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Chilean Students Hold Mass Rally for Free Education

HeadlineApr 12, 2013

Chilean students took to the streets Thursday in a massive demonstration for free, quality and universal education. Organizers said roughly 150,000 people took part. More than 100 people were arrested as some demonstrators clashed with police. Chile’s student movement erupted in 2011 as hundreds of thousands took to the streets for the largest protests in decades. Among those taking part in Thursday’s rally were educators, healthcare workers and parents. Dafne Concha is with the Coordination of Parents and Guardians.

Dafne Concha: “Today’s demonstration, which unites all the groups calling for education, mobilized since yesteryear for the large national demand, which is that education is once again a right and not a privilege for some and not a business, not for profit making and negotiating, which it has been all these years.”

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