Young Chilean girl leads students' demos

[el_chavista]

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Camila Vallejo Dowling

She is the president of the Students' Federation of Chile and a militant of the Communist Youths at the time when generalized students demonstrations confront one of the Pinochetist neo-liberal experiments: a mercantile system of education.

Tatiana Acuña Selles -an official of the Ministry of Education- twitted about the student leader a Chilean adage: "Se mata a la perra y se acaba la leva" ("Kill the ***** and there won't be an offspring of puppies.")

[Delenda Carthago]

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thats more like it...

[Delenda Carthago]

Tatiana Acuña Selles -an official of the Ministry of Education- twitted about the student leader a Chilean adage: "Se mata a la perra y se acaba la leva" ("Kill the ***** and there won't be an offspring of puppies.")


This is how pathetic the chilean State is. In any State with the minimum dignity, if an official would propose the murder of an 23 year old, would have been fired instantly. This is how low Pinoset send this country.

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thats more like it...

Picture/one liner posts are not allowed in the forum. This is a verbal warning.

I will close this thread if it doesn't move in a more productive direction than "zomg commie boobs!" which is how it is seeming so far.

[Red Future]

I just hope she finds Revleft ...we need more Militants like her ..especially as we seem to lack South Americans.

[CynicalIdealist]

I just hope she finds Revleft ...we need more Militants like her ..especially as we seem to lack South Americans.

Somehow I don't expect this to be the website of the international working class as class struggles proceeds throughout the world, but I guess only time will tell.

[Red Future]

Somehow I don't expect this to be the website of the international working class as class struggles proceeds throughout the world, but I guess only time will tell.

Sadly No ..but don't forget the conclusions we reached recently that Females are sadly underrepresented in Revleft.

[RedMarxist]

I just hope she finds Revleft ...we need more Militants like her ..especially as we seem to lack South Americans

Ignorance!-Good job Revleft! ;) joking.

All I hope is that the student demos win out in the end, and that that dick official gets fired. You guys are right-Pinochet's "ways" have become all to common in the modern-day Chilean government. Sick. Especially so as police brutally suppress the movement, which MAIN demand is better and public education for all.

What kind of society only allows for the 0.1% of the population of a nation to get quality education? what kind of society would only allow for an education based on how much capital that person has? What kind of society would allow the beating of protesters whom only want a better education?

One thing is certain however: until the working class-the "have-nots", remove from the power the capitalists and other corrupt and wealthy scumbags such as the nation's very own billionaire president, the "haves", than protests like this will continue for a long time.

It is, and should be, every Communist who is worthy of the name mission, their goal, to educate the "have-nots" about Socialism and tell them upfront: 'That they STILL have a world to win!'

Furthermore, until a vanguard party worthy of the name steps in to channel all that hate, all that rage of the working class, into an effective weapon against the state, then protests like this will continue. The vanguard party should be the "gun" of the Communists, a gun aimed at the state utilizing popular rage and opinion. A gun wielded in the hands of the proletariat. May Chile's president feel the pain of further Chilean class warfare. Viva La Revolucion!

[Obs]

I'm feeling really positive about these Chilean protests. Seems like there's a lot to be gained here, if people play their cards right, and the state doesn't go crazy and starts killing people. I'd love to hear more if anyone's actually in Chile and knows more about what's going on.

http://arbejderen.dk/sites/arbejderen.dk/files/imagecache/648x431/imagecache/aef_image_original_format/05A-chile-16-090811-WEBB.jpg

[Red Future]

I'm feeling really positive about these Chilean protests. Seems like there's a lot to be gained here, if people play their cards right, and the state doesn't go crazy and starts killing people. I'd love to hear more if anyone's actually in Chile and knows more about what's going on.

http://arbejderen.dk/sites/arbejderen.dk/files/imagecache/648x431/imagecache/aef_image_original_format/05A-chile-16-090811-WEBB.jpg


what exactly is going on there ?:confused:

[Obs]

what exactly is going on there ?:confused:

The sign says "I can't study, my dad's a carpenter."

[Iraultzaile Ezkerreko]

what exactly is going on there ?:confused:

He's making a point about the education system. Jesus wouldn't be able to study in Chile as his father is a carpenter and wouldn't be able to afford it. Basically, they're calling Piñera un-christian.

[Wanted Man]

By the way, she's not a "young girl" but a 23-year-old woman. Just saying. I guess women are in the unique position of being called "girls" until the day they die.

[PhoenixAsh]

The supreme court ordered police protection for her because of all the threads she received this month.

Also the protests have led to at least one dead:

Over a thousand people attended the services and funeral of the youth. Carabineros have denied shooting him. A judge has ordered all weapons from 35 Carabineros on duty in the neighborhood that night confiscated for ballistics tests.

There are calls for Pinera's Interior Minister, Hinzpeter, to resign. (In Chile the interior minister is the top law authority.)

On Sunday, Camila and the other student and teachers' union leaders agreed to meet on Tuesday with Pinera in the La Moneda palace. Camila made it clear that it was only a face-to-face meeting to discuss possible further steps in the unresolved student and now civic movement.

This is the first time Pinera has proposed sitting down with the students/teachers. It is being seen as a retreat by Pinera from his previous hard-line stance of no negotiation.

But already the students are talking of another massive mobilization nationwide on Sept. 8.

[Le Socialiste]

It's good to see young people engaging in militant activities against the authoritarian whims of the government. It'll be interesting to see where these demonstrations go. As for that official, damn. They're pretty upfront about that shit in Chile I take it.

[Rusty Shackleford]

roughly 80% of the population supports the students demands.


i wonder how supportive the indigenous community is in chile of the students, and vice-versa.

[Tim Cornelis]

roughly 80% of the population supports the students demands.


i wonder how supportive the indigenous community is in chile of the students, and vice-versa.

What do you mean by indigenous community? As far as I know they are all dead.

EDIT: no really as it turned out.

[Iraultzaile Ezkerreko]

What do you mean by indigenous community? As far as I know they are all dead.

EDIT: no really as it turned out.

Wiki, young padawan, wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapuche_conflict).

[Red Future]

http://camilapresidenta.blogspot.com/

Her Blog for our Spanish literates ...Its good good detalied articles

[piet11111]

By the way, she's not a "young girl" but a 23-year-old woman. Just saying. I guess women are in the unique position of being called "girls" until the day they die.

Well a lot of men of that age are also called boys so it seems where the generation that never gets to grow up.

[Os Cangaceiros]

Well a lot of men of that age are also called boys so it seems where the generation that never gets to grow up.

Yeah, it's certainly not relegated to women alone.

Another example is how people are getting older and older but are still refered to as "kids".