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for over four months students and their[br]allies to cover the streets of Montreal

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everyday to protest a tuition hike[br]imposed by the Liberal Party of Quebec

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on September 21st at this year the newly[br]elected premier of Quebc

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scrap the tuition hike and repeal the[br]controversial law

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that effectively ban public[br]demonstrations well this has been touted

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as a victory by many in the student[br]movement

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one element that made the success[br]possible is already been overshadowed

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street politics were huge aspect of the strike and of it becoming

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what it became. people lost the fear

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and they didn't have any problem, any[br]trouble

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standing their ground in fighting back[br]and waiting to be actually

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beat enough to ?? for pepper spray[br]before they moved and

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this was really inspiring and that's how[br]in my opinion that the movement

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increasing got bigger and got more[br]threatening to the government or to the establishment

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obviously there's the the process of[br]escalation of repression,

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of criminalization and all[br]that

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but that probably wouldn't have happened[br]without the street politics,

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without the daily blockading, the pickets the[br]hard picket

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and the radical element and the fact[br]that is just like eventually it was not

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only about the the tuition hike but all[br]these other social issues that

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you know that our brawl up by other[br]social

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for the actors but also by the[br]radicals in your

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the radicals one other things that the[br]authoritarian and I guess the anti-colonial

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activist and their the radicals in[br]general are trying to do is to show that

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all these issuesare interlinked they're not[br]separated

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and that sort of translated into all these[br]different people this the the profs,

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the teachers, the students,you know, all the people who are,you know,

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[br]usually involved in specific sort of struggles

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on a day-to-day basis to come together

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and make this movement more they have a[br]coalition movement of getting together

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of all these groups to go back to[br]street politics

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that show like all these direct[br]action

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and also there was eventually those..

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there's a big debate among the the[br]movement as part of the movement whether

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or not direct

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action or respect for diversity of[br]tactics was appropriate after even

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just of a couple day or a couple of weeks at[br]the bait was moved

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and the the notion that a diversity of[br]tactics is very beneficial to a movement

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like this

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a sort of wonder argument because it was[br]pretty apparent that going down

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in the streets, and fighting back, and show ... and[br]attacking

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capital and attacking the institution in[br]the symbols of capitalism

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and fighting back against the cops with[br]very much

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integral to work to a successful[br]social movement or to a serious social movement

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if you're serious about[br]changing

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if you're serious about transforming you[br]know society and

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and hand gaining things and[br]fighting back against you know cuts and

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things of that matter, of that nature[br]you have

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at eventually you have to put yourself[br]physically in the way

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of repression and of the reactionary[br]agenda

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so I think there's no doubt that the[br]street politics

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that was to a large extent brought[br]by the radical element

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was an integral part in a very[br]important part in making this movement

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as big as it was but also as

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militant and intransigent as it[br]became

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to support this crap on the report this[br]it

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