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David Cooney: The Montréal student protests

Vers un Automne Érable?1

Whenever threatened, the first thing power restricts is the ability to linger or assemble in the street.
—
Henri Lefebvre2

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In September of 2014, I arrived in Montréal to study the students’ strike that had erupted throughout the province of Québec three years earlier. I was particularly interested in learning more about the evolution of the movement itself and the networks it had forged with related movements: the Chilean student protests, Occupy Wall Street, and 15M.
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