{"id":254,"date":"2012-03-09T23:27:55","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T06:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/?p=254"},"modified":"2012-03-09T23:44:48","modified_gmt":"2012-03-10T06:44:48","slug":"secondary-students-assert-power-at-the-bc-rallies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/2012\/03\/09\/secondary-students-assert-power-at-the-bc-rallies\/","title":{"rendered":"Secondary Students Assert Power at the BC Rallies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over a three day stretch, secondary students organized, marched, walked, spoke, and shouted out against oppressive labour legislation in British Columbia and for their teachers and the BCTF. \u00a0It’s rare that secondary students get opportunities to unify as a political force at the provincial level, but now in this labour dispute the students are making a difference. \u00a0On Friday, 2 March, thousands of students walked out of their classes and schools and rallied across the province<\/a>. \u00a0In Vancouver, the students descended en masse for a rally at the gallery.<\/p>\n

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On Tuesday, 6 March, at the BC Fed and BCTF rally hundreds of the youth marched with the unions down Government Street and to the steps of the BC Legislature. \u00a0For the crowd of 6,000, two young women,\u00a0Hannah Case and Erin Galbraith, spoke a lotta truth to a power<\/a> undermining their teachers’ rights. \u00a0 In Vancouver, on 7 March for the rally at the gallery, secondary students Navi Rai and Melissa Wong stood together on the steps and voiced their support<\/a> for the teachers’ rights and their right to a fair government. \u00a0Both were active in organizing Friday’s walkout. \u00a0And raising the roof of nature, Chandler McCorkingdale rapped<\/a>. \u00a0Sorry, BC Liberals, the students and the public are standing with the teachers.<\/p>\n

Now, where in the world are the missing BC post-secondary students, especially the Education majors? \u00a0Especially now? \u00a0I know that some are organizing online. \u00a0 And I know that the Canadian Federation of Students BC is 100% behind the BCTF and the teachers. \u00a0But across three rallies not a single post-secondary student signed onto the speaker’s lists. \u00a0Not a single one spoke while thousands of the secondary students have shown their strength as a political force. \u00a0Perhaps UBC’s Teacher Education Officer John Yamamoto’s interview with the CBC’s Morning Edition on 7 March is telling. \u00a0Yamamoto advised that the Education students should, nay must, remain neutral. \u00a0Some advice for the teacher candidates– one gets the sense that he thinks he is advising 700 administration candidates! \u00a0Where are the post-secondary students and will the CFS BC organize the group to be heard or present?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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