Day of Action in 6 Days!

Feb. 7th Day of Action

Is In 6 Days!

Less than a week to go until Feb 7th Day of Action! And, still I'm excited - students are slowly finding out that they have academic amnesty at my institution, thus there is heightened excitement... and the posters! There's posters every where! I think it's really cool... really makes walking down those long halls more entertaining.

Taking Action Works! A Brief History of Victories
Anyone who has tried to get people to join a campaign to make change has heard the argument a hundred times: I'm not going to take action because the government doesn't listen.

Are thy right to be so cynical? Simply put, no.

Since the mid 1990s, provincial governments of all political stripes across Canada have been regulating, freezing and even reducing tuition fees.

In many cases, the Canadian Federation of Studens had been directly credited with the change in policy

After announcing a tuition fee freeze, Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Brian Tobin said "students made it impossible for me not to freeze fees."

When we take action, the government doesn't just see thousands of motivated students at rallies and events. They see our issues beig raised on the six o'clock news. And they see public opinion polling that shows that the majority of British Columbians agree with our goals.

Just this past fall, British Columbians made their opinions clear when polled by ipsos-reid.

• 80% supoort reducing tuition fees
• 84% think that the provincial government should increase public funding to post-secondary institutions to support more course options and higher enrolments.
• 87% support an increase in student grants.

British Columbians think that the provincial government needs to do more to ensure that post-secondary education is more affordable and accessible for all.