Chile: students in Talca explain why they back the protests
On the 18th of October 2019, mass
fare dodging in Santiago de Chile expanded into city-wide protests and
violence. Initially in response to a transport price...
History of student protest
The Night of the Pencils. Video: Aries Films, Argentina. Director: Hector Olivera
The Popular University of Honduras
Interview with Franco Lagos. In 2015 a group of Honduran researchers and activists founded the Clementina Suárez Popular University. This was the idea of...
The Penguin Revolution, Chile, 2006
A documentary about María Jesús Sanhueza, one of the leaders of the 2006 secondary school student protests in Chile, known (for their school uniforms)...
Colombia: stairway storytellers in Medellín
Sulay Pino is waiting for us at the main entrance to the San Javier metro station wearing a bright green t-shirt that reads ‘Stairway...
Chile: the Great National Agreement for Education
The President of the Republic, Sebastián Piñera, spoke to the country via a nationwide radio and TV link-up to make important announcements concerning education.
Video:...
Inside Chile’s student movement: interview with Giorgio Jackson
The Center for Latin American Studies and the Berkeley Law School present a talk with Giorgio Jackson, one of the leaders of Chile's...
How free-market education in Chile fails the neediest
Chile's market-based education system premised on choice and competition serves as a cautionary tale for privatization. Rather than investing in public...
Occupations carried out by the student movement in Brazil
Brazilian high school student Ana Julia gives a speech about the school occupations in Brazil. "Over the past 24 hours , Brazil has...
La Noche de los Lapices (The Night of the Pencils)
Argentine film (1hr 35mins) directed by Hector Olivera. Showing events in September 1976, in La Plata, Argentina, when a number of secondary school students,...