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Tomorrow night! Don't miss this amazing presentation:
Presentation: Chilean Constitution Update
Friday January 29th: 7:30 pm
Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/97368462608
Meeting ID: 973 6846 2608
Presentation:
Chileans are currently preparing to elect a Constitutional Convention of 155
members, expected to be a mixed of independents and political party
representatives, that will write a new constitution from a blank page. The
Constitutional Convention will have gender parity and reserved seats for
representatives elected by indigenous nations.
The current constitution, imposed in 1980 during the military dictatorship led
by General Augusto Pinochet, and fostered during the last 30 years of civilian
governance, embedded a model of protected democracy coupled with a raw
neoliberal economic model. This has produced one of the most unequal societies
in the world, while wiping out 150 years of the Chilean social movement's
achievements.
This presentation is about how Chileans have arrived at this extraordinary
institutional moment in their history, paradoxically rooted in a deep mistrust
of traditional political parties and public institutions, and what the
majority of Chileans are hoping for in their new constitution.
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Lorena Jara Díaz
Lorena is a Chilean-Canadian who arrived in British Columbia in the late
1970s. She became an organizer with the Canadian-Chilean solidarity movement
for the defense of human rights in Chile, and later did the same for the El
Salvador solidarity movement.... In the early 1980s she joined the America Latina
al Dia (ALAD) Collective which produced ALAD, the ongoing radio program at
Vancouver Cooperative Radio, CFRO. She was an ALAD Collective's member for 13
years, working as a host and producer. She has contributed with public affairs
articles about Latin America to Kinesis, Aquelarre, The Republic of East
Vancouver, Contratpunto (online), among other alternative media. Lorena was
involved in cooperative housing as the leading organizer, from initiation to
finalization, of a project located in Vancouver's west side. She was a board
member of Headlines Theatre and the Vancouver Folk Music Festival. Lorena was
the Spanish-English transcriber, translator, and subtitles writer for Nettie
Wilde's A Place Called Chiapas and for Mark Akbar's and Jennifer Abbott's The
Corporation. While attending Simon Fraser University, Lorena became a co-chair
of her undergraduate and graduate programs' student associations. She was a
recipient of the SFU Open Scholarship and of the Roger W. Welch Award for
services to the SFU community. She has a double major in Communication and
Latin American Studies.
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