I can't find the English version on-line. After seeing Ariel Dorman on the Tom Dispatch site I got _Other September Many Americas_ and some of the writing as stayed with me for years (decades?).
> No puede ser que todo extranjero tenga que someterse a la infantilización y a la norteamericazión para ser respetado y recibido como un ser digno. No puede ser que la alternativa sea la exterminación.
http://letras.mysite.com/ador190521.html
#ArielDorfman #USA #ET #Hollywood #OtherSeptembers #ManyAmericas

NYJ, Retired NYC #realestate attorney, avaricious to a fault. #Bullwinkle #JayWard #BobClampett #TexAvery #BlueRibbonBrasserie #Raouls #Russ&Daughters #SaulBass #garysheyngart #EricAmbler #AndrewBergman #PeterBogdanovich #JimmyBreslin #AlejandroEscovedo #WesleyStace #JonathonCoe #DanChaon #DavidGoodis #SJPerelman #ArielDorfman #coffeecakejr #Bauhaus #CivicCenterSynagogue #TheClash #TheNewYorkDolls #NewPornographers #Badfinger #TheBeckies #MatthewSweet #KirstyMacColl #LeeHazlewood #Tokyo

Also, this!

"That is when millions of American men and women who have mobilized in unprecedented numbers over the last months will be faced with the real dilemma of their times: Are they to pack up and go home to the old apathy and submissiveness, or do they deeply understand that, no matter who wins or loses the election, it depends on them, one by one by one and all together, that their country never turn into even a semblance of the Chile of Pinochet?"

#ArielDorfman, 2004

@bsmall2 @clacke

> .. he launched into a critique of Babar, the French elephant whose adventures were chronicled for children by #JeanDeBrunhoff.. Ariel described vividly the way de #Brunhoff in his elegant, oversized picture books had tortured history into the shape of a colonial tale that fit well with the French imperial mission civilatrice. He was dazzling and convincing.. he .. responded as if this were the only conceivable answer.. “I read Babar to them.”
https://tomdispatch.com/ariel-dorfman-on-the-struggle-for-america-s-soul/
#ArielDorfman

> ... the extraordinary #tenderness with which it’s been composed and written. It speaks about the glaciers... about the air... about the children, over and over again the children. It speaks about the #caretakers at home. It speaks about the animals. It speaks about the dogs. It speaks about everything #vulnerable that needs to be taken care of.
#ArielDorfman on an attempt to pass a decent #Constitution in #Chile, beautiful #LetterToSantaClaus
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/9/6/chile_voters_reject_new_progressive_constitution
#WageCare