Montreal Student Strike Continues after Classes Forced to Reopen

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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/08/29-2

Bill 78 to make the 31,000 protesting students actions against tuition hikes illegal and using this law to arrest them..


"Student protests broke out on college campuses in Montreal for the second day in a row on Tuesday following the enforcement of a winter make-up term at all Quebec universities that were hit by student strikes earlier this year. As striking students marched through classrooms, banged on desks, and blew horns, Montreal police were called in and ultimately detained up to 21 protesters.

To make up for classes missed during last term's widespread student strike, Quebec students were required to return to class early this week in accordance with the contentious Bill 78. The bill, now known as the "anti-protest law," was passed earlier this year, spawning mass protests and Canada's largest act of civil disobedience.

This week's protesters were attempting to blockade classes at the University of Montreal and the University of Quebec at Montreal in a bid to continue their strike.

Confrontations between police and students have been ongoing since Monday on the campuses. At one point police confronted 50 protesters on the fourth floor of the Jean-Brillant building at the University of Montreal, who had locked themselves in the building, ignoring warnings from police to vacate the premises."



http://ca.news.yahoo.com/university-montreal-suspends-classes-targeted-striking-students-035027344.html

There are 47 suspended classes in total, all in the departments in which student associations voted to continue their boycott.
"They were the classes that we saw in the last two days [in which] the students were giving us trouble," said Mathieu Filion, a spokesman for the university administration. "Ninety per cent of our students are in class right now, and it was those students who were disturbing the other classes."
"We tried our best to give classes to those students, but obviously they didn't want to be there," Filion added.
Filion could not say how many students in the suspended courses have been turning up for class since Monday and how many were outside the classrooms protesting, although he said about a thousand students are affected by the university's decision.

I wondered why the effort to provide class and not tuition relief was the focus..

http://rt.com/news/montreal-protests-students-tuition-805/
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