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

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Rabble.ca's Maple Spring Coverage

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Law 78: the situation in Québec is “alarming”, according to the UN (Radio-Canada)

June 18, 2012

Original French Text: http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/Politique/2012/06/18/003-loi-78-onu.shtml

La haute-commissaire aux droits de l'homme de l'ONU, Navi Pillay, à l'ouverture de la 20e session du Conseil des droits de l'homme, à Genève.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, at the opening of the 20th Special Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva.

After having expressed its concerns last month, the United Nations has once again criticized the adoption by the National Assembly of Québec of Special Law 78 and its strict restraint on the right to demonstrate.

“Moves to restrict freedom of assembly in many parts of the world are alarming,” declared the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, at the opening of the 20th Special Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, on Monday morning.