The Quebec Students’ Strike
Stirring Canada From Its Slumber

By BENJAMIN CAMPBELL; May 22, 2012 – Counterpunch
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/05/22/stirring-canada-from-…

Tens of thousands of students took to the streets of Montreal again on Saturday, in defiance of the Quebec government’s Bill 78, which aimed to legally curtail their rights to protest. As has become increasingly common, the students were greeted by police responses of tear gas and dozens of arrests. That evening, Montreal-based mega-band Arcade Fire performed to a TV audience of millions, sporting the red squares that have come to symbolize the student movement. It was fitting that the band that

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