December 15, 2012 - No. 45

2012 Photo Review
April - June

Year of Resistance and Organization




April

April 4
  Quebec students, workers, families, high school students and community groups  demonstrate to demand right to education and oppose tuition fee hike in  Sherbrooke, Premier Charest's riding

http://www.cpcml.ca/Tmld2012/D42050.htm#3


April 4
Students demonstrate in Quebec City 

April 11
Students blockade Banque Nationale tower in Montreal


http://www.cpcml.ca/Tmld2012/D42053.htm#2


April 13
Alma electrical workers respond to Rio Tinto's threats with
support for Alma aluminum workers



April 14
Quebec students and their allies oppose continuing state criminalization and
violence and carry on with their actions, Montreal






http://www.cpcml.ca/Tmld2012/D42058.htm#2   http://www.cpcml.ca/Tmld2012/D42056.htm#1


April 17
Discussion of importance of auto industry at townhall meeting in Windsor

Workers' Forum Vol. 4 No. 6 -- print edition
 

April 17
Direct Energy workers strike in Ontario
Barrie

April 18
160 people arrested at University of Quebec as students continue
their strike action, Outaouais





April 18
Students
defy injunction at Saint-Hyacinthe CEGEP

http://www.cpcml.ca/Tmld2012/D42056.htm#3



April 19
Alma workers protest outside Rio Tinto's annual general meeting
during
second part of international tour, London, England




April 19
Townhall on auto industry held in Oshawa, Ontario

Workers' Forum Vol. 4 No. 6 - print editon


April 20
Students, workers and First Nations denounce fire sale of Quebec's natural resources at exhibition of companies seeking employees for the Charest government's slave labour Northern Plan, Montreal





April 20
Rally opposes McGuinty government's plan to close Thistletown Centre for
autistic and mentally ill youth, Toronto


April 21
Day of Action against Ontario government's austerity budget at
Queen's Park, Toronto






























April 22
A quarter million people take the streets for Earth Day in Montreal







 








April 25
25,000 students hold mass action in Montreal





Quebec City



Sherbrooke




April 27- 28
Quebec students continue mass actions 
Montreal






Sherbrooke



Outaouais

http://cpcml.ca/Tmld2012/D42066.htm#4


April 28
   Day of Mourning in remembrance of workers killed and injured on the job
Toronto (April 27)

Burns Lake, BC

New monument unveiled in Edmonton



May

May 1
May Day 2012
Halifax





Montreal

http://cpcml.ca/images2012/WorkersEconomy/MayDay/2012/Canada/120501-Mtl-BanniereTete.jpg











Quebec City




Sept-Iles; Sherbrooke


St-Jerome; Shawinigan

  http://cpcml.ca/Tmld2012/D42063.htm#2

Ottawa




Toronto
Edmonton







Calgary


Vancouver




May 1
Townhall meeting on auto industry in London, Ontario



May 1-3
Alma workers' Energy March to National Assembly delivers petition against
Hydro Quebec's purchase of power from Rio Tinto during lockout

http://cpcml.ca/images2012/WorkersEconomy/MayDay/2012/Canada/120501-AlmaMayDay-SDeschenes-118.jpg



http://cpcml.ca/images2012/WorkersEconomy/MayDay/2012/Canada/120501-AlmaMayDay-SDeschenes-57.jpg




May 4-5
Quebec students demonstrating against anti-social offensive of Charest government  face state violence at Liberal Party of Quebec meeting,
Victoriaville 

May 4 -- The People's Democracy









May 4 -- Jean Charest's Democracy




http://cpcml.ca/images2012/Quebec/120504-VictoriavilleStudentStrike-SKuhn-07.jpghttp://cpcml.ca/images2012/Quebec/120504-VictoriavilleStudentStrike-MtlOpenfile-02.jpg





May 5










http://cpcml.ca/Tmld2012/D42066.htm#1


May 5

Rally demands government  widen dangerous Highway 63 route after
seven die in crash,
Fort McMurray, Alberta

May 6
Students hold nightly demonstrations in Montreal



http://cpcml.ca/Tmld2012/D42070.htm#7


May 11

Ninety doctors picket Harper government minister Joe Oliver's constituency
office to demand an end to refugee health care cuts, Toronto



May 14

CEGEP students' calls for discussion on how to organize education met with
riot police, Montreal



May 15

BC government employees vote 82 per cent in favour of strike in
Victoria and Burnaby


http://cpcml.ca/Tmld2012/D42075.htm#6


May 15

Actions continue in defence of future of education in Quebec as students demonstrate outside Power Corporation's annual general meeting
and hold 22nd nightly demonstration in Montreal






May 16
  Quebec students and people meet with defiance Charest government's decision to adopt special law that will criminalize students, teachers, professors and all those fighting for their rights
Montreal




Quebec City



http://cpcml.ca/Tmld2012/D42071.htm#3


May 17

Mass demonstrations denounce Charest government's special law, tabled in the National Assembly as a war measure depriving students of their civil liberties
and circumscribing the rights of teachers and all Quebeckers to resist and organize
Montreal -- 25th consecutive nocturnal demonstration




May 18

Passage of  Special Law met with immediate response of mass actions
all across Quebec
Montreal


















Quebec City





Outaouais

Sherbrooke


Rimouski


Trois-Rivières



May 19

Protests oppose Harper government's continued participation in war in Afghanistan on occasion of NATO summit in Chicago, Toronto

http://www.cpcml.ca/Tmlw2012/W42023.HTM#3


May 20
Nightly demonstrations continue in
Montreal opposing tuition fee increase and defying the Special Law


http://cpcml.ca/images2012/Quebec/120520-Montreal-PancarteAquandlesmeusuresdeguerre.jpg



May 21

Mass actions mark 175th anniversary of uprising of Quebec patriots
for a modern republic
Montreal















May 22

Quebec students and supporters mark 100 days of resistance
-- half a million demonstrate in Montreal












May 22-23

Quebec students' just demand for right to education and opposition to
suppression of civil liberties through the Special Law wins broad
support across Canada and beyond
Hamilton


Windsor


Calgary



Vancouver






New York City

Paris, France


May 23

Quebec Minister of Education offers to negotiate with students so long as they give up demands for tuition fee freeze and suspension of Special Law; police arrest 518 and students refuse to capitulate, Montreal



May 24

Canadian Union of Public Employees holds rally against Ontario budget
and government plans for increased privatization,
Windsor


May 24

Locked-out Alma workers demonstrate against Rio Tinto as
provider of Olympic medals, Quebec City



May 24

People take to streets across Quebec in defiance of Special Law
Montreal -- 31st nocturnal demonstration








Quebec City

Sherbrooke; Longueuil


Granby; Gatineau

Trois-Rivières



Chambly



Alma

http://www.cpcml.ca/Tmld2012/D42077.htm#1


May 24

Protests oppose anti-worker changes to temporary foreign workers program
Toronto and Kitchener, Ontario

Vancouver

http://cpcml.ca/Tmld2012/D42080.htm#8


May 25
Actions against Special Law continue across Quebec
Montreal




Quebec City



Sherbrooke; Laval


Rimouski



University of Ottawa


http://www.cpcml.ca/Tmld2012/D42077.htm#1


May 25
Student associations, union centrals and community groups file two actions
with
Quebec Superior Court to annul Special Law

http://www.cpcml.ca/Tmld2012/D42077.htm#2


May 26-27

Actions across Quebec take collective stand against Special Law, thwarting attempts of Charest government to isolate students
 Montreal






Villeray


Verdun


Rosemont





Quebec City


Laval


Sherbrooke


Repentigny


Gatineau


Rouyn-Noranda


Chambly


Gaspé


Joliette


May 27 - 28

Actions across Quebec and rest of Canada support Quebec students
and oppose Special Law
Montreal -- 33rd nocturnal demonstration (May 27)


Montreal -- 34th 
nocturnal demonstration (May 28)



Quebec City




Laval



Gatineau


Val d'Or


Saint-Jerome


Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts


Beloil


Joliette


St-Hubert


St-Eustache


Sept-Iles


Sherbrooke


http://cpcml.ca/Tmld2012/D42081.htm#9


Halifax; Tatamagouche; Wolfville, Nova Scotia (top to bottom)




March from Ottawa to Gatineau


Toronto; Hamilton; Windsor (top to bottom)




Sudbury, Ontario

"While you're asking us why we're protesting, the rest of the world is asking why you've let this go on so long!

Winnipeg, Manitoba


Saskatoon, Saskatchewan


Lethbridge, Alberta


Vancouver, BC



Dawson City, Yukon

http://cpcml.ca/Tmld2012/D42081.htm#10


May 28

Picket at MP Diane Finley's office opposes Employment Insurance reforms
introduced in omnibus Budget Bill C-38, Simcoe, Ontario


May 28

Hundreds of Quebec jurists hold silent march to reject Special Law as officers of the courts and experts in law, Montreal

May 28
Students demonstrating outside negotiations between students and Charest government are targeted with mass arrests, Quebec City
http://cpcml.ca/Tmld2012/D42081.htm#2


May 29

CP Rail workers rally against back-to-work legislation on Parliament Hill

May 29

BC Federation of Labour holds rally to support CP Rail workers, Vancouver

May 30

CP Rail workers picket intermodal facility in Vancouver

May 31

Rally supports striking social service workers in Renfrew County


June


June 1

Ontario Injured Workers' Day marked at Queen's Park, Toronto



Justice for Injured Workers No. 1 - print edition


June 1

Education workers rally to defend public education  and oppose McGuinty government's threats to violate right to collective bargaining, Windsor



http://cpcml.ca/images2012/Provinces/Ontario/Education/120601-WindsorEducationWorkersRally-03.jpg
http://www.cpcml.ca/OPF2012/OPF02036.HTM#4


June 1

Peel Region public service workers join Ontario Works staff
on picket lines in Mississauga



June 1

United Nurses of Alberta members join Hardisty nursing home workers
on picket line in Edmonton

June 2

Rally opposes omnibus Budget Bill C-38, Courtenay, BC


http://cpcml.ca/Tmld2012/D42084.htm#3

Placards from other actions
against Bill C-38 in early June across Canada

June 2

Ten thousand join "family demonstration" in Montreal


June 4

Local 1005 USW's weekly leafletting action in Hamilton



June 5

Workers strike at Quebec Construction Commission in Montreal

June 7

Hospital employees and supporters demand safe working conditions, Hamilton




June 7-10

Students and their supporters face intensified police repression and political profiling by Charest government during Grand Prix in Montreal




http://www.cpcml.ca/Tmld2012/D42089.htm#6


June 8

Demonstration against omnibus Budget Bill C-38 outside MP David Sweet's office
in Hamilton






June 10

Bombardier workers inform people of the region of job losses
due to subcontracting at plant
in La Pocatière, Quebec


June 13

Student associations denounce Charest government's proposed changes to loans and bursaries, saying it will drastically increase student debt, Montreal


June 14

Canadian Injured Workers Association of Alberta pickets provincial Workers' Compensation Board's annual general meeting in Edmonton

http://www.cpcml.ca/Tmld2012/D42104.htm#4



June 15
Performance of Loco Locass rap group in support of students
and 54th
consecutive nocturnal demonstration
, Montreal



http://www.cpcml.ca/Tmld2012/D42094.htm#5


June 16

Alberta Federation of Labour celebrates 100th anniversary, Edmonton


June 16-18

In lead-up to monthly mass action, Quebec people take to streets to support students and oppose Special Law





Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu


Rimouski; Coaticook

Quebec City; Limoilou

Joliette



Trois-Rivières



http://www.cpcml.ca/Tmld2012/D42094.htm#9


June 18

Health care professionals and advocates oppose
cuts to medical services for refugees, Toronto


http://www.cpcml.ca/Tmld2012/D42096.htm#5


June 18

Show by Coalition of Outraged Comedians supports cause of
Quebec students, Montreal



June 18

56th consecutive nocturnal demonstration held in Montreal





June 19

Quebec Federation of University Students travel to BC at invitation of Canadian Federation of Students and BC Federation of Labour; share experiences in defending their rights, Vancouver


June 19

Broad opposition from students, community groups and others to new restrictions on demonstrations in Quebec City

http://www.cpcml.ca/Tmld2012/D42094.htm#7


June 19

National Library employees demonstrate in Montreal


June 22

Mass demonstrations of more than 100,000 in Montreal and 10,000 in
Quebec City mark 131st day of student strike

Montreal




















Quebec City

June 24

Quebec people celebrate Quebec's National Day by reaffirming their opposition to Charest government and its Special Law
Montreal



Quebec City


June 26

Monterey Place Assisted Living workers locked out in Calgary

June 30

Monterey Place Assisted Living workers picket in Calgary

June 30

Day of Mourning rejects Charest government's neo-liberal dictate, Montreal

(For photo credits see original articles)


To Be Continued

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