A Post 9/11 salute to fighters against terrorism
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(This would have been posted last week, but I was at work on the ferry and unable to get to a computer in time).
9/11 was the anniversary(the fortieth anniversary)of a brutal, senseless act of terrorism...the violent overthrow of the democratic socialist government of Chile(orchestrated with the help of U.S. mining corporations, the CIA, and the Nixon Administration)and its replacement with a vicious, "free market" military junta that deprived Chileans of all civil rights, stripped working people of all protections against exploitation, ended the efforts to save and revive the indigenous cultures of Chile, and started a process of retrenchment, sacrifice, immiseration and humiliation that terrorized the working people of the planet without interruption until very, very recently.
The people of Chile themselves suffered the worst of this misery until 1991, when the people of that country risked their lives to vote "no"
in what was supposed to be a rigged referendum) to the junta's demand that they agree to let the junta stay in power indefinitely.
After defeating their own terrorists, some Chileans then went on to join other victims of economic and social terror throughout the planet(including survivors of the 9/11 the corporate media WANTS you to remember)in a continuing fight to regain all that was lost in 1973 and to carry on the fight, through different methods and different structures, for what the supporters of the ousted Chilean government and others like them had struggled and died for...workers' rights, full employment, dignity for all, a survivable environment, and a world where no one is treated as expendable or useless...a world where all are valued.
There is more than one kind of terrorism, and more than one place that has been the victim of it. And the story of the first 9/11 is that, through unity, hope, hard work and struggle, true terrorism can be defeated, and defeated without a single shot being fired.
As the people who lived and died on the first 9/11 shouted(some as they were being killed) "El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido!(the people, united, shall never be defeated)" They were not defeated then...they are not defeated today.
Honor them by building the world we need.
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