Southern Cone
Chile: students restart marches for school reform
Chileans have a center-left president now, but students don't intend to let up the pressure on the government to reform the educational system
Tag: student protests
East Asia
Taiwan gets a Maidan movement?
Hundreds of students remain barricaded in Taiwan's legislature in protest of the ruling party's push for a Cross-Strait Trade Agreement with the People's Republic of China.
Southern Cone
Chilean anarchists to speak in New York City
Two Chilean anarchists, Gabriel and Pablo, are touring the US East Coast and will speak in New York City Jan. 25, on "Struggling to Win: Anarchists Building Popular Power in Chile."
Mexico
Mexico: massacre commemoration turns violent
Hooded youths attacked police, journalists and other protesters at a march commemorating the 45th anniversary of the government's massacre of striking students.
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.
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.