Many books were published in the months following the 2012 student strike.
However, on our side, nothing was written beyond the few blog entries publishedin the heat of the moment and a brochure. We, the Emma Goldman collective, findit important to trace and keep alive the memory of our struggles. We havetherefore produced a series of interviews that we will publish on the blog in thecoming days and weeks. ---- I was in secondary 5 in 2012. My first mobilizationtook place with the "Occupy" movement in 2011. I had already networked withactivist friends. We had vaguely participated in "Occupy Saguenay" and thesolidarity park. This was my first contact with the activist world and wenetworked with friends who were ready to move a little bit in high school. Ofthese friends, there are some who left for Cégep the year there was the strike.So we had a few contacts at the Cégep de Chicoutimi and a little in Jonquière aswell. When it started, we followed it with some militant friends who were also inhigh school and a lot through our friends who were in Cégep. We often went todemonstrations. Me my parents motivated my absences, I was lucky to have parentswho were ready to pick me up at the police station (smile). They told me that itwas not serious but not to do too much nonsense. We were therefore granted alittle freedom to be able to participate in the mobilizations despite the factthat the teachers and the secondary institutions were more or less down for thesematters. I was in XXXX with another friend who often took part in demonstrationswith me. I had teachers who themselves motivated our absences. If they knew wewere at a demo, they just wrote that we weren't there... it's still cool.Otherwise, there was a time when we started to want to organize ourselves alittle more to do business. When we saw March 22 coming, we started wanting to gothere. There were people who came to bring us newspapers. We had other friends,the sister and brother of activists in Montreal who had been able to get usnewspapers written for high school by CLASSE. We had told them to send us someand then they sent us bundles and bundles... like 3000 newspapers. We said toourselves: "what are we going to do with this? ". We started distributing them toeveryone. We arrived early in the morning at our school and we distributed themto people one by one. Even to the director, in person when she arrived wishingher: "Good day! ". After that, the same day we were met by the management. Shesaid to us: "yeah but there, we should first stop distributing that! Because it'snot all true what is written in there! Anything that raises tuition fees is okay.But it is written that you have the right to strike, that is not true! The samenoon or the day after, people from UQAC (probably people from the independentcommittee) distributed newspapers to my school and it was again our fault, as ifwe had continued to distribute the newspapers ourselves. But it was not us, westill got blubbered (laughs).We were motivated, we tried to go on strike for March 22. Eventually managementreferred us to our student government who were more or less keen on the idea.Management ended up saying, "All we're going to allow for that day is going to bea tuition debate." I was like ok, I'm going to go against it, I don't mind doingit, but she (the director) said to us: "no, we want someone impartial to come toyou to give information. Their suggestion was to invite Stéphane Bédard (PartiQuébécois MP at the time) to come talk to us. We said to ourselves: "frankly wewill not go through Stéphane Bédard". Finally, we did a mobilization, we went outduring a break and we stuck for an hour of class. We went out in front of theschool while people were demonstrating in Montreal. We climbed on the big statuein front of the school and put a red square on it. Otherwise, it was more as anindividual that we joined the demonstrations when they passed in front of theschool. The security guards were telling us, "You can't come back! but we alwaysmanaged to get into the school one way or another.To read:[Student strike of 2012]10 years ago began a long series of disturbing actions inChicoutimi[Student strike of 2012]10 years ago, the occupation of the rectorate of UQACby Emma Goldman Collectivehttp://ucl-saguenay.blogspot.com/2022/05/greve-etudiante-de-2012-la-mobilisation.html_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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