CHILE SINCE THE COUP: COUNTERREVOLUTION, RESISTANCE AND THE PALESTINIAN CONNECTION

FILEF, Verso, Addi Rd and LASF invite you to a public forum with international panellists

CHILE SINCE THE COUP:  COUNTERREVOLUTION, RESISTANCE & THE PALESTINIAN CONNECTION

Fifty years on from the fascist coup of September 1973 we will debate the global effects of dictatorship and caged democracy, based on Chile1973-2023: Contrarrevolución y Resistencia (Verso, 2 volumes, 2024). We integrate diverse perspectives on the coup and neoliberal economy, soon globalised, and popular resistance. In parallel we address Palestinian Resistance to Zionist genocide, and international solidarity with it from Chile and beyond.

PANELISTS:

Nicola Hadwa Shahwan: “Aggression against Gaza: causes and consequences”.

Palestinian-Chilean, Nicola is an international analyst for various agencies including Telesur, Sputnik, Russia Today, HispanTV and Radio Portales, Chile. Nicola is also a member of the Chilean Committee for Solidarity with Palestine and the Latin American League for the Return to Palestine. As a professional football coach Nicola formerly coached the Palestinian national team.

Ximena de la Barra: “Chile and Palestine. Neocolonialism or genocide?”

Ximena is an architect, author and social activist. She participated in the Unidad Popular government led by Salvador Allende, in the first local government post- Franco in Madrid and in the New York local government. She taught at Columbia University in the US and was a high-level officer at the United Nations for 15 years,including Palestine.

Paula Sánchez: “Latin America's history of solidarity with Palestine”.

Paula is a former Chilean political prisoner and long-time activist in the resistance against the Pinochet dictatorship. She is an Acute Care nurse, Ph.D and academic at Western Sydney University. She is co-founder of the Latin American Social Forum (Sydney), a political activist in global solidarity movements and prominent commentator on Chile in several news outlets.

Robert Austin Henry (Ph.D, Latin American History) will moderate. His 150+
publications include 15 books. He has worked in Chile, Mexico, Cuba and Venezuelasince 1978, the Anti-Apartheid Movement (1970s), Chile Solidarity Committee (1979-1990) and been recognised by the Cuban government for lifetime solidarity (2018). He participates in the CLACSO Working Group “Palestine and Latin America”.

MUSIC:
PAPALOTE: Justo Diaz, Olympia Karanges , Hernán Flores and Janis Carter.
Since 1979 Papalote has promoted Latin American music and culture in Australia, contributing to building Australian multiculturalism in solidarity with social issuesfacing the peoples of Latin America.

FILM:
La Batalla de Chile: El golpe de estado by Patricio Guzman

Excerpts from the iconic documentary La Batalla de Chile (The Battle of Chile) by Patricio
Guzmán will be screened. This screenshot shows mobilised workers promoting the creation
of popular power to eliminate fascism during the Popular Unity government (1970-1973).

The event is FREE, but it is essential to register online at https://bit.ly/3XpIU2l for catering and seating purposes by 5pm, 24 September 2024.

Drinks available. FREE EMPANADAS ANTIFASCISTAS.