{"id":6840,"date":"2015-03-26T05:47:54","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T10:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6840"},"modified":"2015-03-26T05:47:54","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T10:47:54","slug":"montreal-students-clash-with-riot-police-in-austerity-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6840","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Students Clash With Riot Police In Austerity Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-03-25\/montreal-students-clash-riot-police-austerity-protests\">Montreal Students Clash With Riot Police In Austerity Protests<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Last week, anti-austerity protests in Germany\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-03-18\/violent-clashes-break-out-thousands-protest-austerity-next-new-ecb-headquarters-fran\">turned<\/a>\u00a0the streets of Frankfurt into a veritable horror show as Blockupy supporters dressed as clowns clashed with riot police against a backdrop of flaming cars and utter chaos in what looked like a scene out of\u00a0<em>Pennywise The Clown Meets Black Hawk Down<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user92183\/imageroot\/2015\/03\/Protests_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user92183\/imageroot\/2015\/03\/Protests2_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user92183\/imageroot\/2015\/03\/Protests3_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It now appears\u00a0<strong>the Blockupy spirit has migrated across the pond to Montreal, where hundreds of students hit the streets to protest austerity measures drawing the ire of police armed with rubber bullets, tear gas, and sound bombs.\u00a0<\/strong>Here\u2019s more via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/243781-montreal-students-austerity-police\/\">RT<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\"><em>Canadian police used tear gas and reportedly fired rubber bullets and sound bombs at hundreds of students protesting austerity measures at an anti-capitalist rally in Montreal. Thousands took to the streets on Tuesday to protest sweeping education cuts\u2026<\/em><\/div>\n<p><em>Many activists wore masks, covering their faces while violating the local bylaw that prohibits covering faces during protests\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Revolutionary Student Movement organized the Tuesday\u2019s evening march. The group has claimed it is \u201can association of young Communists and revolutionary anti-capitalists.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Thousands of students have been boycotting classes to protest against provincial government austerity measures, including new tuition hikes and university cuts.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user92183\/imageroot\/2015\/03\/Protests4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"595\" height=\"366\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The protesters reportedly broke car windows, lit flares, and spray painted some stuff, which all would have been ok had they provided police with a schedule initially:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montreal Students Clash With Riot Police In Austerity Protests Last week, anti-austerity protests in Germany\u00a0turned\u00a0the streets of Frankfurt into a veritable horror show as Blockupy supporters dressed as clowns clashed with riot police against a backdrop of flaming cars and utter chaos in what looked like a scene out of\u00a0Pennywise The Clown Meets Black Hawk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4440,4243,103,540,632,657,4441],"class_list":["post-6840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-anti-austerity-protest","tag-blockupy","tag-canada","tag-montreal","tag-police","tag-protests","tag-revolutionary-student-movement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6841,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6840\/revisions\/6841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}