On May 30, 2012, Occupy Wall Street activists took to the streets of New York to march for affordable education and against police repression, in solidarity with the massive, ongoing student uprising taking place in Quebec and now spreading across the world. As protesters have in Argentina, in Chile, in Spain and now in Canada, […]
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New Democratic Party Ends 43 Year Conservative Domination in Alberta
The victory of the new Premier-elect of Alberta Rachel Notley and the loss of the bastion province of the conservative Harper government is analyzed by Notley’s former professor Gordon Laxer of the University of Alberta Story Transcript SHARMINI PERIES, EXEC. PRODUCER, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Sharmini Peries coming to you from […]
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Quebec Students Protest Against Tuition Increase
Tens of thousands of students and supporters take to the streets to oppose tuition increases
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Over 165,000 Students On Strike in Quebec Over Planned Tuition Hikes
Students lead tens of thousands in protests against tuition hikes and neoliberal reforms of Quebec government Story Transcript VOICEOVER: More than 165,000 students in Quebec, Canada have been on strike for more than 9 weeks in response to a Provincial government plan that would raise university tuition rates, some of the lowest in the country, […]
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Quebec Election: A Seismic Shift Within the Independence Movement?
By Richard Fidler. This article was first published on the Socialist Project. The defeat of the Parti Québécois (PQ) and the election of a federalist Liberal party government in the Quebec general election of April 7 raises important questions about the future of the Quebec movement for sovereignty and political independence. And it poses some […]
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Quebecers Reject PQ and Elect a Liberal Government Representing Big Business
Leo Panitch: “PQ fronting Pierre Peladeau as a their star candidate blew up in their faces” Story Transcript SHARMINI PERIES, TRNN PRODUCER: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Sharmini Peries coming to you from Baltimore. In the Quebec provincial elections that took place earlier this week, the separatist party Parti Québécois suffered its worst […]
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As Anti-Protest Law Attempts to Stifle Dissent, 400 Students in Quebec Arrested in Mass March
By Yana Kunichoff. In the most recent escalation in the battle between a Quebecoise government pushing tuition hikes and striking Canadian students, at least three cities saw mass arrests at demonstrations against a newly minted anti-protest law that activists are calling “absurd.” The “biggest act of civil disobedience in Canadian history,” as some groups are calling […]
Posted inEconomy and Inequality, Politics and Movements: US
Solution to Student Debt is to Get the Banks Out of the Education Business
Michael Hudson: Crippling student debt, which is also a drag on the whole ecnonomy, developed as governments pushed the burden of higher education costs onto students and pushed them into the arms of the banks Story Transcript PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Paul Jay in Baltimore. A recent […]
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From Pipelines to Peladeau – Canadian Report
Yves Engler and Linda Solomon Wood discuss native resistance to tar sands pipeline and media mogul Pierre Karl Peladeau running as candidate for the Parti Quebecois Story Transcript PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Paul Jay in Baltimore. And welcome to something new on The Real News. It’s going […]
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Portland Student Union Plays Key Role in Faculty Union Win
By Roshan Bliss Students often find themselves with little to no substantive representation on campus, and in recent years, many have turned to building student unions Over the last few months, it had appeared that the faculty of Portland State University would be going on strike for the first time the school’s history as negotiations […]
