Facso on strike!

Facso, as other faculties, is on strike because within the university there are some policies that are affecting the normal performance of the students, staff and academics.  There are main problems, precariousness, democratization, financing, are just some of it. 

I think this strike it’s not only necessary but fair.  We're fighting for a basic right that is the social right to have educational high-quality.  Equitable educational system that struggle has different fronts, the first one is the widespread national protest and the second one are the local protest, inside each university and school where we students are trying to build from within quality and equity, starting on fixing the problems in our departments they are no more than the reflex of what's happening in the global scale of the educational system.

My participation in the strike has been very active, because I’m the academic delegate of the sociology students of first year.  I’m very interested in the strike so I’m trying to participate as I can in all the activities that the university do in the faculty or other place, like central house.

I think that the strike will bring us a chance to create a space to be constantly resolving problems about the university as an only horizontal group.  Also, in my opinion, this year the university will open his mind to transform it foundations, from little changes as more classrooms, until obtain main national objectives like free education.

The main drawback of the strike is well-known, the academic area is lagging behind and the contents of the year are going to be changed, but I think that to make changes there always have to be sacrifices.