{"id":4251,"date":"2009-05-10T21:25:15","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T01:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/2009\/05\/10\/tamil-protest-the-taking-of-the-gardiner-expressway\/"},"modified":"2009-05-11T14:15:41","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T18:15:41","slug":"tamil-protest-the-taking-of-the-gardiner-expressway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2009\/05\/10\/tamil-protest-the-taking-of-the-gardiner-expressway\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamil Protest: The taking of the Gardiner Expressway"},"content":{"rendered":"

[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Arr5Ct19MPU[\/youtube]<\/p>\n

Some remarkable and quickly uploaded footage from Spadina Avenue earlier this evening when the Tamil protest took the Gardiner Expressway by fivelitre89<\/a>. Please feel free to link to other videos you may know about in the comment section. If you click here and follow #tamil<\/a> on Twitter, some good citizen photography is also being posted. You may have to scroll through some nasty comments though. It may be good to have a discussion of where the line in protests should be — democracy vs. too much — or maybe while the event is ongoing, it may be too hot to debate right now. The only other time I recall something like this happening was last year, when Critical Mass shut the Gardiner down<\/a> by riding onto it.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: A set of photos has been put on flickr by yumkerun<\/a>. As I mentioned on Twitter a bit ago “so many waterfront condos, so many cameras.”<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Another great collection of photos<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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