mapuche
3 November 2009
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 [...]
26 October 2009
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 [...]
21 October 2009
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 [...]
19 October 2009
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 [...]
19 October 2009
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 [...]
24 September 2009
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 [...]
26 August 2009
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 [...]
15 August 2009
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.
15 August 2009
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.
14 August 2009
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.
14 August 2009
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.
13 August 2009
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 [...]
3 January 2009
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.
9 December 2008
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 [...]
29 November 2008
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 [...]
13 October 2008
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.
13 October 2008
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.
10 October 2008
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.
28 January 2008
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.
15 January 2008
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
11 January 2008
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.
10 January 2008
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.