Casseroles Night in Canada
Posted May 30, 2012 10:13:37 PM.
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The clanging of pots and pans could be heard for a block up and down King Street by Kitchener City Hall this evening (Wednesday) for Casseroles Night in Canada.
It was a display in solidarity with Quebec protests, which started over tuition fees, and then evolved into anger over the emergency passing of Bill 78 by the Charest government.
The law restricts freedom of assembly on university grounds, and anywhere in Quebec without police approval.
Organizer of Kitchener’s Casseroles Night, Charles Boyes told 570 News he’d like it if he didn’t have to organize an event like this, “What I mean by that is, having people take to the streets themselves, step out of their doors as people are doing across Quebec, and bang pots and pans like that every night at 8:00.”
Boyes explains the idea to bang pots and pans comes from protesters in Chile in the 1970’s, which protestors in Montreal, and then the rest of Quebec adopted. This time, banging against Bill 78.
Boyes said he is “Humbled and proud,” of the KW marchers, a crowd of over 200, just like crowds in communities across the country, “The message today is to show that people across Canada are standing in solidarity with the students, the poor, and working-class in Quebec.”
“We bring everyone together for one night as a symbolic gesture for the people of Quebec, but hopefully people take the initiative and start exercising their civic and political rights and duties night after night.”
