Chile’s Winter Awakening
Submitted on September 2, 2011
By Roberto Navarrete - September 02, 2011
Since May, some 700 schools have been occupied by secondary school students and almost daily street protests have been taking place ever since. In mid-August around half a million students and their families took part in a demonstration...in central Santiago. The students have also managed to connect their struggles with other sectors of Chilean society. A week after the [Santiago] demonstration, the students joined a national strike declared by Chile’s trade union confederation (CUT)...
