It’s Not $30.00 Pesos, It’s 30 Years
Where: The New School
66 W. 12th St.
212-229-5108 Price: Free
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On Oct. 18th, 2019, a radical social upheaval took Chileans and foreign observers by surprise. A minor subway fare hike of 30 pesos triggered a social revolution, one marked by massive protests, organized strikes, and widespread violence and vandalism. The months-long wave of unrest shook Latin America’s “most stable” democracy to its core.
In this talk, Prof Terri Gordon, Associate Professor at The New School and Eric Zolov, Associate Professor at Stony Brook University, will discuss and show the protest graphics and graffiti covering the walls of Santiago in Chile, as a way to understand the roots, social configurations and demands of Chile’s contemporary crisis. Their analysis traces the neoliberalism born in the Pinochet era and the struggles over memory and memorial sites that continue to this day.
66 W. 12th St.
Room A712, Orozco Room
New York, NY 10011
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