How did the Quebect student movement win? « To support this crowd funded report visitindiegogo.com/streetpolitics101 For over 4 months, students and their allies, took over the streets of Montreal every day, to protest a tuition hike imposed by the liberal party in Quebec. On September 21st, the newly elected Premier of Quebec scrapped the tuition hike and repealed a controversial law, that effectively banned public demonstrations.
While this is being touted as a victory by many in the student movement, one element that made this success possible is already being overshadowed. How the the movement’s militant street politics transformed the student strike from a single issue campaign to an uncompromising social insurrection. To support this crowd funded report visit indiegogo.com/streetpolitics101 For over 4 months, students and their allies, took over the streets of Montreal every day, to protest a tuition hike imposed... This entry was posted on Wednesday, September 26, 2012 at 8:52 am and is poested under the fuckin show category. CLASSE interview: The victory in Quebec belongs to the movement, not to the PQ.
Members of CLASSE are speaking in cities across Canada this week, on a 'Maple Tour' sponsored by rabble.ca and other organizations. Full details for this speaking tour are available here. Students in Quebec, whose strike shut down the province's higher education system for the first half of this year, celebrated the achievement of their top goals last month when the new Parti Québécois (PQ) government announced it was rescinding a planned tuition hike and repealing most of the repressive Law 12 aimed at restricting the right to protest. Quebec's new Premier Pauline Marois took office on September 19 after former Premier Jean Charest and his Liberals suffered a humiliating defeat as a direct result of pushing for the tuition increase and trying to intimidate students to end their strike.
The heart of the fight was grassroots mobilization, led by the Coalition large de l'association pour une solidarité syndicale étudiante (CLASSE). The move backfired. The PQ operates a little differently. Quebecois win yields death of tuition hike. How did the Quebect student movement win? New Quebec Government Cancels Tuition Hike. Quebec student group championing free education. L’amnistie pour les étudiants? Connexion Le Devoir 25 septembre 2012 Société / ÉducationL’amnistie pour les étudiants? Photo : Jacques Nadeau - Le Devoir Des étudiants se mobilisent pour réclamer l’abandon des poursuites pour tous ceux et celles qui ont été arrêtés lors des manifestations durant le conflit étudiant. Ce mouvement d’amnistie générale, lancé par le cégépien Simon Lefranc et appuyé notamment par le collectif Profs contre la hausse, estime que ces accusations sont néfastes tant pour les étudiants que pour l’État et, surtout pour la Ville de Montréal, à qui il en coûte cher. « Des accusations criminelles peuvent amener un casier judiciaire qui serait néfaste pour la future carrière des étudiants » et pourrait priver le Québec d’un grand nombre d’ingénieurs, d’avocats et de médecins, peut-on lire dans une lettre publiée dans notre page Idées (A 7).
Il y aurait là une occasion de soulager « un système judiciaire pris à la gorge », explique-t-on. Site complet.