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• Pascual Pichún Collonao, a Mapuche political prisoner

  

  September 4, 2010  110 views 0 Comments Share

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  The VJ Movement interviews Pascual Pichun Collonao, a 27-year-old journalist and fourth-year student at La Plata National University in Argentina. One of 70 Mapuche political prisoners in Chile, Pascual is currently serving a five year sentence for allegedly setting fire to a logging truck in 2002. Background, courtesy of mapuche.nl. Pascual Pichún Collonao is a [...]

  Filed Under Chile • interviews • Mapuche • video

• Reclaiming Land and Dignity on Easter Island

  

  August 14, 2010  485 views 5 comments Share

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  For the past two weeks, 500 Indigenous Peoples in Rapa Nui--a place more commonly known as Easter Island--have been occupying more than two dozen buildings over a land dispute that dates back to 1888. In 1888, the remote island, known around the world for its monumental statues, called Moai, was annexed by a naval Officer, [...]

  Filed Under ALERT • Chile • Easter Island • protests • Rapa Nui • secession

• Mapuche on Hunger Strike over Chile’s Militancy

  

  August 4, 2010  533 views 8 comments Share

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  For the past three weeks, more than 20 Mapuche Political Prisoners have been on a hunger strike across southern Chile to demand the immediate release of all Mapuche Political Prisoners, the Abolition of Military Courts and the dissolution of the country's Pinochet-era Anti-Terrorism Law. The hunger strike began on July 12th, 2010, with five Mapuche [...]

  Filed Under Chile • events • hunger strike • Indigenous Peoples • Mapuche • petition • political prisoners • protests

• Continued Aggression Leads to Mapuche Declaration of War

  

  October 30, 2009  1,415 views 0 Comments Share

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  Continued aggressions of the Chilean state has led the Arauco Malleco Coordinator of Mapuche Communities in Conflict (CAM), a radical indigenous Mapuche organization, to formally renounce their Chilean citizenship and declared war on the government. The declaration was issued on Oct. 20, the same day that two trucks belonging to the El Bosque forestry corporation [...]

  Filed Under Chile • evictions • Indigenous Peoples • Mapuche • reclamation • violence • youth

• 10 Year-Old Mapuche Shot by Chilean Police

  

  October 5, 2009  1,859 views 6 comments Share

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  A total of nine Mapuche youths have been wounded by Chilean polices forces in the last week. Among them, Felipe Marilan Morales, age 10, who was shot in the forehead with a projectile after a failed eviction of Mapuche from the usurped La Romana estate near the Mapuche community of Temucuicui in Ercilla. "The minor's [...]

  Filed Under Chile • displacement • evictions • Mapuche • violence • youth

• Mapuche political prisoners go on hunger strike

  

  August 20, 2009  1,288 views 1 comment Share

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  As Chilean military policeman Miguel Jara sits in custody for murdering a Mapuche land rights defender on August 12, during one of several land reclamation efforts led by the Mapuche---a group of Mapuche political prisoners announce that they have begun an indefinite hunger strike. "Unto the repression, the injustices, and the judicial and political arbitrations, [...]

  Filed Under Chile • hunger strike • Indigenous Peoples • Mapuche • political prisoners

• Mapuche communities mobilize to reclaim land

  

  August 3, 2009  1,930 views 4 comments Share

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  Several Mapuche communities have begun to reclaim traditional lands in Araucania, central Chile. The reclamation began on July 23, about 2 weeks after the government of Michelle Bachelet refused to sit down with a group of Mapuche activists and talk about their concerns as Indigenous People. The activists had traveled 680 km to meet with [...]

  Filed Under ALERT • blockades • Chile • Indigenous Peoples • Mapuche • reclamation