[van-announce] Seniors, Students rally Feb. 11 in Victoria

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Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 13:49:17 -0800
From: moe <moe at kootenaycuts.com>
Reply-To: "RTL, project-x: it's ALL THE SAME" <project-x at lists.resist.ca>
To: kootenaycuts at kics.ca, apc-discuss at resist.ca, project-x at resist.ca
Subject: [pr-x] Seniors, Students rally Feb. 11

http://www.vcn.bc.ca/srsnetbc/hotitem/_actions.html

Rally
February 11
1:30 p.m.
Legislature Building
Victoria


General Information
604-731-4820 (Lower Mainland)
604-576-8000 (Lower Mainland)
778-772-8012 (Lower Mainland)
250-360-1068 (Vancouver Island)
250-751-1222 (Vancouver Island)
250-721-8370 (University of Victoria)

Honour our past
Respect our future

Students and Seniors have had enough of the
disastrous policies of the B.C. Liberals.

It's time to stand together to demand respect for seniors
and security for future generations.

Join us for a rally to protest cuts to Pharmacare and
hikes in tuition fees.

Sponsored by:
The Council of Senior Citizens' Organizations of BC
BC Forum
Canadian Federation of Students
Old Age Pensioners' Organization
Seniors' Network BC
Seniors on Guard for Medicare
Women Elder in Action opeiu 15

RESCIND TUITION HIKES PHARMACARE CUTS


CBC:
Big protest planned for legislature opening
WebPosted Feb 3 2003 12:05 PM PST


 VANCOUVER - B.C. seniors and student groups are organizing a major rally
on the front lawn of the legislature next week, to protest cuts to
Pharmacare and increases in tuition fees.

Fifty buses have been rented to take seniors and students from the Lower
Mainland, Fraser Valley and Vancouver Island to the protest.

The groups hope to attract as many as 4,000 people to the provincial
capital for the first day of the new legislative session.

Vancouver Community College Christa Peter says she has seen 70 per cent
increases in tuition fees for some students.

"We're heading to Victoria to send a message to Gordon Campbell and the
Liberals that the cuts in education that have resulted in higher tuition
fees and less services, as well as the cuts to health care are
unacceptable, and they need to be repealed."

Seniors Network of B.C. spokesperson Joyce Jones says it's time the B.C.
Liberals started listening to people affected by government cuts.

"I know within our organization alone we represent about 30,000 to 35,000
seniors, so you put all of our seniors' organizations together and that's a
fairly substantial part of the vote," she says.

          LINK: Seniors Network of B.C.
http://www.vcn.bc.ca/srsnetbc/hotitem/_actions.html
[You can download a poster and bus sched from here.  - moe]

 Jones says she hopes the provincial budget that will be introduced on Feb.
18 addresses some of her concerns, but she's not optimistic.

She accuses the Liberals of having "tunnel vision" as far as balancing the
budget, something she says is not as important as the services that have
been cut.







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