From Nazi Germany to the Pinochet regime in Chile, global parallels with where this type of repression leads should set off alarms.
Chuck Idelson is the Communications Senior Strategist for National Nurses United, the nation's largest union and professional organization of registered nurses with 175,000 members.
Chile provides a case study. After the 1973 coup, led by August Pinochet with U.S. support against democratically elected Socialist President Salvador Allende,"the military seized control of campuses and swept out those they felt sympathized with Allende rule," as theActive-duty generals were appointed to run the universities and primary and secondary schools were placed under the rule of mayors appointed by Pinochet to promote full government control of classroom instruction.
The cuts and restrictions"sharply increased economic discrimination in higher education," said Allende's former education superintendent Iván Núñez, producing a privatized, corporatized school system that became more elitist. Implicit was the recognition that an egalitarian education system produces generations of young people who study the society they live in, think critically, and pose a major impediment to dictatorial rule.
On May 10, 1933, Nazi student groups carried out book burnings in 34 university towns across Germany.
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