Editor’s Note: This story is part of our ongoing first-person coverage of protests in Quebec against student debt, tuition hikes and Law 78, as well as actions elsewhere in solidarity to those causes. This post originally appeared at Outside the Circle.

This is a gift. A collaborative one, between myself (words) and Thien V Qn (photos). A gift of one love letter per night, for each of the one hundred nights that so many tens of thousands shared the streets of Montreal together. Our gift to the Quebec student strike and all that it’s inspired, on this 100th night on the first day of what promises to be a red-hot August. To accept our gift, unwrap here: http://100-nuits-rouges.tumblr.com/

-Cindy Milstein-