Quebec's Not-So-Quiet Revolution by Ted Rall
September 17, 2012
The student movement that exploded in Quebec this spring and summer
was one of the most significant – but hardly reported – examples of the
popular protests sweeping the globe over the last few years. Today
Cartoon Movement publishes "Quebec's Not-So-Quiet Revolution", a
ten page piece of comics journalism by political cartoonist and writer
Ted Rall analyzing this highly organized popular movement that
mainstream outlets have been eager to ignore.
Rall recently visited Montreal, where he met with organizers of the
movement, which continues to expand beyond its initial concern over
tuition hikes, as it prepared for a major demonstration. After the
passage of the draconian Bill 78, emergency legislation that essentially
outlaws large protests, hundreds of thousands took to the streets on a
daily basis, and continue to hold regular large protests months later.
"A stone's throw from the U.S. is one of the biggest unreported
stories around, a militant protest movement that has allied college
students, the unemployed, labor, anarchists, advocates of Quebecois
independence and others disenchanted with the provincial government in
particular and capitalism in general," said Rall. "I appreciate the
chance that Cartoon Movement gives me and other cartoonists to raise
awareness of news that most outlets refuse to touch."
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