greenie

Well I think it is a good habit to be ‘green’ or to have green behaviors, like recycling or stuff like that. But I think that it isn’t so easy to become a green person, most of the time you need to have money to buy products that help the ecosystem, for example. Little things like separating the garbage can help tho, or recycling in general. But is s not too much what we can do to help the world, because the big parte is on the industries. I haven’t incorporated green habits in my life, I live alone so I don’t have a  lot of organization or time to do things like that, is a shame, and I don’t have joined any eco-org, I support their fight but sometimes their politics views are not so compromised. To help the planet I would like to learn to ride a bike, I think is a good thing to reduce contamination using a bike to move around, sadly I don’t know how to ride one, and I’m also a car lover, one of my favorite things in the world are roadtrips, not very eco-friendly. 

Well our society has a lot to learn to help the planet, Santiago has this geographic problem being in a big hole so the contamination is difficult to eradicate, but I think this issue is, once more, a structural issue that tells us how the system has production as a priority above the well-being of the population and where we live.   

                                       

lord save the education

Education is a difficult topic for our country. Since the 2011 (Or even before, with the penguin revolution) there has been a lot of discomfort regarding to this situation. The structural system of Chile supports the neo-liberalism in every sense and aspect in which it can influence our life, even if this means making essentials parts of everyone’s life like health and education a business. In Chile if you want to have good education, you need to have money, is simple like that. If you don’t have the money, if you can’t afford the cost of a decent education, then you have to conform to a mediocre education or you will have to be in debt for the rest of your life, paying a lot more of the money that you were supposed to pay in the first time, because of the interests.

This situation can’t be fixed with scholarships or that kind of flash help, because this is a structural problem that comes from the capitalist system that rules our country.  This is reflected in the very core of education, is not only how it cost, but what are the contents that our children are learning. They are learning to be part of the same twisted system that makes this kind of issues, they aren’t learning to think or to question, they are learning to be tools of capitalism. Tests like SIMCE or PSU are a proof of that.

So this issue isn’t going to be fixed by some superficial reforms, we need structural changes and that is why students march and protest, to show the discomfort regarding how the government is ignoring this issue. 

    

(The students teach us to be brave)