translated from Spanish: They replicate “March of the Umbrellas”: They ask to respect the right to education in the new Constitution

This reissue of the “March of the Umbrellas”, this time without rain, was accompanied by part of its original protagonists, such as the now deputies Camila Vallejo and Giorgio Jakson.” We come to express that they are generations of student struggles, asking and demanding in different ways… the right to a free and free public education, without discrimination and arbitrary segregations, which this market model has unfortunately perpetuated and deepened in our country,” Vallejo said. We need the Constitutional Convention to flesh out what have been decades of struggle, because every change we have pushed, and every change we make, is not going to be enough if the right to education with constitutional guarantee is not in the new constitution,” he emphasized. Upon their arrival at the former Congress, the demonstrators were greeted by conventionals, including the vice president of the Constitutional Convention, Jaime Bassa.” This is a cross-cutting demand that runs through the structure of our society and it is essential that we move towards a redistribution of all forms of capital and power that have marked Chilean society in the last 30 years,” he said.

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