Montreal students protest fees and civil liberties for more than 100 days
In Montreal protests against making university students pay for tuition have been ongoing for 100 days and more. Recently a draconian law, Bill 78, that limits protests and free speech rights in Quebec, has turned the protests there from being just about tuition fees, to a fight for civil liberties. Australians can learn a lot about how to protest and the concept of 'throwing your body in the machine' from this video. This writer expresses solidarity with the Québécois students.
Student protests in Montreal have lasted over 100 days. Students are protesting against attempts to charge fees for university study - something that Hawke and Keating did years ago to Australian students, and now our universities host vast quantities of foreign students who have priced out most Australian fee-paying students.
The recent passage of Bill 78, a law that limits protests and free speech rights in Quebec, has turned the protests there from being just about tuition fees, to a fight for civil liberties.
Australians can learn a lot about how to protest and the concept of 'throwing your body in the machine' from this video.
Maybe as important, Australians can compare themselves to these French Canadian students and ask what it is about the Australian system that permitted our country and our universities to be sold off with so little effective protest.There is a difference: the French Canadians are a tribe - there is relatively low immigration there. Similar tactics to those used in Australia of increasing immigration to split communities by importing students and employees are being brought in in French Canada now.
The rest of Canada has a different system and is as far down the path to disorganisation as Australia.
The French Canadians still remember they are citizens, not clients. Time Australians relearned this concept.
See also: Québec students fight globalisation of tertiary education of 26 May, Pots & Pans Protest: Angry Canadians Make a Bang of 28 May on Global Research TV.
See also: Québec students fight globalisation of tertiary education of 26 May 2012, Pots & Pans Protest: Angry Canadians Make a Bang of 28 May 2012 on Global Research TV, BEYOND THE STUDENT PROTEST MOVEMENT: Where Next for the Quebec Mobilizations? of 9 June 2012 by Richard Fidler on Global Research TV.
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