Strikes

Hi again. Today I'm going to share with you a little reflection about strikes.

First of all, I have never taken part of a strike during my whole life. This is basically for the reason that my school wasn't involucrate on the political contingency during the last five years. 

Now, in 2016, the student movement keep fighting for achieve the things that where proposed at the beginning of the mobilizations. In this sense, I think that the student movement has to go on, but I have strong doubts of which will be the mechanism of protest.

Well known is the case of the strike that took place on the Universidad de Chile last year. I had the opportunity to listen the version of different persons who lived this process. In general, they’re impressions vary a lot. There are the ones who defend the strikes, arguing that it was an effective way of pressing the authorities to do something. In the other hand, I found the ones who suggest that the strikes were just a waste of time. They say that in the end, this mechanism of protest loses their meaning.

I think that every mobilization have to design a clear plan of action, and in that way, include the biggest amount of participants. The discussions must be for everyone. In spite of this, I think that the strikes attempts with some students that want to contribute in other ways. In my case, to have a strong opinion of what is happening nowadays with the Chilean education, I need the classes to go deep into the discussions. But talking in general, I thing that a strike can help only if there is a very clear plan behind it. The student movement needs concrete achievements. In the last years there was more failures than real progress in this subjects.