A meeting on a rainy Saturday with 4 people interested and little knowledge of the subject. Sinda called those who could.
- I can convince my friends, we wanted to release to the Commission Career of Production Eng. We are five in total - said the newly known LuzMaría Tosta.
Ok. Cool. 14 people were needed in order to run and we were 8. We read the rules, we studied the roles, positions. Just missing people. To my surprise
2 good friends, Laura and Nana joined this journey. I think it was more support than conviction, but that was hard. We moved here and there and we become 13. Well, then get the missing.
We met with the Student Center was exercising his functions at that time. First time I saw them the first time I went to "house" (headquarters of CEUSB) and first Once they were plotting a massive protest activity.
turns out that in those days the National Guard had invaded the Universidad de Los Andes (ULA), thus violating their autonomy. This is the case of Nixon Moreno, a student accused of raping a policeman. It was the first time the government attacked in front of college and needed the solidarity of all. The USB is going to do this in a "diversion" of traffic, forcing cars to enter the house of studies and a walk to exit. In this way, people would be placed at the entrance and listen to the message. Message of support for university autonomy. If you had happened in the ULA, who said he could not pass into the USB?.
This activity was very important. The USB was reacting to a political event and it was through his students. Remember that this is a hopeless 2006, the eve of a presidential election that has not yet outlined, and subsequent years of the "awakening" of civil society in 2002 and then turned to "sleep" when he lost the recall referendum in 2004 . The youth had never said "present" so clear in the demonstrations against the government, much less my university. The country could fall apart, the Simon was another world.
For us it was important to participate in the development of the organization, the previous CEUSB invited us to be present at the protest and engage in the context of representation. The diversion was successful, reviewed by some means (for the time out on a third page article was a great achievement media) and concluding with the words of Benjamin Scharifker rector.
The hour of the campaign. Had not yet defined the charges, the objectives and the 14th person. But we went, we were going.
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