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These national transformations prompted a range of activity within the sprawling urban shantytowns surrounding the capital of Santiago. Often under the protection of the Catholic Church and with the help of international aid organizations, shantytown dwellers launched grassroots organizations. These groups ran the gamut from human rights groups to housing committees to productive workshops. The shantytowns became important nexuses of opposition in the national protests from 1983 to 1986. Youths erected burning barricades and pelted tanks and soldiers with stones. Women banged their pots to call for an end to military rule...
Women gather to collect their famies' afternoon meals at the olla comun (literally translated "common pot") in the shantytown Villa Cobre. The ollas communes were among the grassroots organizations to emerge in the wake of the 1980 economic crisis. In an olla comun, shantytown women gather to cook a mid-day meal using their own and outside resources. Today over 200 ollas comunes continue to provide a daily meal for 20,000 shantytown dwellers...
Marina lives in a shantytown in Penalolen. Two of her sons were part of the underground opposition movement. They suffered torture and internal exile. She considers herself fortunate however. Thousands of other individuals who were considered Leftists, Communists, or dissidents were desparecidos ("disappeared" or vanished without a trace...
...shantytown of Lo Hermida repairs his roof at dusk. With scarce resources, the shantytown dwellers must use innovation to survive. Shantytown residents often steal electricity and water by tapping into the public power lines and water conduits. Many make their living hawking candy, pens and umbrellas on buses or street corners. Others scavenge cardboard and discarded metal at night...
Perhaps as they see the shantytown on their bi-weekly visits to the campus, the members of the Corporation will recognize their complicity in the injustice in South Africa. We are not confident that they will...The divestment activists have painted an accurate picture of the distance between the Corporation and the community of students, teachers, workers, and local residents who live here...