Around two hundred students, partly belonging to the union student association, were meeting the student organization today in front of the tower building to react and fight against topics such as climate change, politics, the war in Iraq and – last but not least – the student conditions (http://en.epochtimes.com/news/7-5-2/54805.html).
Laura, a 23 years old nursery student, claims: “we have to get people together to fight for more rights. Otherwise nothing will happen!”. Indeed, according to the union, 2/3 of all students live under the poverty line today, and have to take in charge full-time jobs to afford their studies.
The main objective of this organization was thus to gather enough people to get more power and persuasion for the government and the public opinion in general. Indeed, one of the repeated slogans during the speeches was: “we must fight for today, me must fight for tomorrow, but most important, we must fight together!”.
After the meeting in UTS, people from the three main universities (UTS, University of Sydney, University of New Souh Wales) started their protest march to the Belmore park, where the association members began to defend their arguments, such as, “What do we want? Howard out!”, or “This what we are fighting for: no racism, no war!”.
Concerning university and work conditions, Robert, a 21 years old science student, claims: “school fees should be reduced to a minimum in order to allow every student the same access to university”. Blake, also a Business Student at UTS, also pointed out the matter of safe workplaces in the next future. He was refering to the new industrial rules of the Howard Government which he doesn’t find acceptable and against he is deeply engaged.
Laura, a 23 years old nursery student, claims: “we have to get people together to fight for more rights. Otherwise nothing will happen!”. Indeed, according to the union, 2/3 of all students live under the poverty line today, and have to take in charge full-time jobs to afford their studies.
The main objective of this organization was thus to gather enough people to get more power and persuasion for the government and the public opinion in general. Indeed, one of the repeated slogans during the speeches was: “we must fight for today, me must fight for tomorrow, but most important, we must fight together!”.
After the meeting in UTS, people from the three main universities (UTS, University of Sydney, University of New Souh Wales) started their protest march to the Belmore park, where the association members began to defend their arguments, such as, “What do we want? Howard out!”, or “This what we are fighting for: no racism, no war!”.
Concerning university and work conditions, Robert, a 21 years old science student, claims: “school fees should be reduced to a minimum in order to allow every student the same access to university”. Blake, also a Business Student at UTS, also pointed out the matter of safe workplaces in the next future. He was refering to the new industrial rules of the Howard Government which he doesn’t find acceptable and against he is deeply engaged.
As well as study and work conditions, the topic of climate and environmental issues was up to date: According to Brandon, a 25 years old Business Student, it should be our personal engagement to save the next generations. To justify himself, he argued: “Who is going to be in charge for the future? It is our role to protect the next generations and to avoid this poverty line”.
The war in Iraq was also an important discussion point. Emma, humanities Student at the University of Sydney, focused her attention more on this topic. She told me that we have to fight first for world priorities and stop thinking closely. After all, “hundreds of people die every day, and we talk about better food in UTS?”. Finally she pointed out: “Bush and Howard should go to bed now. It’s time”.
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