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DESCRIPTION:10/22 SF Solidarity action with the people of 
 Chile!\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/1045086449164815/?active_tab=about\nPublic 
 · Hosted by Elizabeth Milos Rieloff\n\n\nToday at 12 PM \n\nConsulado 
 Chileno de San Francisco 870 Market Street San Francisco, Flood 
 Building\n\nPhoto by Oscar Navarro\n\nThe Chilean people have been living 
 under an economic system that was imposed upon them with blood during 17 
 years. A dictatorship which not only disappeared, killed, imprisoned, 
 tortured and exiled thousands of people, it instituted an economic 
 neoliberal model and an antidemocratic constitution that assured the 
 continuation of its power to the present day.  Over half of Chile earns 
 minimum wage, and a transportation hike literally means not eating. 
 Electricity went up, poverty pensions leave elderly without being able to 
 buy medicine, sacrifice zones leave children poisoned from toxic emissions 
 of unregulated industries and water....yes....WATER is privately owned too. 
 So youth, the eternal dreamers, those who feel the world in their bones 
 decided that enough was enough and started jumping the fare gates and 
 letting in the tired workers too.  Then came the police with their billy 
 clubs and tear gas...Then CHILE WOKE UP.  Pinera declared a State of 
 Emergency, and after 30 years of pseudo democracy, of deep inequality, of 
 corruption, he plans on keeping the privilege of ransacking the country by 
 sending the dogs of war, the military, out into the streets.  Throughout 
 Chile, the unions, the student organizations, teachers, healthcare workers, 
 business owners, musicians, actors, miners and port workers are calling for 
 Pinera´s resignation and to SEND THE MILITARY BACK INTO THEIR BARRACKS.  
 JOIN US! BRING POTS and PANS! BRING SIGNS!\n\nThe Port Workers Union calls 
 for a National Strike to confront the Social Crisis in Chile\nOctober 19, 
 2019\n\nThe port workers unions thoughout the whole country, at their 
 assemblies have decided to start a Total Work Stoppage starting Monday 
 October 21, 2019.\n\nThis is in response to the broad-based and deep social 
 discontent of the Chilean people who yesterday expressed themselves in the 
 streets of Santiago exercising their rights to rebel and protest. \n\nAll 
 of the governments from the dictatorship to the present day governments of 
 Chile have left the vast majority of the people subject to an economic 
 model that imposes a never-ending structural inequality with a high cost of 
 living yet low wages, lack of labor protections against employer abuse, 
 miserable pensions, very poor coverage and quality of healthcare and 
 medicine.\n\nChile needs to awake from its lethargy and if today Santiago 
 has awoken, all of the regions must join actively to confront the problems 
 facing our country.\n\nWe denounce the MILITARIZATION and the REPRESSION 
 against the students, workers, shantytown dwellers and pensioners. The 
 people have a right to defend themselves against the attacks. \n\nWe demand 
 that the State of Emergency be lifted and that those politicians whom are 
 responsible for the violence against the Chilean people be held 
 accountable. \n\nPort Workers of Chile\nNever again alone\nNot one step 
 back!\n\nOriginal in Spanish: \n\n*UNION PORTUARIA DE CHILE ANUNCIA PARO 
 NACIONAL ANTE CRISIS SOCIAL EN CHILE*\n19 de Octubre de 2019\n\nLos 
 sindicatos portuarios de todo el país, mediante sus asambleas, han 
 decidido comenzar una *PARALIZACIÓN TOTAL* de actividades a partir del 
 día *Lunes 21 de Octubre de 2019.*\n\nLas razones detrás de esta 
 movilización tienen relación con el amplio y profundo descontento social 
 del pueblo chileno que, el día de ayer, se reflejó en las calles de 
 Santiago a través del ejercicio del derecho a protesta y rebelión.\n\nEl 
 costo de la vida contrastado con los bajos salarios, a la vez que la 
 indefensión ante los abusos laborales, las miserables pensiones, 
 paupérrima calidad y cobertura de la salud y los medicamentos, así como 
 el sinfín de desigualdades estructurales a los que este modelo económico 
 y todos los gobiernos, desde la dictadura hasta acá, no han tenido 
 voluntad de resolver en favor de las grandes mayorías.\n\nChile debe 
 despertar de su letargo y si ayer comenzó Santiago, hoy las regiones deben 
 sumarse activamente para hacer presente los problemas de todo el 
 país.\n\n*Rechazamos la MILITARIZACIÓN y la REPRESIÓN* a los 
 estudiantes, trabajadores, pobladores y jubilados. El pueblo tiene derecho 
 a defenderse de estas agresiones.\n\nQue se levante el Estado de Emergencia 
 y se hagan valer las responsabilidades políticas de quienes resulten 
 responsables de la violencia contra el pueblo chileno.\n\nUNIÓN PORTUARIA 
 DE CHILE \nNUNCA MÁS SOLOS .\nNI UN PASO ATRÁS .\n\nWE'RE GOING FOR THE 
 GENERAL STRIKE\n"To paralyze all mining in Chile": Union No. 1 of Escondida 
 supports demonstrations throughout the country\n\n"A paralizar toda la 
 minería de Chile": Sindicato N°1 de Escondida apoya manifestaciones en 
 todo el 
 país\n\n\nhttp://www.laizquierdadiario.cl/A-paralizar-toda-la-mineria-de-Chile-Sindicato-No1-de-Escondida-apoya-manifestaciones-en-todo-el\n\nThrough 
 a statement released on Sunday, October 20, the workers of the largest 
 private mining company in the country called "paralyze miners and miners, 
 to paralyze all mining in Chile along with other productive 
 sectors."\nSunday October 20 | 21:28\n 17\n \nDuring this Sunday, October 
 20, the traditional media issued exclusively images of looting, 
 "vandalism", fires, among other situations, with the aim of strengthening 
 the criminalization line of the Piñera government, which seeks to divide 
 the mobilizations, generate fear in the population, and ignore the 
 underlying problems that cause the outbreak.\n\nYou may be interested: 
 Popular rebellion in Chile inherited from the dictatorship\n\nHowever, the 
 mobilizations continue to have enormous strength at the national level, 
 despite the fact that the Piñera government has decreed a State of 
 Emergency in different cities of the country. This is how sectors of 
 workers, through their organizations, have been expressing their full 
 solidarity with the struggle and, in addition, proposing proposals for 
 stoppage and general strike.\n\nIn this sense, through a statement released 
 on Sunday, October 20, the workers of the largest private mining company in 
 the country called "paralyze miners and miners, to paralyze all mining in 
 Chile along with other productive sectors."\n\nWe are going through the 
 general strike until the State of Emergency is broken down, the military is 
 taken from the streets, defeating the Piñera government and achieving each 
 of the demands of the working people, popular sectors, youth, pensioners 
 and women!\n\nThen we leave the full statement:\n\n"Partners and 
 colleagues. Today the country is going through difficult and critical 
 moments, there has been a legitimate and social explosion, an accumulation 
 of rage contained in outrages, inequalities, hopelessness and uncertainty 
 in the future. The workers are an integral part of this society and even 
 more we are the central axis that conforms to the working class, and in the 
 face of the serious events that have occurred, we cannot remain silent and 
 cannot remain motionless before our people who are fighting.\n\nThis anger 
 contained you know it well and live it every day, some to a greater extent, 
 but it is there alive, latent in each of our families, close friends. This 
 explosion of rage was not due to the increase in tickets of the subway 
 transport system, which was only the trigger for this cancer of injustices 
 that the workers live daily. It is important to see clearly how this 
 governmental and capitalist system oppresses us. Sometimes we are not able 
 to see it because we are accustomed to the political and business yoke and 
 disguise our obvious needs with family indebtedness.\n\nWe have an AFP 
 system that is a robbery; their money is used by banks and companies and 
 then you borrow it with high interests, the profits are received by the 
 AFPs and their owners, but the losses are assumed by the workers who, when 
 we are old, tired and sick, will receive pension miseries.\n\nThey know 
 perfectly well that health has a price and that who has no money dies. They 
 pay monthly important money figures in quotes and insurance, and even so 
 when they get sick they must pay. Look to the side, companions and 
 partners, break your individual bubble and clearly see how many of your 
 parents, children, brothers, nephews, uncles, grandparents and friends are 
 indebted for not being able to heal; how many have died in miserable 
 hospitals for not having how to pay to live.\n\nCompanions and classmates, 
 you think about what education or what legacy your children are leaving. 
 Their children and relatives study in a mediocre educational system that 
 prepares them to be cheap labor. You pay to educate your children, but the 
 children of the rich and powerful study in even better schools, 
 unattainable to their pockets, and even with the benefits granted by the 
 company. The children of the rich and powerful go to the best universities 
 in Chile, the same ones that our working and working fathers raised with 
 their effort and work and that today others take advantage of and the 
 children of the humble and workers.\n\nIn view of this harsh reality, what 
 will we do companions? We will close our eyes and turn a blind eye. How 
 many of our children are in these social manifestations and on the street, 
 how many of our parents are fighting, our wives and husbands, our nephews, 
 our brothers etc ... let's see clearly what is happening. Unfortunately, 
 you very well know the history and what it means that the armed forces are 
 on the street.\n\nWe will then become aware when they kill one of our 
 neighbors and there we will regret it and there we will understand the 
 importance \n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/10/22/18827518.php
SUMMARY:SF Emergency Solidarity action with the people of Chile!
LOCATION:Consulado Chileno de San Francisco 870 Market Street San Francisco, Flood 
 Building
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/10/22/18827518.php
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