As a measure to reject the Education Amendments Project that is advancing in the first committee of the Senate of the Republic, Colombian educators have united to reject the violation of their right to protest and even the possibility of privatizing the education, according to the leader of the Atlantic Educators Association, Alberto Ortíz, for whom There is also a serious impact on the provision of health services for the 300 thousand teachers in Colombia..
“We had to do it so that they were pinched and that a strong protest movement took place, taking back the streets as has always been achieved in the heat of the struggles.“, indicated the teacher.
“In the same way we demand, for equality, the restitution without odious exclusions of the allowance 14 granted only to the military forces; the reversal of Legislative Acts 01/01 and 04/07, to provide resources to the social, and the repeal of Decrees 1850 and 3020 of 2002, all of which persists today in the field of the immovable and the untouchable in the government,” Ortíz emphasized.
Demonstration in Barranquilla
For your part The more than 6,900 teachers members of the Association of Educators of Barranquilla (Adeba) and who work in the 154 official Educational Institutions of the District, join the Teaching Strike which extends until Thursday, June 20, the date on which the First Committee of the Senate will meet.
José Ignacio Jiménez, president of Adeba, adds that they do it to demand and defend public education since they cannot let a few congressmen make decisions that affect them, describing the Democratic Center and Cambio Radical as “enemies of the people.”
He reported that in the capital of the Atlantic Starting at 8:30 in the morning, they depart from the Central headquarters of the Universidad del Atlántico on Carrera 43 and Calle 51, from there they will go down to Paseo Bolívar on Carrera 44..
On Thursday, assemblies will be held in schools in Barranquilla and municipalities, while on Friday a meeting will be held with all union organizations. to define the delegations that will travel to Bogotá in the national takeover that will occur in the country’s capital.
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