Montreal Stock Echange Tower Blocked by Hundreds / Blocking the Tower of the Montreal Exchange [Eng-Fr]

Here’s a great audio interview that explains it all very quickly.
Thanks to Montréal COOP Media and Alexia Conradi from the Quebec Women’s Federation.
Hundreds of people participated in a major action in Montreal [on Thursday February the 16th], shutting down the Montreal Stock Exchange [Tower], the heart of the city’s financial district, for several hours. The blockade was organized by the Coalition opposée à la tarification et à la privatisation des services publics. Alexa Conradi is the head of the Quebec Women’s Federation and one of the spokeswomen for today’s action. In this clip she speaks about the organization and the reasons behind this action, as well as the ongoing campaigns – including the province-wide student strike against tuition fee increases – that are certain to make it an eventful spring in Quebec.

En français cette fois, Concordia University TV fait un bon tour d’horizon de l’évènement en 7 minutes.
In French, this CUTVvideo takes a good big picture of the event.
[http youtube://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjJo-yavDKQ&w=560&h=315]

Pendant que des centaines de personnes bloquaient les portes de la tour de la bourse, on remarque que la police y fait entrer des personnes grâce à l’entrée de l’hôtel Delta qui communique avec l’intérieur de la tour de la bourse. Une partie de la manifestation se presse alors à cette porte pour la bloquer à son tour. Les policiers se déploient et procèdent au dispersement des manifestants en utilisant du poivre de Cayenne. Voici un bon vidéo style “Cop-Watch” filmé sur les premières lignes ce qui permet d’identifier les policiers les plus agressifs.

While hundreds of people block the Stock Exchange Tower, police uses the Delta Hostel inside door to the tower to pass people in. Part of the demo moves to block this alternative way in to the Tower. Police then used Pepper Spray, shields and sticks to move away demonstrators. Here’s a good “Cop-Watch” style video filmed on the front line allowing us to see the violence used.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbyZ3nS8cLo

Finally, voici la scène finale, celle avec le poivre de cayenne. Il s’agit du dernier vidéo d’une série qui suit toute l’action du début jusqu’à la fin.
Finally here’s the last part, police using Pepper spray. It’s the last segment of a serie that shows the whole event, from the very start to the very end.