Chile
Something beautiful is happening in Chile.
We need it to happen everywhere.
On September 4th, 32 years after the end of Pinochet’s ruthless dictatorship, the Republic will call on citizens to make a momentous choice: default to dictator Augusto Pinochet’s 1980 Constitution — written by a military government to set the country on a course of extreme neo-liberalization — or replace it with a new one drafted by a democratically elected Constitutional Convention of workers, peasants, and Indigenous representatives.
With political systems melting down around the world, Chile has shown the way toward the peaceful but radical renovation of its democracy, establishing universal basic services to health, education, and public pensions, endowing rights to nature and ensuring a habitable planet for all of its peoples in a new plurinational republic.
But reactionary forces are waging a well-funded campaign to slander, undermine, and de-legitimate the convention. The Wall Street Journal called the new constitution a “suicide mission.” The Economist decried it as “woke,” instructing Chileans to reject the constitution by printing it on a roll of toilet paper — a profound insult to the people of Chile, but no surprise from a publication that once described the Pinochet coup as a “rapid success.”
— David Adler, Progressive International
Send a letter to the editors of these business-as-usual dinosaurs to tell them how disgruntled we are. Flood their official social media accounts with rage.
Salvador Allende
Bibliography
Shock Doctrine: Naomi Klein
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