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04-04-2011, 04:00 PM
Demands were made for the government to build 10,000 new classrooms, repair another 12,000 and appoint 58,000 public school teachers. The Coalition for Dignified Education held a successful concert with attendance of thousands at the Plaza de Espana on Sunday. Yellow Voices for Education attracted a mainly young audience that called on the government to fulfill Education Law 66-97, which obliges the government to allocate 4% of GDP for education.
Father Mario Serrano, speaking at the event, said the thousands that attended were sending a clear message that the Dominican people want, need and demand better education. The crowds remained despite the rains that fell.
Writing in today's Hoy newspaper, commentator Hamlet Hermann describes what he reads into the success of the concert, contrasting it with what he describes as "rampant illegalities" in the Fernandez administration. "Both the defenders of extreme illegality and the members of the yellow movement believe that they have the capacity to prevail. And from that collision course, the only thing that can emerge is dangerous historical circumstance," he writes.
He says only a real change in attitude of those who insist on violating the Constitution can resolve the clash. "It is not that the yellow mobilization will be the final battle, but all seems to indicate it could be the start of the end of a style of government that indulges in illegality seeking to eternalize their stay in power."
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Father Mario Serrano, speaking at the event, said the thousands that attended were sending a clear message that the Dominican people want, need and demand better education. The crowds remained despite the rains that fell.
Writing in today's Hoy newspaper, commentator Hamlet Hermann describes what he reads into the success of the concert, contrasting it with what he describes as "rampant illegalities" in the Fernandez administration. "Both the defenders of extreme illegality and the members of the yellow movement believe that they have the capacity to prevail. And from that collision course, the only thing that can emerge is dangerous historical circumstance," he writes.
He says only a real change in attitude of those who insist on violating the Constitution can resolve the clash. "It is not that the yellow mobilization will be the final battle, but all seems to indicate it could be the start of the end of a style of government that indulges in illegality seeking to eternalize their stay in power."
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#9)