Apr 26 2012
Mass Quebec Strike Continues with Hundreds of Thousands of Students in Streets
Hundreds of people have been arrested as college students across Quebec have been on strike for more than 10 weeks in protests against a 75% tuition increase over 5 years.
What started in late March with a quarter of a million people taking to the streets of Montreal in what may be Canada’s largest ever protest, has now grown to …
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The Activist Beat with Rose Aguilar, host of Your Call on KALW in San Francisco is a weekly roundup of progressive activism that the mainstream media ignores, undercovers, or misrepresents. 
