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Along with the struggle in the streets, we had to organize ourselves, to do something more. And we went around adding, one woman, another woman, and over there, quietly, another... We felt afraid, but we met just the same, in the parish, in a house. We talked. We offered ideas. We had to throw out the dictatorship. We began to control the fear. Then came permanent and clandestine meetings. The collective kitchens and the collective buying emerged. Some returned to the militancy of the political party, some had never left it. The organizations: commemorating March 8, MODEMU, CEDEMU, Mujeres de Luto, Mujeres por la Democracia, the Association of Relatives of the Victims of Repression, the Association of Relatives of the Political Prisoners, the Sebastian Acevedo Movement Against Torture, etcetera.
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Chovanec, D.M., González, H.M. (2009). A Participatory Research Approach to Exploring Social Movement Learning in the Chilean Women’s Movement. In: Kapoor, D., Jordan, S. (eds) Education, Participatory Action Research, and Social Change. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230100640_16
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