For the Hemispheric Institute’s 2016 Encuentro eXcéntrico, we collaborated with student activists in Santiago, Chile on the issue of student debt and the proposed educational reform. During two nights of urban intervention, we worked with students in the Confech, Deuda Educativa as well as technical institute students and anarchists, representing a broad spectrum of opinions on the complex situation. On the first night, we projected messages from the student movement, and then invited people to complete three sentences: “Student debt is…”, “There won’t be free education while…”, and “Education should be…” On the second night, we projected a video made by the Confech that explains the problems with the educational reform proposed by the government, and then invited passers by to add their voices to the discussion.
We believe that quality education is a right for all, and that educational debt is part of a larger system of neoliberal oppression, that together we will continue to fight.
