Earlier this summer, my supervisor Kim Sawchuk, Owen Chapman,  Alison Loader, Ben Spencer and I, created a special issue of wi: journal of mobile media, called open wi, as a response to the student strike movement in Quebec. I also contributed some writing and photography. It’s a good time to let the rest of the world know that the day before the fall semester starts (attempts to start?), elections are happening in Quebec on September 4. Don’t let politics take advantage of you.

I have much to say but I will just leave you with this selection of photos I took at the student march around downtown Montreal today. Students all across the province are striking a 75% tuition increase over the next several years. You can read about the history of student strikes in Montreal HERE. Read it. Be informed. Don’t listen to mainstream media, as always. They focus on violence and drama and not the energy and spirit we have for our future. Many of us are abstaining from class and submitting course work not out of convenience. We are striking, negotiating, strategizing, focusing, meeting around the clock….