Some examples how to defend our rights;

The committee of participants of the RGPAQRGPAQ: the Quebec Federation of Popular Literacy Groups represents and defends the rights of popular literacy groups to fight illiteracy..

This comittee has invented Super Alpha, some kind of hero to defend the rights of people in literacy centers which are members of the R.G.P.A.Q.
The committee and Super Alpha have helped literacy groups in defending their rights.
First they went to Québec-Centre where they helped Alpha-Nicolet et Ludolettre.
They talked to the deputy about the needs of their participants.
They also denounced the too small hike of the minimum wages.
They talked about injustice in the social welfare system.
After listening, the deputy promised to talk in the National Assembly in Québec.

Following that action, Super Alpha and the comittee worked together with the group of participants at Centre Alpha-Sourd in Saint Pie,and visited the Local Employment Center in Saint Hyacinthe to ask for more time allocated to learn to read and write.

Cheaper access to public transport

With the urban committee for social justice (comité urbain de lutte) several literacy groups defend the right to education.
A lot of participants are not able to go to their literacy workshops because public transportation is too expensive, so they have written a lot of letters to the people in charge of Public transportation in Montreal.
They also talked about this problem in several local newspapers.
They protested with banners in front of the Berri-UQAM metro station.
The participants fight for a reduced rate monthly buspass for people in literacy centers, and they know that the fight is far from over.
Slowly but securely the world starts to recognize the participants' right to education.

Why Fight for our rights?

A lot of people think that it is no use,and a waste of time
They think the governments will not listen to actions.
However a lot of fights have been won.
Think about the Collectif for a Québec without poverty.
Hundreds of thousands of people signed petitions and the government had to give in to the pressure.
So now Québec has a law against exclusion and poverty.
Think also about big manifestations Manifestation: a group of persons that come together at the same time to say and show what they think is important and what is justice for what they are asking for. of students, professors and unionized people.

There are several ways to be heard

There are different ways to defend our rights, and no matter how, we have to act.
We have to say excactly what we want, and we also have to propose solutions.
Only together we can help build a more just society.
It is our right and our plight.
Surely we will not win right away, it may even take years, but for a worthy cause we have to continue to fight!

Working together

If we know our rights we know what to ask for.
In our literacy centers we work together.
We are never alone in asking to have our rights respected.
The more people we are,the stronger we are, so let's work together.