Santiago, December 4th. At dusk in the JG Millas campus at cordón macul, the subversive youth shuted down the traffic of Grecia Av to fight another battle in the struggle for the freedom of political prisoners kidnapped by the state in different prisons of chile and the world.

With molotov cocktails as the improvised stones as weapons, they repelled the pòlice attack with the result of no detentions.

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Nov 22, Santiago. Since noon, different people got together at Villa Francia to show their solidarity with those kidnapped by the State in an activity framed in the Week of internacional agitation for the political prisoners. In that place a big wall was painted, other folks made an exhibition with the actual situation of the prisoners and a photography exhibition about the repression that the Mapuche people is living in the south of the country. Also a phone contact was made with Freddy Fuentevilla and Marcelo Villarroel and some music bands presented their shows to accompany the afternoon. Of course, a common pot was held as usual in this place.

It also were distributed some zines and other impress material about the comrades kidnapped, including the Escofina bulletin whose presentation we transcribre here.

Taking as excuse the International Solidarityc call with the political prisoners, we decided to write a few lines that take into account the current repressive moment that we are engaged.

From some time to this part, the State-Capital and its repressive forces (Carabineros, PDI, ANI) have intensified the onslaught against different sectors of our class that are, in many ways, fighting against this social order. The enforcement of laws that doesn’t allows us to demo, the bale against Mapuche children, the persecution of the revolutionary collective and individual (especially anarchists), implementation of the antiterrorism law, the implementation of crude police setups, militarization of Wallmapu, the criminalization of social struggles, repressive technology investments, increasing the police budget and powers, the current approach of the intelligence apparatus with the FBI, are some examples of the State strategy to stop any hint of criticism of bourgeois system and its consequence in the daily life.

The prison, the more ruthless apparatus of social coontrol of the ruling class. In it are contained all of those who dare to break their legality, both “social” and “political”. What it’s clear, is that the rich almost never go to stop there, as those who live in this death camps are, in their grat majority, who are directly suffering the miserable living conditions caused by this system to all the humanity.

Right now there are dozens of comrades, Mapuche, revolutionaries and internationalists, who are relegated to the penitentiary confinement and isolation, but who support the high penalties with dignity and keep the struggle against power inside the prison. Many comrades have been convicted, or are facing a legal process, without proofs that says they are the “authors” of the actions attributed to them, wich accounts for the persecution of certain ideas and practices that undermine the foundations of this society based on the exploitation of one class by another.

Our most fervent greeting to those who organize and fight for transform this reality and our big hug to those who are kidnapped for their struggle for freedom.

Down with all the prisons of capitalism!
Freedom for all political prisoners!

A panphlet said:

Inside and Outside the Prison: Revolt and Jailbreak

“It’s time to act, in the daily basis with our related, for the destruction of the prison society and any social attemp to reform this disgusting system of death. The solidarity never should be an empty slogan, but a daily action of confrontation with power and unfalling support to our brothers kidnapped in this war to the death”. Mauricio Morales.

Axel Osorio, Marcelo Dotte, Esteban Huiniguir (Cárcel de Alta Seguridad)
Matías Castro, Pablo Carvajal, Cristián Cancino (Santiago 1)
Flora Pavez (Centro de Orientación Femenina)
Cristián Otero Pérez (Cárcel de Temuco)
Prisioneros Políticos Mapuche

Prisoners in the Social War:
¡¡A LA KALLE!!

Revolutionary Solidarity with those kidnapped from the State-Capital in the Rest of The World

It’s time to strengthen bonds of solidarity with our comrades in prison, in this territory and the resto of the world. Understanding that the fight against power is a life decision, it is urgent that every gesture of attack aims the destruction of the prisons and the society that keeps them.

¡¡Freedom now for Marco Camenisch (Switzerland), Gabriel Pombo da Silva (Germany), Amadeu Casellas (Spain), Freddy Fuentevilla y Marcelo Villarroel (Argentina), Yiannis Dimitrakes, Christos Stratigopoulus y Alfredo María Bonano (Greece), Ted Kaczynski y Mumia Abu-Jamal (USA) and all other prisoners in the Social War!!

To all our Peñis and Lamgen from Wall Mapu (All our mapuche land). To Mapuche media, independent media and chilean media.

To people from the chilean government and international community,

We declare:

1. (KIÑE) Today, Friday November 13rd, we gathered to show our rage and pain when we remember 1 more year of the coward and brutal assasination of our WEICHAFE ALEX LEMUN SAAVEDRA, mapuche kid of 17 years old, who died because of Antonio Treur, active police officer and loyal servant to the wished of land owners. In memory of our all waichafes that have been murdered in the past and today.

2. (EPU) We reject the actions of the chilean state, their moves to kill us and their tries to break us as a Mapuche Nation, using strategies like justice setups, anti-mapuche laws (Antiterrorista law), raids, psychological fear and violence against our children in our communities, their mega projects and organizations with the intention to split us (CONADI) and others, the militar state of OUR LAND that carries the consecuense only the blood of Mapuche people. That makes the chilean state and it’s president MURDERES AND ACCOMPLICES of all this facts.

3. (KVLA) We make the call to every Peñi, Lamgen to rise up as a mapuche country, the return of all our land right now, our right to self determination, freedom to all our weichafes (warriors) kidnapped in different prisons of the chilean state. To keep walking with out authorities: lonkos, ñelpin, machis, werken, etc. who are the only ones that we listen and respect.

4. (MELI) Last thing, we are mapuche, we are people from the land and no bad government!!

Neither they repressive and genocide politics can change our beautiful blood our mapuche name.

The lands will stay our, and we to them. And nobody in the whole world can put that in doubt even for a minute. We will defend it, because it’s our mother, and we will defend it in any way at any cost.

The warn the chilean state, chilean churchs, chilean politicians, police and militars….

THAT WE, THE MAPUCHE NATION, WILL NEVER STOP OF BEEN AWAKE, WE WILL NEVER BE EXTERMINATED AND THAT THEIR MOUTHS WILL NEVER SAY “THE MAPUCHE NATION IS DEAD”.

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 can download, print, distribute and modify the works without fear of the author getting mad.

Check out the flickr set with links to full big copies of the images

ps. Yeah, s/he used one of our pictures.

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.

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 was distributed in the place.

Statement to the Police Violence in Temucuicui

1. We condemn the pression made by the concertacionist government, alied with the right wing and the land owners. It’s unacceptable the irracionality that the police and their special forces group act against our brothers, shooting children, chokin them with their gases, hiting Mapuche authorities and arresting Mapuche leaders. The last raid from the last Friday on Oct. 16 is a reflection of the brutality used by the government to answer the demands from the Mapuche Nation.

2. We condemn the arbitrary arrest of our brothers from the Autonomous Community of Temucuicui, trying to vinculate without proof to the fires on trucks and the assault on tolls, in a set up of the racist chilean justice.

3. We denounce the hostil actitude from the Interior Ministery, made public by Patricio Rosende, who said that the State can call the antiterrorist law as a pression method to stop the mapuche movement. The use of this law created by Pinochet, infringes all rights of the accused people, it violates the due process and it multiplies the punishment by 3, even is there are not proofs.

4. The political responsability of the horrible abuses that we’ve seen is straight from the Concertación Government and the Right Wing, because they hold the politics of constant militarization of Mapuche territory. They are who turned the communities and cities of the south in a real État de siège, where Michelle Bachelet and her agents, the intelectual authors of these aberrants acts that affects not only children, but also the youth and indefense old people. They are the minds behind the criminalization of our demands.

5. We nade a call of atention to the international bodies who have the mission to protect the fundamental rights of the people, ie UNICEF in the case of children, to take part of our denounces of the serious abuses against our Mapuche children. They have enough antedecents to make an efective denounce. The Mapuche organizations reached them several times. They silence is making them accomplices of the racism of the Chilen State.

6. We reaffirm that the Mapuche Nation have the right for struggle to recover and reconstruct the historical territory, taken by the State and the rich people from this country. The represive actions of the Concertación and the Right Wing obbeys to the rejection of our political and territorial rights, to the rejection for autonomy and selfdetermination.

Organización Mapuche MELI WIXAN MAPU, 20 de octubre 2009.

Even if it was a pacific meeting, police decided to shut it down… arresting 5 people and using the water canon.

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In front of the political persecution and the criminal offense of the social fight of the “organized action and subversive collective” (CAOS) is totally against any kind of imprisonment widthoud any Prof., and whit a high political cause of Matias Castro and Pablo Carvajal, the same as against every form to the disarticulation of the popular and repressive fight of the same.

We will go on fighting in spite of deads people the imprision and violence and the continuous suffering defending the people with all our actions and with all our strengths.

No more repression in the fighting spaces.

Inmediate freedom for Matias Castro and Pablo Carvajal.

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 of a process of usurpation of their lands and of running over against their people.

First were the Spanish people whom with a sword and a cross in each hand tried to impose the dominion to the Mapuche people,, already they had achieved to subjugate the Incas and to exterminate almost all the Diaguitas. But the Mapuche people resisted the invasion, losing in territories and lifes.
Then would came the conformation of the Chilean State, who took charge decimating again the Mapuche people, isolating them in small redoubts in the south of the new country called Chile. Almost they are fulfilled 200 years from the independence of Chile from the Spanish Crown and the Mapuche people continue in the shadow fighting for their self-determination and for their lands, yesterday usurped by the Spanish people, today in hands of economic conglomerates and owners of the large estate.
It is for this that the motto of the march convoked today was “bicentenary of oppression”. Under this motto over 7 thousand people close to the Mapuche Nation and other natives’ peoples marched for the streets of Santiago, demanding self-determination and the return of the lands usurped.

The manifestation ended in the Huelen Hill, where from a stage they carry out a political cultural act

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 the west is supposed to be his discovery, a group of young people took the traffic to the outskirts of the UMCE to say that there is nothing to celebrate and a lot of what regret, from the arrival of the Spanish people to these homelands, in those which lived different ethnic groups and peoples, many of those which have been totally eradicated or assimilated  to the different states that were growing out through the years of conquest.

With canvases and placards they stopped the traffic for some minutes, until the bursting of the special forces of Chilean police, whom obliged to the demonstrators to fall back to the inside of the university campus, while from outside the Chilean police shot large quantity of tear gas, prompted to the bodies of the peoples that they found inside.

Passing a half and hour the calm turned to the sector, without registering persons under arrest nor wounded