Quebecois Protest Peacefully

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http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/05...tml?ref=canada

"Montreal Pots And Pans Video Of Protest Against Bill 78 Goes Viral

The Huffington Post Canada | By Michael Bolen Posted: 05/25/2012 4:11 pm Updated: 05/26/2012 12:26 am

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A video of the pots and pans protest against Bill 78 in Montreal posted on Vimeo is going viral. (Vimeo)

A video of protesters banging pots and pans on Quebec streets is going viral on social networks.

Posted on Friday afternoon, the beautiful black and white film shows protesters of all ages taking to the streets to protest the emergency law Bill 78. The Vimeo video quickly began showing up all over Twitter and Facebook.

People took up the percussive protest Thursday night in several towns and cities including Sorel, Longueuil, Chambly, Repentigny, Trois-Rivieres and even in Abitibi -- several hundred kilometres away from the hot spot of Montreal.

They were still loudest in Montreal, where a chorus of metallic clanks rang out in neighbourhoods around the city, spilling into the main demonstrations and sounding like aluminum symphonies.

The pots-and-pans protest has its roots in Chile, where people have used it for years as an effective, peaceful tool to express civil disobedience. The noisy cacerolazo tradition actually predates the Pinochet regime in Chile, but has endured there and spread to other countries as a method of showing popular defiance.

Thursday's protest in Montreal was immediately declared illegal by police, who said it violated a municipal bylaw because they hadn't been informed of the route. They allowed it to continue as long as it remained peaceful."

Pax Quebecae

[Hermite]

You might want to join in the conversation here: http://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...ti-Protest-Law

Solidarity!

[Alie]

In the last few weeks, I have read about the silent revolution using pots and pans more than once.

I wish I could reference it here (but I forgot where) but the story is that the female population of ICELAND finally had enough, and through their POTS AND PANS protest, they brought about changes. The context was that it was the ladies who brought forth the TIPPING POINT.