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The Bar / Re: New Weird
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I can't believe mulberries make you gain so much weight
I am glad you had fun with your family.
Protests are legal here (of course, unless you begin throwing stones or something) but this government is particularly obsessed with free transit (as in nothing can stop you driving from one place to another), so if you cut the streets and stop the traffic, police will try to coerce you to move with more or less strength according to the situation. But in this case, it was really too many people, so the government OF THE CITY decided not even try to stop us and let us manifest in peace. It was a good day.
National universities are "free" here (meaning, we all paid for them with our taxes). I am pretty sure this government is trying to make them private or at least paid, but for now they did not said that. They just tried to give the universities the same budget that last year, even when our annual inflation is more than 100%. They also suggested that some workers will be fired. And they intend to do more controls that they are established by law. Basically, they were drowning the universities. Now, before the protest (when they suspected it would be massive) the government granted some money to the universities, but it was not enough, so we did the protest anyways. And it seems that it worked because it seems that more money will be coming soon. (They are also making a more or less covert campaing in social networks, trying to make people think that the lack of money is due to a poor administration by the universities authorities and because of the foreigners who study here. Xenophobia is always stalking).
I am glad you had fun with your family.
Protests are legal here (of course, unless you begin throwing stones or something) but this government is particularly obsessed with free transit (as in nothing can stop you driving from one place to another), so if you cut the streets and stop the traffic, police will try to coerce you to move with more or less strength according to the situation. But in this case, it was really too many people, so the government OF THE CITY decided not even try to stop us and let us manifest in peace. It was a good day.
National universities are "free" here (meaning, we all paid for them with our taxes). I am pretty sure this government is trying to make them private or at least paid, but for now they did not said that. They just tried to give the universities the same budget that last year, even when our annual inflation is more than 100%. They also suggested that some workers will be fired. And they intend to do more controls that they are established by law. Basically, they were drowning the universities. Now, before the protest (when they suspected it would be massive) the government granted some money to the universities, but it was not enough, so we did the protest anyways. And it seems that it worked because it seems that more money will be coming soon. (They are also making a more or less covert campaing in social networks, trying to make people think that the lack of money is due to a poor administration by the universities authorities and because of the foreigners who study here. Xenophobia is always stalking).