History of student protest
The Night of the Pencils. Video: Aries Films, Argentina. Director: Hector Olivera
Massacre en Tlatelolco, 2 October 1968
Shows footage of the infamous massacre of scores, probably hundreds of students in Mexico City, who were protesting at extravagant government spending on the...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
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)...
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...