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Meredith
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Sometimes academic; always dreamer.
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Let's do this CT! Turn out for eduation and worker solidarity - and wear your red!

Will be there repping CSU-AAUP!! Look for our "Stand for Higher Ed" banner.

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April 29, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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A large part of the middle class rejoiced at the military coup, because to them it signaled a return to law and order, to the beauty of tradition, skirts for women and short hair for men, but they soon began to suffer from the impact of high prices and the lack of jobs. Their salaries were not sufficient to buy food. There was someone to mourn for in every family, and the middle class could no longer say, as they had in the beginning, that if he was imprisoned, dead, or exiled it was because he deserved it. Nor could they go on denying the use of torture.
February 1, 2025 at 6:18 PM
meredithnicole17.bsky.social
From Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits….she’s writing a “fictionalized” account of the 1973 (US backed) military coup in Chile. History repeats. Fiction tells truths. #booksky
The upper middle class and the economic right, who had favored the coup, were euphoric. At first they were a little shocked when they saw the consequences of their action; they had never lived in a dictatorship and did not know what it was like. They thought the loss of democratic freedoms would be temporary and that it was possible to go without individual or collective rights for a while so long as the regime respected the tenets of free enterprise. Nor did they put much stock in international condemnation, which lumped them in the same category as the other tyrannies of the region, because it seemed a small price to pay for the defeat of Marxism.
February 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
meredithnicole17.bsky.social
About to teach this one again. Often people think it’s about government censorship. But really it’s about what happens when people stop thinking and feeling and just believe in the empty noise of the spectacle. More relevant than ever….. #booksky
February 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM