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Police State Law In Quebec

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by punkjoke, May 18, 2012.

  1. punkjoke

    punkjoke Member Forum Member


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    Hi everyone,

    If you don't already know what's going on in quebec, the government is in his way to pass a new law that makes any gathering of more than 10 people illegal. This has to do with the student movement and the scolarship 82% increase of the scolarship costs over 7 years.

    here you can read about it: http://www.lapresse.ca/html/1428/graphloi78.jpg

    http://www.lapresse.ca/html/1425/projetdeloi78.pdf

    there's a website against this law where you can go and fill the petition : http://www.loi78.com

    I know this doesn't really has to do with anarchism, I'm tryin to reach some people in order to fight against a future police state and a regression in the human rights here in quebec. Please fill this !
     

  2. apples&onions

    apples&onions Experienced Member Experienced member Forum Member


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    [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEtRoZ5FWNc[/video]

    10 people, damn that is absurd...

    and fuck family guy, that was really just the first thing that this news brought to my mind.
     
  3. THEBLACKNOVA

    THEBLACKNOVA Experienced Member Experienced member Forum Member


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    Aug 11, 2011
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    Quebec Student Protest: Molotov Cocktails Launched At Montreal Protest

    MONTREAL - Molotov cocktails were tossed during a large protest designed as an act of defiance Friday against a legal crackdown by the Quebec government.

    Through most of the night the thousands-strong crowd remained peaceful as it sought to make the case that a new provincial law setting limits on protest, which only comes into application Saturday, will fail to end months of student-led unrest.

    The calm was shattered at a downtown intersection where at least one incendiary device was lobbed. The object sailed overhead, before crashing down into the street in front of police.

    It erupted in flames and a puff of smoke. A Canadian Press photographer reported seeing at least two such objects thrown and there were other reports of multiple devices being tossed at that spot on the edge of Chinatown.

    Police responded to being pelted with projectiles by firing rubber bullets, noise bombs and tear gas into the crowd. One person was arrested for assaulting an officer.

    "Criminal acts were committed," the police said in its Twitter feed. "(The protest) has been declared illegal. We asked people to disperse immediately."

    The protest had been peaceful over its first hour. After a tense few moments, it carried on that way and police let the march continue.

    Participants had said they were encouraged by the strong turnout and by the support from bystanders. While some motorists were miffed about being stuck in traffic jams, many honked their car horns while sidewalk observers clapped in a show of support.

    Opponents of the Charest government — including its political opposition — have begun attacking its approach to the protests, even more than the tuition hikes that originally sparked the unrest.

    The Parti Quebecois, for instance, has played down talk about the fee hikes which may have strong support, according to some polls. The sweeping legislation introduced, debated and passed over less than 24 hours is an entirely new political target.

    The Montreal march came hours after the government passed Bill 78, which sets some limits on the ability to protest following weeks of unrest. Also Friday, a new municipal bylaw imposed stiff fines on people wearing masks while demonstrating.

    A few people in the crowd were in fact wearing masks. However, the mask bylaw and the protest limits were not being enforced before Saturday.

    Police said they were given the march route in advance — one of the many stipulations of the new provincial law. They were not commenting, however, on reports that their phone lines were flooded by people calling to report the route, in a unique gesture of civil disobedience.

    The nighttime protests have been going on every night for nearly a month. But some participants said this was their first one.

    Milly Pominville, a 20-year-old junior college student, acknowledged she was nervous attending the protest after the passage of the special law.

    "I don't want anything bad to happen," she said.

    "But I hate Jean Charest so much. He has to go."

    Pominville called the new law "stupid" and vowed to return for the marches every day from now on.

    SOURCE: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/05/18 ... 29072.html
     
  4. THEBLACKNOVA

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    Montreal police teargas marchers defying protest laws

    Thousands of protesters outraged by two laws passed Friday to tamp down civil unrest marched through downtown Montreal on Saturday night, many of them wearing now-illegal masks or hoods.

    Authorities declared the protest illegal about a half-hour after it began at 8:30 p.m. ET. Then, a little after 11 p.m., Montreal police ordered protesters to disperse and called in the provincial police force's riot squad.

    The night ended with 69 arrests, police said.

    Police fired tear gas at demonstrators in at least three areas of the city: near McGill University's campus, at the intersection of St. Laurent Boulevard and Ontario Street, and in a park near the Université du Québec à Montréal.

    Montreal police spokesman Ian Lafrenière said a "hard core" of protesters was engaging in illegal acts, including a few who were throwing beer bottles at constables.

    Student protesters were joined by others spilling out of bars and clubs.

    Some people from both groups built fires from traffic cones and construction materials, cheering as the flames lit up the streets and sent plumes of black smoke billowing into the night sky.

    Some protesters also complained of police violence. On St. Denis Street, a line of riot officers charged a gathering of people and started beating a man in his 50s or 60s who was retreating, but not nimbly enough to avoid them. A demonstrator told TV cameras that an officer shoved him with a bicycle, while elsewhere riot-squad units charged at peaceful street rallies.

    "I'm drunk! I've been on a patio all evening!" one young, handcuffed woman told police, in an exchange caught on the live broadcast of Concordia University Television.

    Riot police repeatedly warned protesters they would be incarcerated throughout the weekend unless they dispersed.

    Estimates varied widely on the number of people in the streets, with numbers ranging from 3,000 at the beginning of the first march to 20,000 at the demonstrations' peak, when packs of protesters split up to locations around the downtown.

    Protest spreads to Saturday Night Live

    The protest has spread beyond Canada's borders.

    In New York, members of the Montreal-based rock band Arcade Fire wore the movement's iconic red squares during an appearance with The Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger on Saturday Night Live. Jagger wore a red shirt, but no red square.

    A day earlier, players in Quebec's film industry were sporting them at the Cannes Film Festival.

    Online, the website for the Quebec Liberal Party and the province's Education Ministry were down for most of Saturday in an apparent cyber attack.

    While no one claimed responsibility, the hacker group Anonymous has taken an interest. The group wrote on Twitter that Bill 78 "must die" and later issued a video denouncing the law.

    Bill 78 lays out strict regulations governing demonstrations of over 50 people, including having to give eight hours' notice for details such as the protest route, the duration and the time at which they're being held.

    Fines up to $125,000

    The night rally was the 26th in a row in the city, part of a province-wide surge of civil disobedience that began as a denunciation by striking students of the Liberal government's plan to hike tuition fees and has grown to encompass a wide array of social causes.

    The most recent cause for complaint is the adoption of emergency legislation to try to end the escalating crisis.

    On Friday, the Quebec government passed Bill 78, which comes with heavy financial penalties for violations.

    The law:

    - Suspends winter semesters at schools where students have boycotted classes.

    - Stipulates penalties for groups who try to block access to schools, and even for organizations that don't induce their members not to.

    - Requires any public protest of more than 50 people to alert police at least eight hours ahead of time, with the event's start time, route and date. Groups that violate the law face fines of up to $125,000.

    The City of Montreal passed its own measures on Friday, making it illegal to wear a mask, scarf or hood during a public protests.

    'Draconian' anti-protest measure

    Legal experts, civil-rights groups, unions and student groups have blasted the hardline Bill 78. A full-page newspaper advertisement paid for by the Quebec government to explain the law was flanked by other ads from civil society groups alarmed by what they call "draconian" measures to contain the tuition hike crisis.

    One of Quebec's teachers' unions, FAE, placed an ad with Premier Jean Charest's face and a headline that says "shame has a face."

    "We don't have that many means to express our indignation," FAE president Pierre Saint-Germain said in an interview with CBC's French-language service on Saturday.

    "I'll tell you, frankly, that with this bludgeon law, it's becoming harder and harder for people and organizations, from students to unions, to express themselves publicly."

    Montreal newspaper Le Devoir published an editorial titled "Abuse of power" and called on the Liberal government to seek mediation in the ongoing student protest.

    Constitutional lawyer Julius Grey called Bill 78 a "terrible law" that suspends the freedom to association, express and protest, without sufficient reason.

    "What I note in this law is that there is no opening for discussion — what kind of education we want to have, is higher education a question of preparing for the job market, or a more academic question, to promote learning? There is none of that.

    "This is simply an attempt to end a debate, to appear strong and determined."

    Others who spoke out include former Quebec Superior Court judge John Gomery.

    Court challenge

    The province's two main umbrella student groups, the Fédération étudiante collégiale du Québec and the Fédération étudiante universitaire du Québec, said Saturday they will launch a legal challenge of Bill 78 this week.

    Vocal denunciations of the planned tuition increases began in March 2011, but it was only in February that they ramped up into a student strike that at its peak saw 180,000 pupils boycotting college and university classes. Since then, large regular protests have touched Montreal, Quebec City, Gatineau, Trois-Rivières and other towns.

    The government wants to raise university fees by more than 70 per cent over the next five years, to $3,800 annually. The province points out that that would still be among the lowest tuition rates in the country. Opposing students say it will render even more of them indebted on graduation and put higher education financially out of reach for more people.

    Negotiations have largely been at an impasse. On Monday, Line Beauchamp cited the crisis in resigning from her cabinet post as education minister and from the provincial assembly.

    SOURCE: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/05/20 ... ref=canada
     
  5. THEBLACKNOVA

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    Quebec Student Protest Timeline Marks 100 Days

    MONTREAL - A timeline of events in the tuition dispute between the Quebec government and student federations, which has sparked 100 days of unrest in the province:

    1990 — Robert Bourassa's Liberal government increases tuition from $500 to $1,600 — a $280 annual hike over four years. Thousands of students hit the streets, but Bourassa remains steadfast.

    1996 — Strike involving some 100,000 students begins in October when then-Parti Quebecois education minister Pauline Marois tries to implement about a 30 per cent increase. She backtracks soon amid protests, reinstating tuition freeze until at least 2007.

    2005 — Liberal government seeks to cut $103 million from financial aid. By mid-March, more than 200,000 students are on strike and, within a few weeks, the Liberals backtrack and restore the full amount.

    2007 — Liberals announce tuition increase of $500 over five-year period.

    August 2010 — Line Beauchamp becomes education minister in cabinet shuffle.

    March 2011 — Finance Minister Raymond Bachand announces Quebec's intention to raise tuition fees, beginning in September 2012. Plan is to raise tuition by $325 a year over five years. Total increase will amount to an additional $1,625, raising Quebec tuition to $3,793 in 2017. Will remain among lowest in Canada.

    August 2011 — Students formally begin campaign against tuition hikes, trying to convince government to back down.

    Nov. 10, 2011 — Massive peaceful rally held in Montreal with promise from common front of student groups to ratchet up the pressure.

    Feb. 13, 2012 — Student action officially begins with first groups voting in favour of a walkout.

    Feb. 23 — Students pepper-sprayed after occupying Montreal's Jacques Cartier Bridge.

    March 7 — During an altercation with police, student Francis Grenier is badly hurt in the eye. Students allege it is from a police stun grenade, although it is never confirmed. Grenier becomes rallying point for students who begin wearing patches over their right eyes in addition to red squares marking their protests.

    March 21 — Students begin to increase pressure tactics aimed at disrupting Quebec economy. One group occupies Montreal's busy Champlain Bridge during rush hour. Each student fined $494.

    March 22 — Massive, peaceful protest draws attention to growing student movement. More than 100,000 take part.

    March 27 — Protesters block access to Quebec Liquor Board offices as students began to target economic symbols.

    April 2 — The outside of Beauchamp's Montreal office is painted red. The building becomes popular rallying point during marches.

    April 16 — Co-ordinated effort sees city's subway system shut after protesters threw bags full of bricks on to the tracks. Offices of four Quebec cabinet ministers vandalized, some with Molotov cocktails.

    April 18-19 — More than 300 people arrested in Gatineau, Que., during confrontations between police and protesters at Universite du Quebec's Outaouais campus.

    April 20-21 — Police and protesters clash in front of Montreal's convention centre where a job fair is being held on Premier Jean Charest's legacy project — a plan to develop northern Quebec. More than 100 protesters arrested during two days of violent skirmishes with riot police.

    April 23 — Beginning of talks begin aimed at ending the protest, now into its 11th week.

    April 24 — Nightly street protests begin in Montreal. They have since ebbed and flowed in size. Some have been brief and peaceful while others have been enormous and turbulent.

    April 25 — Talks break off abruptly, sparking massive protest on Montreal streets. Eighty-five people arrested by police, with damage to banks, cars and businesses.

    April 26 — Students say they will return to negotiating table but government refuses, saying student plan to allow two members of the most radical group a seat at the table is unacceptable. Police say there have been 160 protests over 72 days, just in Montreal.

    April 27 — Government reveals offer to students: a slightly slower phase-in period for the hikes, more generous loans and bursaries, and future hikes indexed to inflation. It asks students to take time to consider the plan, but also go back to class.

    May 4 — Ugly scenes in Victoriaville, Que., outside a Liberal convention. Multiple injuries, including critical ones, during confrontation between crowd and provincial riot police. A young protester loses an eye. Some people kick and beat a police officer.

    May 5 — After marathon negotiating session, student groups and government reach deal to delay increases in cost of education for a few months pending a study by a new body. Student assemblies massively reject the offer, while some student faculties vote to end walkout and return to school.

    May 10 — Smoke bombs set off at various points on the Montreal metro system during the morning rush hour, disrupting subway service on a rainy morning. Police release pictures of suspects snapped by other passengers' cellphone cameras. Four people arrested and detained for days. Supporters hold demonstration at Montreal courthouse, shoving aside media trying to cover event.

    May 14 — Line Beauchamp resigns as education minister and is replaced by ex-education minister Michelle Courchesne.

    May 16 — Protesters, many covering their faces with masks, storm into a university and move through hallways in pursuit of classes to disrupt. There are angry confrontations with students who want to be at school.

    May 16 — Premier Charest announces plans for special law that will include pause in academic year for institutions affected by the walkouts.

    May 17 — Government tables special legislation. It includes severe financial penalties for people blocking schools along with rules about how to protest. Protesters must inform police of their plans eight hours in advance, and police have the right to move a protest location.

    May 18 — Special law passes, prompting opposition to declare a dark day in Quebec's history. On the same day, Montreal bylaw passes that would impose fines for wearing masks at certain protests. No fines have yet been imposed under either of those new rules, which are being habitually flouted.

    May 19 — Montreal protest gets ugly, with bonfires and barricades in the street. Police accused of using excessive force on peaceful members of the crowd, such as pepper-spraying a patio full of bar patrons. On ''Saturday Night Live,'' Montreal-based rock band Arcade Fire takes to the stage wearing red squares, next to icon Mick Jagger.

    May 20-21 — Huge nightly protests continue during Victoria Day weekend. C.L.A.S.S.E. group takes tougher stand on the special law, announcing plans to defy it.

    May 22 — On 100th day of the student strike, tens of thousands of people participate in huge Montreal march. Many intentionally flout provincial law by wandering off pre-announced path. Solidarity demonstrations are held in Paris, New York, Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto. Labour unions outside Quebec pledge continued support of strikers' cause.

    source: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/05/22 ... ref=canada
     
  6. THEBLACKNOVA

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    is anybody from APN up in Canada? any report backs or feelings on what is going on, if you have the time that is, so many things going on i bet...

    How are they organizing? Horizontal? Leaderless? Direct Democracy?

    This video from today May 25, 2012 from democracy now has a spokes person and they mention General Assembly, i bet there's a lot of people getting radicalized...

    Maple Spring: Nearly 1,000 Arrested As Mass Quebec Student Strike Passes 100th Day

    [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKW9-ZPrN_k&list=PL50BDB9BCCFAF09CA&index=4&feature=plcp[/video]
     
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