Inside The 1969 Sir George Williams Student Protest

Inside The 1969 Sir George Williams Student Protest

Sir George Williams Affair

This news report, entitled “Inside the 1969 Sir George Williams student protest”, is a piece of archived content from CBC’s The Way It Is program, originally aired during the protests of the same name and year. This report interviews student protestors during their encampment as well as professors, fellow students, and other officials connected to the event. This particular clip, from around 2 minutes and 18 seconds till 2 minutes and 37 seconds, illustrates the perspectives of two white students who disagree with the actions and merit of the protests. In doing so, they demonstrate how they believe the issue of racism in Montreal is overblown, and that (much like the general perspective of Society-at-large) the only reason it has become an issue recently has been contemporary rebel-rousing and agitators seeking trouble, as opposed to it being deep-seated and pervasive since Colonization.

Jim Reeds and CBC News

This is the direct citation and source from which my clip (2:18 - 2:37) is pulled from:

Reed, Jim, reporter. “Inside the 1969 Sir George Williams student protest.” CBC Archive, February 2, 1969. Video, 8 min., 41 seconds. https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/1.3280589.

CBC News (and later found on their archives)

1969

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