quebec student strikeSyndicate content

Talk: Quebec student strike and anti-austerity

Date: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 - 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Location

OISE room 8180
252 Bloor Street W
Toronto
Canada
43° 40' 4.7568" N, 79° 23' 54.5532" W

The Quebec student strike is inspiring people across Canada who would like to see a similar mass movement against austerity. How can we spread the Quebec spring?

Come to hear how the Quebec student strike was organized, the possibility of bringing the Quebec example to Toronto students and how we can expand the struggle into a broader fight against the austerity agenda.

Quebec government steps up police repression as student movement seeks to broaden struggle

This promises to be a familiar scene this summer in Montreal. (Photo: fatseth / flickr)

Got change? Want change? Spare some and get some by becoming a member of rabble.ca today.

The opening salvo in a promised, summer of protest by Quebec's student movement was delivered at the annual, Montreal Grand Prix auto race and surrounding festivities from June 7 to 10. Hundreds, sometimes thousands, of students and their allies used the high-profile event to press demands for a freeze in post-secondary tuition fees and an end to police and state repression.

embedded_video

History's lessons for the Quebec student movement: Remembering Benno Ohnesorg

The burial of  Benno Ohnesorg. (Photo: KasamaProject.org)

Got change? Want change? Spare some and get some by becoming a member of rabble.ca today.

In the history of the German student movement of the 1960s, the name Benno Ohnesorg signifies a crisis, a turning point and a bizarre lesson in state power and media manipulation.

embedded_video

SDS founder: Quebec students' action consistent with student movements of 1960s

| June 13, 2012

Video: Protest in Montreal at Grand Prix festivities

Manifestation du 9 juin 2012 à Montréal contre le Grand prix du Canada et le gouvernement Charest pour l'ensemble de son oeuvre.

June 9th demonstration in Montreal against the Canadian Grand Prix and the Charest government both in general and in particular.

'We are committed to standing in solidarity with the Quebec Student Strike': Emmanuel College Student Society

| June 13, 2012

Charest's Bill 78, Harper's Bill 38: It's the same fight

It's membership time. Cultivate Canada's media. Support rabble.ca. Become a member.

embedded_video

Creative protests continue in Montreal

A 'nude protest' was held Friday in Montreal. (Photo Thien V / flickr)
A 'nude protest' was held Friday in Montreal, one of many creative ways people in Quebec have turned their backs on Charest and his draconian Bill 78.

Related rabble.ca story:

Syndicate content