Student protests

[Post-Something]

Hi, I'm wondering about student protests and what reactions they have caused. Does anybody know of any bans on demonstrations that have happened after students have occupied buildings, protested, made demonstrated etc? In specific I'm looking for legislation, I've already stumbled across Bill 78 in Quebec, anyone have any idea? Also, in general, where have the most successful student protests been, or which ones were most heavily fought back? Thanks!

[Philosophos]

Well student protests here in Greece is a strange phenomenon.... Half of the students doing it are doing it for the right reasons the others just want to lose some hours from schools. The rest of the students not doing any protests are afraid of their parents because they are threating them if they take part.

Anyway when we take over our school demanding for better conditions (sometimes we had to pay the petrol for the heat) for financing from the government for a school expansion, for a smokers room because smoking in the toilets is just *bliah* etc etc we had some good reactions from the government because they were afraid of us. There was even a time when schools hardly worked properly for 2 months because of the occupation of the students (i think it was around the '80s I'm not quite sure).

Nowadays things changed since the govenment saw that most of the students are... how to put it nicely.... pussies and can't even fight for their rights... The government turned more aggresive the past few years and now they started replacing the lost hours of lessons in the Christmas/Easter holidays or not taking us in the 3-day and 5-day/7-day trip which is something that the school does for "educational reasons" but mostly all the students get drunk/high or whatever in these trips and then they come back.

Soooo the situation here is:"I'm not going to lose any of my privileges because nothing is going to change...."

Also about the demonstration part: It's the same ol' capitalist crap:
-Students protest peacefully->
-Some guys come with hoods and molotovs->
-The good media baptises them as anarchists and part of the demonstration->
-The so called "anarchists" break and beat the crap out of everything they see->
-The media judges them->
-The demonstration is canceled half way because noone can stand the chemicals thrown by the police and the hooligans->
-No student will ever go to a demonstration again otherwise his father/mother will beat the crap out of him before he goes and he won't take him back to the house.

Especially for the last part IT HAS HAPPENED A LOT OF TIMES....

[Post-Something]

Interesting, did they ever ban student protests outright?

[Philosophos]

Interesting, did they ever ban student protests outright?


It's not clear yet... Some say that the protests should take place because it's the right of the students and they don't call the police or something but there are others that support that if the school is not having lessons then it's illegal.
I haven't seen the latest news so I can't really apply to this (I gratuated 2 years ago so....)

[TheGodlessUtopian]

The most successful? I would say the protests in South America which have gathered working class support and broken the backs of reactionary policies. Unsure of the exact state of these movements but I know they have been the most recent successes in a long history of militant protest.

[Ostrinski]

The student protests in South Korea are generally credited with forcing the dissolution of the military dictatorship there.