“Chile Rising” photos from our new episode that airs Monday, January 2, 2012 at 2230 GMT/ 5:30p EST on Al Jazeera English.
Fault Lines travels to Chile to follow the student protests there, and examines the underlying issues driving the anger.
Chile’s student protest movement claimed its second ministerial victim today when President Sebastian Pinera named Harald Beyer to replace Felipe Bulnes as education minister.
Bulnes took over from Joaquin Lavin in July, a month after the start of protests that shuttered hundreds of state schools and led to almost weekly clashes with police in the streets of Santiago in the second half of the year.
While the scale of protests has subsided, Beyer will face an increasingly radicalized student movement. Earlier this month, University of Chile students ousted Communist Party member Camila Vallejo as president in favor of Gabriel Boric, who advocates a harder line against the government. The protests helped push Pinera’s approval rating to 23 percent, the lowest for any president since the return of democracy two decades ago, according to an opinion poll released today. Pinera also named Luis Mayol as the new agriculture minister today.
“Chile’s Student Protests Claim Their Second Ministerial Victim,” Randall Woods and Sebastian Boyd, Bloomberg, December 29, 2011.
Our new Chile episode about student protests and politics airs next Monday, January 2, 2012 at 2230 GMT/ 5:30p EST on Al Jazeera English.
Source: businessweek.com
best protest sign handle ever.
every day is labor day.
read more here: http://www.columbian.com/news/2011/sep/08/longshoremen-storm-longview-port-damage-rr/
This is from September 2011. The next Fault Lines episode (Monday, December 19th) is on the decline of labor unions in the US.
Vanessa Veselka: One Woman's Attempt to Unionize Amazon
Inspired by the WTO protests, a demonstrator took a job in an Amazon warehouse to try and unionize the workers there
The Atlantic || December 12, 2011
Our Fault Lines episode, “The Decline of Labor Unions in America” airs next Monday, December 19, 2011 on Al Jazeera at 2230 GMT/5:30p EST.
Shipping terminals in Seattle, Tacoma and Everett were idled as workers joined the protest in the town of Longview, where police said union members rushed into a contested loading area in the pre-dawn hours, cutting brake lines on a train full of grain, pushing a security vehicle into a ditch and dumping part of the grain cargo off the train. The protest followed a clash with police Wednesday in which longshoremen blocked railroad tracks near Vancouver, Wash., to prevent the grain from reaching the export terminal, 45 miles west. Union leaders contend the terminal should be staffed with members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union.
L.A. Times, ‘Longshoremen in Washington walk off the job’ (via douglascarlucci)
Our new Fault Lines episode next Monday, December 19th 2230 GMT/5:30p EST is on the decline of labor unions in the US.
(via douglascarlucci)
Protests have in the past turned violent. So members of the university staff form a buffer between the police and the protestors.
“Given that we took steps to avoid the police intervening in this student activity, we are not going to allow police to run over students today at the tower.”
Watch the whole episode “Puerto Rico: The fiscal experiment” from June 27, 2011 on YouTube.
Source: youtube.com
“Pretend to be what you are not, you become nothing.”
- Activist Rafael Cancel Miranda
Watch the Fault Lines episode “Puerto Rico: The fiscal experiment” from June 27, 2011 on the myriad ways fiscal policy is affecting everyday life in Puerto Rico.
Source: youtube.com
from Shameel Arafin on Flickr, March 23, 2011:
EMERGENCY RALLY AND PROTEST OF PUERTO RICO GOV. LUIS FORTUÑO
Wednesday, March 23 · 4:30pm - 7:00pm
THE NEW YORK ATHLETIC CLUB
180 CENTRAL PARK SOUTH
Our next Fault Lines episode on Monday, 2230 GMT, is on #luchaUPR and the issues surrounding Puerto Rico’s current economic state. (Video extra from the episode.) Above image used with permission.
Source: Flickr / shameelarafin
Think Mexican: Calderón Gives Stanford Commencement Speech; Banner Has Little Effect
Yesterday, Felipe Calderón gave Stanford’s 2011 commencement speech. In an attempt to upstage him, an aerial banner flew overhead for almost the entirety of the address, reported several news outlets.
The irony is that the students graduating from one of the United States’ top universities…
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