Give impetus to the protests .. What are the demands of the students of Lebanon?

Afif Diab-Beirut

Since its early days, students have participated actively in demonstrations and sit-ins in Lebanon, which are denounced by the political class, which continues for the fourth consecutive week, giving impetus to the protests that have expanded to cover the whole country.

Students took to the public squares, and carried out several sit-ins in front of the Ministry of Education and Higher Education in Beirut and other government institutions in the capital and the cities and towns of Greater Lebanon.A number of activists saw it as an advanced step that protects the popular movement and its political, economic, educational, educational, social and environmental demands.

Students in a Beirut school say in a videotape prepared for their mobility that they participate in demonstrations and sit-ins for Lebanon and their future and for national universities, and not to migrate from the country, and to fight the corrupt.

Intellectual and cultural awareness
The involvement of students and schoolchildren in the popular uprising is a natural and real cry, says social counselor and educational counselor Maysoon Hamza.

She adds to Al Jazeera Net that "this unprecedented participation in Lebanon since the end of 1990 shows an increase in awareness and maturity within Lebanese society, in recent years and under the changes in the Arab world, Lebanese youth have been accused of being a prisoner of fun and entertainment .. It is not true that our youth lack awareness or They don't care about public affairs as some people like to accuse him. "

"The political and economic class in the country has been surprised by the mobility of students," Mason said.

The growing economic and political problems of rising public indebtedness, taxes, high living standards, high tuition fees and increasing immigration rates are factors that formed an early awareness among students and a sense of what their families are experiencing, expressing their anger after they felt that their ambitions and dreams were truncated.

"Students and pupils study obsolete educational curricula, especially in civic education, economics and sociology, which are utopian and idealistic and have not actually been found," she said.

It says that successive governments, their repeated speeches and economic projects have become a frustrating factor for the younger generation, especially the students who shouted on behalf of their parents and against this Lebanese political reality.``Let us teach the political class a lesson in patriotism, '' they said.

The forefront of protests
For his part, the researcher in social anthropology, Dr. Said Issa that the participation of university students and schoolchildren is normal in the broad popular movement and goals.

He adds to Al Jazeera Net that Lebanon's students are at the forefront of this movement, and have become at the forefront and a stone.

"We are living in a variety of crises in Lebanon," he said. "The motives of the youth and student revolt are big and many, and they have set off their anger with unprecedented political awareness."

"The students' exit from the scene of demonstrations and demonstrations has become difficult without achieving even the minimum objectives of the Lebanese popular uprising," he said.

Generation change
The participation of university students and schoolchildren in various parts of Lebanon in the popular uprising, where activists found great momentum blocking the attempts of the ruling authority to strike or ignore the protests.

The activist in the popular uprising, Prof. Basil Saleh, said, `` The participation of students contributed to supporting the intifada with new demands, in the forefront of which is to protect themselves from immigration first, and their right to participate actively in the building of the citizenship state, and showed great awareness of building a civil state outside the sectarian restriction and their national sincerity. ''

He adds to Al Jazeera Net that the effectiveness of students in the uprising has opened the door to a large change movement in Lebanon, and therefore the authority to hear their cry and recognize that a young generation is able to bring change in political, economic and social.