Does anyone have any knowledge of the student strike in Puerto Rico. I know they have two demands: Stop the privatization of the public universities and Restore the $100 million in cuts.

Hi suryan207,
try Workers World at www.workers.org They have a number of articles in their archives.

(After posting that site, i started thinking that if the right wing really does monitor this bb, they're going to love that one; so maybe the disclaimer should be added that i am not now nor have i ever been a member of the communist party. Oddly enough, though, the mass media isn't covering this. And just as an added nugget of an interesting bit of "trivia", i recently read that the ratio of Katie Couric's salary to the total operating expenses of NPR's 17 foreign bureaus is 3:2 (don't know if the general U.S. media considers Puerto Rican news foreign or not. Short of a cataclysm, i don't know if they consider it at all.) ).

A little closer to home, Frontline recently did a show called "College, Inc." about the growing for profit privitization and its multiple costs on higher education in the states. And the number of public schools k-12 closing this year throughout the country? - i do not know but if Ohio is anything to judge by, it is not insignificant.The latest reputable numbers I've seen estimate that over 300,000 public school employees (k-12) will have lost their jobs by the end of 2010. Without a doubt, the rate at which the public schools systems are being dismantled and privitized in this country has definately stepped up (which also means yet another planned union busting campaign succeeding).But at least for now it looks like the students in Puerto Rico are fighting and so far winning the good fight.

solidarity (within reason)