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***IcyPatriot*** · 05-25-2012, 08:25 PM

Here is an issue and a protest that is not going away. One way to keep jobs in North America is to find ways to save on tuition ... this is big and under reported by the MSM. Now they are trying anti-protest laws ... that's a great idea ... NOT!!! These protests will not be taken over by deviants ... not this time.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonas-...b_1545725.html

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Students in Quebec are rising up and fighting back against tuition increases. For over three months there has been a strike comprising of as many as nine percent of the province's students, with marches and rallies night and day against the March 2011 decision to raise tuition by $325 a year for five years.

The largest of these occurred on May 22 with estimates ranging from 250,000 to 500,000 students and supporters taking the streets to celebrate the 100 day anniversary of the strike despite laws making such demonstrations illegal. It has been said to be the largest act of civil disobedience in Canadian history.

Of course, news coverage of all this in the United States is scant, at best, and in Canada tends to have an interesting violent spin in what are widely called peaceful protests. In fact, there is evidence of unprovoked police violence in the area around the protests, with police pepper spraying bar patrons.

***IcyPatriot*** · 05-25-2012, 08:26 PM

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The air is getting warmer here in the United States; we are feeling the warm air flowing down from our brothers and sisters in Canada. As spring comes to an end and summer approaches, students are getting organized. We are looking at what is happening in Canada and we are taking notes from professors in a new form of radical education.

The ubiquity of social networking and citizen journalism has made mass media repression more and more of a moot point. We see what is happening despite it not being reported. We are hearing the calls for international solidarity. Pleas, not for help, but for hope that we may follow in their path and join them. We see that the Canadian students are winning the battle and we see what we need to do. We have been provided a framework for success and it is up to us to use it.

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***IcyPatriot*** · 05-25-2012, 08:53 PM

9:53 PM on Memorial Day weekend kickoff and 86 people viewing the forum ...

WE ARE FAMOUS ....

Or 86 people out there need a life ...

Or someone in DC is not happy about the choom wagon talk ...
Hey ... intel in DC ... for the record I am glad our President grew up like many of us
... Just Saying.

I'll take him for another 4 years ... he's okay in my book.

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***DarrylS*** · 05-26-2012, 05:07 AM

Hear a lot about this on NPR, but flying under the radar in most US Media outlets..

Now there are families marching with them beating on pots and pans, guess this happens daily..

Titus Pullo · 05-26-2012, 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by IcyPatriot

this is big and under reported by the MSM.

Yet another reason why the mainstream CORPORATE media is not liberal at all.

Right up there with its silence on everything from the NDAA to Fukushima to the global collapse of the great ponzi scheme.

Shhhh.... nothing to see here. Capitalism is infallible.

***Harry Boy*** · 05-26-2012, 03:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Titus Pullo

Yet another reason why the mainstream CORPORATE media is not liberal at all.

Right up there with its silence on everything from the NDAA to Fukushima to the global collapse of the great ponzi scheme.

Shhhh.... nothing to see here. Capitalism is infallible.

F-ckushima

Titus Pullo · 05-26-2012, 04:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Harry Boy

F-ckushima

that directed at me, special senior contributor?

***Harry Boy*** · 05-27-2012, 09:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Titus Pullo

that directed at me, special senior contributor?

Nope, comical name for a town...

Patsfanin Philly · 05-27-2012, 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by IcyPatriot

The ubiquity of social networking and citizen journalism has made mass media repression more and more of a moot point. We see what is happening despite it not being reported.

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Unless of course the
United Nations and some of its biggest proponents get control over the Internet.. Now why would Russia and China and countries of that ilk want total control??????

The Hindu : Sci-Tech / Internet : Who controls the World Wide Web?

The proposed CIRP will be a multilateral institution, where governments will sit together and take decisions on internet policies, treaties and standards. Not surprisingly, many have interpreted this as a move towards greater governmental control of the Web (read tighter censorship), even as others have lauded this as a progressive step towards greater democratisation of the internet. <<<<

Call me skeptical....
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***Nikolai*** · 05-27-2012, 04:49 PM

It's front page news on CBC, but nowhere else. I remember a joke in a film (The Insider maybe) about how no one cares about Canada, which was used as an excuse not to follow up on the story on how the Canadian government was cracking down on Inuit dissent in the early 90s. Perhaps it's really true.