Teachers strike for General Law of Education
Chilean teachers went out to the streets, summoned for a National strike by the Teacher Union. In a ceremony, carried out in the Central Square from Santiago, the teachers protested against the promulgated General Law of Education, afterward they walked to the Department of Education where they left a letter of repudiation to the same [...]
Day of the Young Combatant @ U Chile
With cultural activities, students of the Universidad de Chile remembered all the young combatants killed by the state in the dictatorship and democracy. With the speech of Luisa Toledo (the mother of Eduardo and Rafael) and some hiphop the act was made without any problems… but at the end students of that university made a [...]
The protests of the young combatant day starts (protest)
2009.03.12 – It’s coming a new anniversary of the assassination of Rafael and Eduardo Vergara Toledo, and the masked youth go to the streets to confront with the number 1 killers of social activists. In the place they made graffitis and throw pamphlets to the air remembering the day of the combatant youth and asking [...]
The protests of the young combatant day starts (graffiti + pamphlets)
2009.03.12 – It’s coming a new anniversary of the assassination of Rafael and Eduardo Vergara Toledo, and the masked youth go to the streets to confront with the number 1 killers of social activists. In the place they made graffitis and throw pamphlets to the air remembering the day of the combatant youth and asking [...]
Give your hand to the disappeared detainees
The call for the rally was made by the Deisappeared detainess families and the subject was justice for them.
Stop Killing in Gaza
January 4th. One day after the land offensive of Israel against people in Gaza, in Santiago, hundreds of Palestinians and friends of them got together to protest against the massacre that sionism is doing in Palestine.
While most of the people went to the main act place in car from the Palestinian Center, in the East [...]
Somos un colectivo de fotografía política con el objetivo de contarle al mundo historias sobre represión, resistencia y lucha del pueblo Chileno en su camino para lograr justicia social.
OurWar is a photography collective who tells to the world stories about repression, resistance and struggle of chilean people in their way to make social justice.
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Our War In Motion
This is the first -i don’t know if there are going to be more than this one- experiment of OurWar with video. It’s all about photographs inserted into videos with some music, some text and some hearth. These are just experiments, so don’t expect high quality videos, but did i tell you they are in [...]
OurWar 2: New Design and some other stuff
As you can see, we have been working on this website: the results are a new design more focused in photography (oh yeah, is what we do). We are still working on this theme and some things can be broken… well not “some”, a lot, but its ok… no?
First Our War Book
Our War, (Class) War Photography is a book about the repression, resistance and struggle of people in Chile and the paths they take in the search for social justice. This work is created as a means to raise money for projects related to political photography. All photos included can also be found for free on the [...]
OurWar goes multilanguage
Well there is some news in Our War; first of all this site goes multilanguage, that means you can choose between english, castillian or french. This can be done because a change on the codebase and the help of very nice people. Also you can select RSS feeds in the language of your preference [...]