Thursday, May 19, 2016

Hello classmates. I’m going to talk about something very complicated: The strikes.

Some people are saying that it’s going to be a strike after May 21. It’s a rumor very strong. This rumor not only exists here in my campus “Juan Gomez Millas”. Also it has been heard in all the institution of “Universidad de Chile” and in other universities. I have a friend in “Universidad de Santiago de Chile” that tell me if I know something about a probably strike. I told him that I didn’t know about it, but I had been heard about a probably strike.

I don’t know what is going to happen. I didn’t believe that this semester would be a strike, but suddenly all the students are talking about this possibility.

I go almost all the student protest, but I have to admit that I didn’t participate a lot in that. For example, the last year I went very little to my department, I preferred stay in home studying because I was very stress. But that was very bad. The university changes to me, because if the strike happened in my school when I was there, I would have gone always.


I propose to go and participate in the strike this semester, if this happens. I think a strike is important for demanding things, but I believe that parallel to the strike, It is necessary more radicalization, more protest, it’s necessary in the strike talk about proposal to radicalize the protest. We need to be listening and also we need the support of the people, something very difficult. If we don’t radicalize the protest, and only we paralyze for a month, I think there will not be benefits.

2 comments:

  1. Always the participation is important for to have a student movement more organized.

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  2. I think many people no longer participate in strikes for the same reason, there is not such radicalization that you mention. If the strike lasts a few weeks or month its impact will be low and on the contrary, will bring more negative than positive consequences. We must stop seeing the obvious and focus on the causes of low participation.

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