It is NOT angry and it is NOT violent! It is quite wonderful.
- It starts in Quebec: Our revolution of love, hope and community (Rabble.ca)
- UPDATE: video Casseroles – Vancouver, May 30 2012
Shot & edited by Ian MacKenzie, ianmack.com
Inspired by Jeremie Battaglia’s gorgeous Montreal film, Vancouver answers the Quebec student movement with a pots and pans revolt of our own. There is a beauty that emerges when we learn and inspire each other, just as Quebec has done for the rest of Canada. When we speak to each other instead of through governments or the mainstream media. Here in Vancouver, we discovered what it means to make music together in the streets, in the rain, and you can see it on our faces. It is magic.
- UPDATE: video Casseroles Night in Toronto
- UPDATE: video Un frisson de solidarité (http://vimeo.com/43629423)
André Bourgoin explains: This one is in Québec city’s Quartier Limoilou (kind of like Riversdale in Saskatoon). Note that with bill 78 in effect, a gathering of more than 50 people is illegal anywhere in the province of Québec unless the police have been notified 8 hours before it happens. The police, however, have been tolerant towards most casseroles events, since they are peaceful. At the end of the video the crowd is chanting “Usons les trottoirs, jusqu’à la victoire” (Let’s beat the sidewalks until we win).
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What is a “casseroles”? . . . a form of protest that started in Latin American countries, Chile, Argentina.
A pot and a wooden spoon. Get out in the Streets, connect and become empowered – Our revolution of love, hope and community. The best remedy ever for depression!
On Wednesday, (June 6 and every Wednesday) bang for 15 minutes starting at 8:00pm. The list of communities in Canada doing it is too long to copy here. (Unfortunately, the organizing is all through facebook National Facebook event – not everyone can access it. Gotta change Facebook!)
- Our Pots and Pans to Protect Democracy. Let’s do it again on June 6th!
- Casseroles nights in Montreal. Le cri du peuple 30 mai 2012.
- Saskatchewan casserole rallies draw hundreds, CBC
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HOW are the protests in Canada being reported in other countries? . . . Russia
- As reported by Russia Today (RT): Pots & Pans Protest: Angry Canadians make a bang
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Is Canadian media reporting on what’s happening outside Canada?
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It is not all fun and games! It’s very hard and creative work for a very good cause – to change the way we’re going!
- The kids in Quebec set up an office where they’re translating from French into English as fast as they can, so other Canadians can get an accurate report on what’s happening. Let’s give them a hand – pass this email along! (And bang your pot with your friends at 8:00 pm every Wednesday!
- Occupy Wall Street (OWS) ‘Summer Disobedience School’
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The banging is about to get much louder. Harper is not going to get away with Bill C-38, the omnibus budget bill that undoes what Canada is all about. To boot, the American police would have the right to operate in Canada, under American laws.
More about that later.
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INSPIRATION (EXCERPT, text from Rabble.ca, the first link at the top of this page –
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/ethan-cox/2012/05/it-starts-quebec-our-revolution-love-hope-and-community)
It starts in Quebec: Our revolution of love, hope and community
This movement may yet fail. It may be co-opted, or lose track of its goals. But there can be no denying that something extraordinary is happening in Quebec. If we, as a society, as a people, are to make a stand against the governments which cut taxes on the rich and corporations and then plead poverty as they dismantle our society, our communities, it will be here. Call me an idealist, call me a dreamer, call me anything you like. But this is a moment in time we will tell our children about. Together, we can start something here that spreads like wildfire across this continent. What happens next is up to us. . . .
If you do not live here, I wish I could properly convey to you what it feels like . . . It is magic. It starts quietly, a suggestion here and there, and it builds. Everybody on the street begins to smile. I get there, and we all — young and old, children and students and couples and retirees and workers and weird misfits and dogs and, well, neighbours –we all grin the widest grins you have ever seen while dancing around and making as much noise as possible. We are almost ecstatic with the joy of letting loose like this, of voicing our resistance to a government that seeks to silence us, and of being together like this. I have lived in my neighbourhoods for five years now, and this is the most I have ever felt a part of the community; the lasting impact that these protests will have on how people relate to each other in the city is deep and incredible.