"International Student Movement"

Global Day of Action in Solidarity with ongoing Education Struggle in Quebec

As requested I am publishing the Call and list of activities planned as part of the day of action here.
The following information was taken from this event page on facebook.

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[IMPORTANT: PLEASE COMPLETE THE LIST BY CREATING YOUR EVENTS]

----------------------ARGENTINA----------------------
- Buenos Aires : https://www.facebook.com/events/131574373645782/

-----------------------AUSTRALIA---------------------
- Melbourne : https://www.facebook.com/events/436727713018750/

-----------------------BELGIQUE---------------------
- Bruxelles :
https://www.facebook.com/events/202528656535648/

-----------------------DENMARK------------------------------
- Aarhus : https://www.facebook.com/events/234681353302260/

------------------------ FRANCE-----------------------
- Annecy : https://www.facebook.com/events/230687713701085
- Bayonne : https://www.facebook.com/events/305325636218238/
- Bordeaux : https://www.facebook.com/events/323321867742677/
- Chambéry : https://www.facebook.com/events/414703398569638
- Clermont-Ferrand : https://www.facebook.com/events/426190810749067/
- Dijon : https://www.facebook.com/events/256388431135286/
- Grenoble : https://www.facebook.com/events/398260190216801/
- Lille : https://www.facebook.com/events/462824737063194/
- Lyon : https://www.facebook.com/events/308688722548681/
- Marseille : https://www.facebook.com/events/231955440253811
- Nantes : https://www.facebook.com/events/299255093498750/
- Nice : https://www.facebook.com/events/436605493026044/
- Paris : https://www.facebook.com/events/113603618777506/
- Quimper : https://www.facebook.com/events/378608898863774/
- Saint-Etienne : https://www.facebook.com/events/141186482672401/
- Strasbourg : https://www.facebook.com/events/343551849046490/
- Thonon : https://www.facebook.com/events/209818055805718
- Toulouse : https://www.facebook.com/events/336542076418312/

------------------------GERMANY--------------------
- Frankfurt : https://www.facebook.com/events/421314464557729/
- Hannover : https://www.facebook.com/events/440260692651158/

-----------------------ITALIA---------------------------
-Milano : https://www.facebook.com/events/349683621772205/

------------------------SWITZERLAND-----------------------
- Berne : https://www.facebook.com/events/302911839797391/
- Genève : https://www.facebook.com/events/429386330415636/

-----------------------UNITED STATES---------------------
- Miami : https://www.facebook.com/events/278153285616699/

For over 100 days, students in Quebec have risen against the rise of the cost of tuition fees. The answer of public authorities to this pacific mobilization was the promulgation of an emergency law. Law 78 was rapidly qualified as a "trucheon law" by the population since it limits drastically the right to demonstrate. And yet this questions one of the foundations of any democratic society.

Despite this infringement on a fundamental liberty, Quebec keeps on rising up everyday through artistic actions and by carrying out various demonstrations while ignoring arbitrary collective arrests.

It is not the only region in the world where revolt can be observed. Indeed, recently mexican students rose up against the general corruption of politicians. We cannot forget either students' struggles in Chile, Spain, Brazil, Tunisia or Greece. In a word, all the people in the world fight to maintain their fundamental rights and for a fair world.

The common point of all those struggles is the refusal of a model of society imposed on us where the access to fundamental public utility services such as education, culture, health or retirement is privatized. The future of countries and people is subject to speculation. Debt -which is strongly illegitimate- is used as a means of submission and serfdom.

Rapidly a momentum of solidarity was built up around the Quebecker struggle thanks to social networks and even more widely with the Internet. We sometimes witnessed violent actions by the police. We denounce those actions which in the guise of maintaining law and order just aim at muzzling and frightening the angry people. They are trying to divide us but it will not happen.

This is the reason why students, workers, unemployed people and retired people claim their support to the struggling Quebeckers and ask worldwide people who care for liberties and fundamental rights to gather in every cities and villages on the 24th of june in the evening. With our pans and a red square -symbol of the protest- we will make resound our solidarity towards the Quebeckers and all the peoples which struggle all over the world on squares.
We ask all goodwilled people who are sensitive to our call to organize themselves so as to transform the 24th of june into a day of solidarity and international resistance.