water canons used on protesting school girls

[ensho]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/07/chilean-girls-occupation-school-protest


Chilean girls stage 'occupation' of their own school in education rights protest

For five months, girls demanding free university education for all have defied police to occupy their state school


Sleeping on a tiled classroom floor, sharing cigarettes and always on the lookout for police raids, the students of Carmela Carvajal primary and secondary school are living a revolution.

It began early one morning in May, when dozens of teenage girls emerged from the predawn darkness and scaled the spiked iron fence around Chile's most prestigious girl's school. They used classroom chairs to barricade themselves inside and settled in. Five months later, the occupation shows no signs of dying and the students are still fighting for their goal: free university education for all.

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The first thing they did after taking over the school was to hold a vote. Approximately half of the 1,800 students participated in the polls to approve the takeover, and the yays outnumbered the nays 10 to one.

Now the students pass their school days listening to guest lecturers who provide free classes on topics ranging from economics to astronomy. Extracurricular classes include yoga and salsa lessons. At night and on weekends, visiting rock bands set up their equipment and charge 1,000 pesos (£1.25) per person to hear a live jam on the basketball court. Neighbours donate fresh baked cakes and, under a quirk of Chilean law, the government is obliged to feed students who are at school – even students who have shut down education as usual.

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a lot of our girls quit school and/or get drunk and pregnant

you say, oh ensho how can you be so mean

[Blecht]

1. This is where privatization leads to

This is where the US will be in ten years.

[MineralMan]

2. Well, thank goodness they didn't use the Pachelbel Canon.

That sucker's deadly. :rofl:

[unblock]

4. ba-dum-CHA! if you're going to correct someone's spelling, that's the way to do it!

:rofl:

[bemildred]

3. We used to call them "sit-ins". nt