The Center for Latin American Studies and the Berkeley Law School present a talk with Giorgio Jackson, one of the leaders of Chile’s student movement, from November 30, 2011.
Over the past 20 years Chile has made significant strides in expanding access to higher education. However, much of this expansion has been achieved through for-profit universities of uneven quality. Overall, the state pays only 15 percent of higher education costs, leaving families to come up with the rest, often by taking on heavy debt. In recent months, students have taken to the streets in the most massive and sustained set of demonstrations since the end of the Pinochet regime, protesting the inequalities and shortcomings of the education system. Similar movements throughout the Americas show the growing influence of the “Chilean winter.”
In 2010, Giorgio Jackson was elected president of Chile’s Catholic University Student Federation (Federación de Estudiantes de la Universidad Católica de Chile or FEUC) and has become one of the principal leaders of the 2011 student demonstrations.
English translation of Spanish. The original is also available.
Where do we sign up???? I only heard about the conference in Santa Monica yesterday. Do you have a Facebook????
Posted by ZRD | May 20, 2012, 8:56 amSend an email with your name and school/org info to castudentunion@gmail.com and we will add you to the listserv as well as send you more info on how the conference went within the next few days. We are taking today off.
Posted by castudentunion | May 20, 2012, 5:20 pmNP! I’ll snd oyu an email now. -O
Posted by ZRD | May 21, 2012, 6:06 pmReblogged this on My Documented Life and commented:
As students, it’s our responsibility to take action & demand justice for our communities. We don’t have the privilege to wait for change.
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