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1000 HAVE-NOTS STORM ELITE HOTEL IN MONTREAL

1000 HAVE-NOTS STORM ELITE HOTEL IN MONTREAL
Montreal
April 15, 2004
Over a thousand angry protestors marched on Montreal's posh St. James hotel yesterday, causing havoc and disrupting the tea-time of the idle rich. The protest was part of a province-wide day of action marking the one-year anniversary of the elections that brought Jean Charest and the Liberal Party to government in Quebec.
Since taking power, Premier Charest has initiated a "re-engineering of the state"-a business-oriented restructuring of the province's government, in an attempt to undermine the many social-democratic programs still running in Quebec. This has taken the form of anti-union laws, cuts to subsidized childcare, plans to reduce the number of people on welfare and other attacks on working people. One flyer for yesterday's protests stated "As if we didn't have enough trouble making ends meet with low salaries, precarious jobs, insufficient welfare and high rents, this government has given itself the clear mission of making us even poorer."
The Charest government has created a lot of enemies and yesterday Montreal saw a 10,000-strong union demonstration, as well as protests organized by a number of housing and anti-poverty groups and the North-Eastern Federation of Anarcho-Communists.
Around 4pm people began to gather for a demonstration co-organized by the Comit

Posted in: News on April 16, 2004 @ 12:00 AM

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