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VIVA CHILE

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mañana se vota y me da panico que lxs de derecha queden como constitucionales pq segun yo todxs van a votar x una lista *panic*

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Boost!

Hello there, I’m very sorry of posting this in fandom tags, but this info is not getting out of Chile and we NEED you all to know. 

TW: blood, violence.

There’s more posts about this in #Chile. There’s photos and videos. Please please look it up!

So, after 30 years of governments of different politic sides have done nothing but bully us with ridiculous laws, raises on everything but salaries and stupid excuses over important issues (over even more stuff). 

T13: “Whoever that wants to gift flowers this month, flowers have dropped a 3,7%” - The romantic advise of minister Larrain after last digits of IPC. --> [Everything else got really expensive, some people are getting in debt so they can eat everyday, because minimum wage is not enough]

CNN Chile: Minister of Economy and new Metro rate: “Whoever gets up early can be helped with a cheaper fare” --> [People already gets out of their houses at 6am to get back around 10 pm so they can actually provide for their family. You understand that under this circumstances, there’s no much family time]

Radio ADN: President of expert panel of Public Transport: When there’s a raise on bread or tomatoes, you don’t do a protest --> [On protest that started this week]

BioBio Chile: At an interview he indicated that some patients “People don’t go only to se a doctor, but is a social element, of social reunion” --> [On people who gets up 5 am to go to the public health care, only to see a doctor around 3 pm, if they get to that day]

This week people got to their limit after years of ridiculous measures and responses given by governments after the raise of the bus and Metro ticket (our subway). This raise means that people will have to choose between eating, buying their medicaments or transporting somewhere, most elders won’t be able to survive with this situation. 

Said manifestations consisted in evading the payment of the subway by school kids, and remained completely pacific until Wednesday, when they decided to put cops on the stations for “protection”. They started to apply violence on them, they beated them (like several of them beating 1 kid) and throw them down Metro stairs.

Kids avoiding, no one got hurt.

Metro decided to pass on stations where people was evading, so several persons of different ages did this to make the cars stop. That way people could get up and down in every station. Still no one was hurt.

After that, police got even more violent, Thursday they trowed tear gas inside one of the Metro cars with people who weren’t part of the movement inside, which included kids and elders who were only going to their houses. 

--> Subway video:

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On Friday, things were even worse in some points. Since Metro was destroyed  and stations burned (in reaaally weird circumstances tbh) people had to take only the bus, they were completely full, so most people had to walk hours to their homes. In this scenario, police trowed tear gas to the people that was waiting on bus stops and inside buses - that, again, were filled with people going to their homes -. 

Later that day they put up a montage where a fireproof ladder got burnt from the 11th floor up, in a place that was filled with police and had no way for protesters to get in, plus nothing else on the building got burned. The government used this to declare Emergency State on the city and, later on, a Curfew.

In order to you to understand the impact of all of this, the last time we had military on the streets and a Curfew due to a protest, was on the Dictatorship we had between 1973 and 1990 in the country. We are really scared, police and soldiers are being more violent than needed, there’s proof they are the ones who are burning and destroying things and breaking the law by using more power than they are granted. 

Please spread the word.

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People in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Chile are protesting because they have no food. The government, instead of immediately sending over help, decided to once again repress them with teargas and rubber pellets. If you have been following the Chilean protests since October 2019, you'd know the very same government is directly responsible for the mutilation of over 500 eyes from their own citizens.

This is happening today May 18 2020, I'll keep you posted

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My godmother was 11 when the coup happened: she recalls being in school in the centre of Santiago when suddenly she heard the roar of planes and a explosion so big the classroom windows cracked. The teacher looked grim and they were let out shortly after.

When she arrived home, her older brother was frantically going through all their books which had political propaganda in them, burning them as discretely as he could. "He looked like he was on the verge of a colapse, but smiled at me when he got home and asked me kindly to close all the curtains in the house".

She remembers the screams in the middle of the night- a couple of twins who were her neighbours and university students as well as their dad was taken. They never saw them again.

There are a lot of things she hasn't told me but I notice them anyway. She always hated September 19, when the military would stage a giant parade. She would stay home, with just a candle to accompany her, and I would stay at her side because I loved her and I didn't want her to be alone.

In October under the protests, she couldn't sleep- the army was out at all times and helicopters flew so low we were worried it would crash down the house. I stayed with her for a week - I would protest during the day and I'd come home with her looking pale and crying.

September 11 is a day of rememberance and pain. We will not forget what happened and we will fight for those of us who never came back.

Ni perdón ni olvido.

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Okay I'm done caring about gringos today so I'd like you all to know that Chile is pretty close to approving adoption for same-gender parents AND outlawing conversion therapy.

This shit is super important because like, our country is still mostly conservative and foster care fucking sucks, so it's a big deal!! The government is still trying to privilege a 'mother AND father role' so it's important to be loud about this shit before its voted on the senate

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WE FUCKING WOOOOOON YALL PINOCHET IS TRULLY DEAD RN