{"id":3015,"date":"2014-10-03T16:33:34","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T20:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/?p=3015&#038;lang=fr"},"modified":"2014-10-07T16:54:49","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T20:54:49","slug":"laction-citoyenne-dans-le-mile-end-a-travers-le-temps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/laction-citoyenne-dans-le-mile-end-a-travers-le-temps\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizen Activism in Mile End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lecture by Yves Desjardins and Claudine Schirardin<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3016\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/F\u00eate-Saint-Viateur-1992-2.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3016\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3016\" alt=\"F\u00eate de la Saint-Jean, rue Saint-Viateur, en 1992 \/ Comit\u00e9 des citoyens du Mile End\" src=\"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/F\u00eate-Saint-Viateur-1992-2-600x400.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/F\u00eate-Saint-Viateur-1992-2-600x400.jpg 600w, http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/F\u00eate-Saint-Viateur-1992-2-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/F\u00eate-Saint-Viateur-1992-2.jpg 1728w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3016\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">F\u00eate de la Saint-Jean, rue Saint-Viateur, en 1992 \/ Comit\u00e9 des citoyens du Mile End<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Since 1982, the Mile End Citizens Committee has worked to maintain quality of life in the face of constant change and to develop the sense of neighborhood identity. There are many accomplishments to its credit, such as the preservation of the Rialto Theatre, or, more recently, the naming of Lhasa-de Sela Park.<\/p>\n<p>Yves Desjardins will note that Mile End has always been fertile ground for citizen activism \u2013 there was already a citizens&#8217; committee in 1893! Claudine Schirardin, one of the founders of the current committee, will describe the challenges and principal successes of the group. The talk will be followed by a discussion on current issues, with representatives of many local community groups attending.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>This lecture is part of the consultation launched by the Citizens&#8217; Committee to imagine Mile End&#8217;s future.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>Sunday 12 October 2014,<br \/>\n2:00\u20134:00 p.m.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Mile End Library<br \/>\n5434 avenue du Parc, Montreal\u00a0<\/b>(south of Saint-Viateur \u2013 80 bus)<\/p>\n<p><b>Free<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Lecture in French,\u00a0<\/b>discussion in French and English<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lecture by Yves Desjardins and Claudine Schirardin Since 1982, the Mile End Citizens Committee has worked to maintain quality of life in the face of constant change and to develop the sense of neighborhood identity. There are many accomplishments to its credit, such as the preservation of the Rialto Theatre, or, more recently, the naming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3015"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3024,"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions\/3024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memoire.mile-end.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}