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146 Greek Academics Shows Solidarity With Quebec Students / Message de solidarité de la communauté académique grecque aux étudiants en lutte au Québec. The following is a message of solidarity for the students of Quebec signed by nearly 150 Greek academics. They provided French and English versions of their message of support (both listed below), along with a list of signatories. Message de solidarité de la communauté académique grecque aux étudiants en lutte au Québec Nous, enseignants aux universités grecques, expriment notre solidarité à la mobilisation extraordinaire des étudiants au Québec : la grève étudiante la plus longue et la plus massive dans l’ histoire de l’Amérique du Nord qui est en train de devenir une des campagnes les plus importantes dans le monde contre l’austérité.
La communauté académique en Grèce suit avec indignation, mais aussi avec espoir, la lutte des étudiants afin de bloquer l’augmentation des droits de scolarité universitaire et résister à l’attaque néolibérale sans précédent aux charges sociales. Dans cette lutte, nous sommes nombreux. In this struggle we are many. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. Casseroles Night in Canada / La soirée des casseroles au Canada / 30 Mai 2012.
American Students Need to Copy Canada's Tuition Protests - Education. In the past four months, the Canadian province of Quebec has become a hotbed of Occupy Wall Street-style protests—marches with hundreds of thousands of protesters, and battles with tear gas throwing, pepper-spraying police. And it all started over proposed tuition increases at Quebec's public universities. Indeed the Quebec Spring first blossomed in February when the government proposed hiking tuition from $2,168 to $3,793 over the next five years. Thousands of students went on strike and the government, led by Premier Jean Charest, decided to play hardball and crack down with the now-infamous Bill 78, a law that limits protest rights. Since then the protests and student boycotts have only grown. Nearly 200,000 students across the province have gone on strike. And the situation has revealed deeper frustrations with the government’s willingness to bail out businesses but not help the average student—or citizen.
Photo via (cc) Flickr user GothCandy. Sunday, June 6: NYC Solidarity Summer Coordinating Meeting. City-wide Coordinating Meeting for Solidarity with the Quebec Student Strike and Escalating Our Struggles TIME: Sunday, June 3rd 6pmLOCATION: 16 Beaver St., NYC Every night for over a week, Occupy Wall Street activists have taken to the streets of New York to march for affordable education and against police repression, in solidarity with the massive, ongoing student uprising taking place in Quebec and now spreading across the world. As protesters have in Argentina, in Chile, in Spain and now in Canada, we bang pots and pans as we march — a practice called casseroles or caceroladas. Now, we are calling for a SOLIDARITY SUMMER based on a diversity of tactics, a variety of actions, and a broad range of participants. Quebec students are currently waging the biggest student strike in recent history, an unlimited general strike that has galvanized massive popular support.
Long live the unlimited student strike! Silent march of lawyers - Post Mortem | FACTS AND CAUSES. Suivez-nous Marche silencieuse des juristes – Post Mortem Dans Idées libres le 30 mai 2012 6:34 VÉRONIQUE ROBERT – On me demande pourquoi je ne blogue plus. Photo : Pierre-Luc Daoust C’est simple, je ne blogue plus parce que le climat est tel que j’ai peur qu’un étudiant en arts lise dans mes propos une incitation à ne pas respecter les injonctions des tribunaux et que sa détermination soit telle qu’il prenne un avocat pour me poursuivre. C’est simple, je ne blogue plus parce que le ministère de l’Éducation, dans un Communiqué anachronique nous ramenant en EX-URSS, exige de ses employés qu’ils ne portent le carré rouge ni dans le cadre de leurs fonctions, ni dans leur vie personnelle. C’est simple, je ne blogue plus parce que le climat est tel que j’ai peur que mes consœurs, mes confrères et moi-même soyons réprimandés au moindre mot interprété trop largement, ou trop strictement, c’est selon.
Déontologie des avocats Quels sont donc ces moyens légitimes? Mais ce n’est pas le cas. President's Commentary: Quebec student strike: It's about values, democracy and fundamental freedoms. In fighting the dramatic tuition fee hikes, the student movement is defending the values of equality and solidarity which underpin this social contract. By James ClancyNational PresidentNational Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE) Ottawa (30 May 2012) - There has been a lot said and written about the student strike in Quebec since it began over 100 days ago. Sadly, most of the mainstream media coverage has focused on the unruly tactics of a small minority of fringe troublemakers. Very little has been said, particularly outside Quebec, regarding what this dispute is really all about. The protests are focused on the Charest government's policy to increase tuition fees by more than 80 per cent. The students argue that the fee hikes threaten the accessibility of education and will harm Quebec's long-term economic prosperity.
But the strike is also about something much broader than the policy debate over tuition fees. It's about values, democracy and fundamental freedoms. Mr. When Mr. Mr. CyberWar Central: Anonymous targets Montreal Grand Prix to back students. Anonymous targets Montreal Grand Prix to back students The global group of computer hackers known as Anonymous threw its support behind Quebec students protesting hikes in tuition fees by threatening to disrupt the Montreal Grand Prix. The activists, who earlier this month claimed responsibility for downing a dozen Quebec government websites, blasted organizers for intending to run the race in the Canadian province that recently passed an emergency law restricting protests.
Special Law 78, it said, has been "universally condemned by human rights watchers around the world as tyrannical, draconian -- and (has left) Quebec in clear violation of its basic human rights obligations. " "Beginning on June 7th and running through race day on June 10th, Anonymous will take down all the F1 websites, dump the servers and databases -- and wreck anything else F1-related we can find on the Internet," said a statement. "The minister of education said she would present a new offer today. May 30: Casseroles Night in Canada. Wednesday May 30, 2012Posted on Google DocsFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEVANCOUVER – This evening at 8PM, Canadians in communities from coast to coast will take to the streets to voice their support for Quebec’s student movement, and opposition to Quebec’s Bill 78. Dubbed ‘Casseroles Night in Canada’, the event will see meet-ups in over 60 communities in Canada, from Saltspring Island to St John’s, as well as international rallies in London, Paris, Washington, New York and other locations.Citizens will meet to bang pots and pans in the street, in protests modeled after the now famous “Casseroles” which have taken place across Quebec each night since the introduction of Bill 78.
Over 15,000 have already confirmed their attendance through the national Facebook group dedicated to this protest, or the pages of local meet-ups, and organizers expect turnout may be double that number. May 30: Casseroles Night in Canada Original Event Posted on Facebook *Media contact: Ethan Cox (514-662-0070)* 1. 2. 3. Interactive Map: Casserole Night in Canada. Vancouver students to rally in support of their Montreal peers. Vancouver Rallies for Striking Quebec Students. Hundreds at Vancouver rally to support Quebec students.
Over 200 people stood in solidarity--and in the rain--with Quebec students at a rally outside the Vancouver Art Gallery today. A mix of old and young, students and non-students, it was one of four protests taking place across the country, which one organizer dubbed "the largest civil disobedience ever in Canada. " Marking the 100th day of student protests against proposed tuition hikes in Quebec, hundred of thousands of protestors took to the streets in Montreal, while smaller groups gathered in New York City, Calgary, Toronto, Vancouver and Paris to show solidarity.
In addition to a proposed tuition increase of 75 per cent over five years, protestors decried the introduction of Bill 78, which would make it illegal to protest in Quebec without prior police approval. But although the rally and subsequent march in downtown Vancouver were based on showing support for their francophone counterparts, the speeches focused mainly on what's happening on the home front. AnonPaste. SCFP 1983 - Page d'accueil du syndicat CA.OM.SC. Canada: Our rights, under attack! Add requests to the request for revocation of Bill 78 special.
Offers support to Quebec student protesters < Education, Quebec. Home / Publications / Privatization Watch / Privatization Watch - May... May 22, 2012 05:12 PM CUPE leaders offered their support to student protesters in Quebec taking a strong stand against tuition fee hikes and the recently imposed Special Bill 78, which represents a disturbing violation of basic rights to freedom of assembly.
CUPE members participated in a rally organized by the Alliance sociale and its affiliates (including the FTQ) on May 22 in Montreal. This rally coincided with a massive demonstration organized by the Coalition large de l’ASSÉ (CLASSE) and supported by the Fédération étudiante universitaire du Québec (FEUQ). “We cannot stand by while governments continue to violate our basic rights in the name of austerity and funding cuts that only fuel the growing gap between rich and poor.
“Students shouldn’t have to suffer huge debt loads before they even get to work. “CUPE Quebec has been working in solidarity with the students of Quebec for months. More information: Teacher group donates money to Que. students | Canada | News. MONTREAL — Quebec's student movement has received another injection of cash from a prominent union outside the province.
The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT), representing more than 68,000 post-secondary staff across Canada, said Wednesday it will donate $20,000 to the masterminds of the 101-day strike. CAUT also lambasted Bill 78, a new Quebec law that imposes stiff fines against student groups that encourage civil unrest. The law was a response to blockades that prevented students from attending class at 25 community colleges and university faculties. Student associations that violate the law could see cuts to funding, or even office space, a move CAUT calls "oppressive. " "We will call upon all our member associations to make a donation to the students' legal defence fund," the group said in a statement. "For our members in Quebec, CAUT will assist in filing grievances about each aspect of Bill 78 that violates their collective agreement rights," the group said.
Solidarity with Quebec Students & March Against Anti-Protest Laws- New York City.