Translating the printemps érable

Translating the printemps érable is a volunteer collective attempting to balance the English media's extremely poor coverage of the student conflict in Québec by translating media that has been published in French into English. These are amateur translations; we have done our best to translate these pieces fairly and coherently, but the final texts may still leave something to be desired. If you find any important errors in any of these texts, we would be very grateful if you would share them with us at translatingtheprintempsderable@gmail.com. Please read and distribute these texts in the spirit in which they were intended; that of solidarity and the sharing of information.

 

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CUTV - broadcasting live from the protests nightly

OpenFile Montreal

Rouge Squad - Tactical Translation Team

Montreal Media Coop

Resources on the Conflict

Rabble.ca's Maple Spring Coverage

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Original French Post: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151056513142963&set=a.10150613231402963.389092.176258252962&type=3&theater

CONFIRMED: THE TUITION HIKE WILL BE CANCELLED

Wednesday September 5 2012

Pauline Marois confirms that her first acts as Quebec’s premier will be to abolish law 12 and to cancel the tuition fee hike

Students make the difference.

  1. genderbutt reblogged this from tipsforradicals and added:
    As someone who’s been involved for months and following the news quite closely, even the struggle against the tuition...
  2. tipsforradicals reblogged this from translatingtheprintempserable and added:
    Feels a bit dirty celebrating an only partly related electoral victory, given...radical...
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    MOTHERFUCKING YES
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    Well she’ll try her best… It isn’t majority rule, so… But i really hope it’ll work! WE’VE BEEN STRIKING FOR 6 MONTHS....
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  11. dingusfiddle reblogged this from brujacore and added:
    Good for them!!!
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    So happy right now
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  16. brujacore reblogged this from missvoltairine and added:
    RAD
  17. prudeboy reblogged this from inkstainedqueer and added:
    Quebec folks make shit happen, spread the word!
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    Anyone have more confirmation or background? This is what I could find.
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    protest works
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