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Let's talk about Chilean crisis
I'll start:
Today at my university we had an open meeting or cabildo. People at my table shared experiences of injustice and I also ended up learning a lot about history and the Chilean constitution. It's funny because at some point in the transition between Diktator Pinochet and the first so called democratic governments the entities of power completely eliminated citizenship education from school annihilating the probability of instances like the one I'm talking about. The girl sitting at my right told us that her granma recently died off the cancer disease, the old lady had to take a 2 hour bus for chemical threatment paying full ticket arround 4000 CLP meanwhile she recieved a miserable 90000 from her retire pension.
The objective of the meeting was to propose how we, as the university community, think we can respond to this crisis. Allmost all agreed that this kind of meetings had to be periodic, that the imperant economic model has turned us in a society of individualis, and that we had the job to develop new strategies of how the university operates, giving a more humane turn into what we teach our students and how we treat them. Being a Catholic university it had long lost the spark of humanism it should transmit to its community.
We also hold a minute of silence for all those victims who fell into the hands of torture and death. I prayed for the families can find consolation.
I hope everyone out there who is resisting tyranny to have sweet dreams.
Also Copkiller thread.
