Demonstrators use slingshots against riot policemen as they clash during a national strike in Santiago October 18, 2011. Students, workers and citizens staged a 48-hour national strike demanding reforms in the public state education system. In the 80’s they transformed our educational system and turned it into a very very very very profitable market. Now, thirty years later, students are trying to reclaim their right to educate themselves without living a miserable life before, during and after going to the university as they try to save, not waste and gather enough money afterwards to pay the ridiculous high bills the system charges for their education. And the government just keep using the police to beat them while trying to use the heavy rioters as an excuse to do so, arguing that the pacific students are also heavy and violent rioters. Of course, any intelligent person can tell the difference.

Demonstrators use slingshots against riot policemen as they clash during a national strike in Santiago October 18, 2011. Students, workers and citizens staged a 48-hour national strike demanding reforms in the public state education system.

In the 80’s they transformed our educational system and turned it into a very very very very profitable market. Now, thirty years later, students are trying to reclaim their right to educate themselves without living a miserable life before, during and after going to the university as they try to save, not waste and gather enough money afterwards to pay the ridiculous high bills the system charges for their education.

And the government just keep using the police to beat them while trying to use the heavy rioters as an excuse to do so, arguing that the pacific students are also heavy and violent rioters. Of course, any intelligent person can tell the difference.