Tag Archives: Quebec Student Movement

Street Politics 101: Returning to Québec’s Le Printemps Érable

From the very remarkable anarchist film collective, subMedia.tv a portrait of Quebec's 2012 student movement …

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A timeless spring

(Image from the Ecole de la Montagne Rouge) The Québec student movement of the printemps érable of 2012, which began as a protest movement against proposed increases in university tuition fees, very quickly became a much broader social movement that in its … Continue reading

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Reflections amid violence

(Photograph by Francesca Oggiano, from the series The Stolen Eyes) in memory of Walter Benjamin for n.m.   A historical materialist approaches a historical subject only where he encounters it as a monad.  In this structure he recognizes the sign … Continue reading

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Québec Student Movement: Reform or Revolution

The Québec provincial legislative elections of last September 4, with a victory for the Parti Québécois, place the Quebec student movement before a crossroads: either to continue the struggle and expand it to broader concerns or accept the new minority … Continue reading

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The Revolution is Dead, Long Live the Revolution: Reflections on the Quebec Student Movement

As flowers turn toward the sun, by dint of a secret heliotropism the past strives to turn toward that sun which is rising in the sky of history.                                                           Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History As Quebec universities … Continue reading

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Making worlds with casseroles: The quebec student movement

A collection of essays (Wi: Journal of Mobile Media: Out of the mouths of “casseroles”: textes qui bougent au rythme du carré rouge) speaks of the radical possibilities emergent within the Quebec student movement.  The perspectives and positioning on/in the … Continue reading

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Share Our Future – The CLASSE Manifesto

  This summer, the Québec student union CLASSE (La Coalition large de l’Association pour une solidarité syndicale) sets out across the province to share/explain to as many as possible the reasons for, the goals and hopes, of the student movement …

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15M, Occupy, Quebec Student Movement in Print

  …we need all exuberant, floating, dancing, mocking, childish, and blissful art lest we lose our freedom above things that our ideal demands of us…. We should be able also to stand above morality — and not only to stand … Continue reading

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Casseroles in Québec

  Three Videos that capture the beauty of the Quebec social movement … Casseroles – Montréal, 24th of May, by Jeremie Battaglia   Un grand tonnerre: Une lettre de Christian Nadeau, professeur de philosophie à l’UdM, interprétée par Christian Bégin … Continue reading

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Quebec: Generalizing the Struggle – From Student Strike to Social Strike

"…but at the same time we want to challenge the economic imperative that informs the policies of our governments. If it is to do this, the student movement cannot remain alone, and must be joined by all of the forces … Continue reading

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