Proposal for marking the 40th Anniversary(on 9/11)of the U.S. coup against Chile.

[Ken Burch]

2. Not a tv show-a series of activities.

The idea is, in part, to show people in THIS country what the coup helped take away from them-because that act helped working people start losing ground in the overall class struggle(and even though most U.S. workers were afraid to admit it, they only ever gained anything THROUGH organizing by class), and led directly to the rise of people like Reagan and Thatcher(and Clinton and both Bushes, as well as Blair)who fought against workers and were able to pretty much do everything they wanted to do TO workers during the last few decades in office.

My hope is to have this be a national event...with coordinated actions in every city and, if possible, in the working-class towns in the Northeast and upper Midwest(and the ones in the South that are beginning to lose ground themselves, despite the "free market" promises that deluded so many for so long.

Chile's 9/11 is where the long era of lost ground and crushed dreams began.