Honduras: Students Defend Occupied National University

[Charleston Chew]

Run time: 04:02 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7U7O-cRQAI   Posted on YouTube: April 01, 2011 By YouTube Member: TheRealNews Views on YouTube: 240   Posted on DU: April 01, 2011 By DU Member: Charleston Chew Views on DU: 534

 
Honduran Students Defend Occupied National University / Estudiantes Defienden La UNAH en Tegucigalpa

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Wednesday was a national day of action in Honduras as teachers, students, and members of the National People's Resistance Front took part in a third week of actions against the privatization of education. Students of the National Autonomous University in the capital of Tegucigalpa occupied the campus and the surrounding streets. They were then attacked by riot squads launching tear gas and rocks, and by two tanks that fire water mixed with pepper spray. The police entered the campus grounds from a back entrance before being repelled by hundreds students throwing rocks.

It marked the second time in one week that the police entered the university, breaking a Honduran law that prohibits the presence of police or military on Honduran university campuses.


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[Charleston Chew]

1. Report from Land Occupations in Post-Coup Honduras

Poor farmers are taking more and more land from agribusiness that supported the 2009 military coup, and paying with their lives.

It's been more than 20 months since a military coup shook the Central American country of Honduras to it's core. The aftermath has seen a decades old land conflict reach deadly heights as poor farmers occupy agribusiness-owned land, and are often found dead soon after.

In previous years, the farmers would be on their own, but the coup gave rise to a broad resistance movement of which the campesinos are a key sector.

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[Cristina8622]

2. Privatization worldwide

the privatization of education is clearly going on in more areas than just the U.S., or just one state...it is crazy and unacceptable, and furthermore the students don't even want it...I am glad to see students stand up for their education their future...here in Newark, NJ, there is a group of very talented high school students who are part of the Youth Media Symposium at Abbott Leadership Institute, putting on their own kind of fight too, addressing the education issues, which privatization is a huge one right now in Newark, in the public eye (www.youthyms.webs.com)....praise to all the students everywhere fighting their own battles and saying no to privatization....we have a right to public education