Moments of Excess: Essential reading for Occupy and Quebec student activists

How can grassroots political activism create space to dream beyond traditional politics?

By Stefan Christoff; May 10, 2012 – rabble.ca
http://rabble.ca/books/reviews/2012/05/moments-excess

Moments of Excess: Movements, Protest and Everyday Life by The Free Association (PM Press, 2011; $16.95)

As attention turns toward the mass student strike on the streets of Montreal, ongoing for three months, the Quebec student movement clearly exemplifies the power that activism holds to shape our collective imagination.

The student protests distant from the halls of political power in Quebec City, are largely setting the terms of political debate on

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