The CIDE student community went on a 24-hour strike this May 2 of 2023, responding to the call launched a few days ago against the so-called Science Law, which ended up being approved in a get up early in the Senate, on April 28 and 29.
The Law of Science or General Law on Humanities, Sciences, Technologies and Innovation it was approved in the Chambers (Deputies and Senate) without major anger, despite the protests of a group of academics who demanded an analysis of this AMLO initiative.
Strike at CIDE in protest against the Science Law
In broad strokes the The Science Law disappears the Conacyt and replaces it with another Councilconditions the scholarships to the budget and opens the field to the participation of the Armed Forces in decision-making, for example.
And well, here is academic and scientific community advocated the creation of a parliament and its forums to discuss this AMLO initiative with a magnifying glass, but had little success.
because in the end, the Science Law was voted in fast track —now in short— in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, where they approved it.
In response, this May 2 the CIDE community (Center for Economic Research and Teaching) went on a 24-hour strike, after the Social Participation and Criticism Collective will conduct a survey to see if they would join the call for a national strike.
A 24 hour strike
“On the one hand, it militarizes science, withdraws autonomy in the administration of scientific work in the country, violates the budget assigned to science and puts scientific freedom at stake. On the other hand, it has been promoted through an irregular and not very transparent process”.
Here is part of the statement published by the Collective for Social Participation and Criticism on May 1 about the strike against the Science Law.
The decision of the CIDE students is also in the context of the movements that have emerged in universities such as the UAM (where the students rose up against gender violence), the UNAM (which demands transparency in the resources of the Rectory) and the Ibero (whose students also demand transparency in the management of resources) and now, the protest against the Science Law, which is a nationwide responseabout a general problem.
