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 the country, specially between Temuco and Temucuicui.

The increasing repression with a person killed by the police untilnow, has not finished yet. To all this we have to add new and violence breaking into communities to recover land (in the hands of forestall enterprises and landowners) the arrest of different Mapuche leaders who are trialed under the antiterrorist law which was created during the military dictatorship which many internationals human rights are against.

Against all this, many Mapuche organizations and friends protested down town Santiago for this strong repression. The traffic was stopped for some hours and riots with special police force ware held leaving teen persons arrested, two of them social communicators of a radio who were taken while working beside their equipment was broken.

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 until a few time around 6 years of clandestinity. Womand and moder of 48 years old, she is in the hospital because a breast cancer expanded until her column. This caused her sever bones problems.

Mireya got a false accusation of burning the Pidenco Farm in 2001, the same cause that keeps in jail to well known strugglers of our people like José Huenchunao, Patricia Troncoso, Jaime and Patricio Marileo, Juan Carlos Huenulao, and others. In the years that this fucked up process begin, that involved false proofs and witness without faces, against all the peope accused of burning the Miningo forestal farm, Mireya Figueroa declines the resolutions of the chilean justice, keeping herself in clandestinity. In thouse years she said “maybe they will arrest me, but i will fight for make that not happen. I’ll confront the justice, i’m not planning to avoid it, but i’ll only when the state can give me the warranty of the just process. Whithout witness without faces and paid”, she said that in 2004.

Today, she is in the Sala Amesti of Surgery of the Santiago’s Hospital, on drugs to keep herself a little away of the intense pain and always under the eye of gendarmerie, she keeps her message clear, always against the State and with the conviction of the fight of our people. The arrest of the lamgen Mireya increase the number of the mapuche political prisoners. With all the things that happened in the last weeks, it made public that the persecution to the mapuche nation haven’t stopped and will not stop while we keep our dreams of be free people and with the territory that always belong us.

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 the traffic with banners and garbage, riot police showed up throwing tear gas bombs and raiding the place, where they hurt a student in the head. That turn on the rage of the students who confronted police for hours. 10 people got arrested.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 life of Jaime.

One day later, the subversive youth, students and other solidarity people went out their study places to block the traffic, graffiti the walls and confront police to remember Jaime, Matías, Alex and all the many mapuche people killed by the chilean state. They demand the freedom for all political prisioners, they demand for the freedom to self determination of the mapuche people, they demand the stop of police assassinations now and forever.

These are some pics.

A new meeting in solidarity with the Feb 4 prisioners in Barcelona was hold outside the Spain Embassy. Police attacked the protesters with battons to silence them and arresting 3.

On the 4th of February, the police arbitrarily and violently arrested nine people in Barcelona, of which six were released pending charges and the other three are still being held on remand, one accused of assault against authority, and the other two of the attempted homocide of a policeman. All three that are still held are of South American origin. read more

After six months in prison, the three have been tortured and intimidated, and find themselves awaiting a trial corrupted through and through. this August 4th is the international day of solidarity with the prisoners of 4F, and this is what happened in Santiago.

Another actions: Barcelona, Guipuzkoa