from liberaciontotal, transl waronsociety:
Note from LT: We have mentioned on several occasions that we are not interested in monothematic terms or struggles like “feminism” (much less radical feminism). Because when we speak of Human Liberation, we speak of being against the exploitation of people, slavery, rape, racism, sexism, and a long etcetera. The condition of “exploited or oppressed” is not enough to make one’s stance toward life dignified, rather that this be seen in the daily contradictions of society, where people’s real potential lies. Therefore our proposal is the overcoming of demands for equal rights, or the belief that by “nature” one gender is better than another, in order to bring attention to the root of the conflict, which is the domination of the human over other beings and the environment.
What follows are some photos and a “captured video” from Friday March 8th, when there was a march for the International Women’s Day from Plaza Italia right down Alameda toward La Moneda.
In spite of the victimist and citizenist nature of the call, there were some compañerxs who with propaganda tried to make evident the topic of prison as a tool for annihilating people and the necessity of expressing solidarity with those who are locked up, as well as rescuing from forgetfulness the compañeras fallen in combat for liberation.
On the other hand, also as propaganda, hooded individuals quickly started to tear down whatever urban structure in order to block streets and destroy symbols of Power.
In front of the Welen blockade and next to the UC, a squad of motor cops were repelled when they tried to stop the destruction of a Civil Security post and, at the receiving end of molotovs, took to running.
But there is no doubt that the great deed that marked this day was the beating carried out by a group of hooded individuals of the Chief of the Carabineros Downtown Santiago Precinct, the Special Forces Colonel, Víctor Tapia. And as well as taking revenge in their hands, they took his cap as a trophy of war. This bastard is the same one who gave orders for beating, humiliating, genital torture, torture, etc, anyone who was arrested in marches or any kind of demonstrations. There is no doubt that no one will be able to forget the afternoon when he ended up dazed and bloodied in the march for the Day of the Combatant Women like Claudia Lopez, an anarchist compañera killed by the cops on September 11, 1998.
This was also accompanied by frequent attacks on banks, and barricades. In total there were more than a dozen arrested, but no one with charges.
March is just begun…
Let’s take back the streets with fire and combative memory!
In honor of those who died in the struggle for liberation!
This March 29th, to the street!!!
There are also two videos here.
