First there was the Arab Spring, then the Indignados, then Occupy
Wall Street. And then there was the Printemps erable the Maple
Spring. In 2011, proclaiming the need for austerity, Quebec s
governing Liberal Party announced a draconian increase in tuition
fees. Enraged that the government would destroy a legacy of public
education, so hard won during the 1960s Quiet Revolution a legacy
from which they themselves had reaped benefits the youth of Quebec
took to the streets in a student strike under the banner of the
carres rouges. They fought not merely for education, but for the
future: a future they watch being destroyed by the unrelenting
march of capitalism, intent on the merciless exploitation of
citizens and natural resources. Generation Rising is the story of
the most important mass mobilization in Quebec s (and Canada s)
history. It is the story of six months of brutalization of youth by
the police forces of the capitalist class, as the students went
toe-to-toe against the corrupt and autocratic elite in an effort to
construct a horizontal, participative and grassroots democracy. It
is the story of the Internet generation deploying its mastery of
social media to harness the forces of hundreds of thousands, and
ultimately defeat a battle-hardened premier. At the end of it all,
Quebec s first social media mobilization had laid the foundations
for a brave new future, where the old world of order and authority
might finally be swept aside to make way for a new,
twenty-first-century democracy. Le combat est avenir the fight is
the future, and the battle has just begun."
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