getting to the heart of the quebec student movement, and mobilization in general
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Getting to the HEART of the Quebec Student Movement, and mobilization in general. Keynote address by Rushdia Mehreen At the North Carolina State-wide student convergence, February 2013. http://studentpowernc.org/conference/ posted on http://rushdia.virtualstack.com/. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Getting to the HEART of the Quebec Student Movement, andmobilization in general
Keynote address byRushdia Mehreen
At the North Carolina State-wide student convergence, February 2013.http://studentpowernc.org/conference/
posted on http://rushdia.virtualstack.com/
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What you might know about the Quebec student movement…
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75%increase of university tuition fees
$1625 over 5 years
Government announces
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Bill 78
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7 months of strike
Up to 300K students on strike
Hundreds of protests: Monthly, weekly, daily
TWO years of escalationUnprecedented civil society mobilization
Over 3,000 arrests
and
One election later…
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Newly elected government cancels the tuition hike
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How did we get there?
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• Mass demos• Other strike
actions• Economic
Disruption• CLASSE
Congress• General
Assemblies• Mobilization• Mobilization
Committees (mob squad)• Building
Relationships
Background image credit: awatercolouraday.tumblr.com
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Keeping the momentum throughcreative and visibility actions
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Disrupt the economy
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Build large state-wide coalitions
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Empower students through direct democracy
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Image design by H. Bonin; inspired by Cegep St-Laurent student association (l’Association étudiante du cégep de Saint-Laurent (AECSL))
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Image design by H. Bonin; inspired by Cegep St-Laurent student association (l’Association étudiante du cégep de Saint-Laurent (AECSL))
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Do the ground workGet the word out!
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Setup mobilization groups and committees
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Build support and solidarity
One person at a time
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• Mass demos• Smaller actions• Economic
Disruption• Coalitions• General
Assemblies• Mobilization• Mobilization
Committees (mob squad)
• Building Relationships
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Recapping referencesThis presentation is posted on http://rushdia.virtualstack.com/category/qcstudentmovement/
In the order of appearance in the presentation (all accessed on 2nd April 2013):• http://freeeducationmontreal.org/movement-grows/• http://www.crimethinc.com/blog/2012/08/14/the-2012-strike-in-quebec-full-report/ • http://mailleapart.blogspot.ca/• http://rushdia.virtualstack.com/category/concordia-mobilization/• http://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/from-the-classroom-to-the-boardroom• http://freeeducationmontreal.org/on-general-assembly• http://geograds.wordpress.com/• http://gsaconcordia.ca/information-2/rights-and-history/ (on the student movement, very well presented, unlike the URL ;)• http://geographyonstrike.wordpress.com/• http://geoggingclub.wordpress.com/• http://www.stopthehike.ca/ (See Materials link on top)• http://www.bloquonslahausse.com/ (See Materiel d'Information link on top) • http://freeeducationmontreal.org/library/ (a bunch of research material, in particular, see the now famour brochure - Eight misleading arguments for the hike.• http://www.gratuitescolaire.info/mobilisation • http://www.afesh.uqam.ca/• http://freeeducationmontreal.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Creating-Departmental-or-Faculty-Associations_v1.0.1.pdf)• http://rushdia.virtualstack.com/mobilization-at-concordia-a-retrospect/• http://www.tuitiontruth.ca/• http://psastrike.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/department-of-philosophy-is-on-strike/• http://mcgillgradmobilization.wordpress.com/• http://socialpolicy.org/index.php/spring-2013/602-the-2012-student-strike-many-lessons-were-learned-and-taught
Videos: • Labour solidarity demo: http://www.cutvmontreal.ca/videos/1060• WHALE / flash mob: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwnyri6XYCY• Various Concordia related videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/freedmconcordia• Angry Week at Concordia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_54TX6etqE• Results of the on the go “training” of tabling/one-on-one mob, in Brazil, June 2012: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuIgVxr3Ibw