Southern Cone
Argentina: students occupy to protest ‘reform’
Students in Buenos Aires have been occupying their high schools to protest the mayor’s plan to “modernize” education by restricting curriculum choices.
Tag: student protests
Greater Middle East
Turkey: protest movement gets another martyr
A young protester was killed by police in Antakya, as demonstrations re-mobilize across Turkey—this time in response to a new highway development in Ankara.
Palestine
Israeli forces clash with al-Quds student protesters
Israeli forces fired tear-gas and rubber bullets to break up protests by Palestinian students at al-Quds university in Jerusalem, with eight students hospitalized.
The Andes
Colombia: students, workers join peasant strike
Tens of thousands have taken to the streets across Colombia, as workers and students joined the strike launched by campesinos in the north of the country.
The Andes
Colombia: strikes halt US coal giant Drummond
Indefinite strikes brought Drummond’s coal mining operations to a halt in Colombia, putting further pressure on the country’s economy amid a growing wave of labor actions.
Southern Cone
Chile: students march as election season starts
Port workers and copper miners joined students in the latest marches for free education, while the media and government focused on violence by a few of the marchers.
The Caribbean
Haiti: public university students protest tuition hike
State University of Haiti administrators backed off an effort to triple registration fees after students protested with a militant demonstration in downtown Port-au-Prince.
The Andes
Peru: student protests rock Cuzco
Riot police clashed with student protesters in Cuzco opposing a proposed education law they call a step towards privatizion of Peru’s national university system.
Southern Cone
Chile: student movement regains momentum
With a giant march for free higher education, the student protest movement is getting back much of the drive it had two years ago—and the politicians are paying attention.
Southern Cone
Chile: students resume marches for education reform
Sixty people were arrested as Chilean students marked the beginning of the school year with a new march against the privatized system left by Gen. Pinochet.
Central America
Guatemala: students march against ‘reform’
Teachers’ college students march 50 kilometers to protest new requirements for teachers; meanwhile, two grassroots leaders are murdered in just three days.
Mexico
Mexico: evidence mounts of police repression on Dec. 1 inaugural
Protesters charge agents repeatedly attacked, beat and arrested peaceful demonstrators and bystanders while failing to arrest the people who had been engaged in vandalism.