Generation Rising on CCPA’s Summer Reading list
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has selected Generation Rising as a "staff pick" in its July/August edition of national ...
Generation Rising lauded by Canada’s national book magazine
Generation Rising receives the praises of Canada's national book magazine, Quill & Quire, in a review published in its July/August ...
Glowing praise for Generation Rising from the mRb
The Montreal Review of Books sings the praises of Generation Rising in a new review published in its fall edition. The book, released in ...
The NDP can Leap into relevance
The NDP's debate over the Leap Manifesto could reignite Canadian politics by re-engaging youth, who want nothing more desperately than to simply believe in the future again. And if we’re fortunate, the bottom-up pressures it unleashes could reshape electoral politics across the land.
An interview with the co-founder of Occupy Wall Street
In his new book The End of Protest: A New Playbook for Revolution, Occupy Wall Street co-founder Micah White delivers an impassioned plea to reimagine protest for the 21st century. I spoke with Micah in Montreal.
A skeptic humbled, and a new era begins
“Sunny ways” are infectious, it seems. On Wednesday, the new Liberal government of Justin Trudeau was sworn in, and the voice of long-buried Canada re-emerged from its winter slumber.
Justin Trudeau and the politics of image
Dig behind the sugary facade of the Trudeau campaign's marketing savvy, and the Liberals are still the party of the corporate elites.
Unveiling the Bloc’s fake feminism
The once-inclusive Bloc Québécois has succumb to trolling for votes on the backs of Quebec's most vulnerable minorities, and they must be made to pay for it at the ballot box.
Indignados poised for power in Madrid and Barcelona
Four years after the Indignados erupted onto Spain's streets to ignite revolts across Europe and inspire Occupy Wall Street, activists stand poised for power in the country's two largest cities.
In Québec, a clash of generations
The Liberal government speaks at and over the youth, rather than speaking with them.
The movement is global
The current student occupations in Amsterdam and London are the latest chapter in the global youth movement to reverse the tide of commercialization that is dismantling our education systems across the West.
On the legality of student strikes
In denying students' historic right to strike, both the Liberals and the carrés verts are perpetrating a violence against our collective memory.
Generation Rising
"An impassioned plea for a generation." — from the Preface by Anne Lagacé Dowson
First there were the Indignados, then Occupy Wall Street. And then there was the Printemps érable - the Maple Spring. In 2012, the youth of Québec rose up against the austerity drive of the élites to launch one of the most important social movements in North American history. As Québec's social media generation stood their ground against six months of violent repression, they sparked a seminal battle for the future of a people, and at the end of it all, had laid the foundations for a horizontal and grassroots democracy of the 21st century.
Le combat est avenir — the fight is the future, and the battle has just begun.
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