Toronto rallies in solidarity with Quebec students and against Bill 78, as part of a day of action marking 100 days of the student strike. 

Democracy Now! broadcasts from Chicago, site of the largest NATO summit in the organization's six-decade history. On Sunday, veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, as well as members of Afghans For Peace, led a peace march of thousands of people. Iraq Veterans Against the War held a ceremony where nearly 50 veterans discarded their war medals by hurling them down the street in the direction of the NATO summit. We hear the soldiers' voices as they return their medals one by one from the stage. "I am giving back my global war on terror service medal in solidarity with the people of Iraq and Afghanistan," said Jason Heard, a former combat medic who spent 10 years in the U.S. Army.

The writing on the hands are the names of the original villages in Palestine that these people were ethnically cleansed from.

On May 11, 2012, over 90 Canadian physicians protested dangerous cuts to refugee health care at MP Joe Oliver's office. Follow us on Twitter: @Docs4RefugeeHC // E-mail: docs4refugeehc@gmail.com. Video produced by Alex Lisman.

I went to a demonstration yesterday, one that started April 30 in Jasper AB, but wound up here in Toronto in front of the King Eddie hotel. The annual Enbridge shareholders meeting was underway.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enbridge:

"Using data from Enbridge's own reports, the Polaris Institute calculated that 804 spills occurred on Enbridge pipelines between 1999 and 2010. These spills released approximately 168,645 barrels (26,812.4 m3) of hydrocarbons into the environment."

This video is compilation of police violence against student protesters in Quebec accompanied by "Which side are you on?" music. It ends with a powerful segment of a 70 year old man challenging police after he was sprayed. He continues to shout "Shame on you. There were no broken windows and you spray an old man." Shame indeed. The source of the overwhelming violence and terrorism is on the police and government's side, not the 250,000 peaceful, young women and men students and their social justice supporters.

Guitarist singer-songwriter James Dale weaves his powerfully inspirational song "Drawin' Straws (Respect Mother Earth)" into a tapestry of beautifully searing photo images collected from artists around the world. 

Over 1600 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jail hold mass hunger strike, two of the arrested pass 70 days without food.

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Three students discuss building a mass movement and the role of direct democracy and broad political demands in rejected neo-liberalism and protecting the Quebec model of social democracy and a strong social safety net.

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On April 30 striking students did a snake march in downtown Gatineau so as to keep up the pressure on the liberal governement. The main slogan of the march was addressed at Jean Charest who was told to leave and work would be found for him up in the north, a reference to his joking with the business leaders at a promotional event for his 'Plan for the north'. He ridiculed striking students demonstrating outside, saying that perhaps they could find a job up north. Riot police beat up students during this demonstration. During the snake march, some of the participants stayed behind when it proceeded to the provincial court because of the conditions they received following a mass arrest on April 19.