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Study Group Event: Student & Teacher Strikes
Facebook Invite Page: People's Budget Movement Building Study Group
When: Saturday, July 14, 2012
Time: 10:00am
Where: 214 NE Thompson Street (map)
Topic: We'll be reading 3 pieces about 3 different communities in struggle: students in Quebec, teachers in Chicago, and youth in Chile. We will start out with a potluck brunch and spend time getting to know each other. We'll have some discussion in the large group and then break into small groups for more in-depth conversations using the discussion questions provided as a starting point.
Study Assignments
- Revolutionary Education
| “ | Since they are producers of knowledge, students are no longer a workforce in apprenticeship, but are immediately workers, and precarious workers. In fact, there is a continuous overlapping between the education market and the labor market (think of “lifelong learning” or the accreditation system). It’s not by coincidence that the issues of labor (precariousness, devaluation of the workforce, impoverishment, crisis, etc.) have been central in student and university struggles in the past few years. And for this reason, the university struggles have a potentiality of political generalization across the whole class composition. | ” |
— Gigi Roggero, The Revolution of Living Knowledge
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Chicago Teachers Union Strike
- Luis Recommends
| “ | The most comprehensive article out there about the Chicago Teachers Union strike is the ISO's piece. | ” |
- How can the Chicago Teachers Union win?
- Standing Up to Corporate School Agenda, Chicago Teachers Greenlight Strike
Chile Rising
- Megan's Suggestions
| “ | There were lots of articles reporting events, but I thought this one was a good balance of history and practical info on student strategy and tactics. The video is not too long, and it’s so exciting. | ” |
- “we are looking at a revolutionary, anti-neoliberal movement”
- Supplemental video: Chile Rising: Behind the Student Protest Movement
Quebec's 'Maple Spring' Protests
- Dave's Assignments
- Podcast (hat tip to Shamus for sending me this link): Maple Spring: The Québec Student Strike
Please Note: The kindly Karen from We Are Many restored access to the Maple Spring: The Québec Student Strike podcast again. Please "like" the We Are Many Facebook page.
- Here's a backup link to the .mp3 file (just in case)...
- Extra credit -- A still-expanding list of other material on the Quebec student strike.
- Canada's Maple Spring - Student protests in Quebec grow to nationwide movement. (Video)
- Clanging pots and pans are sounding across the streets of Montreal as hundreds of thousands of Quebecers take part in what is being termed the "Maple Spring" - Canada's largest and longest protests ever. It all started three months ago when the provincial government announced an 75 percent increase on university tuitions.
Pullquote:
| “ | What started as a students-only protest is spilling over into a much broader debate about inequality and, ultimately, the future that peoples' leaders appear to be offering. But this is also part of a larger trend. It's amazing how quickly these regional and specific discussions -- police brutality in Tunisia, income inequality in the U.S., college tuition in Quebec - spill over into some of the same themes we see globally. A government, possessing economic and military authority, makes a move that finally angers people enough to send them into the streets. | ” |
- Maple Spring: The Québec Student Strike (Podcast)
- Québec Students Spark the ‘Maple Spring’ (Series of articles and videos.)
- Quebec Student Strike (Series of video reports hosted by The Real News.)
- Quebec student strike (List of reports on Democracy Now!)