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Every demonstrator who showed up at Marche Central in Montreal, Que., Canada, wore a pink shirt, a dark jacket, and khaki pants. And she didn’t look very happy. Thirty six thousand people had expressed interest in the protest against the high price of gasoline; five thousand had said they’d go; one — count her: one! — showed up. She was outnumbered by the six cops sent for crowd control. And she wasn’t even the organizer. (AC/CTV Montreal) ...Would you admit to being the organizer?
Original Publication Date: 24 June 2018
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 24.

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