Clashes occurred between insurgents and Chilean government forces across the indigenous region of Araucania after the killing of Mapuche chief Pablo Marchant, in a fight with police during a sabotage operation against deforestation equipment in the town of Carahue.
Anarchist Movements
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Hundreds of protesters in Santiago gathered for a round of demonstrations in support of Mapuche & anarchist political prisoners of the social war in Chile. Police attacked the demonstration with water cannons, making mass arrests of participants while other demonstrators threw rocks at their vehicles.
Over 5,000 protesters gathered to pay homage at the funeral of Luisa Toledo Sepúlveda, a leftist Mapuche activist known for continuing the legacy of her 3 sons murdered by the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile during the 1980s. Clashes with police and looting occurred along the caravan's route, though the funeral itself occurred without incidents.
Thousands of protesters gathered at a vigil in the Santiago neighborhood of Villa Francia in memory of the recently deceased Luisa Toledo Sepúlveda, a Mapuche & left-wing activist well-known for speaking out about the murder of her 2 children under the Pinochet dictatorship.
Over 100 protesters in Antofagasta took to the streets to demand the release of the political prisoners of the Mapuche social struggle and 18th of October Uprising, at the same time that the new Constitutional Convention, meant to create a new constitution for Chile, met for the first time.
Thousands of protesters in Santiago took to the streets in support of prisoners of the social war during the first session of a convention tasked with drafting a new constitution for Chile. Police repressed the demonstration, leading to widespread clashes across the capital city.
Anarchists in Portland snuck into a parking lot after a police murder and smashed in around a dozen police vehicles, destroying windows and the interior as well as tagging graffiti and dumping paint. Anarchists in Portland snuck into a parking lot after a police murder and smashed in around a dozen police vehicles, destroying windows and the interior as well […]
Dozens of anarchists and protesters in Antofagasta took to the streets, blocking roads and burning barricades in solidarity with prisoners of the Mapuche struggle for land autonomy and the revolt in Chile that began on the 18th of October in 2019 against neoliberalism and police violence.
Anarchist protesters in Antofagasta took to the streets, banging pots and pans and blocking roads with flaming barricades in opposition to the continued imprisonment of participants of the 18th of October Uprising in 2019 and the struggle for indigenous Mapuche land rights in Chile.
Dozens of anarchists and protesters in Santiago took to the streets in support of political prisoners of the 18th of October Uprising and the Mapuche struggle for autonomy over ancestral land, demanding an immediate general pardon and release of all those convicted of participating in the social revolt of Chile.
Anarchists in Antofagasta took to the streets, blocking roads and burning barricades in solidarity with the political prisoners of the 18th of October Uprising in Chile, demanding a general pardon and the immediate release of all those convicted during the social revolt of 2019 and the indigenous Mapuche struggle for sovereignty and autonomy.
Deforestation equipment in Angol, a town in the area of Araucania, was sabotaged in support of Mapuche sovereignty and autonomy, on the anniversary of the murders of indigenous warriors Luis Marileo & Patricio González killed on the 10th of June in 2017 by ex-police officer Ignacio Gallegos.
Hundreds of protesters in Santiago returned to the streets in a round of mobilization in support of prisoners of the uprising in Chile, demanding an immediate general pardon and release of all those convicted of resisting state power during the revolt of October 18th, 2019. Police repressed the demonstration with tear gas and water cannons, resulting in widespread clashes around Plaza Dignidad.
Hundreds of protesters in Valparaiso marched on the National Congress of Chile while president Sebastián Piñera gave a State of the Nation address, demanding his immediate resignation and the release of all political prisoners of the 18th of October Uprising. Police repressed the demonstration, leading to widespread clashes and police violence throughout the day.
Demonstrators in Santiago gathered at an office of the Independent Democratic Union, a far-right Pinochetist party in Chile, leaving graffiti and anti-fascist banners; the crowd then moved to a monument to Jaime Guzmán, the creator of Pinochet's constitution, also leaving graffiti. A protest would later also occur in the peripheral neighborhood of La Granja in support of political prisoners of the 18th of October Uprising in 2019.