chicago conspiracy - documentary on chile at free skool this monday

*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
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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/
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*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.