Thread by @CaroRackete

Today, I will be joining the #GlobalClimateStrike in Santiago de Chile with @FFFSantiago

Since many parents are rightly worried about the police violence, which has cost the lives of several people and left 200 blinded since September, they may not allow their kids to join.

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I will be staying in Santiago for the time of the climate conference #COP25 during which activist groups (who can't just easily travel to Madrid) will be organising as

1. Civil Society for Climate Action @SCAC_Chile and 2. People's Summit cumbredelospueblos2019.org/actividades/

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My reasons to travel to Chile:

Voices from the Global South need to be heard and highlighted, particularly because they can't attend in Madrid. (pic is a feminist march on 25th)

The movements in Chile want int. attention for their demands and on the political situation!

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Since for work reasons I was headed for Chile anyways for end of December to join scientific research expeditions to Antarctica (like 7 out of the last 8 years) I decided to go earlier.

(Yes, I flew here and I did 25.000 km only on ground transport in Europe since June). /4

There is no social justice without environmental justice! Water rights, land rights, rights for indigenous people!

#CumbreSocialClima #EmergenciaClimatica

If you want to get in touch to report you can email to [e-mail] which will go online shortly. /5

For those searching background information on the current protests in Chile, human rights violations and police killings read reports by @amnesty or @hrw

hrw.org/news/2019/10/2…

amnesty.org/en/latest/news…

(Murder government - we are watching you) /6

Here is the non-exhaustive list of people who died since October:

Daniela
Mateuz
Paula
Alicia
Renzo
Manuel
Andres
Joshua
Julian
Luis
Romario
Kevin
Jose
Eduardo
Manuel
Jose
(unidentified)
Alex
Mariana
Joel
Cardenio
Augustin
(2 unidentified)
Abel

es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestas… /7