"The free broadcasting of the film for public purposes is strongly recommended." "So we begin, can we have some decency please?" "Before the general assembly begins I am going to inform you about the procedures" "Probably many of you have experienced the students'strike and you are familiar with these procedures" "I will however go through them rapidly so that noone feels left out" "Let's be respectful and try to be silent, or talk as quietly as possible when someone's speaking on the micro" "If it's necessary, you can just whistle to the people sitting next to you" "A day plan will be put on the table shortly, this plan cannot be modified." "11th of February 2010 The liberal party of the Quebec government announces an increase in scholarship fees without detailing the exact amount." "30th of march 2010 Raymond Bachant submitted the ministry of finance's budget." "It involves an increase of hydroquebec, the health tax and the scholarship fees." "The general council of the liberal party has decided to raise the tuition fees to the average canadien fees." "We will have to go out on the streets more often in order to show our dissatisfaction." "The right to education... we are loosing our rights to health care..." "I believe that our outrage is reasonable, we have the right to reclame our dues and our rights to education" "And if the government refuses to step back, it's sure that we are going to use all the means possible" "And if that takes an indefinite general strike, so be it..." "We are warning the governemnt for the last time." "Mister Charest, this is your last chance." "STEP BACK!" "There are not only the students who are out on the streets, there are many other groups of people that support them as well." "We give red square to people passing by and honestly, it's works." "We are very happy about it." "The liberal government primeminister Jean Charest and his vice primeminister Line" "Beauchamp, also minister of Education, Recreation and Sports, plans an increase of the scolarship fees of 1625$ CAN, to be spread over 5 years, that being 325 dollars per year." "It represents an increase of 75% of the scholarship in Quebec." "Those who are in favour of today's day plan, please lift your cards high up so we can see them..." "This project has been completly done by volunteer students coming from different sectors and background inside the student tv of" "Montreal University (UdeM) :" "Universitv or UTV." "This film tends to reflect the important events which took place during the student movment in 2012 through university cameras." "We will understand why those events are more centered on the city of Montreal and on the UdeM." "Those who are against today's day plan, please lift your cards high up so we can see them." "This film is only half of the reflection, the other half is yours." "Those who abstain" "March to September 2012 Everywhere in Quebec" "In the first room their is a clear majority, and you?" "In the second room too." "So the day's plan will follow the majority's decision." "We are not going to gas you nor will we blow up bombs." "It's sure and certain that we are off for something new.." "You'd better listen to me, we are going to procede to arrests" "Ah, that's not better." "Well,it is." "With or without accusations?" "Refusal to obey to the orders of a police agent" "And that's subject to what?" "It is a municipal law so you will need certain conditions to carry out a protest." "I think that this is not your intention.." "You are stopping us from claiming our right on the street." "Stop it Mr Simoneau!" "I hope that your policemen will give us their matriculation number?" "They are not the good ones." "I am very happy that you came here to talk to us but..." " You are in a rather disputable position." " Why ?" "You obey to your men but if they arrest us all, what will this change to you?" "We are in front of the Ministery of Education." "We step aside, I let the people who work here enter the building and then you can stay here during the whole day if you want." "We can do nothing that has some social impact." "No one speaks to us and then you come out every time!" "I have allowed you to be here since 8 this morning." "You are smart, you are really smart!" "[free education]" "As I said previously  leave the 600 fullum..." "We didn't hear!" "Hey Simoneau!" "We have a speaker for you!" "These are better batteries, they are energizer!" "Let us present ourselves:" "we are the students, and those who support them, and we are on strike!" "[build the quebec through education]" "And we want to ask the police that is illegaly standing on private grounds, to leave and let the people demonstrate!" "We are here because this is where the offices, the lawyers, the liberals and Jean Charest are!" "they are holding a meeting in this building in order to discuss at what point they can fuck the Inuits with the North Plan" "This plan costs the liberals 80 millions dollars." "80 millions is about 100 times the free education costs" "Can you imagine?" "80 millions for the roads on the North, for the mines" "The mines that will never pay taxes.." "Do we really want that in Quebec?" "DO we really want this for the native lands, the lands that have been stolen?" "Make some noise!" "We shout louder so that no one can ignore us!" "Strike's Memory" "We shout louder so that no one can ignore us...!" "[Education is not for sale]" "[The strike begins today]" "I am happy to tell you today that this is the biggest protest in the history of Quebec.." "This is how we developed the modern Quebec, this is how we obtained scholarships." "and the higher educational institutions, and the universities in Quebec." "And if we continue together,there will be better things to hand down to our future generations" "The goverment is hoping to demoblize the student movement and they tell us that our votes don't count for the elections." "We are going to prove that in Quebec people have a strong memory and they can remember when people are trying to fool them." "Hundreds of thousands on the streets but the strike does not take place in television sets." "The strike takes place on the street!" "Yes, this bothers me a little bit because I am heading to the border and I don't know at what time this is going to finish" "But it is for a good cause." "It is for a very good cause, I support you for 100 miles per hour" "Don't give up" "For this kind of protest, there is no punch up, you just stop the traffic." "It's the young people like you, like him, like all these people that can change Quebec." "Me, in my age, I have passed my turn..." "so don't give up. don't give up" "Students are very important, they are our future." "It's with them, with education that we can have a better future." "By developing our own wealth, our own strength." "I think that Quebec is strong enough for this" "But you can't have this by telling the students that it is going to be more expensive to study." "Because as I told you, those who are richer, they could not care less..." "They will pay, it is alright." "They are the middle class..." "We pay, the middle class, I don't know what the percentage is in Quebec." "We pay in vain, we pay for nothing." "If we payed for good things then we would have a better Quebec." "And then I would be proud to be from Quebec." "But at this moment, when I see that, I am much less proud to be from here." "We move on, we move on, we don't give up!" "Anti anti capitalists!" "Step back !" "When there are glasses, that can't be good." "Policemen, your children are also students!" "We are fighting for your children !" "General strike!" "[Secondary in anger Popular movement]" "Don't ever let anyone ruin your dreams!" "We shout louder so that no one can ignore us!" "Mr Charest, the fact that we are in College doesn't mean that we are not concerned." "But with all that is happening today, this proves that we are strong!" "We are going to stand next to the students." "We are the next generation, we would like to go to school!" "We shout louder so that no one can ignore us!" "We are here to tell the governement that this will not be accepted by us neither" "That they can't do whatever they want with students of the secondary education neither." "We are on the lookout for information!" "We want to be involved in all this, we can be involved and change things" "Even if we don't vote, we can still change things, we know it and we are going to do it." "I am 11 years old and will be 12 soon." "I go to the primary school in Saint Andre Laporte" "I think that free education is much better than having to pay for university studies." "[Education is not a trade]" "Education is not a privilege but a social need, a valuable inexhaustible wealth." "We are not going to let austerity take over our country town." "We already have Harper..." "Parents, students, we carry out the same fight." "And we are doing it, and will be doing it more united than ever!" "Parents and students, we are very inspired and will never stop struggling." "It is just the beginning, we carry on with our fight!" "Beauchamp!" "Charest!" "Charest on the menu!" "We want fresh brains !" "[collective knowledge]" "[1625$ to sit here, school benches are also public benches]" "[It's also for your kids]" "[Spring Maple]" "The courts have been favorable to injunctions of students that wanted to have access to their courses." "These students have the right to reclaim all measures for the courses to take place Line Beauchamp - 11 april 2012" "[Rescue the session]" "There are students that study litterature, medicine..." "You can do literature at nights..." "There people that want to be informed" "But even you..." "You are not obliged to go to school..." "But even you who does a Diploma of College Studies, you can go to school at night and work during the day" "It is not my fault if there are people who make 300 000 per year and who pay for their children to go to school." "Three out of four of my friends have difficulties eating Kraft food." "We started off with 1, 2, 3 % tax and ended up with 15 %" "Even if that's still..." "No, we have the right to say no!" "There are people who say that this is not a good deal." "But if I owe 25 000 $, and the first year I make 45 000 $..." "You know there are doctors that say that they can make it when owing 60 000 $." "But they make 100 000 on their first year !" "But you say 'I'." "Remember that we are a movement." "Not just a movement, but a complete society." "Your society has to move on together." "I don't care about the doctor that makes 200 000$, if he can pay his childrens' courses, well then good for him..." "But the guy who gives his Maths course, who has difficulties going to school" "Because he has to work for 40 hours, 40 hours to learn Maths" "And then 40 hours to teach it to the children." "Then, we say that people have difficulties with French in the university." "They are screwed!" "They are screwed!" "Look at the people going to school in the morning, they look like a bunch of zombies." "If I do not become a paramedical, I cannot help the others." "If I don't make money, I can't give money." "You know, everybody talks a about 'community'" "The individual is less important than the community ." "But what is a community?" "It's the individuals who pay for the community, the taxes and all that." "That is what they do." "Thanks, you are saying exactly what I was trying to tell you just now." "Everybody pays in order to make the society move on." "Why when it comes to education you say 'fuck the rest'?" "It's not 'fuck the rest'..." "But this is exactly what you are saying." "Your arguments are 'I', 'me', and 'myself'.." "My studies, me, how I can make money." "Me, how can I pay my debts." "But when I am out of school, it's the community that matters?" "That's bullshit." "You are always the same, one way or another" "Whether that is green, red, whatever the color The students' movement.." "Everyone has it's own interest for participating in this movement" "You know the reds square, they don't want to pay the raise of 325 dollars." "They care about their pockets, not the community pockets,their own pockets." "ok, let's start over." "I am not a student." "I am fighting because my children will go to school in 15 or 20 years.." "in 15-20 years the minimum prices will not longer be the same." "A tax in Quebec that starts off at 2% and increases to 15%, is that a fall?" "No, the minimum salaries will rise." "You speak with a student that does environmental studies, if you care about sustainable development and all that" "I can tell you, I will tell you." "Everything is made for breaking, everything breaks." "It's you who destroy, it is not us, it is you." "In the 70's..." "I am not talking about breaking windows... but you don't want to hear what I'm saying.." "Why did the washing machines work for 25 years?" "Today you buy a washing machine." "The guarantee has not even begun but the machine is already dead." "You have to buy another one." "You are speaking about your washing machine, your toaster, what's all that about?" "you are ridiculous." "You are a red square between the green square." "People like you stop us from reaching our goals, you don't know what you are talking about." "Seriously, you are talking about sustainable development?" "everything is cheap, everything breaks." "Nothing lasts." "Who told you this?" "You buy a washing machine, it breaks." "You buy a dvd, it breaks." "You buy a computer, it breaks..." "But it's not the goverment to blame for all this..." "I am not talking about the government but all these things are connected somehow." "But you are saying that the government is to blame." "It is a system that is connected together." "If you break down the economy, if you have no resourses." "What do you do ?" "You have to force people to buy and raise the taxes." "they have decided to take a step to 'prohibition this is not a solution' that's why we will follow the protest (red square disguise)." "[The prohibition is not the solution]" "Legalising marijuana is a measure that makes absolute sense." "Rational, good and fundamentaly good too." "We could finance the free education for example." "by saving money that is normally given for police repression." "Back there, we 'Greens' will stand behind the banner. (the green square)" "And when we take a two-way street, we stay on the side of the street where we walk." "In order not to upset the people, we are only going to block one side of the street." "So, the yellow line in the middle is very important." "Let's stay on the right side please." "I am kindly asking you, thank you." "We do not want the protest to be illegal." "It will start soon, so you can follow me." "I don't know who holds the green banner on the front." "Angry students for the fre..." "Ok, we will make it." "We have to make shorter slogans." "We we we will save the term!" "Charest, out of here, we 'll get you a job in the north!" "Charest, asshole!" "Roll a joint!" "We came to the protest of the Greens." "To make fun of them, to see what their protest is all about." "Because I hear all sorts of things and sometimes I wonder, is it really true?" "Courses, exams, we have not come here for nothing!" "[stop the strike and go back to school Like a boss] [yes, for an education of quality, WTF the strike?" "]" "[Wake up]" "[Family in hostage]" "Ok, we were very.." "Oh!" "Somebody‚ is calling me at the same time, it's ok.." "Ok, there were rather many of us here today, but not enough so as to take over the street." "So as to block the traffic." "So, tonight there is another protest at 9pm and there should be many of us there !" "This protrest has to last more than 90 minutes, even 2 hours, so that more people see us!" "But today's aim was also that more people would see us, and I think that it worked." "So I believe that today's objective was accomplished." "It was important that the Media saw us and I think that many of them are here today." "The 'Reds' have not bothered us, it's fine." "We thank all 'Reds' that are here for not having bothered us." "For alllowing us to claim our right to education..." "We have the right to express our opinion." "Thank you for coming here." "It is nice of you to come out here because we have to say we are not going with the flow at this moment..." "Thank you, see you tonight!" "[Families in anger]" "This week, the director of my CEGEP, the one of Valleyfield, ordered that the students go back to their classes despite the fact that the democratically taken decision of the general assembly was to continue the strike." "The director, Mr Laperrierre, wanted to encourage the rest of the educational institutions to follow his pathetic decision and give an example." "Who gave the example?" "Encouraging people to confrontations is not an example!" "Mrs Beauchamp, you ask from us to disapprove of the graffiti's, the broken doors" "But you encourage students to smash open the picket lines?" "If this is not a call to violence, then what is it?" "You can no longer talk about democracy and civicism." "The court will be the last resort for those who have not managed to convince us in the general assembly, those who have not managed to win in the streets.their injunctions and orders to return to the classes will not scare us" "Our resistance, our determination and the force of our convictions will win!" "Despite all this, Mr Laperrierre has managed to convince some other educational institutions." "But they will get the same answer from us." "At this point, it is no longer just a strike against the unfair rise of tuition fees" "It is an everyday fight to have people's will respected, because it is us the real guards of democracy." "It is only the beginning, we are going on with our fight!" "This encourages violence and hostilities." "If the GA's decision is in favour of the strike, there is nothing to negotiate before the course begins." "Either we respect the GA's decisions, or we don't." "If there are many people with us, it will be peaceful." "If we all go in there toghether, it will be calm." "[long live democracy]" "Ok everyone, there are news!" "James is trying to convince the rest of the people to come out and to explain them what is the demand of the GA." "The course has not started yet so if you don't go in there the chances are high that it will be cancelled." "But if you enter massively, it is sure that the course will take place because this professor is already a bit.." "let's say crooked.." "If you are many people in there he is going to think that there is enough people for the course to take place normally." "For the moment the situation here is ambiguous, so if none else enters, it's all right." "James is talking so the course has not started yet." "You have nothing to loose If you stand out here for the moment." "When the professor says that the course will take place officially, you have the right to enter the room if you wish because we can't stop you from doing so." "But, can I speak?" "Do I have the right, sir?" "Thank you, it's nice of you." "Let's say that everyone enters the room after we have finished talking without any reason" "Do you think that it will be possible for the course to take place normally?" "I will answer to this." "The question is, if everyone enters and everyone starts making questions isn't that going to stop the course from taking place normally?" "If the course is cancelled because there are not enough people this will provoke much less tensions than if everyone starts shouting at each other in a room of 200 people." "Please let's not stop the course from taking place" "We don't want any course to take place." "And then you can say your opinion about what you want to happen next" "I am now.." "DECORUM!" "I am a member of the AEBUM (Association of students of Biology in the University of Montreal)." "I am not an executive but I am close enough to the executive" "He is not a member of the Association but I am kindly asking you as a member of the AEBUM to respect the procedure, that is generally recommended by the general assemblies of the AEBUM." "After this you can all tell your opinion, I will not try to stop you" "In anyway, even if I wanted I would not be able to do so since you are so many" "I am asking you to chose the least complicated option,that of letting the course be canceled because there are not enough people." "Give a chance to the president of the AEBUM who is speaking, and then you can say whatever you want." "I will announce something to everyone." "No one should insult the people that will come out of the room." "Please, you can go please." "Please let the people go, it has been difficult." "We have achieved what we wanted so please let the people come out.." "GA tomorrow." "Check your University of Montreal e-mail account, for the time and the place." "[Courthouse]" "Liberate us from the Liberals!" "[No to the injunctions]" "[University of Montreal]" "No order will make us give in." "Indefinite general strike!" "Guy Breton declares war against us." "We declare war against" "Guy Breton (President of the University of Montreal)" "[Art's history of UdeM against the fees]" "No order will make us give in." "Indefinite general strike!" "The university had better accept the interruption of the courses..." "We actually saw that the University has temporally postponed the courses, so in a way they reply partly to the demand we made." "instead of putting security guards around the campus this mean that they were trying to provoke direct confrontations with the students." "[Security agents of UdeM intractable with disruptives]" "I think that it is a responsible way to react to this problem" "We hope that other universities will do the same thing" "Because it was mostly in Outaouais where the biggest confrontations with the students took place." "and there was a massive intrusion by the policemen so we think that there are other ways of dealing with this conflict instead of provoking confrontations" "We keep walking as long as they don't tell as to stop or that we might get arrested or that the protest is illegal." "Let's go that way." "[University of Quebec in Outaouais]" "We shout louder so that none can ignore us!" "Who does the Uni of Outaouais belong to?" "It belongs to us!" "It belongs to us!" "Cops, pigs, killers!" "Police everywhere, justice nowhere!" "[towards free education]" "United people can never be defeated!" "Who does the Uni of Outaouais belong to?" "It belongs to us!" "There is somebody injured and they won't let me take care of him." "There are people injured here guys!" "There are more back there." "They were taken to the hospital." "The least that we can do is that those people have not been injured for nothing." "We are going to stay here and cancel those fucking courses!" "We go on, we go on, we won't step back." "Go!" "We are going back, everyone back!" "Educated people can never be defeated." "[One student close to death, hit by a club]" "[Control your feelings cops]" "This order does not respect our democratic right to strike." "Today we demand that our strike is respected." "And we want all the courses to be cancelled today." "We will not stop shouting until all the courses are cancelled." "Cancel the courses!" "[Exit only]" "We love you!" "They closed the doors." "So there is no way to go to the toiletes or something?" "You can piss out of the window." "I can't piss here, it is disgusting!" "Let our comrades go!" "Di dam dam dam" "Where have they gone, all those people that had something to say?" "Di dam dam dam" "We have brought people to life, maybe we should listen to them." "Di dam dam dam" "Where have they gone, all those people that had something to say?" "Di dam dam dam" "We have brought people to life, maybe we should listen to them." "[Be recognized]" "Di dam dam dam" "Where have they gone, all those people that had something to say?" "Di dam dam dam" "We have brought people to life maybe we should listen to them [the breath of those who are aware]" "Di dam dam dam" "Where have they gone, all those people that had something to say?" "Di dam dam dam" "Professors and assistants, everyone is gone." "There won't be any course taking place today." "We are very happy to be supported by the professors' unions and we have noticed this even at moments where there were a class return forced" "They have been more than supportive, there were with us even in the picket lines." "We want to go back to the classes as soon as possible but not at the cost of tuition fees rise." "And the best way to have the professor's support the best way to assure them that their working conditions will not deteriorate, is for them to be with us in our fight against the liberal government." "And this has been their position up to this moment." "The liberals are blind and sometimes we wonder if it's is due to incompetence or if it's conscious." "This blindness, is it conscious or is it due to their incompetence?" "The debate has started." "There is one thing for sure, the government doesn't realise what has been happening" "At this moment, the biggest student strike in the history of Quebec is taking place." "And the more it continues the more we can claim that it is one of the greatest social movements in the history of Quebec." "Mr Charest, who claims to be in control of everything, ran off to Brasil instead of participating in this debate" "And Mr Charest will have to take a position because unfortunately his Minister of Education is loosing more and more credibility" "There are about 1000 professors that demand his resignation." "Half of his college system is on strike as well as tens of Universities" "And the biggest answer he can give to all this is a short table discussion that does not even concern in reality the issues that are at stake at the moment." "So Mr Charest has to start preparing himself for the debate, he should stop running away from the conflict." "4 club strikes, it hits, it hits 4 club strikes, it fucking hits 5 club strikes" "A policeman should behave in a way that protects the trust and the consideration that his services require." "A policemen should mainly not:" "5.1 Use vulgar, blasphemous or insulting language" "That's not a good start.." "I have tried this." "5.2 Refuse to reveal his identity with an official document when somebody asks them to." "Omit to have an official identification mark on them when interacting with the public." "Act or have the intention to act in ways that insult the race, the colour, the sex or the sexual orientation the religion, the political convictions..." "Be irrespectful or impolite towards a second party" "Artcile 6:" "A policeman should avoid any form of authority abuse when interacting with the general public." "The policemen should mainly not:" "6.1 Use force that is greater than what they are ordered or permitted to use." "Let's go, let's go!" "We move on!" "Step back, step back!" "Fascists!" "Fascists!" "[North Plan congress]" "Hey, you don't have to push!" "Hitting me with your club, it is more legitimate ?" "is it more moral than hitting someone directly?" "Do you think that you have the right to hit people?" "Do you think that this is normal?" "Is this what you want, hein?" "Is this what you want?" "No justice no peace, fuck the police !" "His aim is neither education nor the students!" "His aim is to establish the order!" "His motivation is the urge for order!" "A regime that favours the order against all other values like freedom, equality, solidarity." "and even when it comes to security, this regime is guided by a fascist ideology" "Because this will for order, scares the strikers, the people protesting and the professors that support them" "The fascist regimes of the 30's based the establishment of order on racial obsessions or obsessions that concerned people's identity" "They hated the immigrants, the black people, the jews, the homosexuals or the mentally ill" "In short, all the decadents and the depraved." "Depraved that could harm the pureness of our race." "Our fascism, cherishes another type of order that is also very offensive." "The economical order." "And as the politicians and the good men of 30's hated all those who were depraved" "Now our politicians and our good men hate all those who oppose to the economical system those who resist the flow, whether they are demonstrators, strikers, intellectuals, or even the welfare recipients." "They hate them!" "That's what it's about, it's about hatred!" "They hate them more than anything else, as if they were ennemies, as if they were the cause of their misfurtunes." "Spring 2012, our downfall is slowly but surely coming." "We can abondon ourselves." "In the case of the code of conduct, fuck off, it doesn't work?" "By tightening debts and international competition." "Or we can just stop them." "Let's remind ourselves that the necessary amount of hatred for fascist violence to spread, will never parish, sleeps like a volcano, like the dragon or the One Ring, it waits inside all of us to annoy it, or flatter it." "Ladies and Gentlemen, we are telling you that you are commissioned by the state and our citizens to guarantee for safety, and that we professors are commisioned by the state and our citizens to guarantee the transmission of knowledge." "In this democracy we are, I repeat, colleagues : you, servants of peace and we, servants of knowledge." "During the last days, in the virtues of this mission, we decided to disobey." "During the last days, in the virtues of this mission, we decided to disobey." "The North Plan, we burned it!" "Burn the North Plan!" "Burn the North Plan!" "Educated people can never be defeated." "[from student strike to social strike]" "We said No to the North Plan and the police state replied with pepper spray, and came to drive us back." "If you've seen what I've seen, you could, of course, have seen traffic cones and stones flying." "But this is nothing compared to the aggression these young people had to face during months, and have to face everyday for hours." "You're on the street, go on the sidewalk." "[Convention center of Montreal]" "Out of the way!" "Out of the way!" "[We truly hope that this agreement may allow to students that are actually in boycott, the return to courses, go through exams, obtain their diploma, as soon as possible." "All conditions are in place to make this happen." "Line Beauchamp" " 5 may 2012]" "We are lucky to have Philippe Lapointe, who's a member of the CLASSE's bargaining committee, and CLASSE's secretary of academic affairs." "He was in the heat of the moment," "I would say saturday or sunday." "No, friday and saturday." "So you are lucky to get some first-hand information, first-hand in the crudest sense of the term," "in the presentation." "The discussions begin on a topic and the topic is very simple." "The question is not whether to end the strike." "Indeed, we were not there to discuss tuition fees." "The government had one thing on its mind:" "to find a way out of the crisis." "But to get out of the crisis, it was necessary to find an instance that could take over things and be convinced that it was time to stop." "Hence the idea to create a temporary council." "There are 120 000 students in Quebec who have mandats, and the question for them is not to know whether they are on strike or not, as long as you have not cancelled the rise of tuition fees." "And we're not speaking here about those who voted for free education, and we're not speaking about the 25 students in the "history, culture and society program" who want students to get paid." "Try to set up a joint comittee without equality for them." "They will stop the strike tomorrow..." "This government pretends to be deaf in front of the society, proceeding with an arrogance that Quebec has never seen, be it in front of the students, or the society in general." "The government only listens to the lobbies of those who have money." "But we have to be watchful, our protest against the politics of the liberal government, must not to lead us to lower our guards or to conform to other parties that brutally or smothely back up the rise of tuition fees." "In one way or another, we are moving away from the ideal we defend." "Which is that of free education, from pre-school to university." "We have unconditionally defended the student protests against the tuition fees even before the strike started." "This surprises some, and others just don't understand that a trade union can defend the causes of a fight like this one." "But we will go through with it and we will shake the congress of Quebec's Liberal Party." "General outrage against the Liberal Party!" "The trade unions nevertheless represent the professors, lecturers, and assistants and there are thus not only the students involved." "Only that, each one of the three trad union leaders have repeatedly said:" "this is not our fight." "They're only supporting the students." "The political role they are playing is to give us confidence, because this would balance out the power when we were not alone confronting three ministers, the CREPUQ (the chancellors) and the Federation of the CEGEPS." "[Congress center of Victoriaville]" "Charest !" "Whoo hoo!" "If the bargaining committee has reached any consensus, then on the fact that the documents we have, resemble the negotiations we had tonight." "Meaning that the document is not a complete scam, as the press says." "We negotiated." "Who owns the palace?" "We own the palace?" "The police serves the rich and the fascists." "Once we reread the document and realized what we had signed, we were not proud." "So, we arrive at the congress, we present our stuff, and then, well, it's up to the General Assembly." "And then, during the congress, it was not very well received." "This is when it gets really interesting." "The next day in the morning I was woken up by Philipe Cannon, who is at the head of the cabinet of the minister Beauchamp, and who calls me to ask how it is received." "I tell him: "not good"." "He says, "what do you mean?" "we're not talking about fees." "We have a committee whose members are not equally represented." "In that way, we don't have an result." "He tells me, yeah and then?" "Well, that's it, it didn't pass." "During the day Miss Beauchamp goes out boasting that she managed to keep the rise as it was intended and that there's no way to find savings." "Thanks!" "The GA begins and Valleyfield, which usually agree by a margin of 20 votes, have now passed by a margin of 179." "And then Marie Vic refuses the offer of 96%." "During the day, 18 General Assemblies and all 18 refused." "But the best moment of the day was when" "Philippe Cannon called me to tell me: "Hey!" "What's happening, are you not selling your offer?"" "He calls that an agreement." "Are you not reselling your agreement?" "I ask him." "Oh!" "Phil!" "He calls me Phil, I call him Phil." "Watch out, we are in good faith, we have negotiated all night, we signed a document." "proving that we were valuable discussion partners and that the true balance of power is now, that the all that comes from GA is : fuck that!" "In that way my signature is worth shit." "But afterwards, because of the reaction of the General Assemblies, strategically, we are much stronger that last friday." "Because last Friday, the GA would have never been in the situation of taking sides on a financial offer." "And now, the next time they call us they ask us how to get out of this crisis?" "We'll tell them that it's the tuition fees and if you didn't get that you didn't follow the last week." "[It's your turn]" "Oh!" "and I forgot one thing because I just remembered the connection with the first negotiation." "They excluded us from that one as well." "Because of Victoriaville, they kicked us out and then some trade unionists came to tell them that it didn't make sense." ""You move us away from Quebec city, because a bunch of youngsters throw stones at policemen in Victoriaville, what did you expect?" "What we're really trying to show, is that the" "GA weren't forced to accept an imposed deal." "As a person on the table, I'm a drive belt, that's what I'm telling you." "That's how we introduced oursevles but I think, they started to realize." "It's because we're here that we say: yeah, we think that this reach a correct result or at least some kind of minimum limit, where we would feel that this is all we can expect from the government." "Ok, if the government agrees to the minimum, I would say it's the minimum, we sign and we submit it." "But I think that for them, if I sign then it means that I accept." "Maybe that's how it works for other organizations, but it doesn't seem that that's how it works here." "United people can never be defeated!" "Watch out!" "He is holding a gas pistol in his hands!" "We were about to discuss the co-management in which all participants of the middle would get together to cut public budget with public support." "And then, esentially, it will pass." "Put in this way, it sounds horrible." "Actually, we were about to build a management system of budget cuts in which we would have a part." "And then our part was about to co-manage a system of budget cuts." "So, indeed, we are about to legitimize a reduction of university financing." "If the FEUQ and the CLASSE wouldn't have agreed on the interpretation of the Economy of Knowledge." "And then, if we wouldn't agree on out idea, that means that a a negatiating table with 2 government representatives and student representatives is not the best place to solve this problem." "We'll have it around a general statements" "We are 1000!" "They are 10!" "Leo (president of the FECQ) called me this morning because there was a rumor that said he would recommend the offer then he wanted to reassure me saying:" "I didn't recommend the offer, don't worry." "And then, well, I explained to him that what I told you about the balance of power." "I told him: from now on yout have to says that we have to speak about tuition fees." "Stop talking about the elections." "Because he speaks about elections." "Talk about fees if you, as the next tables'future nego negotiator,still want us to be together." "If you still want us to be able of articulating the same thing, we can't show up in front of the government and tell them: ah ah!" "we're going to have a vote!" "But no!" "Then the government will win." "We don't want to have the elections, that would be suicidal." "We can talk about the elections in another context if you like." "But we have to speak about fees." "To celebrate Line's Beauchamp resignation" "Come here, we have a song !" "After 14 weeks..." "We will draw straws to find out who, who, who 's gonna be fired" "Oh eh oh eh Line Beauchamp, Line Beauchamp is leaving us, we 're happy." "Oh eh oh eh, Jean Charest if you followed her it would be perfect" "She's gone to a long trip" "to find a job to the North" "Oh eh oh eh Line Beauchamp, Line Beauchamp is leaving us, we're happy!" "Oh eh oh eh, Jean Charest if you followed her, it would be perfect" "This morning we had a community assembly, to talk about the social strike and uphold the student movement" "So, there is a massive community back-up towards the student movement" "And we welcome Catherine de l'AFESH." "(Association, Uqam)" "Just to put this fight into perspectives, it's been 2 years that we've been fighting and 2 years that we are getting prepared." "all students together." "It's been 2 years that we're making a panoply of actions." "And then we reached a point, where we were no longer heard for all the actions that we've known." "This is why, we had the idea to magnify the movement and make people talk about it." "because all the people is against the austerity measures, proposed by the government." "That has nothing to do with you, so go have a walk somewhere else!" "Do something with your life, Get a job, I don't know..." "Work!" "Consume!" "And shut the fuck up." "No need to hit him, we can beat him with ideas!" "1 2 3 4 this is fucking class War!" "5 6 7 8 Organize and smatch the State !" "This demonstration has become an unlawful assembly. you are request... you ordered to disperse and go home." "If you do not obey to this order, you run the risk of being charged under municipal bylaws or the Criminal Code." "Where do you want us to go?" "You 're pushing me like, I don't have the habit to be pushed, excuse me." "We are in the middle of a riot here." "I arrived far after the riot." "[The exploitation of knowledge by the missionaries of economic development jeopardizes the university autonomy and causes an increase in bureaucratic expenses that misappropriate educational goals for private interest benefits.]" "I hope we'll win." "I hope you will win, because you're doing it for real, you're doing it for real, fuck!" "Charest out, we'll find you a job to the North!" "Move, move!" "No justice, no peace, fuck the police !" "You're sexy !" "you're cute!" "Take off your riot suit!" "If there is no voluntary dispersion, we will proceed to a notice of dispersion and therefore our specialized troops ..." "We cannot even demonstrate where we want!" "It is our constitutional right!" "You are not capable to think for your-self." "Somebody has to tell you that it's illegal." "Even when it is not." "Nothing is broken!" "It is our constitutional right!" "Defend the citizen!" "We are not illegal!" "You're not ashamed to treat the youth as well?" "You're just a bunch of robots, that's what you are!" "Why did you pray me?" "Because I speak loud?" "Are you going to scream louder than me?" "Hit!" "Hit!" "No, this is how you are going to win." "Hit!" "Aren't you ashamed?" "And you call this democracy?" "Look at this!" "Was this a riot?" "Did it had broken windows till now?" "You are just a bunch of sacred saints to treat young people like that!" "Democracy?" "But one day, this is going to an end." "Why do you trappe them that way?" "[Do not hit please]" "Why do you stop them?" "They are just walking." "They are just walking." "[We'll make every effort to save their session." "The law project, reorganizes the school calendar and the education quality of the diploma." "We will [do everything so that students can continue their studies." "Michelle Courschene, new minister of education, 18 may 2012]" "[18 may 2012 Death of human rights in Quebec]" "[Law 78]" "[white hair, red square]" "The government's answer to this protest movement, had been law and order." "It had been the law 78, that gives and reinforces the arbitrary power of the police." "put an end to demonstrations and prevent their realization." "But repression is not a solution." "We have to remind that the very same day in the city of" "Montreal,a law was adopted, forbidding parades, gatherings, spontaneous assemblies, as well as wearing a mask without a special reason." "A rational cause, interpretation is entirely left to the discretion of the police forces." "Enrich our selves for your mister Charest means one thing: money." "We are talking about our scientific and cultural heritage, which should be accessible to everybody regardless their socio-economical status and you say no!" "How can it be possible?" "This spring you gave no importance to the youth on crisis, you bet to your that much unpopular ,North plan Is this your vision for the society?" "Plunder the native lands for the benefit of mine companies, with our money?" "The law 78 is also a club strike on the back of the students'associations who can no longer represent legitimately their members but are now obliged to impose on their members decisions that represent the government" "And if getting rid of a service can be attributed to a failure on their part, their existence is put to question." "They could be deprived of space and contributions for a period of 3 months." "And you can't allow yourselves to close a session." "Because the students represent human capital for you." "They only serve the economy." "You don't like the word protest, you prefer boycott." "That might be, because it better hides your nervousness, your worry to see what your past looks like every week." "By trying to put a lid on the issue, the government only provoked outrage and galvanized powers of resistance." "The society doesn't have the intention to renounce these liberties, not more that they let politicians impose policies that are contrary to the common good." "Do you know Bertold Brecht, Monsieur Charest?" "Maybe in ten years his name will have vanished from the school curriculum because our world economy is in transition." "But he said the words:" "Today's defeats don't prove anything except that we are to few in the fight against infamy." "and all those people who are looking at us now, we expect that they feel ashamed." "The freedom of expression is very important in periods of crisis." "So the repression is not a solution." "We demand that the law 78 is withdrawn." "And we are not going to be intimidated." "Sit down!" "Go and sit down!" "We are a community media!" "Think a bit, think by yourself, we are all from Québec!" "We're fighting for your children!" "We're fighting for you!" "We talk to the citizens with respect!" "We're doing this for your children!" "Stop filming now or we're gonna take your camera away, do you understand?" "Once you are arrested you have no right whatsoever!" "Move!" "Club strikes, knee strikes, I don't know!" "We are here to help you !" "You know I want to help you." "Yeah!" "I was passing by, I was with my wife." "They were here:" "Go ahead, march on!" "I am telling him 'we are moving' they attacked me." "They hit me with the club, they hit me with all sorts of things" "Can you go back home by yourself?" "Well, I do not have a choice..." "I will make it." "Ok, we go ahead !" "Go ahead you Wailers!" "Who are the Wailers?" "We march on!" "We go ahead !" "Those who won't leave from the ST Hubert and ST Catherine area will be arrested for rioting." "The protest is over." "We are asking you to leave." "It would be much better if people were united, I am telling you this honestly, I am speaking from my heart." "There is one thing that I can't accept, police violence." "I have witnessed police violence." "Here are 30 seconds where you see 4 policemen attacking a young student." "And today, my wife's daughter was attacked because she played the trumpet." "Isn't this ridiculous?" "Yes it is." "Please come together and use your force together!" "Thank you very much, have a good night!" "The policeman, refused to identify himself." "He told me:" "'If you don't go away, I will put a rubber bullet in your face!" "'" "It happened just now around Berry, I had the right to do it." "I told him : 'Identify yourself, you are obliged to do so'." "He could not care less." "We were going to get the metro." "We were coming back from the "foufes" (bar)" "They stop us!" "And then they pepper spray us." "We just can't get away." "That guy just got arrested." "We were doing nothing." "And they just appeared on the street, they passed in front of us." "We kept walking, and he just pissed us off." "And then he pepper sprayed us for no reason." "I am your friend, man." "You are not my friend, you are just a piece of.. (insult)." "And what are you?" "You are arrested for loitering." "Why is this happening?" "Because they have uniforms, so they can hit people." "Because we are not wearing uniforms." "Everyone come around there!" "We are going to enforce a police intervention!" "Protest every night until we win!" "Democracy is dead, long live democracy !" "Access to higher education is dead." "Long live the access to higher education!" "[Police excesses oppressive said Canadian Civil" "Liberties Association, it must be stopped!" "]" "The right to protest safely is dead." "Long live the right to protest safely." "[Jurists against the special law]" "We are doing this march in order to express our disarray towards a law that violates our fundamental freedom to express ourselves, to reunite and protest peacefully" "We are also here to express our fear about the fact that more and more citizens loose their trust in our justice system which is however based on the respect of individual and collective rights and freedoms as well as the preeminence of the law." "And this loss of trust was more than expected after the law 78 was adopted." "Many people are standing in the front lines of the fight which is taking place in order to declare this law as unconstitutional" "[Angry and solidary mothers]" "We shout louder so that none can ignore us!" "[Villeray (neighborhood) Disobey]" "The special law, we could not care less!" "[I peacefully disobey]" "[Charest you are the pan, and we are...] [...the spoon]" "[knowledge makes human inapt to slavery]" "Welcome to Montreal !" "[Naked students against the fees]" "'Francofolies' (music festival)" "Who does the street belong to?" "It belongs to us!" "[Welcome to the festival!" "(jazz festival)]" "[This summer the CLASSE travels in Quebec]" "Many people are on holidays." "But there are also many students around the region." "The "casserole" (pan) protests are transformed into public assemblies!" "And we use this time to meet people and talk to them." "There is a congress organised for this wk in the university" "Laval, on Saturday." "And the aim is to determine our strategy for the elections that may take place soon!" "But it's not sure." "For the moment there is no standard strategy but what's sure is that we will not remain silent." "There are many reasons why we believe that the liberal party isn't leading Quebec in the right direction." "These reasons can be found in this manifesto." "we are going to have this manifesto with us whether there is an election campaign or not." "And there electoral campaign takes place after all it might be quite different." "But at the same time I would say that our intention isn't to have an electoral campaign meaning that we aren't trying to create an enterprise of seduction here, but rather an enterprise of thought." "That is seen in a long-term context regardless of the electoral campaigns of the following weeks." "What we want is to sow the seeds of a longterm change." "Obviously, one of the basic principles is direct democracy." "It is therefore sure that the general assemblies will decide on the continuation or not of the strike." "And then the students will be the ones who will decide and if not the law 78, the law 12 now, will be respected." "We will not impose the blocking of the colleges and the campus." "This has to be clear." "It is the students of each campus that will take all decisions in the general assemblies." "most of that will take place before the beginning of the academic year,some days before or one day before the colleges open." "[the streets made a lot of noise." "It is now the quebecois turn to speak and resolve this issue." "JeanCharest,firstaugust2012 ]" "[Election sign for the Coalition for Quebec's Future]" "[Election or not, the strike will continue]" "[I will remember]" "The elections were triggered off, a new law passed, and all this was done in order to put down the strike." "to calm down the revolt, to keep the students silent." "All the political and economic elite is asking us now to remain silent, because it is an election period and to stop the pressure during this time." "What do we reply to them?" "[Fuck elections]" "It is just the beginning, we go on with our fight!" "The 'spring maple ' has given a new dimension to the fight against neoliberal politics." "This spring has given birth to an extraordinary, excited and organised youth young people that within the time of a season have managed to give birth again to hope and to prove that we are not alone." "[I vote for 'a free Quebec']" "These young people in a few months and with few means has managed to create the biggest social movement in our history." "It is important to keep fighting to give out a clear message to whoever is thinking about becoming part of the neoliberal world, that we will always get in their way." "[Election sign for Quebec Party (Pauline Marois)]" "the only thing that has given me hope the last 10 years, is to see you doing all this." "And also, we really need the young people, their creativity, everything" "In anyway, I was really amazed by all the creativity, all the wonderful solutions the crazy projects, the fun, all the fantastic things that took place during this spring." "It is obvious that we need all this for the future of our society." "Well, the PQ (Quebec Party) said that they wanted to fix the tuition fees." "This would be cool." "But we'll have to see if they will keep their promise." "I would not trust the Coalition for Quebec's Future in a million years!" "They only want to privatise, use-pay." "They are more conservative than Charest." "They are just big mouths, honestly." "In anyway, I find this hard to swallow, so as to say it politely." "Apart from that, what else could work?" "We'll see, I don't know what the deal will be." "I have seen very unpleasant things since this spring started." "There was some wind today and I hope things will change." "I really hope that things change, but.." "There are so many forces that we are dealing with in and that are bigger than me.We have to take hats off to people!" "Congratulations for having been courageous and persistent even when you were attacked, or when you were hit by rubber bullets." "The police says:" "No, no, no we do not shoot with rubber bullets." "Yeah, sure." "And then there is the disinformation, then the public media that say these things, it really makes no sense..." "When I listen to what the TV says, in reality I amn't listening." "These are TV chains that belong to Mr Peladeau.." "I don't listen because it makes me feel sick!" "But I listen to what the TV says, the disinformation, then the journals, it makes no sense." "Even last Saturday, there was an interview on CBC, of the guy who wrote the book about the red squares and they wouldn't let him speak." "The hostess did not want to let him speak" "Why?" "there is no professionalism, in terms of balance and neutrality,which is the way that they are supposed to work." "I don't understand." "[University of Montreal]" "The 4th of September 2012, the Liberal Party loose the election and Jean Charest is not re-elected in his county." "The" "Quebecois Party (PQ) wins a minority government and Pauline" "Marois becomes the first woman primeminister of Quebec." "Further to its election, the PQ freezes the increase of the scholarship fees and abrogate the law 12, formerly law 78." "Léo Bureau-Blouin, representative of the Collegial Student Federation of Quebec (FECQ) during the strike, was also elected deputy PQ at just 20 years old..." "Pauline Marois who wore the red square during the strike, is defending, like the PQ a slower increase of the scholarship fees: based on the indexation on the cost-of-living..." "Temporary assessment of the Maple Spring : about 3400 arrests and many others injured." "Since then, the summit on Higher Education took place in Montreal." "The PQ along with Léo Bureau-Blouin, have set up the indexation of the scholarship fees." "In 15 years, the fees will have increased by $1625 and will keep on increasing..." "[At the congress of indexation : demonstrate!" "]" "[General assembly of strike]" "SO, down there, in all of the rooms, those you are in favour of going on strike." "Lift your card high up so that we can see it clearly!" "To those who live in Quebec and elsewhere Who fight for a better access to education."