Con arte se recuerda en la UMCE a l@s combatientes caídos.

Una de las okupas más importantes en Santiago, República 550 será desalojada en los próximos días. Esta casa fue usada como un centro de represión durante la dictadura de Pinochet y de ésta forma el estado nunca le pudo encontrar un uso, sin embargo ahora la desea luego de que tras dos años diversos colectivos de arte la han arreglado y han desarrollado en ella talleres abiertos y libres para la comunidad. Es también el hogar del primer hacklab en Santiago. Si quieres/puedes enviar un mensaje de solidaridad, escríbelo en su libro de apoyo. Sin embargo, los sueños y el arte de la gente no pueden ser desalojados.

Subverso and Skapo are two MC’s from the ex collective Hiphoplogía, a really good project where the music, education and politics joined… from the message to the action, was their slogan. Now this two kids and Dj Veneno joined to make a band with great lyrics.

CoN$PiRaZioN (myspace -ewww-, last.fm) launched their first album called ¡Apaga La Tele! in a pretty good show. You can listen some tracks in the IMC Santiago website: Senora Juanita and Discurso Lagos.

Subverso y Skapo son dos MC del ex colectivo hiphología, un muy buen proyecto donde la música se juntaba con la educación y la política… del mensaje a la acción era su slogan. Ahora estos dos compas se unieron a Dj Veneno para formar una muy buena banda con excelente letras.

CoN$PiRaZioN (myspace -ewww-, last.fm) lanzó su primer album ¡Apaga La Tele! en un muy buen show. Puedes escuchar dos canciones de ellos en el IMC Santiago website: Senora Juanita y Discurso Lagos.

A dancer… a girl with a bomb?

This is what progressive democracy looks like.

Santiago de Chile. In the morning of September 26th, special forces of the police broke into a squatted house located downtown, and six people, including a compañero from Spain, have been detained. Police say that molotov bombs and all the stuff required to prepare them were found in the place. Empty bottles (who doesn’t have empty bottles at home?), kerosene (some of the people were jugglers and of course did fire juggling), sawdust (used for beds that the [black] cats in the house had), and of course “subversive material”: zines, posters, banners, books, and videos and printed instructives to make molotov bombs. 4 bombs already made were found, according to the local CSI, who were there too. All the four bombs were supposed to be used in the protest organized for that day by the Nacional Association of Teachers and High School students organizations.

This is a intelligence operation directed by the Vicepresident himself together with the A.N.I. (National Agency of Intelligence), a quite dark institution that resembles the ones that operated during the fascist dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. Of course, this is just one part of the operation, they have been filming during protests, investigating activist groups, infiltrating grassroots movements. For the part of the media, we suddenly start to hear and see on television that “anarchists” or “anarchic groups” are responsible for all kinds of destructive actions during protests. This year has been tough for the public image of anarchists in Chile. What used to be “infiltrators” in protests, are now identified as “anarchists”, which is, at least in the mass media, new.

Police lies

“A network of anarchists, activists has been dismantled”, said the General Director of Carabineros (Police). “We’ve seen this for a long time, [these people] breaking into authorized protests, with their faces covered and molotov bombs”. Belisario Velasco, the Vicepresident said “intelligence operations are being developed by the Police and the Investigation Bureau and some houses where molotov bombs are being produced already identified and will be raided soon”

President Bachelet was satisfied with all the operation. She said that the government is “going to do whatever is necessary to preserve the rights, not only of those who want to express themselves, but also of the ones who want to live in peace and quietly”

Regarding the spanish kid, Velasco said that “once he serves the sentence that the court might give him, he will be expelled from the country”.

This is what progressive democracy looks like.

Please send this news to all the people, organizations and radical news websites you know. September 27th. Agencia Interlocal de Traducción Urgente. Interlocal Agency of Urgent Translation.

Artists, not terrorists

Diferentes organizaciones y colectivos que están en contra del proyecto Pascua Lama de Barrick Gold se reunieron para mostrar con artes su rechazo.