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CHANTING CHILEANS march Lonsdale Avenue on yet another of their protests. Despite
falling public interest, the protests are important, an organizer maintains.

N. Van

pickets
said vital

EVERY SO often, on a schedule that is almost
predictable, two dozen people gather in the 1100

block of Lonsdale.

By MARK HAMILTON

They are Chilean im-
migrants and the target is
their country's consulate,
located in a second-storey
suite.

For an hour they pace the
block, brandishing picket
signs, handing out Icaflets
and chanting such slogans as:
Panockes, Pinocieet, How
many pxopic dif yaw kid
uoday?

Only a few pedestrians
show much interest in the
pamphiects pressed on them
and many reject’ them
brusquely.

“What good to they think
they’re doing here?"’ asks the
frustrated Norist who owns a
ground-floor shop. His en
trance ts all-but blocked by
the protesters.

What good indeed? The
cegularity of the protests has
left most indifferent to the

marchers and their message
Despite the tack of interest,
Oscar Gonzales, a leader of
B.C.’s Chilean community,
says the protests are vital
They keep Canadians
aware of the situation in
Chile — ‘‘even if it ts only
one at a time’? — and they
provide moral support tor
those still in Chile
There ts a hint, too, tn
what Gonzales says, that the
marches are as much to hetp
exiled Chileans retain tes
with home as anything
Born, raised and cducatcd
in Chile, Gonzales was with
the Monastry of Agriculture in
September, 1973, when presi
dent Satvadore Allende, a
Marxist, was murdered in a
bloody coup that put
Augusto Pinochet tin power
As part of the coup, a ship
load of residents of the port
of Valparasio were taken out

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