The World

Thousands of Activists Converge on Quebec City
By Bill Lascher
4/27/01

As thousands of activists from across North America gathered at Quebec City’s Laval University in anticipation of an afternoon march against the Free Trade Area of the Americas last Saturday, some stopped to watch a swim class practicing in a pool below their convergence center. Separated by large round windows, the calm, carefree atmosphere of the aquatics center contrasted with the electricity raging through the gathering brigades of students, workers, intellectuals, socialists, anarchists, Quebecois nationalists and activists of just about every stripe.
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