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Monday, June 4, 2012

All Education Matters: Chris Hedges: Quebec's Fight Is Our Fight

All Education Matters: Chris Hedges: Quebec's Fight Is Our Fight:


Chris Hedges: Quebec's Fight Is Our Fight

Chris Hedges is absolutely right. All eyes should be on Quebec right now. I also urge all student debtors to begin wearing a red square, a symbol, as Hedges notes, of revolt. The symbol means that one is "squarely in the red (carrement dans le rouge)," and "crushed by debt." I think most of us here can relate to that. Thereformists don't get this massive change in consciousness, and they will continue to hide behind their computers, urging people to sign petitions. If you dare suggest that this type of "activism" is futile, they will hiss and scream and make outrageous claims about how much better their plan is than anything else. They will beat their chests in rage, and ignore the horizontal protests, the swarms of democracy lovers, in the process. But the collective voices who demand true change cannot be stopped, not even by the screeching reformers who claim to be on our side.

Indeed, the protests in the streets of Montreal have not stopped, and it is now, as Hedges notes, "the longest