Photo by Phil Carpenter, The Gazette
Students stormed the Quebec Liberal party office in Montreal this morning and again a large mass marched down Pie IX Blvd. to the intersection with Notre Dame St. and blocked the entrance to the Port. Demonstrations are now nearly daily and at Concordia alone, about 10,000 students out of 30,000 undergraduates are boycotting classes. “Education Minister Line Beauchamp stated that students will need to choose between boycotting and their diplomas, saying they ‘can’t have it all’.”
The students have re-adopted the red square to symbolize their protest and remind the government of the force and successes of the 2005 strike and raise spectres of socialism and Marxism. The government’s plans to raise costs of education, students said, “would leave them ‘carrément dans le rouge’ or squarely in the red, the colour of debt.”
Photo by John Kenney, The Gazette
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