http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=8275--------------------Thanks Marv Gandall. This video is important to watch. It interviewsa three student panel on the giant student strike. They explain how theydid it. First they overhauled student union governance and remade theirstudent unions into general assemblies and abandoned representatives.The consequence was to involve many more students than usual in studentunion actions and proposed actions. The idea of a general student strikewent from campus to campus as each student union morphed into generalassemblies. Prarie fire democracy spread and I believe it. That way theycould call on many more students to walk out and stay out.The absurd ASUC at UBC in yore was evident. It was useless as a politicaltool because it was carefully managed by the administration into ameaningless social body. It issues positions which were mostly okay butdid nothing about it. It started to get radicalized during FSM but itseffectiveness was structurally made impotent. One of the ways that wasdone was to have part of the student fees (before tuitition) given to ASUCas operating costs. If ASUC was taken over and radicalized, the moneywould disappear.So then, if the students of yore had simply dropped student representatives,and changed to direct democracy it might have accomplished a lot more.So, hats off to the students of Quebec.Great idea. Hope it spreads down here.CG