Red Square Revolt | Quebec Students on Strike. Anna Kruzynski (@AnnaKruzynski) sur Twitter. La démission de Jean Charest et des membres de son gouvernement. Nos casseroles contre la loi spéciale: facebook. @CasserolesQc. CHAREST ANNONCE UNE LOI SPÉCIALE. Quebec student leaders file court challenge against Bill 78. Arrêtez-moi quelqu’un. Loi 78 - Abus de pouvoir. Le gouvernement Charest a choisi de dénouer la grève étudiante sur les droits de scolarité par la manière forte, suite logique de sa gestion d’une crise qu’il n’a jamais comprise ni maîtrisée. Son scénario était mauvais et la conclusion de l’histoire ne peut qu’être lamentable. Nous la dénonçons. Les seuls mots qui peuvent qualifier la loi numéro 78 adoptée hier par l’Assemblée nationale pour assurer un retour aux études sont ABUS DE POUVOIR. S’il fallait une loi pour assurer les conditions d’accès à l’enseignement, ce qui était nécessaire en soi, rien ne justifiait de suspendre les droits démocratiques fondamentaux de l’ensemble des citoyens québécois, tel le droit de manifester qui sera désormais soumis à des conditions et des contrôles exercés arbitrairement par les corps de police.
Pourquoi un tel excès d’autorité ? Ces tentations autoritaires, nous avons toujours cru au Devoir qu’il fallait les dénoncer, même s’il fallait être seul contre tous. Students reject Quebec government’s offer. Students showed their opposition to the latest offer from the Quebec government by marching in droves through the streets of Montreal on Friday. The protest came hours after the Quebec Premier Jean Charest called for spreading the five-year, $1,625 tuition hike, over seven years. Because of inflation, Charest’s proposal would amount to an 82 per cent hike in tuition fees instead of the original 75 per cent. The protest Thousands of students gathered at Place Émilie-Gamelin at around 8:30 p.m. before marching peacefully through the downtown area.
The protest remained calm until demonstrators reached the intersection of Ste. Catherine and Bishop. At that point, protesters mobbed a marcher who had smashed the window of a Canadian military recruitment office. Riot police later intervened on the corner of Bleury and Ste. Despite the arrests, one officer told the crowd that the march could go on. Small altercations between protesters and bystanders later occurred on St. The proposal. McGill Daily News (@McGillDailyNews) sur Twitter. Quebec education minister resigns. For the 21st consecutive night, roughly 2,000 students crowded the streets of Montreal on Monday to celebrate the resignation of education minister Line Beauchamp – as well as to maintain pressure on the Quebec government to scrap the impending tuition hikes.
Beauchamp announced her departure from politics at a press conference earlier that afternoon, where Quebec Prime Minister Jean Charest said that the current president of the Treasury Council, Michelle Courchesne, would succeed her. “I am not leaving because of the adversity and the complexity of the situation,” Beauchamp said in French at the press conference. “I am resigning because I believe that I am no longer part of the solution. I am leaving my position while having the best interests of Quebec at heart.”
Courchesne, who was sworn in later that day, had previously served as education minister from 2007 to 2010. “Quebecers ought to know that 70% of students have already finished their session,” she added. The demonstration. Seven-hour march debuts resistance to “special law” In the face of a series of government legislation cracking down on protest rights and threatening their 14-week student strike, several thousand demonstrators marched through downtown Montreal for almost seven hours Friday night. This was the 25th consecutive night demonstration protesting planned tuition hikes which – after one short and violent clash with officers from the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) – became by the longest demonstration in what is now the longest student strike in Quebec history.
The demonstration began peacefully around 9 p.m., with thousands leaving Parc Émilie-Gamelin and marching through downtown Montreal. Around 10 p.m., the arrest of one demonstrator triggered a clash between protestors and police near the entrance to Chinatown at St. Laurent and René Lévesque. Fellow demonstrators reacted by shouting for his release, with some throwing rocks and other projectiles at police, driving police north up St. Laurent towards René Lévesque. Bill 78. 2nd night of protest under Bill 78: more than 300 arrests, flooding, injuries. Henry Gass (@henrygass) sur Twitter. Fury as Quebec passes law to stifle student protests | World news. 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. Among the provisions of the law, which passed 68-48 on Friday, is a requirement that police be informed eight hours before a protest and told the route of any demonstration that includes 50 or more people. Hours after the vote thousands of protesters marched in downtown Montreal to condemn the legislation, which students and supporters say limits their ability to demonstrate their disapproval of the fee hikes. "They pulled the plug instead of trying to develop something constructive through talks, " said participant Felix Siry, 22.
"I think this will just make things worse. " Police officers in riot gear and others on horseback watched as the loud and energetic crowd made its way downtown, chanting: "No special law will break us! " NOSop 3 - Studentenprotest Canada kost politie miljoenen. Dinsdag 24 apr 2012 Studentenprotesten in CanadaAFP Net als studenten hier zijn Canadese studenten ook niet tevreden met de regeling rond het collegegeld. Alleen laten zij flink meer van zich horen. Zo veel zelfs, dat de overuren van agenten miljoenen dollars kunnen gaan kosten. Dat is een schatting van de politievakbond in Montréal. De studenten protesteren al sinds half februari en sindsdien zijn speciale agenten al 150 keer ingeschakeld.
Stenen en biljartballen Bij de laatste protesten op vrijdag werden negentig mensen opgepakt. Op dit YouTube-kanaal vind je meer filmpjes. Een agent die al 30 jaar bij de politie werkt, zei dat hij zelden zo'n georganiseerde en langdurige aanval tegen de politie had meegemaakt. 3600 euro Het is het grootste studentenprotest in de geschiedenis van de Franstalige provincie Québec. Deel dit artikel. New poll is bad news for Charest in his battle with students. Just in time for the 100th day of Quebec's student strike comes a birthday present of epic proportions for the indefatigable students. They're winning. A QMI/Leger Marketing poll released early Tuesday morning by the Journal de Montreal bore the banner headline "Le gouvernment va trop loin" (The government has gone too far). On the central question of whether respondents supported the government or the students in the ongoing conflict over increases to tuition fees, the poll found a stunning 18 point shift from the government to the students, compared to a poll taken ten days earlier.
Although this shift still leaves the students trailing the government by 8 points, the momentum is clearly on their side. On the question of whether the controversial, and likely unconstitutional, special law known as Loi 78 went "too far," 53 per cent agreed that it did, while 32 per cent judged it to be fair and balanced and 8 per cent thought it didn't go far enough. 100 jours de grève: une grande manifestation se prépare à Montréal | Conflit étudiant. Dès les premières minutes, la manifestation s'est divisée en trois groupes: un clan a suivi l'itinéraire connu des policiers, d'autres ont marché derrière la bannière de la CLASSE qui n'a pour sa part pas dévoilé son trajet. Vers 16h45, la manifestation du troisième groupe a été déclarée illégale après que trois vitrines de banques eurent été fracassées.
Après l'annonce d'un attroupement illégal, les protestataires de ce troisième groupe ont rapidement rejoint la manifestation de la CLASSE qui s'est déroulée pacifiquement. Des dizaines de milliers de personnes ont participé aux manifestations. Une heure et demie après le début de l'événement, des personnes attendaient toujours de commencer à marcher à partir du point de départ, au Quartier des spectacles. La CLASSE estime que 250 000 personnes ont participé à l'événement. Des sources policières ont plutôt avancé le chiffre de 100 000 manifestants.
La plupart des regroupements avait fourni un itinéraire de la marche. Grande manifestation du 22 Mai : 100 jours de mépris, 100 jours de résistance. Anonymous Québec « Police & Violence » Canada student protests erupt into political crisis with mass arrests | World news. Protests that began in opposition to tuition fees in Canada have exploded into a political crisis with the mass arrest of hundreds of demonstrators amid a backlash against draconian emergency laws.
More than 500 people were arrested in a demonstration in Montreal on Wednesday night as protesters defied a controversial new law – Bill 78 – that places restrictions on the right to demonstrate. In Quebec City, police arrested 176 people under the provisions of the new law. Demonstrators have been gathering in Montreal for just over 100 days to oppose tuition increases by the Quebec provincial government. On Tuesday, about 100 people were arrested after organisers say 300,000 people took the streets. But what began as a protest against university fee increases has expanded to a wider movement to oppose Bill 78, which was rushed through by legislators in Quebec in response to the demonstrations. "It makes a lot of people angry," she said. "It's something to ridicule the bill," she said. Student protesters in Montreal defy restrictions as demonstrations grow | World news. Montreal students defy new protest laws. Link to video: Montreal students defy anti-protest law Demonstrators in Montreal have continued to defy an emergency law passed by the provincial government in Quebec to restrict protests by students against planned tuition fee hikes.
As has become traditional, groups of protesters banged pots and pans, marching around the city for several hours. But there was no repeat of the mass arrests that characterised the protests earlier in the week. On Wednesday, more than 500 Montrealers were arrested – more than during the entire October 1970 crisis when martial law was declared in the city in response to actions by Quebec nationalists. The total number of those arrested in the current protests has now exceeded 2,500, and the judicial process is already showing signs that it is struggling to cope. Hartman also noted support from English-speaking students as well. In response to the protests, the provincial government rushed through Bill 78 on 18 May. What the hell is going on in Quebec? Maple Spring: 'Canada vs totalitarian govt crackdown' Cacerolazo. Casserole protest in Montreal, Canada on May 24, 2012. A cacerolazo (Spanish pronunciation: [kaθeɾoˈlaθo]), cacerolada ([kaθeɾoˈlaða]) or casserole is a form of popular protest practised in certain Spanish-speaking countries – in particular Venezuela, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Uruguay, Spain – and more recently English and French-speaking countries, most notably Québec, as well as in Turkey during the 2013 protests in Turkey – which consists in a group of people creating noise by banging pots, pans, and other utensils in order to call for attention.
What is peculiar about this type of demonstration is that people can protest from their own homes, thus achieving a high level of support and participation. Argentina[edit] 2001-2002[edit] As the Argentine peso quickly devalued and foreign currency fled the country, the government decreed a forced conversion of dollar-denominated accounts into pesos at an arbitrary exchange rate of 1.4 pesos per dollar. 2008[edit] 2012[edit] Canada[edit] #Casseroles contre la loi 78 (26 mai 2012) Casseroles - Montréal, 24 Mai 2012. Pots & Pans Protest: Angry Canadians make a bang. Between a rock, a kettle and a hard place | The Concordian. Tweet sent by writer while covering May 23 protest. I’m not entirely sure what happened. It was the 30th nightly protest in downtown Montreal and I met up with thousands of protesters on the corner of Sherbrooke St. and University St. around 9:15 p.m. I carried a backpack with me, crammed with pieces of identification, extra water bottles, scarves and bandages in case things turned ugly.
Except Wednesday was energetic and peaceful, and I wasn’t worried to be out on the streets reporting. It was hot out; protesters clanging pots and pans marched without incident through the downtown core. This has become the norm in Montreal. Quebec’s tuition crisis has been a three month long affair and complex to say the least. It’s sneaked its way into the homes of individuals on a worldwide scale, transcending international borders and divides. But the crisis coupled with the historic, controversial and questionable Bill 78 has created an environment of tension and backlash.
It happened so quickly. Loi78.com Demande d'ajout à la requête en nullité du Projet de loi spéciale 78. Loi 78. Le Québec mérite mieux !