Macarena Gómez-Barris, co-director of the Queer Theory working group, founder and director of the Global South Center, and chairperson of Social Science and Cultural Studies at the Pratt Institute, appeared twice on Democracy Now on October 28 to discuss the recent protests in Chile.

Over a million Chileans have taken to the streets to demonstrate against social inequality, the increasingly high cost of living, and continued privatization. The protests, which started October 19, are the largest in the country since the fall of its military dictatorship in 1990.

Watch the first video here, and the second here.