The social unrest roiling Quebec is colour-coded red. One cannot miss the hundreds of thousands of people with cloth of the colour pinned to their coats and satchels; the stickers pasted on street poles and storefront mannequins; and the sheets fluttering from balconies and windows. The red squares – punning visually on a French expression to be squarely in the red, or in debt – are a gesture of solidarity with university and college students on a massive general strike against government tuition fee hikes.
Date:
February 2, 2012 - 2:30pm - February 3, 2012 - 8:00pm Location
University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA
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The conveners "invite you to attend a conference which brings together historians, social theorists, contemporary student activists, and Port Huron veterans to discuss the origins, historical impact, and contemporary relevance of the New Left's founding manifesto."
Speakers include keynoters Tom Hayden and Michael Kazin and twenty others, including Liberty Tree's Ben Manski. For the full schedule, location information, and more, see http://www.history.ucsb.edu/projects/labor/porthuron50.html
