teach in

today's teach-in topic is mass mobilization.  uploaded may 3rd, real news asks three montreal student organizers:  how did they so effectively organize 250,000 students in a mass strike?  (and one that has been going on for weeks already?)  the students share their insights, especially with american audiences. 




on may 2, the guardian reported:

Canadian students have been furiously mobilizing for a freeze on

tuition fees since last spring, when the Liberal provincial government announced hikes of 75% over five years. A general strike launched this February shuttered most of the province's colleges and universities.

In Montreal, family-friendly street-theatre and marches peaked with a historic rally of 200,000 on 22 March; business-unfriendly blockades of banks, bridges and government ministries have often paralyzed the downtown core. And over the last week, tens of thousands have joined a nightly protest ritual, marching through Montreal past the midnight hour.

Tuition in Quebec remains the lowest in North America, because of generations of student protest – but the militant coalition CLASSE, representing half the striking students, has always included in its program free and universal post-secondary education.

today, cbc news in canada reports that students have been offered a 6 month tuition freeze, and that

Student leaders began around-the-clock, closed-door negotations in Quebec City with Beauchamp and the head of the Treasury Board, Michelle Courchesne, on Friday afternoon.

Students are expected to vote on issues in the next few days.