Territorial Action by Matías Catrileo Propaganda Group
On January 6 in the Las Araucarias, Los Copihues neighborhood we, the Matías Catrileo Propaganda Group, carried out a territorial takeover, moving in the neighborhood that marked 54 years since its creation under the name Popular Unity Occupation. We gave out pamphlets, zines and information that highlight the importance of direct action and territorial self organization as valid and necessary means to retake our lives, just as Matías taught us.
There are many examples across history that show us how, from a place of autonomy and direct action, that create other ways of inhabiting this world in the here and now. Land occupations constitute one of the most effective forms to solve, in a direct way, a problem as large as access to housing, as well as empowering the revolutionary struggle, creating fertile spaces to carry out revolutionary processes.
Since colonization, they divided the territory into large plots, plantations and States, where neither the poor, nor the indian, nor the mestiso, had any part in this dolling out, many times forcing us to sell our labor force for miserable wages to these very men who made themselves owners of the earth through deceit and violence.
What the law says really doesn’t matter; slavery was legal, the embezzelment of the police, soldiers and politicians are legal and continue in complete impunity. The destruction of the earth is legal, the destruction of the Maipo river, of the Panul forest is legal and the usurpations and appropriations of the rich are legal, demonstrating that the law is only their system of defense and theft to maintain their own interests and those of their class.
We propose self organization as the only possible path to retake our lives, through direct action as our grandparents who knew how to raise a who neighborhood in pure will and mutual aid did it, as the pu peñi/lamgen in Wallmapu who have managed to make the advance of capital retreat in their territories do it, as the communities across the continent who resist the advance of this system of misery and death do it.
It is necessary to look behind and reuse the tactics that provided not only a housing solution in the past, but also gave way to the generation of fertile terrains and spaces to carry out the conflict against power and to carry out revolutionary processes aimed at the destruction of the state-capital.
Accomplices of the wind and living only to be free, simply free, immensely free.
The expansion of the anarchist urban guerrilla is imminant!
Long live territorial recuperation!
Towards autonomous territorial organization, without leaders or parties!
For the life that they steal from us!
In Wallmapu and the city war on State and Capital!
Matías Catrileo Propaganda Group
Translated by Act for freedom now!