Description

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Chilean student leader Camila Vallejo was nominated as a Time magazine Person of the Year 2011. With the explosion of student protests for equal access to education, her voice became internationally recognized as representing the new wave of rebellion that spread from the Arab world to Europe, the United States, and Latin America in 2011. The New York Times compared the charismatic twenty-three-year-old to Comandante Marcos and Che Guevara. In this book of speeches and interviews, Camila argues "we are the 99 percent and we can change the world."

About the Author

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Camila Vallejo: Camila Vallejo was president of the University of Chile Student Federation (2010-11) and the main spokesperson of the Confederation of Chilean Students. She is only the second woman to have held these posts. She emerged as a prominent spokesperson for the mass student movement that mobilized thousands of people during 2011, demanding free and equitable access to education. Camila grew up in the town of Macul and La Florida, Santiago. Her two grandfathers were "disappeared" under the Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990). In 2011 she toured France, Belgium, Switzerland and Brazil.