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Resiste!

Resiste! is a series a graphics related with the native people struggle in Chile and that we found over the internet today. It looks that is not a finished work, so maybe it will be a good idea to check out the work from delafuentegalvez
The series are licenced under a Creative Commons things, so you [...]

Mapuche protest in Downtown Santiago

Protest meeting was held last Friday, october twenty third down town Santiago, to denounce the repression held against the Mapuche communities in the south of the country.
During the last months of this year the official violence has been very hard towards the Mapuche communities who are asking for their ancestral land in the south of [...]

Meeting in Support to Mapuche people ends with strong repression from the Chilean State

While the murder of a mapuce activist in the IX región was a strong rumour in the air (confirmed by some media, but not by the government) different people who support the mapuche struggle hold a pacific meeting to protest against the police violence in the chilean south against our native people. The following statement [...]

O12 – 517 years since the invasion

This Monday, the 12th they are fulfilled 517 years from the arrival of the Spanish people to what today is known as America. In Santiago different natives organizations, in his majority Mapuche people, they marched for the Alameda, not to celebrate this date, but to remember the start-up of the Hispanic invasion and the beginning [...]

Action in solidarity with Mapuche people

This Thursday October 8th carry out a political meeting to the outskirts of the UMCE, ex pedagogic, in solidarity with the Mapuche cause and in repudiation to the repression that the Chilean State practices against this people.
A few days to fulfil  a new year from the arrival of Columbus to America, that for [...]

Meeting in support of Mireya Figueroa

This text was distributed today in the meeting for the freedom of Mireya Figueroa, who’s in a bad stated of health and with permantent police vigilance because her condition of mapuche political prisoner.
For who don’t know her, Mireya Figueroa is a mapuche fighter of the Tricauco comunity, in the Ercilla zone (IX Región). She was [...]

More riots to remember Jaime Mendoza Collío

Last Tuesday August 26, a group of students from the UMCE, made a meeting outside the University.
The reason was to show solidarity with mapuche people and to remember Jaime Mendoza Collío, assassinated by a police man in the chilean south when he was recovering the land that the chilean state stolen from their people.
After shutdown [...]

Mapuche Protest to Remember Jaime Mendoza Collío

Activists for the liberation of the mapuche people, got together in downtown Santiago to show their rejection to the assassination of Jaime Mendoza Collío. Special Forces of Police attacked the demo so the demo didn’t start. From that time, riots started in a lot of places of Santiago.

2nd Day of Protests @ Cordón Macul

The subversive and combative youth shutdown the traffic Grecia Av. in the Cordón Macul to remember Jaime and to say to the police officers: “fuck off” and stop the assassinations in Wallmapu (mapuche territory in this side of america). With molotovs cocktails and stones they confront police.

Llellipun and Candles for Jaime Mendoza Collío II

A last good bye was the main idea that gathered different mapuche and people in solidarity with their struggle. With a Llellipun and lighting candles in the Welen Hill they show their respect to Jaime and his struggle for liberation.

Llellipun and Candles for Jaime Mendoza Collío I

A last good bye was the main idea that gathered different mapuche and people in solidarity with their struggle. With a Llellipun and lighting candles in the Welen Hill they show their respect to Jaime  and his struggle for liberation.

Cordón Macul Remembers Jaime Mendoza Collío

24 years Jaime had when he was murdered by a police man on August 12ve 2009. Jaime was a member of the Requem Pillan Mapuche community, and he was involved in the occupation of the San Sebastián land. Patricio Jara Muñoz was the police guy that with his 9mm gun put the end of the [...]

Remembering Matías Catrileo, one year after his assassination

One year ago, Matías Catrileo -a student as a mapuche activist- was assassinated by chilean police in the south of chile when they were trying to occupy the ground of “Santa Margarita”, which is traditionally claimed as theirs, but now is owned by Jorge Luchsinger latifundary. You can read more info in Wikipedia.

Rally in Solidarity with Temucuicui Community

December 9th, Santiago. Around 200 people gathered to rally in solidarity with Temucuicui, a mapuche autonomous community, where their member are beeing arrested because absurd charges invented by the chilean state. Even Patricio Queipul Millanao, a 13 years old kid, was arrested and interrogated by civilian police
The main intention of the rally was to demand [...]

Action in Solidarity with Political Prisoners and the Mapuche Nation

28/11/08.- A group of people gathered outside the Metropolitan Cathedral to ask for the freedoms of all political prisoners in chile and outside the borders; one of them chain himself to the building.

This is the communique:
Today, November 28th of this year, from Santiago, Chile, the opresed people rise ups against a system imposed by violence [...]

October 12ve – Big demo in solidarity with Mapuche People

More than 5k people gathered to rally in support with native people in a new conmemoration of the spanish invasion.
More info please visit: hommodolars, redchem and santiago.indymedia.org.

October 12ve – Banners and Graffiti

More than 5k people gathered to rally in support with native people in a new conmemoration of the spanish invasion. This are some banners and graffiti made in the demo.

Riots near the October 12, the day of the invasion

While in the mapuche people is suffering the repression from the chilean state in the south, in Santiago the youth combatant took the streets again to confront the riot police, the same that have been harassing to woman and children just because they are mapuche, as an act of solidarity.

Demo in Solidarity with Temucuicui

Candles, 3 months after the assassination of Matías Katrileo

Repression @ mapuche rally: 106 days of hunger strike

Mapuche graffiti in Santiago

Meeting @ 103 days of hunger strike

100 days of hunger strike

Patricia Troncoso’s hunger strike became 100 days long. In different places of Santiago people light canddles to show their support to her struggle to get free.

New mapuche rally

Barricades at night

While the meeting was held, a few km away another group of people light up barricades in solidarity with mapuche political prisioners and to protest with the assassination of Matías

Another mapuche action for the mapuche political prisioners and because of the assassination of matías catrileo

Strong represion in a new action in solidarity with mapuche political prisioners

Police attacked a bunch of mapuche activists when they get near the house of government, arresting the activists, press and people who had the bad luck of been walking in the zone.

New demo in Solidarity with mapuche native people (II)

New demo in Solidarity with mapuche native people

A new demo against the assassionation of Matías Katrileo by the chilean state, in support of Patricia Troncoso who is making a hunger strike to support mapuche political prisioners for more than 85 days and for the desmilitarization of mapuche land.

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