Movement for Education

This Thursday, the Confederation of Chilean Students (CONFECh) convened to a protest in Santiago Downtown with purpose of requiring changes in the educational reform of the government. The call to protest it´s a support too to de Teacher’s national strike.

But, the movement for education it´s not something new, and obey to historical demands. When the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet ends, in the last day, they approve the organic law of education (LOCE). This law would propitiate the outbreak of the Chilean education movement in 2006, the most powerful social movements of the last years.

The movement of 2006 it was the base of the rising of numerous social movements, each one with their own demands unimaginable half century ago. This movements came to dispute the conservative foundations of our society.

Our generation are disputing the institutions and the slow legislative progress faced to a fast social changes. However, the repeated refusal of the successive governments are worsened the situation and high the distrusts against their. 

Icon of this movements is the revival of the movement for education in 2011. This movement are aiming at a free and quality education. We are many in favor of these demands, but the authorities don’t hear us. So, we have to appeal to the street protest as the last resource to make us hear.