Casseroles.

June 6, 2012 4:15 AM

Casseroles.
posted by loquacious (20 comments total)

Really great, thanks.
posted by litleozy at 4:26 AM on June 6, 2012

Video taken from recent Quebec student and community protests about tuition fee hikes and anti-protest legislation.
posted by loquacious at 4:26 AM on June 6, 2012

I figured I might not be the only one who had to resort to Google to figure out what was going on here. Pot-banging against Bill 78, Quebec law limiting protests, is catching on
posted by Lame_username at 4:28 AM on June 6, 2012 [2 favorites]

It's a really wonderful form of protest. When I walk or ride around the city in the evening now I always hear pots and pans; often it's just people sitting out on their balconies banging out a rhythm. My impression is that hearing it everywhere, and knowing that you'll hear it everywhere, really keeps up the spirits of the protestors -- a regular reminder of the solidarity of (hundreds of thousands of) others.

I particularly like this video because my doctoral supervisor is in it; holding his pot in his left hand at 3:12.
posted by louigi at 4:44 AM on June 6, 2012 [2 favorites]

Sometimes bean casseroles help me make le plus de bruit possible. But that would be a disproportionate form of protest, it's more like chemical warfare.
posted by XMLicious at 4:52 AM on June 6, 2012

There have been casserole nights here in Sherbrooke, too. I find them awesome but always feel a little bad for the lone guy still clanging away after everyone else has decided to call it a night.
posted by Kitteh at 5:12 AM on June 6, 2012

Great visuals, but it would've been great to hear all the pot banging - the actual means of protest, rather than replacing it with music.
posted by FreezBoy at 5:19 AM on June 6, 2012

I saw "casserole" and "Quebec", and I guessed that this was Pat le Chef's casserole video (NSFW unless you work at the naked people restaurant, of course).

Video taken from recent Quebec student and community protests about tuition fee hikes and anti-protest legislation.

I keep seeing tiny mentions of this in the news, and always hope that they will win.
posted by Forktine at 6:18 AM on June 6, 2012

There's a casseroles event in toronto today at 8pm, for those interested: https://www.facebook.com/events/391104920936260/
posted by modernnomad at 6:21 AM on June 6, 2012

I should also add that for those on facebook, if you join that event, there's an interesting wall discussion going on about elements of the black bloc with the casseroles protests attempting to divert them.
posted by modernnomad at 6:24 AM on June 6, 2012

As my grandmother used to say, Hak mir nit keyn tshaynik!.
posted by Jode at 6:28 AM on June 6, 2012 [2 favorites]

In Montreal this is exclusively a French phenomenon. In English districts on the west side the anglos are sitting on their thumbs going derp. Morons, you're being outdone by Toronto, for God's sake. Toronto.
posted by fleetmouse at 6:31 AM on June 6, 2012 [2 favorites]

Map of events worldwide. There's one in Vancouver tonight, 8PM at the VAG
posted by doublesix at 7:04 AM on June 6, 2012

We have our march in solidarity with the students in Montreal tonight at 7 in Washington Sq Park for my New York City people. Bring your pots and pans, Occupy!
posted by willie11 at 7:51 AM on June 6, 2012

Oops, that's 8pm tonight and every Wednesday. Washington square park.
posted by willie11 at 8:35 AM on June 6, 2012

You know what else makes great red squares, in a pinch? A Canadian flag. Dollarama has a whole aisle of potential red squares just in time for Canada Day.

See you at the next manif, Phalene!
posted by Freyja at 10:40 AM on June 6, 2012 [1 favorite]

I want to go to one of these and throw frozen peas into the air like confetti. Because.... not enough frozen peas.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 12:00 PM on June 6, 2012

That film made the protest seem awfully nice, especially compared to the local ongoing sideshow.

I was kind of weirded out by, um, how ethnically homogenous the crowd was. I mean, it was a lot of white people. And then I thought back to protests I'd been too and started googling and I think it may be official. Things White People Like #135: protesting.
posted by Ogre Lawless at 1:26 PM on June 6, 2012

I mean, it was a lot of white people.

California is really incredibly multi-racial, Ogre. Come visit the East Coast sometime — there's just loads and loads of white folk.
posted by benito.strauss at 2:18 PM on June 6, 2012

Translating the printemps érable is a volunteer collective attempting to balance the English media's extremely poor coverage of the student conflict in Québec by translating media that has been published in French into English.

An original collaboration of illustrators.

Out of the mouth of casseroles.

Never have I seen Montreal so beautifully together. Jason Bajada: TheSound Your Life Makes

posted by bru at 3:29 PM on June 6, 2012 [1 favorite]