Solidarity Forever: Occupy Throws Support Behind Struggles in Quebec, Mexico

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http://www.thenation.com/blog/168154/solidarity-forever-occupy-throws-support-behind-struggles-quebec-mexico

Over the past few weeks, Occupy Wall Street activists have organized marches and other symbols of unity for ongoing status quo-shattering movements in Quebec and Mexico. As a result, the protest communities in North America have expressed unprecedented levels of solidarity between activists, who oftentimes share nothing but a common language of struggle and solidarity.

It's easy for, say, an NYU student buried in debt to inherently understand obstacles facing a Quebec student (whopping 82 percent tuition hikes over the next five years), or for a Quebecer to discern why the Yo Soy 132 movement in Mexico doesn't want a monopolistic party that ruled for seven decades to once again return to power, or glean why students aren't crazy about the idea of Televisa and TV Azteca controlling 95 percent of Mexico's TV market.

Corporate and political monopolies and the consequences of austerity are realities all too familiar to young people, whether they live in Quebec, or the U.S., or Mexico.

NYC March in solidarity with the Quebec student strike (May 22, 2012)

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1. The connections and solidarity are evident even in small (but eloquent) ways

After students in Quebec marched and protested, banging pots and pans, Occupy L.A. put the word out to participants in a protest on a totally different issue...to be sure and bring...pots and pans.