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There was a huge contingent of drummers, all dressed in red, and it in turn was backed up by red-bedecked popular neighborhood assembly banners and an enormous three-dimensional fabric red square (on loan, I’m nearly certain, from the École de la Montagne Rouge [School of the Red Mountain] art collective — and the whole brilliant-red group was part of the ever-larger and also extremely red rolling wave of popular neighborhood assemblies and casseroles that started way north of downtown about two hours early and fused with each other as they met at multiple appointed intersections to then continue on together, ever larger and ever louder.

The casseroles in Montreal gain sharp momentum again after the 100th consecutive night, and one demonstration is met with violence not by the police, but a rogue civilian.
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There was a huge contingent of drummers, all dressed in red, and it in turn was backed up by red-bedecked popular neighborhood assembly banners and an enormous three-dimensional fabric red square (on loan, I’m nearly certain, from the École de la Montagne Rouge [School of the Red Mountain] art collective — and the whole brilliant-red group was part of the ever-larger and also extremely red rolling wave of popular neighborhood assemblies and casseroles that started way north of downtown about two hours early and fused with each other as they met at multiple appointed intersections to then continue on together, ever larger and ever louder.

The casseroles in Montreal gain sharp momentum again after the 100th consecutive night, and one demonstration is met with violence not by the police, but a rogue civilian.

    • #law 78
    • #student strike
    • #quebec
    • #montreal
    • #march
    • #maple spring
    • #manifencours
    • #casseroles
    • #canada
    • #protest
    • #activism
    • #first-person
    • #narrative
    • #anarchopanda
    • #demonstration
    • #election
    • #charest
    • #assembly
    • #august 13
    • #university
    • #classe
    • #photo
  • 9 months ago
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“So many people are so appreciative and excited about getting this surprise gift as they are wandering down the streets when our ragtag solidarity march goes by.”

Cindy Milstein writes about her outreach effort of giving away red squares to passersby while marching in Montreal.
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“So many people are so appreciative and excited about getting this surprise gift as they are wandering down the streets when our ragtag solidarity march goes by.”

Cindy Milstein writes about her outreach effort of giving away red squares to passersby while marching in Montreal.

    • #ggi
    • #manifencours
    • #maple spring
    • #canada
    • #montreal
    • #casseroles
    • #student strike
    • #student debt
    • #strike debt
    • #law 78
    • #red square
    • #anarchism
    • #cindy milstein
    • #outreach
    • #protest
    • #illegal protest
    • #march
    • #photo
  • 10 months ago
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Solidarité! Our website is more or less back on track, and we have added a page where we have begun to collect stories regarding the Quebecois protests, as well as solidarity actions near and far.
Check it out, and let us know about your experience at any such action!
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Solidarité! Our website is more or less back on track, and we have added a page where we have begun to collect stories regarding the Quebecois protests, as well as solidarity actions near and far.

Check it out, and let us know about your experience at any such action!

    • #quebec
    • #maple spring
    • #ows
    • #occupy
    • #manifencours
    • #ggi
  • 11 months ago
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