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class=gmail_sendername>The University Is Ours!</B> <SPAN dir=ltr><<A
href="mailto:universityisours@gmail.com">universityisours@gmail.com</A>></SPAN><BR>Date:
Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 12:59 PM<BR>Subject: solidarity statement with quebec
strikers<BR>To: enda brophy <<A
href="mailto:enda.brophy@gmail.com">enda.brophy@gmail.com</A>><BR><BR><BR>
<P class=MsoNormal>hi all, </P>
<P class=MsoNormal>sorry for inundating you with emails today, but a few of us
here in toronto have drafted this statement of solidarity with the quebec
student strikers. we want to get as many people as possible, from as many places
as possible, to sign the statement. we plan to deliver the signed statements to
the Bureau du Quebec a Toronto on Thursday April 26th at noon - right before the
start of the conference. Please forward this statement widely to your networks
and ask them to send it along to me at <A href="mailto:elise.thorburn@gmail.com"
target=_blank>elise.thorburn@gmail.com</A></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal>i will collate all the statements and add them to what is
sure to be a large pile on thursday!</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal>thanks so much.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>elise</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal>Solidarity with the Quebec Student Strike</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal>The Quebec student strike against an increase in tuition fees
and for free education is a crucial battle against the austerity agenda and for
accessible, quality post-secondary education. This is the longest student strike
in Quebec history. It remains strong in the face of the Charest
government’s refusal to negotiate and university/CEGEP administration efforts to
use injunctions and threats to force students back to school. </P>
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<P class=MsoNormal>We recognize that students in Quebec pay lower fees than in
the rest of Canada because of a long tradition of activist mobilization for
quality, accessble education. We stand in solidarity with the student
strikers and the professors, campus workers and community members who have
supported this movement. Students in Quebec are fighting against the
commercialization of education and user pay through tuition increases that
create massive barriers to access and student debt that profits the banks while
haunting students for years after graduation. We believe victory for the student
movement in Quebec will signal a new level of mobilization for proper funding of
quality, accessible education and against the austerity agenda. We commit
ourselves to the defense of those arrested. We strongly support the
mobilizations to defend free political expression on campus and to continue the
strikes until victory, even in the face of repression. Together, we will stop
the hike.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal>*Note - for those of you who are in Toronto, please join us
to deliver this statement on Thursday April 26 at noon to the Quebec government
office at 20 Queen St. West. We will rally outside.* </P>
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