[Fdu] Fw: [CACS] Fwd: solidarity statement with quebec strikers

[Peter Fitting]

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From: The University Is Ours! <universityisours at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 12:59 PM
Subject: solidarity statement with quebec strikers
To: enda brophy <enda.brophy at gmail.com>



hi all, 

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 elise.thorburn at gmail.com




i will collate all the statements and add them to what is sure to be a large pile on thursday!




thanks so much.

elise




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Solidarity with the Quebec Student Strike



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. 



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.




*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.* 





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