Writing evaluation

The last two months have been one of the harder times in my life. The revolt occurred in Chile was something I wanted a lot so when I realized that people were protesting for better living conditions, I got really happy but then when the government repression came, I couldn’t believe what was happening. The violence broke my heart. I was updating my social media every minute and I only saw people killed by the police, a lot of disappearances and people being shoot in their eyes by the police.  So my emotions were not stable I had a few anxiety crisis during the first week, I remember I cried a lot and I couldn’t sleep because an helicopter with a huge light was over my house during the curfew. I also felt very nervous because of my younger brother because he was knock down by two motorcycles of the police while he was shitting down the tear gas.

Despite this I tried to participate in every protest and assembly that was near to me. In my neighborhood it was born the “Asamblea territorial 18 de Octubre” where I have been participating. Every week we go to march around the neighborhood and it has been doing cultural interventions that include kids. This is something I consider beautiful because before the revolt I didn’t know my neighbors and now there are a sense of community that remind us that this is not over and we are still fighting against the injustice.

In regard how things will continue now I hope we don’t give up, maybe we still don’t get what we demand but I can see how people are organized and how we are more critic about the government and that is something repression can’t take from us. We must continue together although I have a lot of mistrust in politics because I consider even the left  it failed in  how to answer correctly, I think and believe that will be the people in the streets who are going to make the powerful yield.

ACADEMIC BIODATA

Lucía Jamett is a Chilean social worker from the University of Chile. She has a degree in Human Rights at the Federal University of Río de Janeiro. She also has a Master in Urbanism in the Oxford University and a Ph.D. degree in Gender Studies at the University of California where was student of Judith Butler. His academic publications are related to Public Policies, Human Rights and Climate Change. She has worked with settle movements as UKAMAU and MPL. She also taught the class of Epistemology and the class of Public Policies in the Department of Social Work at University of Chile and the class of Social Justice at Alberto Hurtado University. Currently, she is working in the Housing and Urbanism Ministry in the public policies development area. One of her main projects has been the improvement of accessibility to social housing. In parallel, she manages the ONG called Friends for the Planet focused in promotes awareness about climate change.  

Lucía Jamett has always been a huge fan of drama. In her spare time she read and does theatre. She has received an Oscar Prize for her role in the remake of Titanic.