The Strike

I think the students are having an urgent fight, but I don't know about the effectiveness of the marches and strikes. At the begining of this movement around 2006, I think this kind of pressure was effective in order to awake this debate in the public opinion, but after more than ten years of using the same methods and getting no much more, I think it's time to turn to a different kind of contestation.

The movement has been sort of invalidated by the media, thanks to the awfull coverage of the marches and strikes, through years, national tv, newspapers, etc, had manage to make a bad impression of students that mobilize that has gone deeply in most of society. I guess that to counter this situation is necessary to stablish public debates that actually make people think, wonder about things beyond of what it's shown in media.

The most important thing in my opinion, is to make an epistemological change in the notion of education that most people have, we need to stop thinking that knowledge it's something that worth money, even if it's cheap or there are people with enough money to pay for it. Over the centuries education has been slowly separating from religion, elites, and its time to separate it completely from economy, as hard at it seems in this neoliberal reality.

To make this change I think its fundamental, paradoxically, more and better education, no more schools or universities, but education through media, through groups of people, through internet, we need to start discussing things with consiousness, with bases, and stop thinking that to have the opportunity to learn it's neccesary to beg for some kind of financing, to after manage with eternal debts.