Privatización de la Educación

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España: El autoritarismo educativo del PP.

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Europa/España/05.07.2016/Autor:Julio Rogero/Fuente:http://www.grupo-capital.com/

Los acontecimientos de los últimos días han dado alas al partido que ha sacado más votos en las elecciones del 26J. Hasta ese día hablaba de la necesidad de un pacto educativo, de establecer un diálogo con las diferentes posiciones políticas. Una vez ganadas las elecciones, en las comunidades autónomas donde gobiernan, se sienten reforzados para seguir haciendo las políticas que venían realizando: recortes, acoso a la educación pública, potenciación de la enseñanza privada, privatización y mercantilización de la educación, precariedad laboral, provisionalidad de los equipos docentes, implantación acelerada de la actual y lamentable ley de educación… Ese posible pacto educativo se aleja en el horizonte como no deseado por quien se siente fuerte para imponer sus políticas educativas sin negociar nada.

En los dos últimos días del curso, cuando los centros cierran sus puertas y se inician las vacaciones, se han tomado decisiones que muestran el verdadero rostro de quien ha ocupado la administración pública como su cortijo para tomar las decisiones más autoritarias y partidistas. Los centros educativos (5 en el municipio de Getafe y más de 20 en la Comunidad de Madrid), que se habían quedado sin dirección para el próximo curso por finalización de su periodo de gobierno o por jubilación del director, han presentado candidaturas del propio centro para cuatro años o candidaturas provisionales para un curso escolar. Esa cara autoritaria y dictatorial se muestra con la imposición por la administración de una dirección externa sin tener en cuenta las propuestas que hacen las comunidades educativas.

Se hace sin ningún tipo de diálogo, sin considerar  la situación concreta de cada centro educativo, sin escuchar la voz del profesorado, de las familias y del alumnado… Da lo mismo el proyecto educativo que esté desarrollando ese centro, su contexto socioeducativo, su singularidad y su historia. Sin considerar nada de esto se impone una dirección que lleve a cabo las políticas educativas que de una manera más suave se venían desarrollando en el cumplimiento de la ley de educación aprobada por el Partido Popular a finales del año 2013 y que se encuentra en proceso de implantación. Mucha gente creímos ingenuamente que una situación de inestabilidad e incertidumbre política, como la que vivimos, se respetarían los procesos que viven las diferentes comunidades educativas que también se encuentran en una situación de cambio de los equipos directivos. No es así. Se ha decidido acelerar la imposición de una ley fuertemente contestada por los partidos políticos, menos el PP, por la comunidad educativa a través de la marea verde, de las organizaciones sindicales, del movimiento de padres y madres, de los movimientos educativos y pedagógicos. Y lo hacen por los puntos más conflictivos y autoritarios de la propia ley: la eliminación de la participación de la comunidad educativa en las decisiones que más les afectan. Este es el caso más evidente. Sin embargo no les importa dejar de lado los aspectos que podrían hacer esta ley un poco más humana y educativa.

Los claustros y las familias afectados directamente ya están respondiendo a estas arbitrariedades porque no están dispuestas a renunciar al protagonismo que tienen en la educación de su alumnado, de sus hijos e hijas en una sociedad democrática como la nuestra. El problema es que el autoritarismos y la prepotencia que muestra, al poner en acto sus políticas educativas, quien nos gobierna, hace dudar que nos encontremos en la sociedad democrática que queremos construir cada día desde el respeto y la singularidad de cada centro educativo en este caso. Todo nuestro apoyo a las acciones que emprendan los centros afectados para responder a tanta irracionalidad, imposición y falta de diálogo. No hacerlo significaría aceptar con docilidad y sumisión el dominio de políticas educativas destructoras de la escuela pública y de la democracia y de la dignidad de las personas.

Fuente: http://www.grupo-capital.com/2016/07/autoritarismo-educativo-del-pp/

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Colombia: Informe de la federación respecto al llamamiento a PARO NACIONAL INDEFINIDO (audio)

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Fuente FECODE / 4 de Julio de 2016

Ante los incumplimientos del Ministerio de Educación Nacional, en cabeza de Gina Parody, y las diferentes problemáticas que enfrenta el magisterio, se hace el llamado a preparar el PARO INDEFINIDO en el segundo semestre de este año. Escuchemos el informe completo, a cargo de Luis Grubert, presidente de la federación.

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EEUU: Rauner is driving faculty, students from Illinois

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Fuente: chicagosuntimes.com / 4 de julio de 2016

A recent op-ed in the New York Times  [“Higher Education in Illinois is Dying,” June 3] has brought national attention to the shameful budget stalemate in Illinois, and its resulting devastation of our public universities.

By failing to secure a budget, Gov. Bruce Rauner has created a climate in which faculty and students alike have begun to flee, taking their talents and tuition dollars out of state. Springfield may think that our universities can sustain massive cuts to their operating budgets without lasting impact. As faculty at Illinois’ public universities, we come together here to say that they are wrong.

Education is the engine of economic growth in our state. The rapid decline in revenues that Illinois continues to experience will only worsen with disinvestment in the knowledge and skills of its citizens. All public servants, whether employed at the university or in state government, have a responsibility to fulfill. We cannot fulfill ours unless you fulfill yours. However we arrived at the current economic crisis, it cannot be bettered when compromise is only viewed as failure, and when precious state resources are used to further a political agenda. Inaction is not benign. The Illinois government is making a conscious decision that its public universities, the culmination of 150 years of state, federal, community, and private effort and investment, are expendable. This is unacceptable.

Article X of our state Constitution sets “the educational development of all persons” as a goal, promises “to provide for an efficient system of high quality educational institutions and services,” and assigns the state “the primary responsibility for financing the system of public education.” An engaged citizenry is the bedrock of democracy, and access to excellent and affordable public education is a civil right. Time is running out to ensure it.

Dana Rabin, LAS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Catherine Prendergast, LAS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Christopher Breu, CAS Illinois State University
Joyce Walker, CAS Illinois State University
Matt Felumlee, Department of English, Heartland Community College
Kerry O. Ferris, CLAS, Northern Illinois University
J.M. van der Laan, CAS, Illinois State University
Gary Weilbacher, CLAS, Illinois State University
Peter Ping Liu, School of Technology, Eastern Illinois University
Brian R. Horn, College of Education, Illinois State University
Claudia Janssen Danyi, College of Arts and Humanities, Eastern Illinois University
Susan Kalter, CAS, Illinois State University
Rebecca Saunders, CAS, Illinois State University
Amy Robillard, CAS, Illinois State University
James J. Pancrazio, CAS Illinois State University
Christopher C. De Santis, CAS, Illinois State University
Michael Day, CLAS, Northern Illinois University
Joe Amato, CAS, Illinois State University
Tania Ionin, LAS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
James Hye Suk Yoon, LAS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Amy Rosenstein, College of Ed and Professional Studies, Eastern Illinois University
Ann Haugo, School of Theatre and Dance, Illinois State University
Deborah Wittman, College of Ed, Illinois State University
Sarah Hochstetler, CAS, Illinois State University
William Thomas McBride, CAS, Illinois State University
Jill Hallett, College of Education, University of Illinois at Chicago
Christina M. Borders, College of Education, Illinois State University
Phillip Eubanks, CLAS, Northern Illinois University
Olaya Landa-Vialard, College of Ed, Illinois State University
Lennard Davis, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago
Juliet Lynd, LAS, Illinois State University
Caroline Mallory, Mennonite College of Nursing, Illinois State University
E. Paula Crowley, College of Education, Illinois State University
Lea Cline, School of Art, Illinois State University
Jeff Rients, CAS, Illinois State University
Susan A Hildebrandt, CAS, Illinois State University
Rachel Shively, CAS, Illinois State University
Rick Hallett, CAS, Northeastern Illinois University
Russell Zanca, CAS, Northeastern Illinois University
Kathleen Renk, CLAS, Northern Illinois University
Diana Swanson, CLAS, Northern Illinois University
Richard Cameron, LAS, University of Illinois at Chicago
Marjorie Worthington, College of Arts and Humanities, Eastern Illinois University
Christine McCormick, College of Sciences, Eastern Illinois University
Robert Zordani, College of Arts and Humanities, Eastern Illinois University
Renee King, College of Arts and Humanities, Eastern Illinois University
Steve Brantley, Library, Eastern Illinois University
Angela Glaros, College of Sciences, Eastern Illinois University
Timothy N. Taylor, College of Arts and Humanities, Eastern Illinois University
Rena Shifflet, School of Teaching and Learning, Illinois State University.
Gabrielle M. Toth, Library Information Services, University of Illinois at Chicago
Diane Burns, College of Sciences, Eastern Illinois University
Jeannie Ludlow, College of Arts and Humanities, Eastern Illinois University
Edmund F. Wehrle, College of Arts and Humanities, Eastern Illinois University
Jennifer L. Stringfellow, College of Ed and Prof. Studies, Eastern Illinois University
Leila Porter, LAS, Northern Illinois University
Charles R. Foy, College of Arts and Humanities, Eastern Illinois University
Ann Brownson, Ballenger Teachers Center, Eastern Illinois University
Gary E. Aylesworth, College of Arts and Humanities, Eastern Illinois University
Marina Terkourafi, LAS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Rosemary Buck, College of Arts and Humanities, Eastern Illinois University
Sonia Kline, College of Education, Illinois State University
Peter Andrews, College of Sciences, Eastern Illinois University
Robin L. Murray, College of Arts and Humanities, Eastern Illinois University
Ralph Cintron, LAS, University of Illinois at Chicago
Maria T. Pao, College of Arts and Sciences, Illinois State University
Gary Justis, College of Fine Arts, Illinois State University
Edward O. Stewart, College of Fine Arts, Illinois State University
Issam Nassar, College of Arts and Sciences, Illinois State University
Fern Kory, College of Arts and Humanities, Eastern Illinois University
Peter Hesterman, College of Arts and Sciences, Illinois State University
Marjorie Moretz Stinespring, College of Arts and Sciences, Chicago State University
Leroy Bryant, College of Arts and Sciences, Chicago State University
Carol Jean Dudley, College of Arts and Humanities, Eastern Illinois University
Jamie V. Ryan, College of Arts and Humanities, Eastern Illinois University
Jason Reblando, College of Fine Arts, Illinois State University
Ann Kuzdale, College of Arts and Sciences, Chicago State University
Shaila Christofferson, College of Arts and Sciences, Chicago State University
Fiona Ngo, LAS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mukti Upadhyay, College of Sciences, Eastern Illinois University
Michael Leddy, College of Arts and Humanities, Eastern Illinois University
Lee E. Patterson, College of Arts and Humanities, Eastern Illinois University
Steven E. Rowe, College of Arts and Sciences, Chicago State University
Kelly Harris, College of Arts and Sciences, Chicago State University
Iryce Baron, LAS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dennis Baron, LAS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Eric Bollinger, College of Sciences, Eastern Illinois University
Amalia Pallares, LAS, University of Illinois at Chicago
Bill O’Donnell, College of Fine Arts, Illinois State University
Andreas Fischer, College of Fine Arts, Illinois State University
Scott Balcerzak, LAS, Northern Illinois University
Marcia Buell, College of Arts and Sciences, Northeastern Illinois University
Christina Bueno, College of Arts and Sciences, Northeastern Illinois University
Maureen Kelty, Daniel L Goodwin College of Education, Northeastern Illinois University
Brandon P. Bisbey, College of Arts and Sciences, Northeastern Illinois University
Lisa Wallis, Library, Northeastern Illinois University
Melanie Bujan, College of Arts and Sciences, Northeastern Illinois University
Lou Bohr, Daniel L Goodwin College of Education, Northeastern Illinois University
Alison Dover, Daniel L Goodwin College of Education, Northeastern Illinois University
Cyndi Moran, Professor, College of Arts and Sciences, Northeastern Illinois University
James Ball, Daniel L Goodwin, College of Education, Northeastern Illinois University
Kristin Carlson, College of Fine Arts, Illinois State University
Janet Halpin, College of Arts and Sciences, Chicago State University
James M. Skibo, College of Arts and Sciences, Illinois State University
Eric L. Peters, College of Arts and Sciences, Chicago State University
Katie Lewandowski, College of Sciences, Eastern Illinois University
James Stanlaw, College of Arts and Sciences, Illinois State University
Xóchitl Bada, LAS, University of Illinois at Chicago
Maria de los Angeles Torres, LAS, University of Illinois at Chicago
Richard Sullivan, College of Arts and Sciences, Illinois State University
Elizabeth A. Skinner, College of Education, Illinois State University
Eastern Illinois University, College of Arts and Sciences, Illinois State University
Grant C. Sterling, College of Arts and Humanities, Eastern Illinois University
Michael D. Gillespie, College of Sciences, Eastern Illinois University
Lauren M. Lowell, College of Fine Arts, Illinois State University
Víctor Alejandro Sorell, College of Arts and Sciences, Illinois State University
Therese Quinn, Architecture, Design, and the Arts, University of Illinois at Chicago
Cedric Johnson, LAS, University of Illinois at Chicago
Aleeca Bell, Nursing, University of Illinois at Chicago
Robert Johnston, LAS, University of Illinois at Chicago
Barbara DiEugenio, College of Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago
John Abbott, LAS, University of Illinois at Chicago
Janet Smith, Urban Planning and Public Affairs, University of Illinois at Chicago
Joan Kennelly, College of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago
Aaron Krall, LAS, University of Illinois at Chicago
Laurie Quinn, Nursing, University of Illinois at Chicago
James Drown, LAS, University of Illinois at Chicago
Blake Simpson, Architecture, Design, and the Arts, University of Illinois at Chicago
Anthony Simon Laden, LAS, University of Illinois at Chicago
Laurie Schaffner, LAS, University of Illinois at Chicago
Paul Preissner, Architecture, Design, and the Arts, University of Illinois at Chicago
John Betancur, Urban Planning and Public Affairs
Jeffrey Sklansky, LAS, University of Illinois at Chicago
John D’Emilio, LAS, University of Illinois at Chicago
Marina Mogilner, LAS, University of Illinois at Chicago
Nicole Jordan, LAS, University of Illinois at Chicago
Laura Hostetler, LAS, University of Illinois at Chicago
Mark Liechty, LAS, University of Illinois at Chicago
Susan Hughes, Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago
Susan Altfeld, Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago
Joe Persky, LAS, University of Illinois at Chicago
John A. Jones, LAS, University of Illinois at Chicago
Renato Barahona, LAS, University of Illinois at Chicago
Jennifer Brier, LAS, University of Illinois at Chicago
Richard Levy, LAS, University of Illinois at Chicago
Kevin Schultz, LAS, University of Illinois at Chicago
Joseph Tabbi, LAS, University of Illinois at Chicago
Julie Peters, LAS, University of Illinois at Chicago
Rachel Weber, Urban Planning and Public Affairs, University of Illinois at Chicago
Jim Hansen, LAS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Liv Stone, College of Arts and Sciences, Illinois State University
Frank McCormick, College of Arts and Humanities, Eastern Illinois University
Robert Zordani, College of Arts and Humanities, Eastern Illinois University
Joel Palka, LAS, University of Illinois at Chicago
Timothy Bell, College of Arts and Sciences, Chicago State University
Robert E. Bionaz, College of Arts and Sciences, Chicago State University
Melissa Ames, College of Arts and Humanities, Eastern Illinois University
Lucinda Berry, College of Arts and Humanities, Eastern Illinois University
John H. Bickford III, College of Ed and Prof. Studies, Eastern Illinois University
Deborah Olbert, College of Education, Eastern Illinois University
Valerie Garver, CLAS, Northern Illinois University
Erik Zdansky, College of Arts and Sciences, Illinois State University
Jennifer Slate, College of Arts and Sciences, Northeastern Illinois University
Thomas P. Crumpler, College of Education, Illinois State University
Maria Schmeeckle, College of Arts and Sciences, Illinois State University
Debra A. Reid, College of Arts and Humanities, Eastern Illinois University
Nobuko Adachi, College of Arts and Sciences, Illinois State University
Lisa Lee, Architecture, Design, and the Arts, University of Illinois at Chicago
Yann Robert, LAS, University of Illinois at Chicago
Barbara Ransby, LAS, University of Illinois at Chicago
Hannah Higgins, Architecture, Design, and the Arts, University of Illinois at Chicago
Michael Scott, Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago
Judith Gardiner, LAS, University of Illinois at Chicago
Geraldine Gorman, Nursing, University of Illinois at Chicago
Carrol Smith, Nursing, University of Illinois at Chicago
Nick Hugget, LAS, University of Illinois at Chicago
Chris Boyer, LAS, University of Illinois at Chicago
John Polk, LAS, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Lynn Kennell, Mennonite College of Nursing, Illinois State University
Teresa Novy, Mennonite College of Nursing, Illinois State University
Holly Dust, College of Sciences, Eastern Illinois University
Jeff Gore, LAS, University of Illinois at Chicago
Olivia Perlow, CAS, Northeastern Illinois University
Craig Kois, Northeastern Illinois University
James Barrett, LAS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Martin Manalansin, LAS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Hadi Salehi Esfahani, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Zohreh T. Sullivan, LAS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Fred Hoxie, LAS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Lauren Goodlad, LAS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Zsuzsa Gille, LAS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Isabel Molina-Guzmán, College of Media, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Gilberto Rosas, LAS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kathryn La Barre, Library and Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Carol Symes, LAS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Bruce Rosenstock, LAS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Craig Koslofsky, LAS, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, LAS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jesse Ribot. LAS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jay Rosenstein, College of Media, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Gabriel Solis, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Stephen Jaeger, Emeritus, LAS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Angharad Valdivia, College of Media, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dennis Dullea, LAS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Anna Westerstahl Stenport, LAS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Lilya Kaganovsky, LAS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Richared Ross, College of Law, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Charles F. Gammie, LAS and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kristin Hoganson, LAS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Rebecca Ginsburg, College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sarah Theule Lubienski, College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Patrick Smith, College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Allyson Purpura, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Marilyn Parsons, College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kiel Christianson, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Elizabeth A L Stine-Morrow, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Adrienne D. Dixson, College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jennifer Greene, College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Walter Feinberg, College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dan Morrow, College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Erik S. McDuffie, LAS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Diane Koenker, LAS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
William Sullivan, College of Fine and Applied Art, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Amita Sinha, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Harley Johnson, College of Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Carolyn J Anderson, College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Michael Rothberg, LAS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Taher Saif, College of Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Michael LeRoy, College of Law, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jacob Sosnoff, Applied Health Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Rochelle Gutiérrez, College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Gloriana González, College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kirstin Wilcox, LAS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
D. Fairchild Ruggles, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Stephen Taylor, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mary-alayne Hughes, College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Luz A. Murillo, College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Megan McLaughlin, Professor Emerita, LAS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Anne Haas Dyson, College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Marcelo Bucheli, College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Susan Fowler, College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Celestina Savonius-Wroth, University Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Clare Crowston, LAS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Albert J. Valocchi, College of Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Marc Snir, College of Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Bruce Reznick, LAS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Richard Laugesen, LAS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Amy L. Powell, Krannert Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
David O’Brien, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Shawn Gilmore, LAS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Linda Herrera, College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Katherine Ryan, College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Brett Ashley Kaplan, LAS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Phillip Phillips, College of Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Renee Trilling, LAS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Stephanie Foote, LAS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Justine Summerhayes Murison, LAS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Eleanor Courtemanche, LAS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ricky Rodriguez, LAS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
John S. Popovics, College of Engineering, University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign
Kathryn Oberdeck, LAS, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Rosa Milagros Santos, College of Education, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Kate Clancy, LAS, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

 

Enlace original: http://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/monday-letters-rauner-is-driving-faculty-students-from-illinois/

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Critics say bipartisan bill signed by Obama imposes “colonial” control board on Puerto Rico, puts “hedge funds ahead of people”

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Fuente: salon.com / 4 de julio de 2016

A bipartisan bill signed by President Obama will impose a “colonial” control board on Puerto Rico, critics say.

 Sen. Bob Menéndez slammed the legislation as a form of “blatant colonialism” that puts “hedge funds ahead of the people.” Bernie Sanders likewise condemned the bill as a “disaster for the people of Puerto Rico” that makes the U.S. the “colonial master” and takes away the Puerto Rican people’s democratic rights.

President Obama signed the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act, or PROMESA, on Thursday night, hours before Puerto Rico was obligated to pay $1.9 billion of its $70 billion debt on a July 1 deadline.

Minutes after Obama signed the bill into law, Gov. Alejandro García Padilla issued an executive order authorizing suspension of payments on Puerto Rico’s debt.

PROMESA permits a debt restructuring process, similar to bankruptcy, but at a great cost: In return, the U.S. federal government will impose an unelected control board onto the U.S. territory. This board will control Puerto Rico’s finances, yet will consist of people who do not even live on the island.

The control board is likely to impose harsh austerity measures, including big cuts in social services, public institutions and pension funds.

PROMESA already forces the Puerto Rican government to reduce the minimum wage to $4.25 an hour for people under 25, while 45 percent of Puerto Ricans live in poverty and 60 percent of adults are unemployed.

The Senate passed PROMESA on Wednesday, June 29 by a 68-to-30 vote.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has previously expressed support for the colonial-style bill. Her opponent, Bernie Sanders, has vehemently opposed it.

Menéndez, who led the opposition to the bill, and proposed 30 of its 68 amendments, held a four-hour filibuster on the Senate floor on Tuesday. Sanders joined him in the filibuster.

This “is a vote to disenfranchise 3.5 million Americans,” Menéndez said. He stressed that, contrary to what the Obama administration and Congress have claimed, the people of Puerto Rico are overwhelmingly against the bill.

Menéndez cited a poll that found that a staggering 69 percent of Puerto Rican voters oppose PROMESA.

Activists in Puerto Rico aggressively protested the colonial-style legislation. Demonstrators created a long-term protest camp outside of the U.S. federal courthouse in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.

On the Senate floor,  Menéndez listed off a long series of negative impacts the bill will have on the U.S. territory:

“It is a vote to authorize an unelected, unchecked and all-powerful control board to determine Puerto Rico’s destiny for a generation or more.

It is a vote to authorize an unelected and all-powerful control board that could close schools, shutter hospitals, and cut senior citizens’ pensions to the bone.

It is a vote to force Puerto Rico, without their say, to go $370 million further in debt to pay for this omnipotent control board which they don’t even want.

It is a vote to cut the minimum wage down to $4.25 per hour for younger workers in Puerto Rico.

It is a vote to make Puerto Ricans work long overtime hours without fair compensation or protection.

It is a vote to jeopardize collective bargaining agreements.

It is a vote to cut worker benefits and privatize inherent government functions.

It is a vote to place well-heeled hedge funds and creditors ahead of the people.

It is a vote to give the board the power to sell off and commercialize natural  treasures that belong to the people of Puerto Rico.

And at its worst, it is a vote to authorize an unelected, unchecked and all-powerful  control board that determines Puerto Rico’s destiny for a generation or more.”

Sanders also vociferously opposed the legislation, railing against it on the Senate floor.

In another article, Salon featured a video and transcript of Sanders’ powerful Senate speech.

“This is a terrible piece of legislation, setting horrific precedent, and must not be passed,” he said, adding, “the United States of America should not treat Puerto Rico as a colony. We cannot and must not take away the democratic rights of the 3.5 million Americans of Puerto Rico and give virtually all power on that island to a seven-member board.”

Sanders called the legislation “both a political and economic disaster for the people of Puerto Rico” that “takes away their democratic rights and self-governance and will impose harsh austerity measures, which will make the poorest people in Puerto Rico even poorer.”

“The United States must not become a colonial master, which is precisely what this legislation allows,” he warned.

Fotografía: Barack Obama signs into law the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act, June 30, 2016.(Credit: Reuters/Carlos Barria)

Enlace original: http://www.salon.com/2016/07/01/critics_say_bipartisan_bill_signed_by_obama_imposes_colonial_control_board_on_puerto_rico_puts_hedge_funds_ahead_of_people/

 

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En Honduras: Policía desaloja a estudiantes de la UNAH

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Las partes se acusan de no tener apertura a un diálogo para resolver el problema en la UNAH.

América Central| Tegucigalpa, Honduras| elnuevodiario.com.ni

La Policía Nacional inició ayer el desalojo de decenas de estudiantes de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras (UNAH) que desde hace casi un mes han ocupado varios edificios de la institución en las dos ciudades más importantes del país.

Los policías, acompañados de un juez, personal del Ministerio Público y representantes de organismos de derechos humanos comenzaron a ingresar a las instalaciones de la UNAH hacia las 06:00 hora local.

Portavoces de los estudiantes indicaron en Tegucigalpa y San Pedro Sula que estaban esperando que el juez ejecutor llegara y les mostrara la orden de desalojo para retirarse de las instalaciones sin confrontar con las fuerzas del orden.

Las primeras instalaciones en ser desalojadas por los estudiantes, que han permanecido con su rostro cubierto, fueron las del centro regional de la UNAH en San Pedro Sula, norte del país.

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Los policías entraron a la UNAH y fueron edificio por edificio quitando las barricadas hechas con pupitres por los manifestantes.

Hasta las 08:00 hora local no se habían registrado hechos violentos.

Las autoridades de la UNAH esperan que los estudiantes no causen daños en el edificio de Ciencias Médicas, donde hay equipo valorado en unos diez millones de dólares, dijo a periodistas la rectora de la máxima casa de estudios, Julieta Castellanos.

Agregó que no ha sido fácil tomar la decisión, pero que la UNAH no puede seguir bloqueada por un reducido grupo de estudiantes que exigen la derogación de normas académicas.

Los manifestantes también exigen que se suspenda un proceso judicial contra una veintena de sus compañeros, acusados por el Ministerio Público por daños a instalaciones de la UNAH.

Las partes se acusan de no tener apertura a un diálogo para resolver el problema en la UNAH, cuyas autoridades resolvieron el jueves cancelar el tercer período académico, que debió comenzar en septiembre y finalizar en diciembre, porque se habían perdido 24 días de clases.

Esa medida afecta a catorce facultades de la UNAH, que tiene una población de unos 90,000 estudiantes.

Fuente: http://www.elnuevodiario.com.ni/internacionales/centroamerica/396906-policia-desaloja-estudiantes/

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Chile: Estudiantes y elecciones

Ricardio Candia Cares

Por: Ricardio Candia Cares

Los estudiantes no solo deberían marchar y tomarse sus establecimientos. Tomando en cuenta el nuevo fracaso del sistema -ahora en las elecciones primarias del 19 de junio-, se hace necesario disponerse para dar la pelea en donde les duele a los corruptos que dirigen el país.
A los poderosos las marchas no les hacen mella. Mientras cuenten con policías militarizadas que creen que están combatiendo al enemigo más odiado cuando apalean estudiantes, mientras la presidenta no se haga cargo del legado oprobioso de su gobierno que intenta resolver lo que no puede mediante instrumentos propios de la dictadura, mientras los que hacen las leyes reciban coimas por sus cometidos legislativos, las marchas seguirán siendo estériles.
Lo que aterra a la casta política es perder sus cupos, sus sillones, sus prebendas nacidas de las elecciones en las cuales gente irresponsable los vota y lo vuelve a votar, al extremo de que hay zánganos que llevan veinticinco años en sus puestos.
Los estudiantes están corriendo el riesgo de acostumbrarse a vivir entre la brutal represión, que ya es pan de cada día, y la impotencia de ver cómo la esquizofrenia que se ha tomado el país permite que convivan mundo polares en el mismo territorio y que a mchile estudiantes 22uchos ni siquiera les importe.
Es cierto que si no fuera por los estudiantes en este país no pasaría nada. Pero debe llegar el momento en que se convenzan que mientras no se impongan junto con otros sectores sociales como fuerza política, lo masivo de sus manifestaciones solo hará que aumente el presupuesto policial de gas venenoso, agua pestilente y bonos para los ogros policiales que castigan sin escrúpulos.
Debe llegar el día en que los dirigentes estudiantiles se propongan no solo tomarse sus establecimientos, sino que abordar las instituciones desde donde son dictadas las políticas que sufren millones de chilenos desde hace veinticinco años.
Votos en vez de piedras. O mejor aún votos + piedras. Todos los medios legítimos se hacen imprescindibles para pasar a mayores niveles de lucha en las cuales ya no sean efectivos ni sus ingenios criminales ni sus lumas de última generación, ni la brutalidad estimulada por mandos criminales.
Inutilizadas las organizaciones de trabajadores, agachadas en función de los gobiernos y partidos de turno, les queda la responsabilidad a los estudiantes y a los sectores sociales más decididos encabezar la mayor gesta de rebelión del último cuarto de siglo: ir por ellos a sus propias guaridas y sacarlos con las mismas herramientas con las que se hicieron de ellas: las elecciones.
Las elecciones no muerden ni son un monstruo y solo hacen daño cuando por la irresponsabilidad de muchos, siguen siendo el mecanismo que utiliza la casta política para reiniciarse cada vez que necesita, mientras los audaces luchadores sociales miran ese ejercicio por la televisión.
ch primariasNo resulta precisamente muy revolucionario dejarles el campo libre para que el ejercicio de las elecciones los legitime una y otra vez y permita que delincuentes de cuello y corbata, corruptos, sinvergüenzas y tránsfugas sean los que hagan las leyes que al final, van a hacer mierda a los mismos de siempre. También a quienes tienen por los procesos electorales la ojeriza reservada a los vicios de la burguesía.
Si el movimiento social goza de la simpatía de la enorme mayoría de los habitantes, ¿por qué dejar que esa simpatía se diluya? ¿Es posible imaginar el efecto que tendría una Cámara de Diputados invadida por cinco, diez, quince, veinte, treinta o más honorables venidos directamente desde las calles gaseadas, desde las federaciones rebeldes, desde los colectivos de las poblaciones en lucha, desde las agrupaciones de artistas conscientes? Habría que ver cómo se las ingeniaría el sistema para meter ahora carros lanzagases, y lanza-agua a los hemiciclos.
Se les ha dado demasiada ventaja a los que han prometido este mundo y el otro y siempre han terminado dando la espalda a los ingenuos que les han creído.
Hace falta que dejemos de pedir que los que nunca ha hecho algo, lo hagan ahora. Si queremos nuevas leyes, vamos por ellas. Insistir en lo que no ha sido sino un fracaso una y otra vez, es merecerse un presente de abuso y un futuro de lástima.
El fracaso de las elecciones primarias en las que ha sido notable el desprecio de la gente por los políticos corruptos de siempre, demuestra la necesidad de nuevos actores dispuestos a disputarles sus espacios de poder.

Fuente: http://www.surysur.net/chile-estudiantes-y-elecciones/

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