French students and youth are our example. They have actively fought government proposals to lower minimum wage and shift funding from public to private schools - a move which would undermine public education. They succesfully organized rallies with hundreds of thousands of people coming to support them. The French government backed down on both issues. Like these students, it is important for Albertans and Canadians to build up numbers and sustain momentum.
Students can wield enough power to mobilize other groups.
They can improve present circumstances and work for future resistance. Every historical change was the result of organized, collective action. These movements turned oppression into action. They demonstrated against the hypocricies of our society's liberal ideology. Society expects students to use our education to get jobs and become productive cogs in the economic machine.