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Left Coast2020

(2,397 posts)
Mon Jun 4, 2012, 09:30 PM Jun 2012

Canada's Occupy Moment Should Be Our's too.

The streets of Montreal are clogged nightly with as many as 100,000 protesters banging pots and pans and demanding that the old systems of power be replaced. The mass student strike in Quebec, the longest and largest student protest in Canadian history, began over the announcement of tuition hikes and has metamorphosed into what must swiftly build in the United States—a broad popular uprising. The debt obligation of Canadian university students, even with Quebec’s proposed 82 percent tuition hike over several years, is dwarfed by the huge university fees and the $1 trillion of debt faced by U.S. college students. The Canadian students have gathered widespread support because they linked their tuition protests to Quebec’s call for higher fees for health care, the firing of public sector employees, the closure of factories, the corporate exploitation of natural resources, new restrictions on union organizing, and an announced increase in the retirement age. Crowds in Montreal, now counting 110 days of protests, chant “On ne lâche pas”—“We’re not backing down.”


http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-section/72-72/11755-focus-canadas-casserole-movement-is-ours

We can bang pots and pans too can't we?

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Canada's Occupy Moment Should Be Our's too. (Original Post) Left Coast2020 Jun 2012 OP
awesome antirepub19775dem Jun 2012 #1
Keep up the good work. egbertowillies Jun 2012 #2
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