A rascal with a question

On 11th September 1973, Marxist and democratically elected president of Chile, Salvador Allende was overthrown in a US-backed coup.

Among the many policies which Allende’s government carried out were:

- Efforts to integrate the Indian minority into the educational system (including allocating 3,000 scholarships to Mapuche children) - Payment of pensions and grants - The construction of 120,000 residential buildings - All part-time workers were granted rights to social security - Withdrawing of a proposed electricity price increase - Restoration of diplomatic relations with Cuba - Amnesty to political prisoners - Fixing of bread prices - 55,000 volunteers were sent to the south of the country to teach writing and reading skills and provide medical attention to a sector of the population that had previously been ignored - Establishment of a central commission to oversee a tri-partite payment plan in which equal place was given to government, employees and employers - Wokrers were granted representational rights on the funding board of the Social Planning Ministry - Introduction of an obligatory minimum wage for workers of all ages including apprentices - Free milk was introduced for expectant and nursing mothers and for children between the ages of 7 and 14 - Free school meals - Rent reductions - The rescheduling of the Santiago subway so as to serve working-class neighbourhoods first - Increases in social security payments - An expanded public works program - A modification of the wage and salary adjustment mechanism to benefit workers - Programs distributed free food to the country’s neediest citizens - Establishment of peasant councils were established to mobilise agrarian workers and small proprietors - Increase in the minimum taxable income level - A campaign against illiteracy & expansion of adult education programs - 18 year-olds and illiterates granted the right to vote - State-sponsored cultural education initiatives & music festivals/tours including Chilean folklorists and nueva canción musicians - Establishment of the Women’s Secretariat to improve women’s rights, gender equality - Maternity leave extended from 6 to 12 weeks - “Democratisation” of university education, including abolishment of tuition fees - Co-operative laundries, communal food preparation, expansion of child-care facilities - The CUT (central labor confederation) was accorded legal recognition and its membership grew from 700,000 to almost 1 million - In enterprises in the Area of Social Ownership, an assembly of the workers elected half of the members of the management council for each company, these bodies replaced the former board of directors - The incomes of retirement pensioners were increased by the government from one-third of the minimum salary to the full amount - Labor insurance cover was extended to 200,000 market traders, 130,000 small shop proprietors, 30,000 small industrialists, small owners, transport workers, clergy, professional sportsmen, and artesans - Project Cybersyn to aid in the management of the economy

As a result of these policies:

use overdrive, libby, hoopla, cloudlibrary, and kanopy instead of amazon and audible.

use firefox instead of chrome or opera (both are made with chromium, which blocks functionality for ad-blockers. firefox isn't based on chromium).

use mega or proton drive instead of google drive.

get rid of bloatware

use libreoffice instead of microsoft office suite

use vetted sites on r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH for free movies, books, games, etc.

use trakt or letterboxd instead of imdb.

use storygraph instead of goodreads.

use darkpatterns to find mobile game with no ads or microtransactions

use ground news to read unbiased news and find blind spots in news stories.

use mediahuman or cobalt to download music, or support your favorite artists directly through bandcamp

make youtube bearable by using mtube, newpipe, or the unhook extension on chrome, firefox, or microsoft edge

use search for a cause or ecosia to support the environment instead of google

use thriftbooks to buy new or used books (they also have manga, textbooks, home goods, CDs, DVDs, and blurays)

use flashpoint to play archived online flash games

find books, movies, games, etc. on the internet archive! for starters, here's a bunch of David Attenborough documentaries and all of the Animorphs books

burn your music onto cds

use pdf24 (available online or as a desktop app) instead of adobe

use unroll.me to clean your email inboxes

use thunderbird, mailfence, countermail, edison mail, tuta, or proton mail instead of gmail

remove bloatware on windows PC, macOS, and iOS X

remove bloatware on samsung X

use pixelfed instead of instagram or meta

use NCH suite for free software like a file converter, image editor, video editors, pdf editor, etc.

feel free to add more alternatives, resources or advice in the reblogs or replies, and i'll add them to the main post <3