do we have a thread for Quebec protests?

[Marokai Backbeat]

Apparently a bill was passed whereby protests of more than 80 members are supposed to inform the police before doing anything.

Talk about authoritarian laws.  Power to the People of Quebec.

Unfortunate that Jean Charest would basically have to murder someone on Quebec television for the PLQ's support to consistently stay below 30%.

[Marokai Backbeat]

I find the notion that students are spoiled brats for protesting in favor of lower tuition, frankly, disgusting. There is nothing entitled about wanting education to be cheaper and more accessible by all. There is, however, something deeply selfish and unfair in the notion of socking it to the students, the kids, the poor, for a cheap boost in national coffers. Somehow the students are the bad guys in that?

At what point in our society did we become so brainwashed by a corporate-bottom-line mentality that we started to look down on people who wanted things to be cheaper and more affordable and more accessible for all? Quebec isn't spoiled, they're just one of the last places on the continent that isn't going to just take it for no good reason.

An opinion piece from the Star summed up this idea fairly well:

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http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1174591--quebec-students-send-a-message-against-austerity

I loathe the notion that you should never protest, you should never fight for things to be cheaper, you should never raise hell because you have an increasingly less and less affordable life through no fault of your own. That's so dirty. You're not doing things properly. You should be happy to spend more money and see education become less and less accessible. How could anyone possibly be so selfish as to not want to pay 75% more for your tuition and work more just because we have to have more money to give out in tax cuts or corruption gifts to favored industries?

There's a greater war going on here underneath the surface. On the surface, it's just about protesting higher tuition and authoritarian emergency laws. Underneath, it's about fighting a corrupt and scandal plagued government, resisting the tendency of society to be played against each other by the powers that be, and trying to break out of the neoliberal brainwashing that has somehow convinced society that we always have to sacrifice for no reason and be happy with it. Protestors are on the right side of a war we've been quietly losing for 30 years.

[Marokai Backbeat]

There's not even a foundation for us to make our points because government is just so huge--the CPC, to me, is even a left-wing party.

I'm always glad when a poster makes a statement that allows me to completely disregard their opinions for any topic ever.