more pots and pans
this post is brought to you by my 2 hours wasted after the short videos i took tonight refused to transfer properly on my computer. i had the image, but no sound...which, the sound is the whole point of our evenings recently. anyway. but i hope now it's ok
tonight was special for me and my roommate m. and our nice neighbours coin laurier/delorimier, because we turned an 'ordinary' banging-in-your-casserole streetcorner activity into a full-fledged march along mont-royal. it felt absolutely spontaneous (i think m. is still ecstatic on this topic) : we were going down delorimier to see what was going on. we stopped a bit at the intersection, meddling with the traffic, and the crowd was growing thicker BUT further on, along mont-royal, everything was unbelievably empty.
m. and i wanted to walk a bit toward st denis, 15-20 mins away. ok, picture this: she was wearing pajama pants (amazing pants, but yeah) and i had on a house polka dot dress, red socks and flip-flops. and one pot between ourselves, because we were supposed to record at the same time.
we turned back, alarmed by the emptiness...and met our corner crew again, much grown in size and apparently possessed by the same idea we'd had, and ready to take on mont-royal. there were people with various musical instruments (special shoutout to the trumpet guy!) and someone redirecting traffic (funny!). most bus drivers we've bothered were still honking in sympathy. going toward metro mt-royal we kept collecting people on the way (shoutouts also to the people contributing with noise from their own balconies; especially one super-enthusiastic girl on an upper floor, banging on a huge cauldron).
this is footage from someone else - but seriously, after a few seconds i think you got the idea: lots of noise. lots of energy.
http://www.youtube.com/
close to the metro, the march turned south (on mentana) and we abandoned them for a while...10 minutes later, trying to rejoin the group, m. had the genius idea to approach a cop car : "scusez, savez-vous c'est où la manif?" - and we got directions from the cops! thank you.
we basically rejoined the same group as it returned toward home. there were cop cars ahead us all the way. they're supposed to accompany any serious branch of a manif, but i don't believe they can block it without incitation. so, no bad incidents tonight either. except - ha! - a graffitti on a wall saying "tuons charest".
also, excitement @validation : "yes, we've got a helicopter now!"
but ooops m. is just telling me that apparently there's a spot of trouble going on @ st denis/berri, with police having circled a group. there's a livestream going from cutv montreal, the media crew that's been with the protesters every night so far. the 30th consecutive night of protests, and seriously from what i'm seeing it's only getting bigger and bigger....
...they are arresting and fining people for breaking law 78...which i broke tonight and everyone i saw around me broke tonight. well i guess something`s gotta give soon, there`s been too much crackling tension in the air recently. i`ll be on twitter and the sites, and update soon. c
tonight was special for me and my roommate m. and our nice neighbours coin laurier/delorimier, because we turned an 'ordinary' banging-in-your-casserole streetcorner activity into a full-fledged march along mont-royal. it felt absolutely spontaneous (i think m. is still ecstatic on this topic) : we were going down delorimier to see what was going on. we stopped a bit at the intersection, meddling with the traffic, and the crowd was growing thicker BUT further on, along mont-royal, everything was unbelievably empty.
m. and i wanted to walk a bit toward st denis, 15-20 mins away. ok, picture this: she was wearing pajama pants (amazing pants, but yeah) and i had on a house polka dot dress, red socks and flip-flops. and one pot between ourselves, because we were supposed to record at the same time.
this is footage from someone else - but seriously, after a few seconds i think you got the idea: lots of noise. lots of energy.
http://www.youtube.com/
close to the metro, the march turned south (on mentana) and we abandoned them for a while...10 minutes later, trying to rejoin the group, m. had the genius idea to approach a cop car : "scusez, savez-vous c'est où la manif?" - and we got directions from the cops! thank you.
we basically rejoined the same group as it returned toward home. there were cop cars ahead us all the way. they're supposed to accompany any serious branch of a manif, but i don't believe they can block it without incitation. so, no bad incidents tonight either. except - ha! - a graffitti on a wall saying "tuons charest".
also, excitement @validation : "yes, we've got a helicopter now!"
but ooops m. is just telling me that apparently there's a spot of trouble going on @ st denis/berri, with police having circled a group. there's a livestream going from cutv montreal, the media crew that's been with the protesters every night so far. the 30th consecutive night of protests, and seriously from what i'm seeing it's only getting bigger and bigger....
...they are arresting and fining people for breaking law 78...which i broke tonight and everyone i saw around me broke tonight. well i guess something`s gotta give soon, there`s been too much crackling tension in the air recently. i`ll be on twitter and the sites, and update soon. c
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