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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Biggest Student Uprising You’ve Never Heard Of
http://chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/the-biggest-student-uprising-youve-never-heard-ofOn an unseasonably warm day in late March, a quarter of a million postsecondary students and their supporters gathered in the streets of Montreal to protest against the Liberal governments plan to raise tuition fees by 75% over five years. As the crowd marched in seemingly endless waves from Place du Canada, dotted with the carrés rouges, or red squares, that have become the symbol of the Quebec student movement, it was plainly obvious that this demonstration was the largest in Quebecs, and perhaps Canadian, history.
The March 22nd Manifestation nationale was not the culmination but the midpoint of a 10-week-long student uprising that has seen, at its height, over 300,000 college and university students join an unlimited and superbly coordinated general strike. As of today, almost 180,000 students remain on picket lines in departments and faculties that have been shuttered since February, not only in university-dense Montreal but also in smaller communities throughout Quebec.
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The Biggest Student Uprising You’ve Never Heard Of (Original Post)
Fire Walk With Me
Apr 2012
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Downwinder
(12,869 posts)1. They need to get Lt. Pike to help generate publicity.
Canuckistanian
(42,290 posts)2. Oh, it's big news here
It's just not getting international attention.
Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)5. I am happy to help correct that.
Solidarity to all our Canadian brothers and sisters!
Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)4. SPVM shoots demonstrator point blank with tear gas canister
Initech
(100,068 posts)3. 75%?????? Holy crap!!!
I can see why they're pissed!
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)6. K&R. It is spreading, no matter how many times they say it won't. n/t
eppur_se_muova
(36,261 posts)7. We don't pay no 'tenshun to furrin country's.
Had to link to the Ottawa Citizen to find out about it ... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002590001
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)8. Didn't the journalist mean to say the NEO-liberal government
Same as the Neo-con meovement here in the US.
starroute
(12,977 posts)9. Things are getting rowdy up there
Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)10. Cops should know better than to defend a 75% tuition hike. No-win.
At some point they have to just stay home, when their orders become too ludicrous!
Lars77
(3,032 posts)11. Having students encumbered with debt is a great way of curbing social movements
Make sure they keep showing up at those jobs where they are socialized into the cynical corporate world.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)12. Good point