{"id":1205,"date":"2009-11-26T12:40:16","date_gmt":"2009-11-26T20:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2009-11-26T21:36:38","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T05:36:38","slug":"ams-to-complain-to-un-regarding-aved-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/2009\/11\/26\/ams-to-complain-to-un-regarding-aved-access\/","title":{"rendered":"AMS to Complain to UN Regarding AvEd Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The AMS, along with former VP Administration Tristan Markle, is complaing about the BC and Canadian governments to the United Nations. They claim:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>both levels of government have failed to:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff;\">&#8211; control tuition fees,<br \/>\n&#8211; provide sufficient financial support to students in need, and<br \/>\n&#8211; provide adequate funding to the post secondary sector <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Councillors we have spoken to thus far all seem shocked, as if this came from nowhere.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ams.ubc.ca\/index.php\/ams\/news\/ubc_student_union_files_complaint_to_the_un_regarding_soaring_tuition_fees\/\">Press Release<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ams.ubc.ca\/images\/uploads\/09-11-25_AMS_Complaint.pdf\">Complaint<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ams.ubc.ca\/images\/uploads\/FINAL_UN_Complaint_Backgrounder.pdf\">Backgrounder<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ams.ubc.ca\/images\/uploads\/09-11-24_Affidavit_Tristan_Markle.pdf\">Tristan Markle Affidavit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Update:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.straight.com\/article-272661\/vancouver\/ubc-student-union-files-united-nations-complaint-over-rising-tuition-fees\">Georgia Straight coverage<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/news\/complaint%20launched%20society%20over%20post%20secondary%20education\/2272723\/story.html\">Vancouver Sun coverage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AMS, along with former VP Administration Tristan Markle, is complaing about the BC and Canadian governments to the United Nations. They claim: both levels of government have failed to: &#8211; control tuition fees, &#8211; provide sufficient financial support to students in need, and &#8211; provide adequate funding to the post secondary sector Councillors we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1214,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions\/1214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}