By Marie Eve Bourque
Category: First-Hand Account
BOUGE! BOUGE! BOUGE!
NAME WITHHELD https://doi.org/10.65968/UADI9253 The night I am arrested is a warm spring night, the 30th night of continuous protests to be exact. It’s the day after the May 22nd rally when over 200 000 people walked in protest…
Reflections from a Desk Chair Activist: On Translating the Printemps Érable
ANNA FROM TRANSLATING THE PRINTEMPS ÉRABLE https://doi.org/10.65968/DQVP4239 I woke up on May 19th, the morning after Bill 78 passed, feeling angry and powerless. While I have been a supporter of the student strike from the beginning, I had…
A revolution on the corner of St-Hubert and Marie-Anne
JEREMY STOLOW, CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY, COMMUNICATION STUDIES https://doi.org/10.65968/WVNH8915 The first manif des casseroles to take place at the corner of St-Hubert and Marie-Anne, just a stone’s throw from my home in the tony Plateau district of Montreal, occurred on…
Testimony of an Arrest
https://doi.org/10.65968/IQPM5213 EDITORS’ NOTE: Following the May 18 enactments of Law 78 and the Montreal municipal bylaw against masked protesters, police began arresting Quebec citizens by the hundreds. On the evening of Sunday, May 20 alone there were over 300 arrests…