*The City Heights Free Skool and Subversive Action Films Present:* *Screening of The Chicago Conspiracy followed by a conversation with the director* Monday, May 10, 6:30 pm 4246 Wightman Street, SD * Directions/Map http://tinyurl.com/freeskoolmap cityheightsfreeskool@riseup.net Come hungry! We will be serving the famous burritos de jamaica con frijoles de la Casa Snowdrop. Donations for travel costs gladly accepted! The screening will be accompanied by a photo exhibition of social struggle in Chile. The Chicago Conspiracy is a documentary based in Chile that explores the legacy of the Pincohet dictatorship and the current political conflict. The Chicago Conspiracy is response to neoliberalism, militarism and authoritarianism. Check out the trailer! http://www.subversiveactionfilms.org/the-chicago-conspiracy/ * * * *The Chicago Conspiracy* is a documentary three years in the making. The project was filmed in Chile, and the story extends into the Mapuche indigenous lands of Wallmapu. The concept for the film was born with the death of a former military dictator. We celebrated in the streets of Santiago with thousands of people after hearing the news: General Augusto Pinochet was dead. His regime murdered thousands and tortured tens of thousands after the military coup on September 11, 1973. We celebrated both his death and the implication that the political and economic system which put him in power might itself be mortal. We began this documentary with the death of a dictator, but we continue with *the legacy of a dictatorship*. *[image: photo1]<http://www.subversiveactionfilms.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/photo1.jpg>The Chicago Conspiracy* takes its name from the approximately 25 Chilean economists who attended the University of Chicago and other prestigious universities beginning in the 1960s to study under the neoliberal economists Milton Friedman and Arnold Harberger. After embracing Friedman’s neoliberal ideas, these economists returned to assist Pinochet’s military regime in imposing free market policies. They privatized nearly every aspect of society, and Chile soon became a classic example of free market capitalism under the barrel of a gun. The military coup was a conspiracy initiated by the upper classes in Chile and assisted by their international counterparts. The military’s action and its support from the CIA was executed on the pretext that the president at the time, Salvador Allende, a reformist and supporter of the democratic state, was actually a militant Marxist revolutionary. They claimed his government included a secret *Plan Z* that would establish a system similar to communist Cuba. The military has never successfully proven the existence of this plan.
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
chicago conspiracy - documentary on chile at free skool this monday
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