Chile: “Fire to the Projects that Destroy Nature”

from Contra Info

translated by Earth First! Journal

A road was blockaded and a banner dropped on February 1 at 7AM on Avenue General Velasquez, Villa Portales.

Claudio Paredes was a young 18 year old militant of FPMR and neighbor of Villa Portales, who died in an explosion on January 31, 1988, in one of the Villa’s buildings while preparing an explosive charge against the dictator Pinochet, along with Fernando Villalón y Nelsón Garrido.

We have come out and set fire, we want to stop the party.

We have not been able to stay quiet nor calm, hushed nor submissive against the reality which we see before our very eyes, which has been robbing life for so many years.

Today we have seen how the powerful who lack shame and modesty continue to log our milenarian forests [thousands of years old] in the South, devastating the rivers with their dams, contaminating, deforesting the grounds, getting brutally rich from the Earth which blankets us, turning every bit of flora and fauna into products to be sold, murdering. Today we have seen how the Mapuche continue to be murdered and jailed for their legitimate fight and resistance to recuperate the lands which have been stolen; the massacre which the invaders began over 500 years ago continues.

Today we have seen how the State maintains over 25 political prisoners in jails which they continue to build for the poor and for those who rebel against so much misery, investing millions of sums of money for security via new arsenals to maintain their system and dominance. Today, when we have found out how the rich, the business people, and the politicians rob us, they get together, colluding and increasing the price of their toxic products and services which they sell to us at the supermarkets and pharmacies. We have been able to see how the business people and politicians get together behind people’s backs to sign their ambitious free trade agreements like, in this case, the TPP, aiming to increase their money and monopolize even more their corporations and assure their power. Just like when they approve racist and oppressive laws like the one about identity control, giving the murdering cops more control over those of us who can lose patience.

In this context, not doing anything makes us into accomplices.

That is why we go to the streets, cutting them with our fire. This is our humble and immediate response to the world they’ve designed.

Those who have died in this war against the system, Matías Catrileo, Johnny Cariqueo, Mauricio Morales, Claudia López, Sebastián Oversluij and so many others, are always present!

To the comrades who suffer in the jails of the State, nothing is over, we are still standing in this war…

We take advantage of this gesture to demonstrate our most grand disapproval of the visit of murderer Recep Tayyip Erdogan, president of Turkey.

Down with the TPP.

No more identity control.

Fire to the projects that destroy nature.

Anarchists, those imprisoned, subversives, nihilists, and Mapuches, to the street!

Long live the fights for freedom in all regions of the world.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan Out!

Death to the State and long live anarchy.

In memory and combat,

Claudio Paredes, Fernando Villalón, and Nelson Garrido– Present!

The struggle continues!