LIVE: Student strike updates
The Dalhousie Gazette is reporting live on the Nova Scotia Student Strike all week.
Students across Nova Scotia will be hitting the picket lines from March 15 to 21.
Dalhousie University students voted in favour of passing a strike motion at a Dalhousie Student Union special general meeting on March 12. The motion passed with 62.4 per cent in favour of the strike, 145 votes in support to 81 votes against.
It was the first successful student strike vote in DSU history.
The strike asks students not to attend classes or submit assignments this week, which will include rallies and on-campus picketing. The passed strike motion does not mandate or force students to strike, but the union will support students who do.
Strike efforts around the province will be coordinated by Nova Scotia Student Strike, an organization that identifies as anti-tuition, anti-war and pro-Indigenous sovereignty. It is the beginning of their three-year plan, building to an indefinite strike in 2028.
The strike’s goals are a 20 per cent decrease in tuition at provincial universities, the end of higher tuition and visa caps for international students and divestment from entities which are involved with weapons manufacturing, fossil fuel extraction, genocide or the exploitation of sovereign Indigenous land.
The Dalhousie Gazette is reporting live on the Nova Scotia Student Strike all week.
BREAKING: Amnesty motion to be presented to Dalhousie Senate Monday
March 15, 9:22 a.m.
Good morning. I am Jonas May, the Dalhousie Gazette’s News Editor.
A limited amnesty motion was presented by the Dalhousie Student Union and was passed by the Dalhousie Senate Planning and Governance Committee on Friday.
Five of the committee’s eight members voted in favour of passing the motion, which will now be brought forward to an emergency senate meeting on Monday. If passed, the motion will be in effect for Dalhousie University students from March 17 to 21.
The motion will provide limited academic protections to students who choose to participate in the strike.
The DSU still encourages students who plan to participate in the strike to reach out to their instructors to seek academic flexibility and clarity before the strike.
There will be a rally at the old Memorial Library today at 12 p.m. to launch the province-wide strike.
More to come.
