Daniel Jadue is a former activist mayor of Recoleta, the immigrant district of Santiago, Chile. During his term, he implemented many radical municipalist reforms including setting up a people’s university, libraries, and pharmacies that sold medication at cost. Sadly, he’s the victim of a rightwing attack on his people’s pharmacies and has been incarcerated since June 2024. He is currently under house arrest.
The goals of this teach-in are to bring attention to the radical municipalist initiatives Jadue implemented in Recoleta during his term, to bring attention to his unjust detention and incarceration, and to rally the global municipalist movement behind his case for freedom.
Date: Saturday, October 19th 2024
Time: 4:00 to 6:00 PM PDT/6:00 to 8:00 PM CDT/7:00 – 9:00 PM EDT
Locations: The panel will be by Zoom with two viewing parties in Los Angeles and New York City.
RSVP for the online panel or viewing party at https://solidarityresearch.org/project/teach-in-on-daniel-jadue/
VIEWING PARTY LOCATIONS*:
Los Angeles, CA: Eastside Cafe, 5469 Huntington Dr N, Los Angeles, CA 90032
New York City, NY: The Word Is Change, 368 Tompkins Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11216
*Please bring your phone and headsets to listen to language interpretation at the viewing parties.
SPEAKERS:
RODRIGO HURTADO, Universidad Abierto de Recoleta
FARES JADUE, Former Director of Community Development in Recoleta
DAVID LEGGE, People’s Health Movement
LUCIA MORALE, Barcelona en Comu and Fearless Cities Network
TBA, Lawyer for Daniel Jadue
MUSICAL PERFORMER:
CARMEN LIENQUEO, Andean singer from Santiago, Chile
FACILITATORS:
GIANPAOLO BAIOCCHI, Urban Democracy Lab at New York University
ROMINA GREEN RIOJA, Washington and Lee University
INTERPRETATION:
PATRICIO GONZALEZ, Spanish interpreter
ERIN STUMPF, ASL interpreter
HOSTS:
Solidarity Research Center (SRC)
North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA)
Transnational Institute (TNI)
CONTACT:
Yvonne Yen Liu at yvonne@solidarityresearch.org or Heather Gies at hgies@nacla.org for more information.
BIOGRAPHIES:
GIANPAOLO BAIOCCHI is a professor of individualized studies and sociology and is the founding director of the Urban Democracy Lab, a center that currently works with more than a dozen housing rights organizations in the US and abroad on visioning plausible alternatives to market-based housing. A Brazilian-born and New York City-based engaged scholar, his work has helped inspire and support progressive policy and legislation in the US and abroad. Gianpaolo earned his PhD in sociology in 2001 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, specializing in critical theory, urban sociology, and political sociology. He is the author or co-author of seven books, two edited volumes, and more than fifty academic articles and book chapters. He regularly writes in public-facing outlets, and has published in outlets like the New York Times, Dissent, NACLA Report on the Americas, and Boston Review. His latest book, Housing is a Social Good (University of Chicago Press), with H. Jacob Carlson, explores how market-based thinking came to dominate housing debates in the US and how this trend can be reversed. Their work on the Social Housing Development Authority has been influential in advocacy circles. Gianpaolo is also one of the founders of the Participatory Budgeting Project and is recognized as a leading expert on implementations of participatory democracy and co-governance.
RODRIGO HURTADO is the Executive Director of the Universidad Abierto de Recoleta (People’s University of Recoleta), established by Daniel Jadue in 2018. Hurtado has over 20 years of experience in education. He started in the Technological Innovation Program of the Ministry of Economy, then continued in the Continuing Education Program at the University of Chile’s philosophy department, where he worked for 10 years in distance learning programs. Before arriving at UAR, he was part of the Bicentennial Project at the Juan Gomez Millas Campus.
FARES JADUE is a Chilean-Palestinian politician who was elected council person for the Recoleta commune in 2021 and assumed the position of the mayor when Daniel Jadue was incarcerated. He worked for eight years as the Director of Community Development (DIDECO) in Recoleta, where he developed the People’s Pharmacy as well as other projects including the People’s Bookstores. (Fares and Daniel share a surname but are not related.)
DAVID LEGGE originally trained as a physician but has worked mainly in health services and public health since the early 1980s, including program management, research and teaching. From the mid 1990s to the 2010s he taught health policy, health systems and public health at La Trobe University in Australia. He has a strong interest in the political economy of health and the comparative study of health systems, including an extended program of teaching and research in health policy and management in China. Since 1994 David has been active in the International People’s Health Council, which was one of the eight founding organisations of the People’s Health Movement in December 2000. He has been active in PHM since the first People’s Health Assembly in Savar in 2000, including participating in IPHU courses, WHO Watch (and the Tracker), Global Health Watch, the Trade and Health Circle and the Advisory Council.
CARMEN LIENQUEO is an Andean singer with a magnetic voice, a simple and profound lyrical work, capable of transporting listeners to the diverse landscapes of Latin America. She has worked for over 20 years in groups with folkloric roots and says her music is a natural response to the rhythmic patterns of the traditions of her territory, as well as the poetry and language of South America. In this same way, she traveled sharing her music throughout the continent. Carmen creates a new repertoire with lyrics impregnated with intimacy, reflecting a very personal perspective, they are an echo and reflection of the daily reality where it lives. Her first album “Canto Para Siempre” is a manifesto inspired by a mixture of mestizo, Mapuche, North Andean, and South American cultures from the present and to the future. “Canto Para Siempre” won the Pulsar Award for the Best Album in Música Raiz in 2021. She participated in the International Festival of World Music (WOMAD) and Lollapalooza in 2022 with Totó la Momposina. She released her second production “Los Poderes” in 2023 in collaboration with the Argentine producer and musician Guido Nisenson.
LUCIA MORALE is advisor to the Spanish Minister of Culture on gender equality and democratic memory. She is a lawyer and holds a Master’s degree in Gender Studies and Equality Policies and a Master’s degree in Criminalistics. She has worked in the Barcelona City Council in the areas of public security and feminism when Barcelona en comú won the mayoralty with Ada Colau. She has also worked in human rights organisations both in Spain and Argentina. She has been a member of the coordinator of Barcelona en comú and is currently a member of the board of trustees of the Sentit Comu Foundation.
ROMINA GREEN RIOJA is Assistant Professor in Latin American history at Washington and Lee University. She is a scholar of gender and race of modern Chile and Argentina. Her book manuscript To Govern is to Educate: Modeling Racial Education in Modern Chile (1879-1920) explores the relationship between state education, immigration policies, and settler-colonialism, demonstrating how those institutions and policies contributed to structural racism and the social marginalization of the Indigenous Mapuche. She also researches and writes about the feminist movement in Chile and Argentina.
ERIN STUMPF took a class in basic ASL in high school as an elective and fell in love with the language. She got a Bachelor’s degree in Athletic Training, but it just wasn’t the career for her. She graduated from the SWIC interpreter training program in 2004. She worked with DeafWay interpreting services from 2005 until it’s closing in 2022. She is the founder of the ASL Interpreter Collaborative.
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