too, from the cascade of sensational headlines expected to emerge from the Charbonneau inquiry into corruption in Quebec's construction industry, which launched Tuesday. And that may yet happen. But given the events of the past five days, it is now far less likely.

Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/...#ixzz1vgrXOxCu

[Ki's]

Bless you all for your courage and determination!

[Samsara]

More images of yesterday's 100th day strike of the Quebec (the province) Students:

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Uic9_AM3NM

Solidarity from East Vancouver:

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWBX_AMLUS8

Thank you East Vancouver.

[NewFounderHome]

Well they seem to have arrested 100 protestors for the 100 day of protesting during the night. During the day yesterday, there was a big protestation.

[Samsara]

Song for the students

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL1TBfyZNoA

[Free Will]

Qui n'avance pas recule: if you don't move forward you move backward

On ne recule pas

[NewFounderHome]

Saguenay, Sept-Îles, Île de la madeleine did protest yesterday. We are not only talking about Montreal and Quebec. The complete province is waking up against this new law. There seems to be a general reaction against all that has been going on here in the past years, it is a build-up. Government corruption, municipal corruption, corruption in the construction field that impacts the cost of projects. The gaz de schiste, the very poor performance of managing many projects that are funded with the population’s money. There are generation of build-up....

[mountain_jim]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/0...nadian-History

While estimates ranged wildly – from 100,000 to 500,000 in the streets – the number is less significant than the civil disobedience that has thrust Montreal into the global revolution spotlight.
Authorities in Quebec, trying to counter the protests that have raged for over two months, passed "emergency" legislation last Friday that suspended the winter semester and effectively made protesting illegal. (The legislation, or Bill 78, stipulates that groups of 50 or more gathering must submit itineraries to the authorities in advance or be deemed illegal.)

Students and citizens in Montreal responded to the draconian legislation by streaming into the streets and defying Bill 78 in record numbers today. While the protests have been led by the significant student population in Montreal, the protests today contained cross-sections of the population.

Noting one of the more visible and noisy marches of the day, which was gatherings of both the young and old banging on pots and pans, Steve Faguy of The Gazette Tweeted the following:


I've covered quite a few protests. Never have I seen one that so resembled an actual popular uprising.

And writer Kris Holt had this to say regarding the emergent popular uprising:


Those on my street banging pots and pans are middle-aged or older. Much more than students now.
It seems that the legislature's attempts to quell protesting in Montreal has had the opposite effect, as many today streamed into the streets specifically to defy the anti-protesting emergency legislation.
As one of the student leaders, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, stated today:


"We want to make the point that there are tens of thousands of citizens who are against this law who think that protesting without asking for a permit is a fundamental right," he said, walking side-by-side with other protesters behind a large purple banner.
"If the government wants to apply its law, it will have a lot of work to do. That is part of the objective of the protest today, to underline the fact that this law is absurd and inapplicable."
Absurd indeed – and that absurdity seems to have awakened popular support for the students' plight, support that has increased dramatically in recent weeks.
The global revolution has officially arrived in Canada. And with student strikes and protests set for the summer, and with more of Montreal's citizenry falling behind the students, it's a revolution that may not be ending anytime soon.

Iran, Tunisia, Egypt, Spain, Greece, Israel, New York City, Montreal...

...we are witnessing an historic global uprising, as peoples across the globe continue to rise up in numbers and demand their political rights, demand social justice, demand economic fairness.

It's a struggle that is not just essential, but fundamentally human.

[Arrowwind]

So what had the protestors been protesting about prior to passage of bill 78?

[Amysenthia]

(I hate how this site will have a message dissappear when you are in the middle of writing it. So I am going to retype the whole thing in pages and post it again. But seriously can't something be done about this issue?)


know that our media in this country was controlled, but I just didn’t realized that it is as bad as it is. Would you believe that I read at least on newspaper per day, watch the local and national news daily and that this is the first that I have heard of these riots.

It just goes to show you that we in the U.S. are so fed propaganda. We get practically no news of the world and we get spoon fed mostly just war and how bad it is everywhere else. Just to keep us in that state of fear.

The truth is our govt does not want us to see what actually has an affect. The sad thing is that even when most US of A citizens find out the truth they are too dulled from drinking the fluoridated water and preservative ladened foods to have the energy/will to do anything about it.

Good luck to those brave people in Montreal. Please keep the updates coming since this seems to be the only way to find out about what is happening with our friends to the North.

[Camilo]

It's happening all over the world!......the new generations are telling the old world that it's time to change a failing paradigme!....Hurraaaay!!

[dAkapacity]

Wow! Great news. Hope this spreads like global wildfire!!!