PHOTO (by Jean Goupil): Protesters lined up along police barricades outside a large building, in the forground two women and a man try to pass a wheelchair over the barricade, and a policeman tries to block them. To the left of this group a man in a wheelchair (Randy Horton?) looks on as Reverend Willie of Chicago talks with another officer over the barricades. Behind them are lines of other protesters and police officers on either side of the barricades.

La Presse, Montreal, Lundi 3 Octobre 1988
(In French)
A L'ASSAUT DU REINE ELIZABETH
Photo: Jean Goupil, La Presse

Une centaine de handicapes in fauteuil roulant ont tenet hier de forcer les barrages policiers a l'entree de l'hotel Reine Elizabeth, ou se tient le congres de l'Association americane des transports publics. Bilan de la journee: une trentaine d'arrestations. Les manifestants reclamalent que les autobus soient a mettre d'utiliser les transports en commun. Page A3

La Presse, Montreal, Monday, October 3, 1988
(In French)
AT THE ASSAULT OF QUEEN ELIZABETH
Photo: Jean Goupil, La Presse

A hundred handicapped in wheelchairs yesterday tried to force the police checkpoints at the entrance of the Queen Elizabeth Hotel, where the congress of the American Public Transit Association is being held. Assessment of the day: some thirty arrests. Protesters claim that buses must be put to use transporting all the public. Page A3

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Thursday 18 January 2018

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