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Authorities cracked down on thousands of protesters flooding downtown Montreal after Molotov cocktails were thrown.

Thousands of people marched in a show of defiance Friday night against a legal crackdown on protests by the Quebec government.

The protesters said they were encouraged by the turnout and by the support from bystanders honking their car horns or clapping while they passed.

Opponents of the Charest government – including its political opposition – have begun attacking its approach to the protests, even more than the tuition hikes that originally sparked the unrest.

The Montreal march came hours after the government passed a law setting limits on the ability to protest.

Also Friday, a new municipal bylaw imposed stiff fines on people wearing masks while demonstrating.

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socialistexan:

myratter:

sensitivewhitegirl:

logicallypositive:

“I’m Here to See Radiohead”

“I’m actually learning things”

THE 99%

And she’s from Houston. Fantastic.

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thenewrepublic:

As with the Czech Republic’s, what other governments have cracked down on artistic freedom in recent years?

“The most famous example of Czech protest art, however, came 15 years later. Early on the morning of April 28, 1991, a 23-year-old art student named David Černý ascended the World War II–era Monument to Soviet Tank Crews in Prague with a group of his friends and painted the green tank bright pink. Although originally erected to commemorate the Soviet liberation of Czechoslovakia from the Nazis, the tank had become “an occupation symbol,” the artist recently recalled when I interviewed him. The police promptly arrested Černý, and under pressure from Moscow—which would not remove the last of its troops from the country until June 1991—the Czechoslovak government ordered the tank repainted. Ten days later, making use of their parliamentary immunity, a group of Czech and Slovak deputies, all former dissidents, again covered it in pink.”

- James Kirchick, Brush with Controversy

Photo courtesy of ABC Prague

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occupyallstreets:

A birds eye view of Union Square, NYC before the march to Wall Street.

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inothernews:

DON’T COP   An Occupy London protester offers a flower to a police officer to mark May Day.  In the U.S., demonstrations, strikes and acts of civil disobedience were planned Tuesday, including what could be the country’s most high-profile Occupy rallies since the anti-Wall Street encampments came down in the fall.  (Photo: Lefteris Pitarakis / AP via MSNBC)

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