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As a saying goes, Utopia is like the horizon
and we could think, that Utopia is useless because we will never reach it and it will always be at the horizon
we approach it ten steps and it runs away fifteen. So what do we need it for?
Exactly for this purpose: to keep walking. To walk towards the horizon.
So even though I know it's Utopia, in the end it makes me walk.
Towards which direction are we going? And where do we want to go?
This is what Utopia is for.
Indeed, I do believe in revolution. But first of all I also believe in the revolution of oneself.
Revolution has to be part of every day.
What touches my heart is to get off the train and see kids asking for money
It touches me when I see people who need to sleep on the street and look for food in the trash
I'll never be happy if I cross the railroads behind my university and there is so much poverty and indigence
My dream is a collective dream.
A dream of a society in which one part doesn't have to suffer so that another one can live better.
I do wish for a revolution, so that tomorrow we can think about new things.
About a society that is more equal. I can't think about change just individually.
I don't have faith in revolution. Revolution is nothing that can happen from one moment to another.
I do believe that change is necessary, but a drastic and aprupt revolution is not going to change the conscience of the people
To really change the consciousness of our society I think we need a lot of time.
and I might not experience it in my lifetime.
but my hope is, that with the increase of environmental problems and social conflicts that become more visible
people will start thinking more about society and togetherness and stop being so individualistic.
A couple of years ago I was studying social work in Chile, but because of the current situation in our education system I
couldn't afford to continue with my career there. I was already studying for two years and actually would have been
finished by now.
And because of this I took a loan and decided to try my luck in Australia.
In Aunstralia I was working cleaning up offices, working as a dishwasher
and studying english at a really bad school.
As I was not making politics, not doing Hip Hop and doing the things I did not like, I decided to go to Argentina.
And I arrived here to the Universidad de Buenos Aires, a very politicized university
a university where the majority of the people is active in a political party
It was at this moment when in Chile started this movement of social uprise and protest.
At that moment some friends and me started this movement of Chileans in Buenos Aires
and started questioning why we are here.
At this point we took the name Exiliados de la Educacion - Education Exiles.
Exiled because we were forced to leave our country for economic reasons and come to Buenos Aires
We can't study in our country.
[Together the people will never be defeated]
This year Argentina faced an important impact regarding the influence of movements by students from other countries
just like the Assembly of the Exiliados de la Educacion from Chile and recently also from the Colombian exiled students
both caused by the problems they face in their homecountries education system.
Here in Argentina the process of movilization faced its preliminary peak last year.
Now it looks like a wave that keeps growing on a continental level
today we share our experiences, our actions
and especiallay show solidarity with this entire movement.
In addition, we are concerned how some of the governments of our neighbors, who proclaim to be progressive,
shape their educational system with the same market logic as the existing neoliberal policies
commodifying education, and taking it away from the realities and needs of the people.
Every student in Latinamerica has the right to public and free education
and every student has the duty to fight for this public and free education.
This university is free. And to make this possible, both the poor and the rich are paying taxes.
And because of this, the student who graduates needs to be aware, that in exchange for his free education
he needs to give something back to society, which society has givena him or her before.
I think that the university should educate us in a way, to be socially committed.
What we say is, that we the people need to be united and that the students plaay an important role in this.
In the possition we are it is necessary to start to be active
We have to fight because this creates change
because today we have a minority that lifes well at cost of a majority.
because today there is a minority living well at the cost of a majority that works every day
and that tries to make a living at a way being exploited the entire time.
Everbody who is born to and grows up in this capitalistic system, in this environment of competition and inequality
is educated in a way to necessarily compete with the person that is next to you.
we are educated this way.
You have to be good at your studies because this way you will be best at your job
So with this there is always a competition that one has to be better than another.
this is the first thing we need to overcome.
I think Argentina has shown a light at the end of the tunnel of the current crisis
because we experienced something similar ten years ago.
The youth which grew up during and after the crisis and which studies today
is compromised that this is never going to happen again
and the idea is not to fall back but go on.
For Europe to learn something from us, I think at first we need to reinforce what we once had before and what we lost
The respect for our soil, working in and for the community
A lot got lost
I think the basis for change and the basis to get stronger is to remember and reinforce what we had before
In Europe I see a change in awareness, the youth is participating more,
it does not accept the orthodox and conservative structural reforms anymore and starts to question them
which is really good.
I think in Europe this change is happening within the logic of capitalism
I think in Europe this change is happening within the logic of capitalism
And maybe Latin America with its history of being exploited by Europe and the United States for the last centuries
I think it could serve as an example of a different approach.
Social commitment is a key element. No politician will solve our problems magically.
They can only be solved together with everybody.
And our generation, the young people, are the main actor
We are the basis, the core, because we are the future and the motor all politics.
And until which point is it possible to keep once ideals,
to keep being active and realize once ideals
And detach from our current reality at the same time? I don't know.
Is there something you are scared of?
I don't know.
It's not an easy question.
I'm afraid to be wrong.
Maybe I'm afraid to take a decision which I can't support at some point in the future.
And I'm also afraid of contradicting myself.
But I also understand it, because as I explained you before, we live in this system and are educated this way.