“Shock,” Ana Tijoux’s tribute to Chile’s burgeoning student protest movement. See also the video for “Sacar la Voz.”
I was actually going to use this in class today while we discussed Chile’s unique binominal electoral system.
The unique electoral system—which uses two-seat districts with an open-list PR formula—is a legacy of the Pinochet era. It was consciously designed to ensure that conservatives (about 1/3 of the electorate) could ensure nearly 50% of the seats.
Two decades after the transition to democracy, many Chileans (particularly younger ones with little or no memory of the Pinochet dictatorship) are demanding reforms to the Pinochet-imposed institutional framework.
BTW, you should check out Ana Tijoux’s autobiographical “1977”.
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thetwentyfirstnight reblogged this from pol102 and added:
I don’t know a lot about this (yet) but this is a really good song.
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