One idea that stuck out to me during one of our discussions was the debate over which human rights violations should be memorialized/fought for more heavily. Gabe mentioned a professor of psychology, Albert Colaski, who spent five years in various prisons around Argentina, including La Perla. He became the Chair of Human Rights at the Faculty of Psychology at UNC and became controversial due to his ideas about human rights. He made the point that human rights violations occur every day – in the form of homelessness, unequal rights between men and women, etc. Fernando told me that Colaski trained police officers on human rights issues. People criticized him because they felt he was enabling the state  – who to many, is the enemy. However, as Fernando said, it is worth it to train police officers basic respect to the people they “serve.” It is better than nothing. While it is still incredibly important to memorialize past human rights violations like the military dictatorship and sites such as La Perla, I think it’s just as important to fight for ongoing and everyday human rights violations. In our conversation it was brought up that there was a debate between victims of the dictatorship and those who simply lived through it; there was disagreement on whether victims should dominate the conversations surrounding memorializing human rights. As I understand it, victims and those who strongly believed in justice for victims were upset at Colaski for his encouragement on focusing on more issues. I think this particular issue is important because many people don’t necessarily view issues like inequity or homelessness or women’s issues to be human rights violations. In reality, they definitely are. If we overlook these issues and focus entirely on the past, nothing will be done about people suffering in the present. I think there is a way to fight for both – memorializing the past and educating people in the present so that particular event never happens again, and also recognizing that there are current problems that need immediate attention. If we are willing to be compliant and overlook “smaller” things, where is the bar for what we won’t tolerate?