[Xmca-l] Re: Reminding the Chilean 9/11

[Carol Macdonald <carolmacdon@gmail.com>]

Talking from South Africa, we have a slightly muddled view of the process
yesterday, first saying that Cheney was only giving an off the cuff
example, and then the same remark was credited as the first step in the
diplomatic process. Are both true? If so, then the US does not need to lose
face.

Carol


On 11 September 2013 16:50, mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com> wrote:

> Peg and David
>
> It is remarkable, I think, that the NY Times ran no feature story on 9/11
> in the US except for an op ed piece on the same day when the President went
> before the nation to argue
> for more military action against another police/murdering state and a
> magical series of
> international diplomatic arrangements put the brakes on the process of
> escalating violence
> so that he did not have to be rebuffed by his constituents. But Chile
> remembers.
>
> The older I get, the curiouser and curiouser the world seems.
> mike
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 6:36 AM, David Preiss <daviddpreiss@gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Thanks, Peg. Victor Jara was such a great composer and musician. What a
> > big lost for humankind was his murder by the military! We will never knew
> > what songs he would have made if he would have survived torture and
> > detention...  We lost them all... and with them the sounds of a time went
> > missing, a cultural ethos dissapeared for ever to be replaced by hate,
> > killings and the worst forms of sadism this country ever saw. And with
> him
> > so many others, vanished for ever. What a sad day today, here in Chile,
> 40
> > years later. Overwhelming is the weight of memory of a police/ murdering
> > state.
> >
> > David
> >
> > Enviado desde mi iPhone
> >
> > El 10-09-2013, a las 22:15, Peg Griffin <peg.griffin@att.net> escribió:
> >
> > > Thanks, David.
> > > Maybe people in the US could also think about adding their names to the
> > petition to extradite Pedro Barrientos from Florida to Chile so that he
> can
> > go on trial in the case of the killing of Victor Jara following the
> > September 11, 1973 coup d'etat.
> >
> http://org.salsalabs.com/o/727/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=14250
> > > PG
> > > From: David Preiss <daviddpreiss@gmail.com>
> > > To:
> > > Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 11:04 PM
> > > Subject: Reminding the Chilean 9/11
> > >
> > > Dear friends,
> > >
> > > As we commemorate tomorrow in Chile 40 years of Pinochet's coup d'etat,
> > I wanted to mark the occasion sharing the following links:
> > >
> > > http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB8/nsaebb8i.htm
> > > Chile and the United States: Declassified Documents Relating to the
> > Military Coup, September 11, 1973
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://especiales2.cooperativa.cl/2013/exposicion-fotografica-david-burnett/
> > > Pictures of American Photographer David Burnett
> > >
> > > http://www.fundacionsalvado
> > > rallende.cl/en/salvador-allende/linea-del-tiempo/#
> > > Salvador Allende Timeline
> > >
> > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxRlhggVGoQ
> > > La Batalla de Chile by Patricio Guzman (Long documentary in Spanish).
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://books.google.cl/books?id=vWs4wT5kv-0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=los+poetas+y+el+general&hl=es&sa=X&ei=978vUq2XBYGriAKnjoGoBQ&ved=0CEEQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=los%20poetas%20y%20el%20general&f=false
> > > Poetry about the dictatorship
> > >
> > > Take a minute or more than a minute to join us in reminding by clicking
> > on any of these links.
> > >
> > > David
> > >
> > >
> >
>



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Carol A  Macdonald Ph D (Edin)
Developmental psycholinguist
Academic, Researcher,  and Editor  *EditLab.net*
Honorary Research Fellow: Department of Linguistics, Unisa