OCTOBER REVOLUTION: CHILE AWOKE

Yesterday I was talking with a friend about our emotions in the last two months, and both are agreeing that this have been weeks of multiple emotions. The first week I felt all so unreal, all the people in the streets, children’s, older adults, massive manifestation and all nights the cacerolazos.

I felt very distressed in those days, for me was so impact saw military in Plaza Maipu, because in the last years most of the protests were in downtown, but now the protests are in our territories. My dad has been living in Maipu 40 years and he told me that since dictatorship that he didn’t see protests in Maipu with barricades and brutal police repression.

About the organization in Maipu, we have many territorial assemblies of different neighbourhoods. Also, the organization of secondaries students and the feminist’s organization. Since the began of the revolt, all week’s Plaza Maipu is the principal scenery of manifestations. The repression has been awful, in fact, the 25° police station of Maipu have many complaints for different abuses of violence, principally against students of the schools.

From my point of view, the revolt exposed the inequality of our society, the existence of systematic violations of human rights, the incompetent of the politicians and the indolence and cruelty of the government. For this reason, in my opinion the revolt still alive, and although the “lives continues” (because most of the people work) this is not over. I think that we will not allow impunity again. The revolt is the scream of people that for many years stay in silence, people tired of this kind of life, without social rights, that for 30 years believing in promises that never come true.

Finally, I think that the phrase “It’s not 30 pesos, it’s 30 years” reflects very well the emotions of this revolution. In my opinion, the revolution will continue, and the political scenario will never be the same as before. This thought makes me feel hopeful that our future can be better, with more dignity and justice.