By Aziz Choudry
This is a discussion – one of many that will take place today – which would not be happening without the willingness of thousands of people to take to the streets, put their bodies on the line day after day, for months on end, and, at the time of this writing, with no apparent end in sight. For that, I am deeply grateful.
DAVID WADDINGTON, CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY, EDUCATION https://doi.org/10.65968/TBTD1626 Sound the alarm and head for the underground shelters: a grave new threat to civil society has arisen in Québec. Fred Pellerin (see terror-inspiring mug shot above), whose main activities up until now…
ALANNA THAIN, MCGILL UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH https://doi.org/10.65968/GQVX2711 Students and BodiesOver the many months of the student strike in Quebec, the streets of Montreal have been filled with the creativity of protest as street theatre, an enactment of eventness…
ROSALIND HAMPTON, MICHELLE HARTMAN, ADRIENNE HURLEY, TOM LAMARRE https://doi.org/10.65968/NBVD9313 Events in Quebec over the past year, particularly in and around universities, have made it clear that the State and its institutions do not act within the law as they…