Edward Hopper, Compartment C, Car 293, 1938
En Toma: Scenes from an occupied high school in Santiago, Chile.
Students in Chile have staged massive protests demanding free education. I went inside one of Chile’s oldest high schools, Liceo Miguel Luis Amunátegui, a school held by students for eight months last year, to interview Alfredo Vielma, 17, for an episode of Fault Lines. (Alfredo is pictured in two of the photos above: in front of the mural and silhouetted.) For the episode—which debuts tonight on Al Jazeera English—we followed the movement for two weeks and discovered that the students’ anger went well beyond issues of education.
Stream the show live at 5:30pm EST here and follow me on Twitter here. I’ll tweet throughout the show and it’ll be like we’re watching it together.
SANTIAGO, Chile — Chile’s student protest movement claimed its second education minister on Thursday as Felipe Bulnes stepped down, citing personal reasons, and conservative President Sebastian Pinera named a replacement.
Fault Lines interviews The Guardian’s person of the year, Camila Vallejo, about the student protests in Chile. Jan 2, 2012(!) 5:30 EST. Al Jazeera Live Stream.
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
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Picture of the Day. The dumpster at the 57th Street Sanitation Garage in NYC. These are a pile, a portion of the 5500 books from the Occupy Wall Street People’s Library that were found in the trash in a highly damaged state.
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