Huge Student Protests in Canada
Contact | 19.05.2012 09:14 | Occupy Everywhere | Public sector cuts | Repression | Social Struggles
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"Quebec's provincial government has passed an emergency law restricting demonstrations and shutting some universities as the government seeks to end three months of protests against tuition fee increases. Outraged students reacted by calling it an act of war... the government introduced the bill to quell the most sustained student protests in Canadian history" -
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/19/quebec-passes-student-protest-law
"Opposition leader Pauline Marois from the Parti Quebecois called for Mr Charest to hold elections because of the law's unpopularity. Ms Marois said Friday was "one of the darkest days of Quebec democracy"... Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, spokesman for Clase, a student group, called the law the "murder of the right to demonstrate"." -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18121448
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-17/montreal-police-arrest-122-after-student-protest.html
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