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Je sais que la photo date un peu et que le texte est moyen. Mais en ce moment je suis furieuse. Et j’en veux a notre gouvernement de rien faire. Et j’en veux a la police d’en faire trop. Et j’en veux au humain d’avoir oublier leur humanité. Je suis CONTRE LA HAUSSE. Je suis POUR LA GRÈVE. Je suis POUR une RÉVOLUTION SOCIALE. Je suis là POUR DONNER UN COURS DE DÉMOCRATIE A NOTRE GOUVERNEMENT. et je suis. J’existe. Je vie. tout simplement. Avec ce que ça implique. J’ai des droits. Qu’on m’enlève mon droit de m’instruire, mon droit de m’exprimer ou bien même mon droit d’être traité comme un humain en me tabassant ou en me poivrant, je serais toujours. Et je continuerai a croire en mes putain de conviction.
Whose streets? Our streets!
(à qui la rue? à nous la rue!)
We have chanted it a thousand times
A thousand voices call out, a thousand respond
A thousand footsteps fade into the night
We turn down a familiar street
A thousand times I have crossed here
As a worker, as a student, as a consumer,
as a cyclist, as a patient, as a friend.
I cannot see the riot squad
but I know they are charging
by the sudden change of the tide,
the explosion of tear gas,
and our chants that remind us
to stay calm, stay together.
Are these really our streets?
It seems they are haunted
by these ghosts with black helmets and black shields
This thing called ‘arrest’? Is that what we fear?
A five thousand dollar fine…
Or do we fear for our lungs and our limbs?
Rather, we fear for the precedent…
They cannot get away with this!
I am so blessed
with neighbors who take to their pots and pans
who defy la circulation sacrée
with friends who take the black square as their sigil
with facebook icons a sea of red.
But who will defend us
if not us, ourselves?
Arrest after arrest
who will defend us?
Our streets,
our rule.
To the rest I say:
go back to your street
and defend it!
Listen up tumblr.
Fuck you and your pretty pictures. 500+ people were arrested last night in my city, my home, my fucking streets. 3000 charges to date, since the movement began.
My fucking government passed a fucking “special” law, saying we have to tell the police where we are going if we are going to have a peaceful protest. The same police who, in riot gear, charge us to divide up our marches into more manageable pieces. The same police who throw grenades of tear gas and sound canons down narrow residential streets.
This ‘special law’ infringes on our constitutional right to demonstrate, but it is justified because we cause congestion! we inconvenience tourists! In the meantime the media sensationalizes the ‘violence’ like a parasite gorging itself and ignores the Hundreds of Thousands of People who take to the streets to say, peacefully, ENOUGH!!!!
We will defend our rights. you will kettle us, and charge us, but we will return. We will remember. These streets are ours and we will never forget what you have done. We will remember our burning lungs. We will remember our wrists in tie-wraps. We will remember the mass arrests. We will tear you down and paint the streets red. We will take your power and throw it to the wolves. We made you. We shall unmake you. Your arrogance and your servility.
We are united against you
and we shall remember.
