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Tuesday
28 June 2011 |
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Chile:
New
National
Strike
against
For-Profit
Education
Santiago
de
Chile
-
The
Chilean
Students
Federation
and
Teachers'
Association
prepared
a
new
national
strike
on
Thursday
to
demand
free,
public
education.
The
organizers
want
to
stop
privatization
and
for-profit
education
conditioned
by
the
market,
said
Jaime
Gajardo,
president
of
the
Teachers'
Association,
which,
together
with
the
students,
is
organizing
a
march
Thursday
from
Plaza
Italia
to
Plaza
de
los
Heroes.
According
to
Gajardo,
students
are
not
asking
for
better
funding
of
higher
education,
referring
to a
government
proposal
to
provide
more
financing
for
universities.
The
main
question
is
that
authorities
want
to
elude
the
subject
of
public
education
for
the
Chilean
people,
the
student
leader
said.
The
Central
Labor
Federation
(CUT)
on
Monday
announced
that
it
would
join
the
demonstration
and
suggested
a
two-day
national
strike
in
late
August
to
protest
the
neoliberal
model.
The
decision
to
support
the
professors
and
students
is
based
on
the
fact
that
it
is
working-class
families
who
must
pay
the
high
cost
of
their
children's
education,
said
Arturo
Martinez,
CUT
president.
Chilean
left-wing
forces
such
as
the
Communist
Party
and
the
Allende
Party
of
Socialism
(PSA)
will
also
support
the
mobilization
against
for-profit
education. |
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