Chile In Turmoil

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Dispatch: Chilean Protests Challenge Governing Strategy

Sep 15, 2011

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Government rejects student demands.

Students react by calling for new, massive marches in all main cities on the 22nd and 29th of September!!!

17 September 2011

source:
http://www.universityworldnews.com/arti ... 6211924702

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The Chicago Conspiracy

This documentary addresses the legacy of the military dictatorship in Chile by sharing the story of combatant youth who were killed by the Pinochet regime as a backdrop to the history of the military dictatorship and current social conflict in the area. The larger story is wrapped around three shorter pieces, which explore the student movement, the history of neighborhoods that became centers of armed resistance against the dictatorship, and the indigenous Mapuche conflict. The filmmakers, militant film collective Subversive Action Films, question their relationship to the documentary, taking a position as combatants. [94 min.]

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180,000 ON THE STREETS!!
SEP. 22, 2011.







Source:
http://ilovechile.cl/2011/09/23/estimat ... iago/33018

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Camila Vallejo voted Chile’s Person of the Year

Student leader tops national poll that also declared education the defining theme of 2011.
Tuesday, 13 December 2011 17:40

Twenty-three-year-old student leader Camila Vallejo was named as Chile’s Person of the Year, topping President Sebastián Piñera, award-winning poet Nicanor Parra, soccer superstar Alexis Sanchéz and the popular Defense Minister Andrés Allamand in a national poll released on Tuesday.

The geography student has been the most prominent face of the Chile’s student movement. The movement, which has dominated news coverage in Chile for over seven months, has spurred demonstrations at a magnitude not seen since the country’s return to democracy in 1990.

Vallejo’s appearance at the top of the poll comes after her campaign for re-election as president of the Universidad de Chile failed last week.

Poll respondents were asked which of the five figures their families regarded as the most important person of 2011, with 35.3 percent opting for Vallejo, and 20.4 percent naming Chile’s head of state.

Parra and Sanchéz scored 14.8 and 14.7 percent respectively, Allamand 13.6, with the final 1.2 percent opting for none of the above.

The candidates for the position have been Chile’s most prominent newsmakers of 2011. In December, Parra received the Premio Cervantes, the Spanish-speaking world’s most prestigious prize for literature. In July, Sanchéz signed on to play for Barcelona, the world’s best soccer club, and in September, Allamand oversaw the search and rescue operation in the Juán Fernandez archipelago after the tragic plane crash that claimed 21 lives.

Just under half of all respondents (46.6%) voted for education as the defining issue of the year. Another 20.8 percent voted for the broader category of social movements, making it the third most important issue of the year according to respondents.

The demands of the student movement also received further popular endorsement in the poll, with 81.9 percent of respondents in favor of the call for an end to the for-profit educational system, 66.2 percent in favor of changing the municipally administered high schools to a federally administered model, and 60.3 percent supporting students’ demands for free, universal higher education.

Still, the student movement and other social movements have all suffered at least slight declines in support after peaking in the same poll in September.

Overall support for the student movement declined significantly, down from 67.8 to 55 percent. Support for the movement in opposition to HidroAysén dropped from 67.2 to 59.7 percent, and support for indigenous Mapuche activists dropped from 59.7 to 41.8 percent.

With 25.3 percent of the vote, delinquency was considered the second most important issue of the year. Forty percent felt that the current government has been less successful in handling delinquency than previous administrations, while 46 percent believed there has been no difference.

The economy was voted the most important issue of the year by 5.4 percent, with institutional reforms receiving 1.8 percent of votes.

The government’s extension of post-natal leave was considered by the majority of families to be the best news of the year.

The survey was jointly undertaken by Imaginacción Consultores, a privately owned polling company, Radio Coopertiva and Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María.

The study was conducted between Dec. 8 and 10, and was based on interviews with respondents at 1,217 randomly selected phone numbers. It has a margin of error of 2.9 percent and a 95 percent confidence rate. The full results are available here.

SOURCE: http://www.santiagotimes.cl/chile/educa ... f-the-year

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Chilean students end symbolic occupations after 6 months

Student ‘toma’s’ over in Chile’s most prestigious public university and high school.

Thursday, 22 December 2011 22:55

Students have voted to end occupations at two of the most symbolic institutes of Chile’s public education system, but have vowed to continue demonstrations after months of protests have failed to achieve significant reforms to the country’s highly privatized, class based education system.

In the early hours of Wednesday morning students began cleaning up the Casa Central (Central House) of the Universidad de Chile in the heart of downtown Santiago after nearly seven-month-long “toma” or takeover.

They took down the enormous banners that turned the historic building’s facade into an ever-changing mural, pulled off the hood of that covered the face of the statue of university founder Andrés Bello, and began removing the possessions of students who have maintained a constant presence on site for over half a year.

Their move was a significant one as the Casa Central had been the country’s focal point of the student movement, serving as a forum for ideas and discussion and a place where the student movement interacted with the general public. Street lectures and concerts were held in front of the building and radio programs broadcast from inside, including the popular “cultural barricade” show, which interviewed passers-by and gave them free books.

But all that came to an end when representatives of the Fech, the university’s student federation, officially relinquished the building to university authorities after students decided to end the “toma” and initiate new forms of protest.

“The leadership council of the Fech decided to end the occupation of the Casa Central and return it to the administration of the entire community,” said the new Fech president Gabriel Boric, “so that repairs, dating back to the [February 2010] earthquake, can be made.”

Fech representatives - including vice president Camila Vallejo, who was recently voted “person of the year” by readers of The Guardian - reached an agreement with university dean, Víctor Pérez. The building will now go through a period of repairs that have been pending since the devastating 8.8-magnitude earthquake of 2010.

Boric stressed that the hand-over of the building did not signal the end of Chile’s student movement, but was rather the beginning of a new phase of demonstrations.

“This doesn’t mean that the student movement is over,” said Boric. “There are still many issues pending. The demands that we have made as a student movement were not achieved this year. From here and into the future, the Casa Central will be open for different activities and to continue with demonstrations, but always open to the community.”

Meanwhile Chile’s most prestigious public high school, Instituto Nacional, also voted to end its occupation this week, which lasted 195 days.

“It was no longer an effective instrument of pressure,” said José Soto, president of the school’s student group.

After opening its doors to the public, the school was inspected by the Santiago Mayor Pablo Zalaquett and school principal Jorge Toro.

Toro, who described the school as “unpresentable” and accused the protesters of “having no love for the school,” told La Tercera that students who caused damages would be identified and have their enrollment “examined.”

Mayor Zalaquett said that he would not ask for money from the Education Ministry unless the whole school community agreed to undertake a public commitment to take care of the school.

The mayor said that he would review school admissions for 2012, saying, “I can’t open the school to admissions that will allow what happened this year to repeat itself, in the most emblematic public school in Chile, were young people and their families dream of studying.”

The school’s student group agreed to help pay for repairs, but president Soto denied that the ending of the “toma” was a blow for the student movement.

“If this is a defeat, it is a defeat for the whole country,” he said.

The end of occupations of the Instituto Nacional and the Casa Central of the Universidad de Chile comes as high school representatives announced that 70 schools around the country would remain in “toma” over the school holidays.

In the district of Instituto Nacional, Santiago Central, eight of 16 public high school remain in “toma.”

Meanwhile students are set to end the year’s demonstrations with a Christmas-themed protest in Plaza de Armas, Santiago, at 5 p.m. on Thursday, when students of the Universidad de Chile will hand “Santa Claus” a letter asking for a better education.

“The government is not listening,” read a Fech communique, “so we have to ask for our dream [of quality education] from Santa.”

SOURCE: http://www.santiagotimes.cl/chile/educa ... r-6-months

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Chile: students end protests, plan for 2012

Tue, 12/27/2011 - 07:54.

After eight months of mobilizations, strikes and campus occupations, on Dec. 22 Chilean university and secondary students held their last protest of the 2011 school year, a march through the streets of downtown Santiago. As in previous demonstrations, there were clashes with the carabineros militarized police, who said the students didn't have a permit for the protest; some 10 youths were arrested. With an estimated 1,000 to 4,000 participants, the final mobilization was tiny in comparison with the hundreds of thousands of students, teachers and supporters that had marched in the months before.

The protest came one day after students in Santiago ended their occupations of the University of Chile's main building and of the José Miguel Carrera National Institute, the country's oldest institution of public education. The occupation of the Darío Salas high school, also in Santiago, ended on Dec. 22, the day of the march.

With the mass protests winding down, commentators noted that the students had only won small concessions from the rightwing government of President Sebastián Piñera and had failed to achieve their main goal, the reversal of the privatization of the educational system that started under the 1973-1990 dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet. But as Santiago University professor and analyst Bernardo Navarrete told the Associated Press wire service, "the students succeeded this year in changing the agenda of a government of the right." The movement in fact produced the largest mobilizations since the restoration of democracy in 1990 and won wide support from the general population, as was shown when more than a million people voted in a grassroots plebiscite that students and teachers organized in October. The Chilean protests also invigorated student movements in Colombia and other parts of Latin America.

Chile's main student organizations will have new leaders in March when schools reopen after the summer break. Gabriel Boric has been elected president of the Federation of University of Chile Students (FECH), replacing Camila Vallejo Dowling, who will be vice president. Vallejo, a member of the Communist Youth of Chile (JJCC), became the best-known student leader in both local and international media; readers of the British daily The Guardian made her the paper's "person of the year" for 2011. The new president of the Federation of Catholic University Students (FEUC) is Noam Titelman, replacing Giorgio Jackson.

Student leaders insist that protests will continue next year in a new form. One of their goals is to expand the Chilean Student Confederation (CONFECH) in 2012 to include student groups from private universities and from secondary schools; student leaders have announced a conference for recreating the movement, to take place in February or March. At the Dec. 22 protest, new FECH president Boric said that next year the student movement will work together with other social movements around common demands. Boric is an independent. Although he denies that he is more radical than Vallejo, he emphasizes the importance of social movements acting outside the traditional political parties.

source: http://www.ww4report.com/node/10675

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Chile’s student protests claims second education minister; agriculture minister also resigns

SANTIAGO, Chile — Chile’s student protest movement claimed its second education minister on Thursday as Felipe Bulnes stepped down, citing personal reasons, and conservative President Sebastian Pinera named a replacement.

Chile’s government also confirmed that Agriculture Minister Jose Antonio Galilea was stepping down as well and would be replaced by National Agriculture Association chief Luis Mayol. Bulnes will be replaced by economist Harald Bayer.

The resignations come as a new poll shows that Pinera’s approval rating has plunged to 23 percent, partly due to a long and bitter strike by students for reforms to Chile’s education system. The rating was the lowest since democracy returned to Chile two decades ago.

The poll by the Center for Public Studies surveyed 1,559 people across Chile with a margin for error of 3 percentage points.

A poll by the same company a year ago showed Pinera with a 44 percent approval rating.

Bulnes, who said he is resigning for personal reasons, is the second education minister to step down since Pinera took office in March 2010. He took over from Joaquin Lavin in July, two months after protests began closing hundreds of schools and led to sometimes violent clashes with police.

Economy Minister Pablo Longueira, who announced the resignations, expressed regret and called Bulnes “one of the most brilliant figures I have known.”

As education minister, Bulnes failed to end the long protest by high school and university students. A negotiation process he initiated broke off shortly after it began when the government said it would not discuss free education for all students.

Students leaders appeared ready to give Bayer the benefit of the doubt, though they expressed concern that he is an academic without political experience.

Student leader Noam Titelman at Chile’s Catholic University said “what matters is not changing faces, but changing government policies.”

Chile’s university students returned to classes in late November, pressured by a government threat to cut funding to state universities, but protest leaders said they would continue demonstrations in the new year.

The student protests have succeeded in getting the government to increase scholarships and lower interest rates on student loans. But Pinera’s government has refused to consider the deep reforms, including the elimination of for-profit universities and free tuition, that protesters had demanded.

The appointment of Mayol as agriculture minister generated criticism from farm groups who said he represented agri-business interests.

Mayol’s appointment shows that “this is a government of businessmen for businessmen,” said Socialist Party President Osvaldo Andrade.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/ame ... story.html

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Camila Vallejo voted Chile’s Person of the Year

Student leader tops national poll that also declared education the defining theme of 2011.
Tuesday, 13 December 2011 17:40

Twenty-three-year-old student leader Camila Vallejo was named as Chile’s Person of the Year, topping President Sebastián Piñera, award-winning poet Nicanor Parra, soccer superstar Alexis Sanchéz and the popular Defense Minister Andrés Allamand in a national poll released on Tuesday.

The geography student has been the most prominent face of the Chile’s student movement. The movement, which has dominated news coverage in Chile for over seven months, has spurred demonstrations at a magnitude not seen since the country’s return to democracy in 1990.

Vallejo’s appearance at the top of the poll comes after her campaign for re-election as president of the Universidad de Chile failed last week.

Poll respondents were asked which of the five figures their families regarded as the most important person of 2011, with 35.3 percent opting for Vallejo, and 20.4 percent naming Chile’s head of state.

Parra and Sanchéz scored 14.8 and 14.7 percent respectively, Allamand 13.6, with the final 1.2 percent opting for none of the above.

The candidates for the position have been Chile’s most prominent newsmakers of 2011. In December, Parra received the Premio Cervantes, the Spanish-speaking world’s most prestigious prize for literature. In July, Sanchéz signed on to play for Barcelona, the world’s best soccer club, and in September, Allamand oversaw the search and rescue operation in the Juán Fernandez archipelago after the tragic plane crash that claimed 21 lives.

Just under half of all respondents (46.6%) voted for education as the defining issue of the year. Another 20.8 percent voted for the broader category of social movements, making it the third most important issue of the year according to respondents.

The demands of the student movement also received further popular endorsement in the poll, with 81.9 percent of respondents in favor of the call for an end to the for-profit educational system, 66.2 percent in favor of changing the municipally administered high schools to a federally administered model, and 60.3 percent supporting students’ demands for free, universal higher education.

Still, the student movement and other social movements have all suffered at least slight declines in support after peaking in the same poll in September.

Overall support for the student movement declined significantly, down from 67.8 to 55 percent. Support for the movement in opposition to HidroAysén dropped from 67.2 to 59.7 percent, and support for indigenous Mapuche activists dropped from 59.7 to 41.8 percent.

With 25.3 percent of the vote, delinquency was considered the second most important issue of the year. Forty percent felt that the current government has been less successful in handling delinquency than previous administrations, while 46 percent believed there has been no difference.

The economy was voted the most important issue of the year by 5.4 percent, with institutional reforms receiving 1.8 percent of votes.

The government’s extension of post-natal leave was considered by the majority of families to be the best news of the year.

The survey was jointly undertaken by Imaginacción Consultores, a privately owned polling company, Radio Coopertiva and Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María.

The study was conducted between Dec. 8 and 10, and was based on interviews with respondents at 1,217 randomly selected phone numbers. It has a margin of error of 2.9 percent and a 95 percent confidence rate. The full results are available here.

SOURCE: http://www.santiagotimes.cl/chile/educa ... f-the-year

But she couldn't even get re-elected as FECH President!

Now our favourite Communist Party rockstar must play second fiddle to an 'ultra'.

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Oh yeah, and Camilla's right hand man, Giorgio Jackson was the President of a scab union (President of student union of the Catholic University of Santiago until late November, 2011). Communist Party represent!

also this:

Corrió sola y salió Segunda

El movimiento estudiantil más allá del circo de la FECH.
Por Ariel Zúñiga Núñez.
*Ilustración gentileza de Roscoe Cybersuvbersivo
La prensa canalla hizo su trabajo, siguiendo el guión hasta en los más frívolos detalles.

Se trataba de mostrar que el movimiento estudiantil no existía que sólo habían líderes, esos tiranos de poca monta a los cuales ellos adjudican superpoderes como el liderazgo y la proactividad.

Nadie puede decir que la prensa nos tomó por sorpresa, todos sabemos como actúan y hasta podemos anticipar sus jugadas con meses de anterioridad. La pregunta que surge es porqué el partido comunista, todos sus intelectuales y técnicos, sabiendo esto dejaron que Camila Vallejo ocupara un lugar en los medios que jamás le perteneció en el estudiantado.
Para la prensa era sencillo, harían ver a Vallejo como el movimiento, luego buscarían su debilidad, la explotarían, y harían de eso no sólo una noticia de primera plana sino que además justificarían el fracaso mediático del movimiento. No dirían “Vallejo cayó” sino que “el movimiento colapsó”.

¿Porqué arriesgar tanto?

Pese a los augurios, y a los razonables cálculos, Vallejo sobrevivió a lo más difícil casi de milagro. La prensa trató de cambiar el guión a última hora y la improvisación les costó cara. Cien años sembrando anticomunismo no podía producir como cosecha el fruto transgénico de los “ultra”; los anarquistas estaban demasiado manoseados y se travistieron en unos ubicuos “encapuchados” que eran identificados por sus jeans y zapatillas pero podían ser desde hare krishna hasta carabineros en servicio.

Cuando llueve todo se moja y así también los papeluchos impresos, que hasta el pescado podrido rehuye, y que se hacen llamar con nombres rimbombantes como el “el matutino”, el “vespertino” o el “decano”.

Finalmente las cuentas acumuladas durante el año se cobraron, se dijeron grandes verdades con torpeza, en público, perdieron la oportunidad de boicotear efectivamente la teletón y la PSU. Hasta ahora dicen, a quienes quieren escucharlos, que el movimiento sigue intacto y que están en la CONFECH todos juntos, cual los Jaivas.

Pero el Pecé mezquinó las chauchas y vez que pagar oportunamente sus cuentas y dar el asunto por terminado apostó por embestir a sus detractores. Todo sería tan simple como ganar las elecciones de la FECH, re validar a Vallejo y luego ocupar las vacaciones para las purgas correspondientes.

Nada más fácil para el pecé, en este caso la jota, que ganar las elecciones en la FECH. Llevan años aprovechando al izquierdista de colegio particular que abunda en la casa de Bello quien vota con frenesí por los que según sus papis comen guaguas y violan monjas. Edipo es mi copiloto dijo la jota y ya que hay algunos pillines por ahí que nos acusan de no ser tan de izquierda como para dirigir la federación de una universidad que de pública sólo tiene la pose, le pondremos a la Vallejo, la misma que ha salido en tevé todo el año, y a los expertos electorales pecé y concertacionistas (recuerden que ya son poto y calzón) más todos los operadores por todos conocidos. No estaba la opción de perder.

Nuevamente el Pecé apostó todo, aunque esta vez creyeron que ganarían de seguro.

No contaban con que los pijes de la Chile, debido al intenso y sobrepolitizado año, ya se habían dado cuenta hace meses que había más izquierda a la izquierda al pecé, y que el pescado frito y el vino navegao habían pasado de moda. Lo políticamente correcto, lo edípicamente incorrecto, ya no era llamarse pro comunista sino que autónomo. La misma prensa canalla que el pecé creyó había abonado el camino para Vallejo lo había hecho para los “ultras” puesto que los pijes de la Chile no ven tele, porque son intelectuales per sé por el solo hecho de estar matriculados, y cuando la ven lo hacen de modo crítico, es decir, lo que la tevé muestra como bueno para ellos es malo y viceversa.

Vallejo que podría haber ganado cualquiera elección, hasta habría peleado la alcaldía de Vitacura, le fue imposible derrotar a aquellos que habían levantado un discurso en gran porcentaje anti pecé. El ultrismo provinciano, el sinfech, se impuso y los alumnos de la Chile se dieron cuenta que estaban cada vez más lejos de la acción, de la “vanguardia”, y apostaron en masa por las lumbreras de las asambleas, por los que hablan bonito y con base, por los más choros.

El pecé debería estar intacto ¿A quién mierda le interesa quien gane la fech? Sin embargo, como hace décadas que funcionan como una citroneta pasada de revoluciones este golpe ha sido devastador. No han moderado epítetos en contra de sus …”compañeros”, no los hace reír ni un sindicato de tonys, han dicho, era que no, que los “ultritos fech” ganaron gracias a la derecha ¿Le suena conocido?

A la maleta Vallejo le dijo a Boric que debería ser menos soberbio, por suerte que hace unos días le había jurado amor eterno o ya tendríamos titular para la prensa rosa.

Sin embargo, el “soberbio” Boric, el “irrespetuoso con la historia”, el que ha ofendido a los dirigentes de la CUT, el pecé y el colegio de profes, a todas luces se muestra en la prensa como alguien a la izquierda de Camila Vallejo lo que por sí mismo basta y sobra para vacilar a todos los giles del gobierno y la prensa canalla que veían en la derrota de Vallejo la muerte del enemigo. Y es más, el ultrito Boric amenaza con más y más mambo para el próximo año lo que deja como a los hueones más hueones en la faz de la tierra a los supuestos estudiantes de derecha que votaron por el mentado cabeza de pistola.

El juego de la prensa ha sido desmovilizar invisibilizando el movimiento, inventando a líderes como Vallejo y Jackson, jóvenes avejentados y ambiciosos, capaces de desmarcarse en la meta y seguir un camino propio. Jackson murió a tiempo, se retiró y quedó como chiche, pero a Vallejo se la obligó a volver al sitio del suceso y nunca la suerte favorece en el mismo sitio y de seguido al mismo tahúr.

El movimiento le pertenece a los movilizados y no a los dirigentes y voceros, sean del gusto o del disgusto de la prensa o de los comentaristas.

Boric ha escupido al cielo por tres o cuatro días seguidos y aún no lo veo cargando un paraguas. Ha culpado a los dirigentes, los políticos, de querer llevarse el movimiento para la casa y sin embargo ocupa su cargo como si fuera el representante de todos los alumnos de la universidad de Chile, y más, como si se le hubiese otorgado un mandato por los millones de chilenos movilizados. Se olvida que ni siquiera es el presidente de los alumnos de la universidad de Chile sino que apenas de la federación de los estudiantes, que las asambleas siguen siendo las soberanas.

Sistemático y dogmático como niño bien, dos meses de gira por Venezuela para saber “cómo avanza la revolución”, claridad absoluta sobre que los movimientos sociales deben primar pero inconsciencia hipócrita que eso se llama acarrear.
Sentando como en su casa le explicó a las misiás de tolerancia cero que el movimiento tenía para largo, que esto recién empieza, que el gobierno “debe aceptar nuestras propuestas”. Lo que me temía, pura retórica ultritra pero ninguna radicalidad propiamente tal. Si tenemos todo el tiempo del mundo entonces será más importante dedicarnos a las parlamentarias y las presidenciales, y de paso a las municipales para sacar a lasbbestias. “Todo el tiempo del mundo” y además suscribe la impostura de que son todos iguales como eventuales candidatos.

Eso me suena a ojalá que dure para siempre esta cuestión y así nos instituimos como los auténticos, plenipotenciarios y por derecho divino administradores permanentes del conflicto. Que bien que dure esto para siempre, en un tiempo más poco va importar que Piñera nos “acepte nuestras propuestas” pues entre él y nosotros no habrá mucha diferencia.

Radical habría sido levantarse sobre los votos que colectó en las urnas y decir que se le acabó el tiempo al gobierno, que les daríamos dos meses de vacaciones y que a la vuelta de las mismas sería saboteada cada actividad económica, que si no resolvían el conflicto de modo inmediato y sin letra chica el objetivo de la FECH sería el de derrocar al gobierno y refundar al Estado.

En fin, radical es decir y hacer, no sólo decir como Boric. Hasta ahora pura retórica y el cambio en la federación de los pijes no asumidos deja todo donde está aunque podamos reírnos a carcajadas por un buen rato de los jotosos que quemaron todas sus naves en una elección de mentira y perdieron.

Esa mala costumbre de los pecé de tomarse tan en serio todas las cosas insignificantes y ser ciegos de todo lo realmente importante prefiero que sea la causa de mi risa en vez que de mi llanto.

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"... A union led by Communist activists with whom you can negotiate is by far preferable to being subjected to the uncertainty of demonstrations sparked by anarchist factions."

lol

Tengo un amigo comunista
Eugenio Tironi

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Chile rising

Chilean students have taken over schools and city streets in the largest protests the country has seen in decades.

These actions are causing a political crisis for the country's billionaire President, Sebastian Piñera.

The students are demanding free education, and an end to the privatization of their schools and universities. The free-market based approach to education was implemented by the military dictator Augusto Pinochet in his last days in power.

As the demonstrations in Chile coincide with protests erupting globally, Fault Lines follows the Chilean student movement during their fight in a country that is among the most unequal in the world.

This episode of Fault Lines first aired on Al Jazeera English on January 2, 2012 at 2230 GMT.

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June 28th 2012 - 150,000 Protested
Summary Of Day Of Protest In Santiago

Ok I've decided to start translating stuff coming out of Chile and being posted in Spanish on Anarchist web pages and well here is my first... - The Black Nova

Yesterday, Thursday, the 28th of June in Santiago and several other cities of the country, one of many marches that have materialized by the students demanding tuition free education in Chile.

The vast majorities of the demonstrations that have taken place this year have not been authorized to go down Alameda; the main avenue of the capital, and instead had been directed to sectors of easy police repression and little trade.

During the protests, clashes with the police remained for nearly 4 hours, where much of the transit signaling was destroyed, “Transantiago” (privatized city buses) stops and stop signs. Also attacked Claro telephone branches, bank branches, and two pharmacies were looted.

We also attacked a police van that informed bastards of our moves, they were surprised by the people that pounced on them and were forced to flee with weapon in hand to protect themselves, and start toward the hill. In the meantime the car was destroyed.

Another similar attack took place on 18th st. right in the center of Santiago, when a Gendarmeria truck (a prison truck used to take away detained people), lost control and the machine crashed into a post. There the copilot of the machine fled quickly while the driver received a pair of sticks and blows with a stone before managing to escape. The truck, which was alone in the middle of the street, was attacked by large number of “encapuchadxs” (hooded ones), who were also were trying to open it, and trying to set fire to it. The water throwing truck arrived to rescue the Gendarmeria truck, it turns out that inside the Gendarmeria truck two "carabineros" (cops) were hidden inside.

After the march by Alameda, which ended with clashes with police, wounded police, damage to historical monuments, scratched, perimeter fences destroyed, trash containers, security modules, lamps, balloons of public lighting, water fountains and damage to the affected public-private property, the Municipality of Santiago reported the value of the damage in a cost of more than 122 million pesos. (US $246,688)

What was most affected was transit signaling; 146 of these were completely destroyed. In addition, 19 traffic lights were damaged and 13 stops of the Transantiago.

With the large number of people attending, made this one of the demonstrations with more police officers injured in the year. The press said that there were 36 wounded carabineros, among whom 3 are hospitalized because of the severity of their injuries.

Yesterday, of the thousands of people on the streets, there were a total of close to 472 detained, of which 28 passes to detention control, accused mainly of damage and aggression to “carabineros” (cops). The most serious case is that of Adrian Villa Cayuqueo, who after being taken into custody for possessing a molotov cocktail was charged with the attack that almost resulted in the burning of a “Gendarmeria truck" (a prison truck used to take away detained people) in the protest march. Adrian faced a hearing in which the disgusting “Gendarmeria institution” (Prison Institution) complained against him. Our brother will remain in custody for the 80 days the investigation period lasts.

























































This post originally appeared in Spanish here:
http://liberaciontotal.lahaine.org/?p=4353

[THEBLACKNOVA]

June 28th- $hile



Gabriel Boric the president of FECh (The University of Chile Student Federation), part of the student movement “Izquierda Autónoma” (Autonomous Left), or you might want to call him an “Ultra” or an Autonomous Marxist or an Autonomist, or Anarchist or whatever, here he is telling what the bourgeoisie media in Chile might call the “Encapuchados” (hooded ones), or "Anarchists", or the "Lumpen" as in Lumpenproletariat to:
DON’T FUCK SHIT UP! THIS IS A PEACEFULL PROTEST!

[butcher]

cheers blacknova,
and Boric has been saying that sorta shit for a few months now, pretty much since he got elected.

[THEBLACKNOVA]

MMMMMMM



Fuck i remember being at one of the Occupies and people talking about not wanting to turn the movement into a jump start for Obamas reelection campaign, i wonder if all these protests in chile with its two starts will turn into an election campaign for one of them? The next presidential election in Chile is november 2013.

HAHA GAbriel Boric is probably worried about all the attack adds aimed at his campaign with riot porn in it HAHA

[butcher]

MMMMMMM



Fuck i remember being at one of the Occupies and people talking about not wanting to turn the movement into a jump start for Obamas reelection campaign, i wonder if all these protests in chile with its two starts will turn into an election campaign for one of them? The next presidential election in Chile is november 2013.

HAHA GAbriel Boric is probably worried about all the attack adds aimed at his campaign with riot porn in it HAHA

In the case of Camila, she's been touring around with a PC candidate (forget what for, Santiago Mayor maybe?) I believe, as in she's not running in elections but the PC are using her fame to get people interested in their candidates. Didn't she do something for the yo soy 132 too? I doubt Boric is in a position to think about doing such things as running for president. Besides, that's still over a year away.

[THEBLACKNOVA]

In the case of Camila, she's been touring around with a PC candidate (forget what for, Santiago Mayor maybe?) I believe, as in she's not running in elections but the PC are using her fame to get people interested in their candidates. Didn't she do something for the yo soy 132 too? I doubt Boric is in a position to think about doing such things as running for president. Besides, that's still over a year away.

-Oh Camila your such a "party" womyn, and yes she went to Mexico and gave them a pep talk, kind of the same old same old left stuff...until victory..

-Mexico's marches are getting larger and larger and with no "encapuchados" fucking shit up the government will listen to them and give them what they want, cuz they have such nice well attended marches

-The election in Chile, education reform will probably be the number one demand and someone will promise it and win and then tell them well "i cant get enough votes here or there and well it's not going to happen!" now lets talk about the funny cat memes

-Oh this is i think what is still going on...

It’s been a while since I had a chance to catch up on what going on in Chile. So the students are still demanding free collage education and the President of Chile Sebastián Piñera is still saying no.

This last march was a permitted march.

The President of the University of Chile Student Federation (FECH) Gabriel Boric is saying to the less than 1% (1% of 150,000 = 1,500) that engage in street battles with the police and attack capitalist property to stop it…

FECH Vice President Camila Vallejo tweeted during the march, "Police provocations have already begun on Mc Iver [street name]…we have to keep advancing and not fall into their game."

source: http://www.thenation.com/blog/168676/ch ... on-reform#

After the closing ceremony, hooded black-clad anarchists called “encapuchados” started destroying streetlights, setting them on fire and throwing bottles and rocks at the police. But other than a few violent spurts, including the destruction of an unoccupied bus by the “encapuchados,” the march was lighthearted.

source: http://www.santiagotimes.cl/national/ed ... 0-to-march

I think that’s where we are at in Chile with student demanding free collage education for all and the man saying no.

[THEBLACKNOVA]

Luciano Pitronello “Tortuga” trial starts today!

On Friday, July 20, the trial our friend and lover "Tortuga" (Turtle) will begin. We do not want to miss this opportunity to stress that this trial only seeks to be a punishment, an example to those who come with strength and integrity to the fight against all forms of domination, and in particular financial, the main entities responsible for the misery and illness of thousands of people.

We do not consider ourselves as innocent victims of this rotten system, and we will not be classified in their disgusting justice system as guilty, or friend Diego Rivera said it “We are their enemies, and as such we will continue to stand on our feet, struggling to reach freedom.”
The Trail begins at 9:00am. In the center of (un)justice (Metro Rondizzoni).

We call to solidarity to meet, which will take place at 12:00 Hrs. Outside the center of (un)justice.
May solidarity be a weapon!
FREEDOM TO LUCIANO!
FREEDOM TO THE PRISONERS OF THE WORLD!



This info originally appeared in Spanish here: http://negratortuguitalakalle.noblogs.org/
and was translated by THEBLACKNOVA

[punkmar77]

There's a whole thread dedicated to him C