{"id":8849,"date":"2012-03-27T18:34:34","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T02:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=8849"},"modified":"2012-03-27T18:38:20","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T02:38:20","slug":"quebec-students-rolling-protests-while-universities-resort-to-intimidation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2012\/03\/quebec-students-rolling-protests-while-universities-resort-to-intimidation\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec Students Rolling Protests while Universities Resort to Intimidation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.montrealgazette.com\/news\/Concordia+McGill+universities+accused+using+scare+tactics\/6364978\/story.html#ixzz1qNIdjG28\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8850\" title=\"MontrealGazette 3-27-12\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/files\/2012\/03\/MontrealGazette-3-27-12-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/files\/2012\/03\/MontrealGazette-3-27-12-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/files\/2012\/03\/MontrealGazette-3-27-12.jpg 597w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Photo by Phil Carpenter, <em>Montreal Gazette<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Quebec students have planned a series of rolling protests while claims of Concordia and McGill university intimidation tactics against the students increase. \u00a0Tensions on the campuses are escalating as the students are moving into their second month of activism against rising tuition and other costs to education. \u00a0Students are reporting that the more the universities face the student activism the nastier the administrative and police tactics are getting. Three McGill students were banned from campus for protesting while others faced off with security guards. \u00a0\u201cThis is completely a new level of political repression,\u201d said Kevin Paul, a cultural studies and philosophy student at McGill. &#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Joel Pedneault, vice-president of external relations for the Student Society of McGill University, got a letter saying there were \u201creasonable grounds to believe that your continued presence on campus is detrimental to good order.\u201d He is planning to contest the disciplinary action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis seems to be a real crackdown on students for the strike,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Teachers also reacted. David Douglas, of the Concordia University Part-Time Faculty Association, said the university\u2019s decision to issue the directive in response to a peaceful demonstration last week was \u201cinterpreted by students and many within the university community to be an ill-timed and regrettably hostile gesture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A small group of professors at McGill also wrote to the administration to deplore the disciplinary action against the students, saying the student code of conduct was being misused \u201cto persecute students at will.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.montrealgazette.com\/news\/Concordia+McGill+universities+accused+using+scare+tactics\/6364978\/story.html#ixzz1qNIdjG28\" target=\"_blank\">Montreal Gazette\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Phil Carpenter, Montreal Gazette Quebec students have planned a series of rolling protests while claims of Concordia and McGill university intimidation tactics against the students increase. \u00a0Tensions on the campuses are escalating as the students are moving into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2012\/03\/quebec-students-rolling-protests-while-universities-resort-to-intimidation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1527,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[635,2265,2266,5038,2273],"tags":[1288954,1288961],"class_list":["post-8849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-organizing","category-protests","category-student-movement","category-students","tag-protests","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8849"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8853,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8849\/revisions\/8853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}