Negro Matapacos (“Cop-Killer Blackie”) was a famous stray dog from thestreets of Santiago who joined student protests across the city from 2010, and in particular during the 2011 movement for free education.
he was a stray dog from the streets of Santiago, and began joining student demonstrations in 2010. The following year, one of the biggest social movements since the fall of the military dictatorship began, fighting for free education and against neoliberal reforms to the education system.
Negro Matapacos was then seen regularly at every demonstration, defying tear gas and water cannons and always barking at or attacking only the riot police, and never any students or rioters. He subsequently continued to appear sporadically at future demonstrations, and hung out on university campuses, becoming beloved to student and radical movements as a symbol of resistance to violent authority.
His last days were spent resting with people who took him in, with a crowdfunded veterinarian.
Some people who knew him sent us some of their memories of him, telling us how he defied tear gas and water cannons, and only ever barked at or attacked police officers, and never students or rioters.
After his death, his legacy lives on in songs, street murals, an award-winning documentary and in the memories of all those who knew him. He was a good boy.
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I’ve moved in with my boomer dad for a bit after my divorce. He’s retired now and mainly just watches TV all day. He watches The Waltons daily and I gotta say, it’s honestly not as bad as I figured it would be. It even has some vaguely class conscious themes at times…it makes me realize how far (further I should say) to the right this country has gone in the last 50 years or so, particularly in our media.
A lot of old timey stuff can be shockingly progressive until there’s a woman involved.
I haven’t watched it in depth, but they seem to treat the female characters with respect overall, especially compared to the slop on sitcoms in the 80s and 90s.
I even saw an episode with some pretty racially progressive stuff. I was kind of shocked honestly, shit has become so reactionary.
My mom’s watching The Waltons. There was another show she was watching from the '70s about some suburban family and the daughters of the house were talking about feminist consciousness raising and meditation and shit and the dad wasn’t even a massive prick about it.
The dad on the Waltons is honestly a good role model from what I’ve seen. Shit must have shifted massively to the right in the 80s.