Word: nus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Along with a boycott of classes, the Canadian strike was marked by succesful and well-organized marches. On November 23, 1500 students marched through the streets of Montreal and occupied the offices of the provincial minister of education until he agreed to meet with representatives of the students. The NUS was an important force behind the march...
...NUS has four full-time field workers to organize students around issues. Twelve other employees do research and secretarial work. The NUS also constantly lobbies legislators to support student interests...
...NUS organizers say they realize the need to organize each college or university around issues specific to that institution. For instance, one NUS researcher said, if the toilet paper issue currently inflaming Harvard students came up at a Canadian college, NUS field owrkers would organize protests but would also try to link up the issues with a greater social question like the reasonableness of demands for basic goods without being ripped off by store owners who inflate prices. In this way the NUS uses little issues to illuminate what it sees as inherent problems in an economy dominated by large...
...course, one of the main objectives of the NUS is to allign students with campus employees like dining hall workers, instead of allowing divisions between the two groups to undermine student-worker solidarity...
Herbert Marcuse, onz of the gurus of the '60s U.S. student movement, proposed a student-worker alliance as the stepping stone to economic change in the United States. But when hard hats began bashing hippies during demonstrations everyone realized the idea had no future. The NUS in Canada is trying to make the idea a reality. Maybe the Canadian climate will be more hospitable to the possibility than...