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Elizabeth (Beth) Adams is a writer, publisher, editor, and graphic designer. She is the founder of Phoenicia Publishing, a small independent press, and co-managing editor of qarrtsiluni online literary magazine. She is the author of Going to Heaven, the story of Bishop Gene Robinson and the debate over ordinations of gays and lesbians, and the editor of numerous poetry books and anthologies. Her blog, The Cassandra Pages, is entering its ninth year. Beth grew up in the rural northeastern U.S., has a degree in classics from Cornell, lived in Vermont for thirty years, and currently resides in Montreal with her husband, photographer Jonathan Sa'adah. She is a member of PEN Canada.


The extraordinary student mobilisation in Quebec has already sustained the longest and largest student strike in the history of North America, and it has already organised the single biggest act of civil disobedience in Canadian history. It is now rapidly growing into one of the most powerful and inventive anti-austerity campaigns anywhere in the world.


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"You cut the egg into slices, and you eat it with the green soup. And the mixture of the sharp green acidity and the round comfort of the egg reminds you of something extraordinary and far away.
Of home?
Certainly not, not even for Poles.
Of what then?
...Of survival, perhaps.”
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