May 2013
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One year later.
Today is the one year anniversary of this blog. I started it on May 19th, a Saturday morning, on my couch in my pajamas, feeling angry and disempowered by what I had been reading in the news, and seeing outside my window (and the massive disconnect between the two). I am someone who aspires to be an activist, but who rarely lives up to such goals. But watching the escalation of the conflict last...
You, Madame Marois (Voir)
May 9, 2013 Marc-André Cyr
Original French Text: http://voir.ca/marc-andre-cyr/2013/05/09/vous-madame-marois/
The Marois government is putting into place a “Special commission to examine the events of the spring of 2012”. The objective, you have surely guessed, is not to respond to demands for an inquiry on police brutality, but rather to see that a revolt of this scale never happens...
Maple Spring: The government dismally misses the...
Josée Legault May 8, 2013
Original French Text: http://www.lactualite.com/opinions/le-blogue-de-josee-legault/commission-sur-le-printemps-erable-le-gouvernement-rate-lamentablement-le-coche/
Photo : A. Gravel / CC2.0 By-ND2.0
Who’s afraid of the police? The question, though brutal, is however inevitable.
Yet how can we not ask it while the Marois government swaps an...
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Police intervene to subdue a demonstration of...
Lisa-Marie Gervais May 2, 2013
Original French Text: http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/education/377186/la-police-intervient-pour-mater-une-manifestation-de-parents
Photo : Annik MH De Carufel Le Devoir
The Saint-Pierre-Claver school is located in the Plateau-Mont-Royal at the intersection of two major streets.
A citizen assembly aiming to sensitize drivers to the security of...
April 2013
22 posts
Autopsy of a Springtime (La Presse)
Rima Elkouri April 29, 2013
Original French Text: http://www.lapresse.ca/debats/chroniques/rima-elkouri/201304/28/01-4645477-autopsie-dun-printemps.php
What is left of the student spring? Beyond the feeling of victory among those who opposed a tuition hike, the most important student strike in the history of Quebec has left consequences that we would be wrong to forget. It gave way to a...
Mistrust of police and justice has increased (La...
Judith Lachapelle April 29, 2013
Original French Text: http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/dossiers/conflit-etudiant/201304/28/01-4645472-la-mefiance-envers-la-police-et-la-justice-aurait-augmente.php
Caption: The maple spring left deep wounds, according to the report entitled Repression, Discrimination and Student Strike
Besmirched freedom of expression, excessive use of force,...
P-6 or how to get rid of mens rea (Voir)
Véronique Robert April 23, 2013 Original French Text: http://voir.ca/veronique-robert/2013/04/23/p-6-ou-comment-se-debarrasser-de-la-mens-rea/ There are several different systems of criminal liability. Without wanting to give a class on criminal law 101, I will try to briefly explain them in order to demonstrate the uselessness of Bylaw P-6 on the prevention of disturbances...
Taking on the SPVM's justification of P-6...
Association des juristes progressistes April 22, 2013
Original French Text: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=468620339875841&id=120609411343604
*Editorial note: TTPE took the liberty of naming this post and will take the liberty to encourage you to read between the lines. The implication of this statement appears to be that the SPVM wishes to maintain bylaw P-6...
Very important announcement (Association de...
April 22, 2013
Original French Text: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Association-des-juristes-progressistes-AJP/120609411343604?fref=ts
It’s D Day for the first stage of our campaign. A vote should be taking place either tonight or tomorrow morning. City council begins at 2pm. It is now time for a big push to call your elected officials, starting with the following list. You can leave a...
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"Elected officials are listening": New list of...
Association des juristes progressistes April 20, 2013
Original French Text: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=467629633308245&id=120609411343604
EXCELLENT NEWS: We have received information implying that VISION MONTREAL is favourable to the repeal of the provisions pertaining to the trajectory/location and masks. There are 65 officials who are voting on...
Example of message to send to your city councilor...
Association des juristes progressistes April 19, 2013
Original French Text: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=467346260003249&id=120609411343604 & https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=467347863336422&id=120609411343604
VERY IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: The vote on Projet Montréal’s motion to repeal P-6 will take place Monday, possibly...
Media Notice – Press Conference: Over Thirty...
April 18 2013
Original French Text: http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/1148533/avis-aux-medias-conference-de-presse-une-trentaine-d-organisations-demandent-l-abrogation-de-p-6 MONTREAL, April 18th 2013 /CNW Telbec/ - The media are invited to a press conference during which a signed declaration by over thirty organizations demanding the repeal of bylaw P 6 will be revealed. The signatories...
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P-6 and the Sound of Silence: An Open Letter
Photo from Nous Sommes Tous Art Don’t take it personally. We all were swept away by a great, intoxicating wave of novel (for many) awareness of the devalorizing and repressive potential of our government’s actions a year ago. We paid reverent attention to political notions, the words of which were exchanged between neighbors, colleagues, friends, family and strangers, all while a...
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Coalition Against P-6 (Association des juristes...
Association des juristes progressistes April 15, 2013
Original French Text: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=465806536823888&id=120609411343604
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT Today, the AJP is launching the Coalition Against P-6. Several organizations and associations have joined the campaign initiated by the AJP to win the repeal of of bylaw P-6 which, in our...
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Protesters arrested under Bylaw P-6 : A class...
Agence QMI April 8, 2013
Original French Text: http://tvanouvelles.ca/lcn/judiciaire/archives/2013/04/20130408-155327.html
Agence QMI Lawyer Denis Poitras is preparing a class action lawsuit to provide compensation for those who were detained in the mass arrests during the protests against tuition fee indexation in Montreal, pursuant to municipal bylaw P-6. He...
Request of public support of municipal officials...
Association des juristes progressistes du Québec April 8, 2013
Original French Text: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=145111069002010&id=120609411343604
The Association des juristes progressistes du Québec recommend that we all contact elected municipal officials with a request for their support and/or to congratulate them on their party’s resolution in...
Projet Montréal will request that bylaw P-6 be...
Projet Montréal April 8, 2013
Original French Text: http://projetmontreal.org/communiques/projet-montreal-demandera-au-conseil-de-ville-de-montreal-dabroger-le-reglement-p-6/
On April 22, Projet Montréal will request that the Montreal City Council repeal bylaw P-6, a bylaw on the prevention of disturbances of the peace, of public security and order, and on the use of the...
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Around the kettle (moisemarcouxchabot.com)
Moïse Marcoux-Chabot April 6, 2013
Original French Post: http://moisemarcouxchabot.com/2013/04/06/autour-dune-souriciere-manif-du-5-avril-2013/
April 5, 2013. In reaction to the repression of several recent protests, a gathering is organized against the the City of Montreal’s municipal P-6 bylaw and in support of...
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Debates in the news: Police repression and...
Benoît Marsan, Graduate student in History at Université de Sherbrooke March 26, 2013
Original French textL My graduate research has focused on the Communist Party of Canada and on Montreal’s unemployed during the Great Depression. As I was getting to the end of uncovering my sources at the same time as Bill 78 was tabled, I was hearing outrage...
March 2013
2 posts
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Freedom of peaceful assembly: seeking political...
Josée Legault March 27, 2013
Original French Text: http://www2.lactualite.com/josee-legault/2013/03/27/liberte-de-reunion-pacifique-leadership-politique-recherche/
Something is rotten in the realm of fundamental freedoms in Quebec.
Even abroad, many weeks were spent quibbling over a restaurant owner’s “freedom of expression” because the Office québécoise de...
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10 reasons to not provide a protest itinerary to...
Anonymous March 25, 2012
Original French Text: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2Sot5om4RWyWmI1S1plZXBRMGM/edit
1- The right to protest exists! The Canadian and Quebec Charters of Rights and Freedoms, both documents that protect the fundamental rights governening relations between the state and individuals, guarantee the right to protest as it pertains to freedom of conscience,...
December 2012
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#IdleNoMore Manifesto – Manifeste de #IdleNoMore...
En solidarité avec le mouvement #IdleNoMore (notre traduction étant «Plus jamais oisif»), avec Chef Theresa Spence et sa lutte pour engager la conversation avec le Gouvernement du Canada à propos du respect des traités historiques, nous publierons quelques écrits que nous avons traduit de l’anglais au français afin d’encourager la circulation de ces idées dans les régions...
November 2012
4 posts
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The dubious guilt of Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois (La...
Yves Boisvert November 8, 2012
Original French Text: http://www.lapresse.ca/debats/chroniques/yves-boisvert/201211/07/01-4591492-la-culpabilite-douteuse-de-gnd.php
Since Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois was found guilty of contempt of court, people have been dusting off their signs.
The red signs denounce this “political” judgement. The opposing signs applaud, saying that, like...
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Contempt of the people (Le Devoir)
Richard Chevalier Weilbrenner November 5, 2012
Original French Text: http://www.ledevoir.com/politique/quebec/363162/outrage-au-peuple
The cup of injustice runneth over. Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois is considered a criminal by the Superior Court of Quebec. And, barring an appeal overturning the judgement of the first tribunal, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois will forever be branded as having,...
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Contempt of Court: Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois will...
Valerie Simard November 2, 2012
Original French Text: http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/dossiers/conflit-etudiant/201211/02/01-4589701-outrage-au-tribunal-gabriel-nadeau-dubois-interjettera-appel.php
After meeting with his lawyer this morning, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois declared in a press conference that the decision delivered by judge Denis Jacques by the Superior Court of Quebec was...
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Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois Found Guilty of Contempt of...
Lisa-Marie Gervais November 1, 2012
Original French Text: http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/justice/362919/gabriel-nadeau-dubois-a-ete-reconnu-coupable-d-outrage-au-tribunal
Gabriel Nadeau Dubois, militant student activist, has been found guilty Thursday of contempt of court. The student in question let it be known on twitter that he would not make comment before Friday.
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September 2012
12 posts
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Student movement and police repression – For a...
Francis Dupuis-Déri
Original French Text: http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/justice/359443/pour-une-commission-d-enquete-publique
As teachers and lecturers of various disciplines and several universities in Quebec, we have, accompanied by solidarity, the Quebec student movement in the most important and longest strike in our history. We have therefore been witness to the biggest wave of police...
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The CLASSE reacts to the cancelling of the tuition...
Original French Text: http://www.bloquonslahausse.com/2012/09/la-classe-reagit-a-lannulation-de-la-hausse-des-frais-de-scolarite/
Montreal, 20 September 2012:
Following the announcement of the cancelling of the tuition fee increase and the abrogation of the Law 12 (formerly Bill 78), the CLASSE (the Coalition large de l’Association pour une solidarité syndicale étudiante / Broad Coalition of the...
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University is less and less affordable (Le Devoir)
Lisa-Marie Gervais September 12, 2012
Original French Text: http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/education/358995/l-universite-est-de-moins-en-moins-abordable
Since 1990, the cost of studies in Canada has increased three times more quickly than inflation.
Far from following inflation, the cost of studies has taken off rather sharply everywhere in Canada in the last decade, making...
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The Culture of Scorn (Le Devoir)
David Desjardins 13 Sept, 2012
Original French Text: http://www.ledevoir.com/politique/quebec/359051/la-culture-du-mepris
Jean Charest was stepping down live on TV when I flipped to that channel, pausing for a moment to listen to his trembling, tearful goodbye.
Did I smile?
A little, yes. But it wasn’t the toothy smile of someone who delights in another’s misery. Nor was it a...
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End of the strike, hibernation of the panda...
Anarchopanda September 12, 2012
Original French text: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RGLbK7VAusvl8ZzXIkJXTmUi8eF_ymXKrqYWAyWR1ao/edit?pli=1
Dear students and their allies,
The panda outings were above all an intervention tactic against police brutality, and the context of these interventions, despite the welcome return of cooler weather, are becoming very limited following the end...
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Marois will cancel the increase (Journal de...
Marianne White September 5, 2012
Original French Text: http://www.journaldemontreal.com/2012/09/05/marois-va-annuler-la-hausse
MONTREAL- Even if she has a minority Pauline Maois has the firm intention to act rapidly to cancel the rise in tuition, and repleal Bill 101.
The elected Premier gave an overview Wednesday of the steps she wants to take.
“My government will cancel the...
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Tuition fees: Obstacles to overcome (Le Devoir)
Marie-Andrée Chouinard September 7, 2012
Original French text: http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/education/358624/obstacles-a-surmonter
After the issue was nearly absent from the electoral campaign, Pauline Marois had better believe that the financing of post-secondary education will be getting people fired up again. The tuition fee question remains unresolved after a spring of protest. What...
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Quebec Elections: Odjiné Mr. Charest... (Le...
Olivier D. Asselin August 31, 2012
Original French text: http://www.ledevoir.com/politique/quebec/358149/odjine-monsieur-charest
Demonstrators surrounded the Salon du Plan Nord that took place at the Palais des congrès last April.
A letter to Mr. Charest,
A few months ago, I believed it was wise to let history judge you. I thought to myself that, before time’s relentless authority, your...
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Statement of solidarity and sympathy in light of...
As the translators and administrators of Translating the printemps érable, we would like to express our profound distress about the election night shooting, and to send our deepest sympathies to the victims, their families, and all of those affected by this extreme act of violence.
The goal and ethos of this blog have always been to facilitate communication across different communities in Québec...
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Quebec elections – Overcoming September 4 (Le...
Christian Nadeau, Philosophy professor at Université de Montréal September 1, 2012
Original French Text: http://www.ledevoir.com/politique/elections-2012/358264/surmonter-le-4-septembre
Photo caption: Last spring, the strike called into question a social order in which politics belong solely to those elected. It is our duty from today onward to follow up on those commitments, writes...
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Prevented from voting because of the red square...
Lisa-Marie Gervais September 4, 2012
Original French Text: http://www.ledevoir.com/politique/elections-2012/358410/empeches-de-voter-en-raison-du-carre-rouge
Voters wearing the red square have been denied the right to vote, which goes against the rules of the Directeur général des élections (DGE). It was the case in Lavel-des-Rapides, where at least two citizens were told to remove...
August 2012
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The hunt for the red square has victims (Le...
Lisa-Marie Gervais August 23, 2012
Original French text: http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/education/357562/la-chasse-au-carre-rouge-fait-des-victimes
The hunt for the red squares continues with public service employees. Six markers employed by the Ministry of Education were suspended from its Montreal offices on Fullum Street after wearing the symbol associated with the student...
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An Open Letter to the Rector of the University of...
Jean Portugais August 28, 2012
Original French text: http://www.sgpum.org/content/uploads/files/28082012/JPortugais%20-%20lettre%20au%20recteur%2028aout%202012.pdf
Mister Rector,
The union has become aware of incidents relating to the presence of police on the University of Montreal campus, both yesterday and in the course of the last few hours today. We have learned that yesterday, 27...
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Why we're still blocking classes (Le Devoir)
Jean-Pascal Bilodeau August 30, 2012
Original French text: http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/education/358023/pourquoi-nous-bloquons-encore-des-cours
We block classes. We are those who’ve been attacked by the press since the beginning of the return to classes. We are those who are still holding out against the blows of police batons. They tell us to calm down, to vote, to calm down...
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“Charest, Get Out”, key slogan for protesters (Le...
Lisa-Marie Gervais August 23, 2012
Original French text: http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/education/357514/charest-dehors-mot-d-ordre-des-manifestants
In the midst of the electoral campaign, the demonstration this “22nd” was about more than education.
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Feeling like they hadn’t been a key subject of the electoral campaign, they took to the...
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CLASSE denounces police repression at the...
August 27, 2012
Original French text: http://www.bloquonslahausse.com/2012/08/la-classe-denonce-la-repression-sur-le-campus-de-ludem/
This Monday, August 27, 2012, CLASSE denounces the rampant violence and police on the University of Montreal campus. Tens of thousands of students, notably at UQAM and UdeM (University of Montreal), refrained from going to their classes today in accordance with...
