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2. In Chile, students and teachers are fighting street battles

Reply to Jackpine Radical (Original post)

Sun Dec 18, 2011, 12:01 PM

Dec 2011

to regain their right to public education. And we have bureaucrats who are trying to bring the privatization that occurred under Pinochet back here to emulate.

http://www.substancenews.net/articles.php?page=2715

Making a profit means that the bottom line must always expand. That means someone else is not going to see that money--the public who needs the services. Why should our money, collected from our labor and taxes, go into the hands of a private person? It's just theft.

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Private means and Public Ends [View all] Jackpine Radical Dec 2011 OP

How to balance the quest for profit Ron Green Dec 2011 #1

In Chile, students and teachers are fighting street battles Starry Messenger Dec 2011 #2