Teachers strike

Hello there!


In these days, teachers from everywhere in Chile are on stoppage. They demand to state to pay off a lot of money that they must have received a lot time ago, but the people in government doesn't want to listen them.


Is so unfair! Thay must work a lot every day with really low salaries, and the state doesn't give them what owns them. Even when the authorities has been saying that the strike has just a little support, the teachers from the entire country is today demanding for their rights.


Is sad that a lot of students can't go to school because nobody is going to teach them, but that isn't a excuse for the blackmail that the mass-media are doing against teachers. Nothing of this will be happening if the authorities had keeped the agreement about the payments that they promised at the beggining of the year.


The half of the teachers are today supporting the strike, demanding the pay of the "historic doubt" that means between $300.000 and $450.000 for teacher. Is terrible that in no television channel or big paper the subject has been tackled seriously, wit a real discussion about the problem that affect to such an important sector in Chile. This should be the news about this in TV or newspapers, and not just blaming to teachers for their demands.


With a lot of angry because of this, I say goodbye...

My politic opinion

The last year, my girlfriend forced me to register to vote. She said that if I was angry with politicians, one way to say it was by voting. Not so convinced, we went to the polling station and I registered in Santiago.
I voted for the last major elections and I nulled. I don't feel represented at all by the actual way of doing politic in Chile. I think that nobody really works for the people... well, almost nobody, the ones that really do, are never ellected.

In this president campaign, the thing get even worse. Who can nearly believe anything to any one of them? I'm sorry, but this subject makes me angry. I think that is very dificult, and it isn't so good that the people choose to other persons to decide for them. May be when it's about some subjects, for not such a big thing like a country, but a district o something like that.

Now, assuming that this is the situation, I think that a president must be someone really committed with the people, making enormous changes to the actual reality, taking care of the biggest problems in our society.
How I said, I don't like very much the way of doing politic in Chile, I could never be a president, a senator, not even a major! I like more to work directly with the people, but not imposing what I want to them, but I helping to do what they think is better for them.

Anyway, like in this blog I must answered a lot of thing that I wouldn't answer in other situation, if I have to choose a ministry for mi, it would be the treasury department. I think that the state has a lot of money, but it isn't well expended, so I would distribute resources where are most need. That is directly connected wit the biggest problem in Chile: Public transport, education, health, poverty and discrimination. Clearly this aren't troubles that can be fixed out with money, but with an entire politic in each matter... but we know that money helps... it always helps.

A voluntary locked life

Portrait of Ben Gunn by a fellow prisoner.

A 14 years old, John Gunn, has a fight with a friend and kill him. He is condened to 10 years in a special prison made for youngs. Thirty years later, he is still in prison. Why?


John Gunn is the general secretary of the Association of prisoners, and he is fighting inside the prisoners with non-violent actions, against the abuse of power that the system make against them. He says that a 14 years old kid can not understand what means to kill someone. So, if that kid became an adult in prison, what kind of person leaves the jail and get into the society?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/oct/07/ben-gunn-blogging-prisoner-aop

My ideal job

I recognize that I haven't work too much in my life... Just a few things like waiter or giving private lessons of history. Althought there were good experiences, I prefer to work in something more interesting... or a relax job (or boath).

When I think about my career, I see me in some years doing researching and stuffs like that. I like the idea, but I'm sure I will get bored whith the years. I prefer independents jobs, where I can manage my time and resources. To know a lot of people and places, to know differents cultures where I can give some of my experience and the people can do the same with me. It's not a specific job, but I like a lot the idea of travelling for differents places, in Chile and other countris, specially around Latin America. I can do my job as a investigator there or anything else, it's not so important what I'm going to do as what I'm going to live and learn of the people.

So, my ideal job it's the one that let me do what I want more: to know different people and cultures. It can be anything, in my preference, as a sociology doing investigations and putting into practice good solutions to the differents troubles that comunities and the societies could have.

Maybe this, Maybe that...

It is strange to think about the future, it produces contradictions to me. Sometimes I get enthusiastic doing it, but others tunes I prefer not thinking very much about what is going to be of me in some mor years, for fear of compromising too much with certain projects and persons. Anyway, I have some ideas for the future that I will share with you.

My career lasts 5 years, and I am in the second one, so I expect already to be working at some interesting place. I would like to develop some independents projects, where I could have the money and the sufficient time to investigate areas where my vocational training will be useful. I don't know if I'm going to have a girlfriend, maybe the same than now, maybe another one... or maybe no one. If she is going to be the same than now, we will be thinking about marriage.

I would like to be living alone or with some friends, but not at my parent's home. Is just that I want to have the possibility of organice my life by my own, my times, my order, my things.

Finally, I also want to do a master or something like that in a better university, out of Chile, in Europe will be great, but I don't know when exactly it's going to be. As you see, there is a lot of "maybe" in my words, that's because I'm not clear enough about my future, these are some of my intentions, but nobody knows how is my destiny going to be.

The wall

In 1962, begginned one of the most controversial constructions in the human being history: The Berlin's Wall. This enormous line crossed all Berlin, separating Germany in two. The story is actually very known, but sometimes we don't think about the people who saw how their city was divided. In fact, one person did think about this: Henri Cartier-Bresson.

This french photographer catched the moment when two friends saw the image that we described some lines up. Can we even imagine how they felt?

The scene so spectacular as terrible was taken in Berlin in 1963, when the construction of the wall that was transforming into ghetto oriental Berlin had just began.

I think that, though the protagonists are of backs to the camera, the image says many things, they come many emotions and feelings to the mind when an image so impactante settles in front of our eyes...

The very best of the olds: Max Weber

In 1864, in the city of Erfurt borned one of the most important sociologists for the German discipline: Max Weber.

He studied in three different Universities: Heidelberg, Strasbourg and Berlin and already in 1895 obtained his doctoral thesis in laws. He dictated the chair of economic right and worked for the German government where he realized the research "The situation of the rural workers to the east of the Elba". Nevertheless, his ambitions were enormous, and he proposed to write one of the most important works for the nascent social thought: "The Protestant ethics and the spirit of the capitalism" (1903).

A great problem had Weber: his health. He was depressive and very weak physically. He suffered a sudden death in 1920 without finishing the books "Economy and Society" and "Economic general history".

I chose Weber, because of the classic sociologists (he more Durkheim and Marx) is the one that advanced more in the sociological thought, he did studies of different type and separated of the classic trends that up to this moment the discipline had taken. A lot of his works are considered up to today and, one century later still it has not been overcome in topics as the power or the domination.