Student Solidarity
MOBILIZE TO TAKE BACK OUR EDUCATION!
SOLIDARITY WITH QUEBEC STUDENTS - NO MORE DEBT!
Pickup at:
Tuesday June 5th at
McMaster University in front of the Wentworth House @ 6:15pm
Downtown @6 :30pm
RSVP to guarantee yourself a spot.
E-mail StudentSolidarityHamilton@gmail.com with name and phone number
See Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/260390690735791/
Wear: as much red as possible
Post-secondary education in Canada is in crisis. Students In Canada collectively owe the federal government more than $14.5 billion. Ontario’s tuition fees are 23% higher than the national average. Decades of cuts by both the provincial and federal governments have resulted in tuition fees increasing at more than twice the rate of inflation. High fees and debts impose a heavy burden on students and their families. Communities impoverished by social oppressions are unable to access education. Indigenous and undocumented people are completely shut out.
As curriculums are standardized and specialized to fit the corporate agenda, class sizes continue to rise with debt. Our system is increasingly corporate-minded, placing profit ahead of education; ironically, however, most of us now graduate to a jobless future.
This is not just the plight of students, but symptoms of a broken economic system. It is through well-funded higher education that our society grows and improves. Education is not a luxury, or an expense: it is an investment in the future.
For the past few months, as Quebec students have been turning a simple issue of fees into a wider criticism of the neoliberal agenda, in Ontario we have seen our media rejoice at every opportunity to ridicule and discredit a generation saying they want a better world for tomorrow.
On June 5th, we will march together in solidarity with the inspiring struggle of the students of Quebec, and to demand accessible education for the people of Ontario! Bring your friends, your voice, your instruments, your flags, your banners, your red squares, and most importantly, your spirit. The time for us to stand up and be heard is now. We must ride the momentum of this historic moment. This is more than a hike, more than a strike, more than Quebec; this is the beginning of a new way of seeing education, not just for now but for generations to follow.
Mobilize now!
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