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Students in Quebec were asked to send their march route to the cops & they replied with this (Original Post) EFerrari May 2012 OP
ha!- fair enough leftyohiolib May 2012 #1
Whose streets? OUR streets!!! patrice May 2012 #2
Fantastic! Luminous Animal May 2012 #3
Freaking perfect malaise May 2012 #4
I love these guys. EFerrari May 2012 #9
Fantastic goclark May 2012 #53
Oh, SNAP! Odin2005 May 2012 #5
Oh, south to Vieux Montreal then over to the Euro Snack for KurtNYC May 2012 #6
kick rhett o rick May 2012 #7
link to post about our VC in Montreal this week: ret5hd May 2012 #8
Great post, thank you! EFerrari May 2012 #11
ROFL ananda May 2012 #10
Fucking beautiful. n/t Downtown Hound May 2012 #12
I needed something to lift my spirits me b zola May 2012 #13
Were the cops... pinboy3niner May 2012 #14
LOL EFerrari May 2012 #17
LOL !!! WillyT May 2012 #40
But was it approved? GObamaGO May 2012 #15
Shazam! hifiguy May 2012 #16
that is so great. thanks for posting it. cali May 2012 #18
It's one of those "will to live" images, isn't it? EFerrari May 2012 #20
That's a tazin'. BadgerKid May 2012 #19
*snort* *snort* dixiegrrrrl May 2012 #21
And the heavens gave a sign and it was good Casandia May 2012 #22
Que? amuse bouche May 2012 #23
Which direction? Clockwise or counterclockwise? progressoid May 2012 #24
Looks like the cops are stuck with "depart" for instructions. lol EFerrari May 2012 #25
Roflmao!! nt Mnemosyne May 2012 #26
Looks like a pretty straightforward route to me lunatica May 2012 #27
I've been to Montreal and that's a damn long march Hissyspit May 2012 #28
I never have been but that has to change. EFerrari May 2012 #29
For real ? yesphan May 2012 #30
Lol! sabrina 1 May 2012 #31
stands up, faces north.... irisblue May 2012 #32
Que the apologists ... Fantastic Anarchist May 2012 #33
Well, that's compliance of the hilarious sort. Bet they really will go down part of that route, too! freshwest May 2012 #34
Rec 100 here, and LMAO!! Lifelong Protester May 2012 #35
That Premier's plan of cracking down has backfired LiberalLovinLug May 2012 #36
Montreal bus drivers union will no longer carry police or transport arrestees Luminous Animal May 2012 #37
Hoo-rah!!! Zalatix May 2012 #52
K&R DeSwiss May 2012 #38
Too funny.... They should march it that way too..... midnight May 2012 #39
Rec'd n/t GarroHorus May 2012 #41
Good find! That's priceless! pacalo May 2012 #42
From Denver to Greece Fuck the Police. donheld May 2012 #43
I love it libodem May 2012 #44
Completely ingenious! CaliforniaPeggy May 2012 #45
Sacre Bleu! LOL! Segami May 2012 #46
crop fingers bora13 May 2012 #47
Via Tim Pool this morning: EFerrari May 2012 #48
Nicely done! suffragette May 2012 #49
I got all choked up on this one!! avaistheone1 May 2012 #50
Brilliant! nt SunSeeker May 2012 #51
Hah! Well done... friendly_iconoclast May 2012 #54

KurtNYC

(14,549 posts)
6. Oh, south to Vieux Montreal then over to the Euro Snack for
Thu May 24, 2012, 01:55 PM
May 2012

some frites and mayo, up St. Laurent with a stop for a smoked meat sandwich, then north, then turn back and stop at Marche' Jean Talon for some gelato...

Sounds like delicious protest.

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
14. Were the cops...
Thu May 24, 2012, 02:17 PM
May 2012

...handing out assignments to cover the route for 20 minutes before someone said, "Heeeeey...wait a minute!"

LiberalLovinLug

(14,178 posts)
36. That Premier's plan of cracking down has backfired
Thu May 24, 2012, 05:54 PM
May 2012

Many people were getting agitated by the students clogging up Montreal, but his new draconian protest laws are galvanating the general population against the government now.

If anyone wants to copy and use my sig picture......please do! Solidarity!

Luminous Animal

(27,310 posts)
37. Montreal bus drivers union will no longer carry police or transport arrestees
Thu May 24, 2012, 06:12 PM
May 2012
http://www.caomsc.qc.ca/

Same site translated: http://tinyurl.com/clmbk4s

The union of bus drivers, subway operators and employees related to the STM (SCFP 1983) took a strong position on the law 78 this week.

"This legislation is unprecedented in that it is now necessary to have the authorization of police for any gathering of more than 50 people. Such a requirement is undermining the fundamental right of citizens to express themselves and to express freely in public. Ultimately, this law could harm the actions taken by the trade union movement. It could become very difficult, for example, to manifest in the future against the PPP. Remember the events of 2005 which nearly 1000 members in 1983 had participated. Today, these demonstrations of dissatisfaction would be illegal ... "
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