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Week 12: Speaking Truth to Power

This week, “Speaking Truth to Power” was really about individuals groups speaking up against government powers. These people had to find new ways to protest and resist in a time of great violence. We see that especially through the work of the Madres, who campaigned for their missing children that were taken during the militaryContinue reading “Week 12: Speaking Truth to Power”

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Music, Protests and Neoliberalism

Through this week’s reading and videos, it was very powerful to see how las madres de plaza de mayo used…

Posted in Blogs, Week 12 | Tagged with Amapá, Argentina, Brazil, Cálice, Cancíon Sin Miedo, Chico Buarque, dictatorship, femicide, Guatemala, Las Madres de Plaza de Mayo, Mexico, Music, neoliberalism, Protest, racism, Vidas Negras Importam

12. Speaking Truth to Power

12. Speaking Truth to Power

week 12 lecture (video)

Posted in Featured Articles and Videos, Lecture Videos, Week 12 Lecture | Tagged with Argentina, Bolivia, C20th, C21st, Caracazo, Chile, Mexico, Mothers of the Disappeared, Protest, resistance, technology, Venezuela

Week 13: The Common Thread

For this week I looked at two articles which were both featured on the Guardian news page. One article is explaining a common thread in the protests that have recently been occurring in countries within Latin America. The second article is discussing the anti abortion laws within Latin America. I chose to look at theseContinue reading “Week 13: The Common Thread”

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Speaking Truth to Power II

Speaking Truth to Power II

Video by Antonin Finch, Lauren Hart, and Danni Olusanya

Posted in Student Videos - 2017, Week 12 Videos | Tagged with politics, Protest

Week 12 – Speaking Truth to Power

When reading about the perils of Latin America, I sometimes sit back and think to myself, “how do we end this?” There are so many layers of trauma, corruption, and power imbalance that it seems an impossible struggle to fix. … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, Week 12 | Tagged with Argentina, Corruption, drugs, madres de la plaza, poverty, Protest, violence, War on Drugs, youth

Week 11 – The Terror

I was unfamiliar with the term “dirty war” before this week’s readings. But it does make sense that if there are vague terms, a lack of cohesion, and if the enemy is within your own nation, that the only way … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, Week 11 | Tagged with Che Guevara, communism, Dirty Wars, drugs, economy, idealism, Protest, violence, youth

WEEK 12: Speaking Truth to Power

At a time when Latin America found itself defenceless in the face of an abusing government, the people turned to the new media in the hopes of getting the attention of an international audience. The age of new technologies truly benefited the people of Latin America, for it enabled the Latin American citizens to not … Continue reading “WEEK 12: Speaking Truth to Power”

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Madres

Madres

Madres (video)

Posted in Week 12 | Tagged with Argentina, gender, Madres de Plaza de Mayo, Protest, social protest

Chile, la alegría ya viene

Chile, la alegría ya viene

Publicity for the “No” campaign in Chile’s 1988 Plebiscite (video)

Posted in Week 12, Week 12 Articles | Tagged with Chile, Protest, publicity, social protest

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