Thursday, September 11, 2003

The Other 9/11 QUOTE OF THE DAY Why are there women here dancing on their own? Why is there this sadness in their eyes? Why are the soldiers here Their faces fixed like stone? I can't see what it is that they despise. They're dancing with the missing. They're dancing with the dead. They dance with the invisible ones. Their anguish is unsaid. They're dancing with their fathers. They're dancing with their sons They're dancing with their husbands. They dance alone They dance alone It's the only form of protest they're allowed. I've seen their silent faces scream so loud. If they were to speak these words they'd go missing too Another woman on a torture table what else can they do One day we'll dance on their graves. One day we'll sing our freedom. One day we'll laugh in our joy. And we'll dance. Hey Mr. Pinochet! You've sown a bitter crop. It's foreign money that supports you. One day the money's going to stop. No wages for your torturers. No budget for your guns. Can you think of your own mother. Dancin' with her invisible son. Ellas danzan con los desaparecidos. Ellas danzan con los muertos. Ellas danzan con amores invisibles. Ellas danzan con silenciosa angustia. Danzan con sus pardres. Danzan con sus hijos. Danzan con sus esposos. Ellas danzan solas. Danzan solas. - - Sting  /  from his song, "THEY DANCE ALONE (CUECA SOLO)"     (Windows Media   Real One   Album) KNOW YOUR HISTORY - SEPTEMBER 11th 1973 -- The United States Central Intelligence Agency oversees the overthrow of the democratically elected government of Chile ending nearly 150 years of democratic rule. The socialist government of Salvador Allende falls to the U.S.-supported military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet [au-GOOS-toh PEE-no-shay]. Immediately, hundreds of people are killed or "disappeared". In coming years, thousands are "missing". 16 years of repressive military terror follow. 2001 -- Hijacked airliners crash into The World Trade Center in NYC & The Pentagon in WDC. Approximately 3000 people of all races & religious denominations die. America still awaits an honest investigation to determine why fighter jets were never scrambled to stop them, and how the "intelligence community" who were supposedly so behind the 8 ball as to allow this to happen, were also able to identify the alleged hijackers and know so much about them in such a short amount of time. RHINO HERE: A new book entitled, The Pinochet File has a good deal of previously unknown information about the overthrow of the democratically elected socialist government of Chile. For instance, newly released transcripts of conversations between then President Nixon & his handler Henry Kissinger explain that they so dreaded the possibility of a successful socialist country in the Western Hemisphere which could be looked upon by other third world countries as a role model, that they were willing to support a fascist dictator murderer instead. No big surprise to anyone paying attention back then since on September 19th, 1974, US intelligence sources revealed that striking Chilean labor unions, instrumental in destabilizing the Allende government, were secretly bankrolled by the CIA. What is new is the revelation that Salvadore Allende took his own life as the Presidential Palace was being stormed, rather than facing whatever the military coup leaders would have done to him. Rhino wants to know, "When will U.S. Foreign Policy reflect the American values which our soldiers have always been told they were fighting for; truth & justice?" The day the dream died The anniversary of Pinochet's coup offers a rare opportunity to see the documentary, "The Battle of Chile." The Guardian, 9/14/03 http://www.guardian.co.uk/chile/story/0,13755,1026910,00.html For More Info On The Doc & To Buy A Set Go To: http://www.frif.com/new98/boc.html Musicians Gather in Homage to Allende By LARRY ROHTER, ny times ANTIAGO, Chile, Sept. 7 - More than just a pair of concerts, it was also a kind of exorcism. To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the bloody coup that overthrew the leftist government of Salvador Allende, some of Latin America's best-known pop, folk and rock stars performed over the weekend at the National Stadium here, the site of some of the worst atrocities committed by the government of Gen. Augusto Pinochet.... In the days after the American-supported coup, about 10,000 people were rounded up and brought to the soccer stadium, which has a stunning view of the Andes as a backdrop. There they were beaten and tortured by soldiers, with some even being executed on the field with machine guns as the remaining detainees watched from the stands. Many prisoners were eventually released, but among those killed were two Americans: Charles Horman, a filmmaker and freelance writer, and Frank Teruggi, his friend and co-worker. Mr. Horman's tragedy inspired the hit 1982 Costa-Gavras film "Missing," starring Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek as the father and wife who battle the Chilean military's stonewalling and lies and the indifference of the American government. The stadium was declared a national monument this year, although it is still used for sports events and for concerts starring international pop stars with large followings, like Paul McCartney, Rod Stewart and Shakira. But as everyone present acknowledged, this was a very different kind of event.... http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/08/arts/music/08CHIL.html?th Were the lives of those killed at the World Trade Center more valuable than the innocents murdered in Chile's US-backed coup, asks Tito Tricot in today's RHINO'S BOTTOM LINE. Tricot is an independent journalist and a sociologist who directs academic programs in Chile for the School for International Training, the University Academy of Christian Humanism and the University of Art and Social Sciences. Arrested in 1973 at the beginning of Gen. Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship, he spent 18 months in concentration camps and prisons. In 1987, as he researched political violence and human-rights violations, he was arrested again. This time he was kept in prison for 14 months and tortured. The abuse fractured one of his vertebrae and put him in a prison hospital with a plaster cast from neck to waist. He knows of what he speaks. 7:46:18 AM    comment

RHINO'S BOTTOM LINE - Remembering September 11 1973 Remembering September 11 1973 by Tito Tricot, The Guardian, 9/16/2002 Our dreams were shattered one cloudy morning when the military overthrew the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende. Twenty-nine years later, at midday, Chile's's firemen sounded their sirens paying tribute to thousands of men and women who lost their lives without really understanding what was happening. It was a moment of remembrance, not for the victims of the military coup, but for those killed at the World Trade Centre in New York. Sad as that might have been, it is even sadder that Chilean firemen have never sounded their sirens to remember our own dead. And there are thousands of them, including many children, who were murdered by the military. It is not a matter of comparing sorrow and pain, but for the past year the US media has tried to convince us that north American lives are worth more than other people's lives. After all, we are from the third world, citizens of underdeveloped countries who deserve to be arrested, tortured and killed. How else are we interpret the fact that the military coup in our country was planned in the United States?... ... Neither the United States nor anybody has the right to steal our memory. No one has the right to steal our day, for September the 11 1973 is marked in our hearts with tears. DARE TO READ IT ALL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/chile/story/0,13755,1026912,00.html "RHINO'S BLOG" is the responsibility of Gary Rhine. (rhino@kifaru.com) Feedback, and requests to be added or deleted from the list are encouraged. SEARCH BLOG ARCHIVES / SURF RHINO'S LINKS, AT: http://www.rhinosblog.info RHINO'S OTHER WEB SITES: http://www.dreamcatchers.org (INDIGENOUS ASSISTANCE & INTERCULTURAL DIALOG) http://www.kifaru.com (NATIVE AMERICAN RELATIONS VIDEO DOCUMENTARIES) Articles are reprinted under Fair Use Doctrine of international copyright law. http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html All copyrights belong to original publisher. Tell a friend about Rhino's Blog 6:35:05 AM    comment

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