Abstract

In this poster, I would like to answer the following : What is the “No more AFP” (No más AFP) movement? For the last years, the movement has been struggling against the current pension system in Chile, based in the idea of individual capitalization, which was imposed by Pinochet’s dictatorship in 1981, stressing from the connection between the neoliberal model and the funds, to the low pensions given by the funds administrators, proposing a particular PAYGO model to solve this. After extensive fieldwork in Chile, I argue that the social movement is an articulation among 2 different ‘activist cultures’: (1) ‘classical trade-union, (2) ‘neo-civic’. Then, both activist cultures begin a cross- fertilization process. This articulation shows a good example of how two different worlds of activism can find things in common, build bridges, and finally make encounters in order to produce a social movement.