over the past year there have been intense student protests in chile edits
because of the fact that other pinochet regime had completely dismantled free
public education in nineteen eighty one
well that is had significant consequences on the poor
uh... individuals in chile because poor students simply can't afford the
privatize education that's available there
so for the past year or so there have been intense protests and they've
relieving heating up recently al four police officials are being investigated
because they arrested and detained four student protesters
an on-site not forcing protesters i believe there are five student
protesters
and uh... while they were detained uh... a few of them were stripped naked
okay so these police officials are being investigated for that
uh... but i'd think that it's important to you
really look at this private education system and how disastrous it's good for
cheer that and i still like uh... edwin manya has more information on this he's
actually been of calling the story more closely so let's get his thoughts on it
will discuss
as far as the honest was a government lose uh...
finally give a conference any other kind of the year lsa
uh... which is the mood to raise chilling police force
onto break abuses on to break up the protest approaches
uh... every now and then year unlikely will have on few people
i getting outta hand throwing stones were not so yes old the police have the
beating them so yes i did which
uh... flick you know there have been moments uh... with the police to have to
step in well for the most where they have been uh... they have been on a
relatively
uh... peaceful now
now speaking of the uh... of the education system
the education system the on the story is there a korean
uh... according to the holy cd they pay more out of pocket than any other on a
country in the world
but the the middle schools high schools and colleges all the more privatize the
middle schools that middle schools and high schools uh... are run by a are run
by about your system
and sean
one thing that they're doing that that's really hurting the on the government is
that the coffee pine their schools
this name their four oh four days on end weeks months
uh... and not letting uh... and not letting instructions continue okay let's
stop right there so i'd
i think that this is the perfect case study and how disastrous privatizing
education is
because here in the united
dates we have
uh... pennsylvania we have louisiana both of which are pushing about your
system
to basically defund public education and put those resources into charter schools
into private schools
and they do so by giving these uh... t_i_ parents
vouchers and they're able to
decide which school their children go to
now this is problematic on several different levels we've told you guys
about this before where are the majority of the schools in louisiana that
actually have space for more students our religious institutions that don't
believe in evolution they believe in crack creationism and they don't get the
good education but
think about what happens
we privatize all education in this country
is the republican party going to say
you know what we want to continue helping you guys so you can of four
private education
out they're gonna tell the middle-class and working-class you know i've noted
missions expensive for middle schools are high schools elementary schools
sorry that stuff nuggets you need to pull yourself from your boot straps get
a better job stopping so caught dead weight
and find a way to pay for that education
that's very similar to what's happening in chile right now and i think that that
is going to be absolutely disastrous if we want allowed the g_o_p_ to have their
way with the education this country
no that is exactly what's going on and she live now
uh... the forces uh... yet the students are poor they're barely getting by
very uh... obviously they have to pay out-of-pocket chan deputy had a pocket
intended there when they get out
they can find a job all their level of is is on just massive that and and and
down there's a pretty much getting the same thing over
a pretty much do you know you have to give i don't pick yourself up by the
group step to one so that pretty much in the same rhetoric down there as as we
are here nepean
john m i get your thoughts on this day i know that you had a capitated china get
i would often get their commitments i was interested when you have absolutely
has to say i think that it p
in the future where the reason for interest in this is because we see a
sort of a
more day s more extra or more dire case of what is and could happen in the
future in the u_s_ educational system i think that you're right if things
continue the way they are more and more schools began privatized we're gonna be
stuck between the not being able to afford college whereas the the
politicians the republicans and to some extent the democratic politicians their
kids of edward office they can afford it
and then for those who can't afford it
republican politicians of article on the passes a not everybody needs to be going
to college the grades getting our population too much
and so they don't feel like it's something that needs to be fought for
distance need to be propped up so that they can afford to go to college
uh... boy i think it's interesting about this case and why i'm glad that we're
focusing on is that
uh... within there's educational component of this but the the chilean
protesters are not just protesting that they're also there a problem with the
fact that there are these hydroelectric projects that are not benefiting the
local communities right this privatization going on and other areas
as well and whereas they're fighting back against it
most americans don't seem to have a problem with the privatizations going on
like for instance we
we allow foreign oil companies come in to take our natural resources on the
ground or out of the water
and give us nothing bengali headache how do we shake americans out of complacency
when we have a mainstream media that immediately discredits protesters and
puts them down
i think that americans
definitely a majority of them are complacent right now and i think that
that's the biggest problem in our political system aside from citizens
united
but at the same time it's really really difficult to get a movement going
when people are expecting when authority expects the protesters to be as
convenient as possible when the mainstream media completely lam bassam
and makes them look like absolute clowns
it's difficult to get approval political movement going in this country and
i don't know what we need to mobilize people and i had so much hope for the
occupied movement but it has fizzled out i'd feel really bad saying that but
that's the truth i know that there's still some protest that happened but
it's not on a large scale to receive the media attention it deserves
i think that unfortunate what needs to happen will prolly will happen is one of
two more decades of worsening economic conditions difficulty finding jobs
uh... having to pay off is that i think that once we're under the same sort of
financial and economic burden that the chilean protesters are i think that we
will eventually reacts the way we showed it says here the president has a
billionaire select he doesn't understand the problems of the people on the ground
and whereas we might very well elect mit romney who who might as well be as
riches equivalent basically in terms of wealth
we doesn't have a problem within just because in bromley comes up and says
that o i love him and we met at a dance he's just like you guys no he's not like
you guys he doesn't know what you're going through he's not he's not
connected to it is not willing to fix it we need to understand that if we're
going to excess probably need people understand the problems
and i think that it's at the time