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What Is Going On In Montreal??

submitted by notarobot

1 decade 2 years 6 months ago

Protests in Montreal against the rise of tuition fees in Quebec and the new law 78.
Every evening at 8pm people meet in the street with their pots and pans and make all the noise they can. "Casseroles - Montréal, 24 Mai 2012" on vimeo

This is also happening on my street every night in Quebec City. The numbers are smaller (Quebec is a smaller city than Montreal, but it IS happening here too. There were at least 1,000 people marching yesterday. /me

The 'casseroles' movement sprang up in response to the Quebec provincial government's introduction of Bill 78, a controversial law introduced last week to quell student protests over tuition fee increases. The pot-banging protests began with a Facebook call out on Saturday 19 May, and have since spread to neighbourhoods across Montreal, with Jarry's contingent particularly popular on Friday. /The Guardian.co.uk

News story on this here: http://videosift.com/video/What-is-Going-on-in-Quebec

Short doc explaining the strike: http://videosift.com/video/Red-Square-Revolt

In french, 'casserole' is a word for cooking pot.

9 Comments

PlayhousePals

Now that's MY kind of protest! Much more rhythmic than guns, batons and teargas. I adore Canada =o)

*promote

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Sunday, May 27th, 2012 8:32pm PDT - promote requested by lurgee.

Wow, they care a lot.

I like this blog post written last week, and now updated with this very vid:
http://translatingtheprintempserable.tumblr.com/post/23754797322/an-open-letter-to-the-mainstream-english-media

*quality stuff - more attention needs to be paid here.

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by SlipperyPete.

"Bang a Gong" for Education!

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Montreal, Quebec, Protest, Students, Casseroles, Law 78' to 'Montreal, Quebec, Protest, Students, Pots, Pans, Casseroles, Law 78' - edited by calvados

I would have liked more of the actual audio.

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