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-- Paul Hawken
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From Occupy to the Maple Spring
You're invited to a forum and book launch with Judy Rebick
Sunday, June 17
7pm (Doors at 6:30)
W2 Media Cafe (111 W. Hastings)
"If there is an Arab Spring in Canada, this is it." - Judy Rebick, March 22, 2012, after returning from a student strike solidarity march and rally of 250,000 people.
Feminist, writer and activist Judy Rebick joins us for a special talk about Quebec's Maple Spring in light of the Occupy Wall Street movement which she has written about in her new book, Occupy This!
Admission by donation.
Sponsored by rabble.ca and the W2 Morning Radio Project.
About the book: 'Occupy This!'
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It may not be on the summer festival schedule, but the manifestations casseroles are a daily popular music festival happening on the island of Montreal.
Every night at 8pm, Montreal neighborhood residents pour out of their apartment doors and hang off their balconies with wooden spoons and saucepans in hand.
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In Quebec City last night, Amir Khadir of Québec solidaire was arrested by police in the Petit Champlain neighbourhood along with many others joining a nightly casseroles protest in solidarity with the Quebec student strike and against Law 78.
I find it extremely interesting the number of people willing to pronounce on the student protests in Quebec based on a gut sense of how young people today are and some reminiscences of how they were when they were young.
I don't agree with everything that the students in Quebec are asking for, and I certainly don't support the isolated violence that has marked their protests and captivated the press, but the framing of this issue as a binary one where students are a bunch of whiny, entitled, spoilt brats is troubling and diminishes us all.
Miss Ruby Jones puts her spin on the Quebec Student Strike, Bill 78 and Casseroles!
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Unfair Canada
Richest 1 per cent increased their share of total income from 8.1 per cent in 1980 to 13.3 in 2007
Richest 0.1 per cent doubled their share from 2 per cent to 5.3
The 100 best-paid CEOs made an average of $6.6 million, 155 times the average wage of $42,988
Tax rate for richest dropped from 43 per cent in 1981 to 29 per cent in 2010
Cost of corporate tax cuts: more than $10 billion yearly
Unfair Quebec
Richest 10 per cent made 24 per cent more in 2006 than the richest in 1976