Today 8M millions of women fill the streets of large cities around the world, we gather here again in this space of commemoration and struggle. We wish to keep alive the flame that those rebellious women decided to ignite hundreds of years ago and that today comrades continue to embody day by day from different trenches.
Over the years the struggle against heteropatriarchy has sprouted, resisted and persisted in many territories. Heteropatriarchy is present in multiple areas of our lives, both in our interpersonal relationships and in ourselves, we are constantly learning and unlearning, inhabiting new experiences that make us question and reflect from different realities and environments.
The heteropatriarchy hits harder to those who resist the subjugation of their nature, that which the system defines as normal, it is not the same experience that we live indigenous, intersex, trans, gay, non-binary, pans, lesbians. Above all, it is not the same for those who decide to attack every bastion that seeks to dominate and destroy us. For the same reason we do not raise the banners of passive victimhood, on the contrary, we aim at constant confrontation against everything that seeks to subdue us.
Today we want to remember different comrades who with their struggle have nurtured the antagonistic path that we have decided to embrace. Herminia Concha, Luisa Toledo, Cláudia López, Aracely Romo, Jill Phipps, Guilly Peachy. We also wish to emphasize those comrades who have fallen in confrontations or have been assassinated for their fervent commitment to the defense of land, water and territories and animal liberation. Nicolasa Quintreman, Macarena Valdes, Emilia Baucis, the three Mapuche weychafe comrades. Nicolasa fought hard against the installation of ENDESA’s Ralco project in Pehuenche territory. At the age of 74, she was found dead in the artificial lagoon of the same project. Macarena Valdes, seed guardian, defender of water and forests in the Newen-Txagil community, was found dead in her own home at the hands of hired killers from the companies RP Global and SAESA at the age of 32. Emilia Baucis, defender of water and territories, anti-speciesist, part of Lof Llazkawe, was murdered at the age of 25 by hired killers from the Riñimapu condominium in the context of a territorial recovery in Riñiwe Lewfu.
We remember every compañera/e who has been killed for fighting against the killing of animals and the devastation of their habitat. Because we recognize speciesism and patriarchy as two oppressions that share the same system. One seeks the subjugation of other species, considering them inferior, despite their capacity to feel. And the other seeks the oppression and invisibilization of women and dissidences, considering them inferior beings that can be violated and commodified. Therefore, we believe that it is not possible to fight for the liberation of human women and dissidences and ignore the violated females of other species.
Devastation is advancing by leaps and bounds, without land there is no life. Simply, there is not much to add nor turns to give, as Emilia used to say “The defense of the land and the territorial bodies have never been and will never be contradictory struggles”. Heteropatriarchy pretends to be loving, fun, pretends to captivate with cute slogans, chatty phrases, to disguise itself as environmentalism, sorority, even intersectionality. It will not stop the devastation of the earth through state policies, nor governments of the day, they only seek to mitigate or slowly kill the itxofillmogen. Billions of
hectares of native forest have become ashes, rivers, lagoons, lakes, springs, waterfalls, have disappeared, are about to become extinct or have irreparable damage as the oceans live daily. Hundreds of animals have seen their habitats violated or usurped in the name of progress, by mining, forestry, oil, psiculture, etc. companies. Partners from different territories plan, act and attack against the devastators of the earth, lurking from the forest, the mountains, the jungle, the desert, in the dim light waiting for progress to show its nose because sooner or later they come to exterminate. We send much newen to all those comrades who actively participate in defense networks for seeds, waters and territories and for animal liberation, to those who despite all the exhaustion continue to protect their roots, in the face of all the consequences. No matter how many times the hired killers persecute you, we know that you more than anyone knows the forest, desert, jungle and mountains like the back of your hand, the püllü of each fallen compañera/e accompanies you and each Gen protects and shelters you.
We take this opportunity to make a special mention in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito, a comrade of indomitable soul, who is today imprisoned in the 41bis regime, which seeks to subdue his mind, body and spirit. Which seeks to subdue his mind, body and spirit. Despite this, Alfredo remains firm and determined, even when his jailers do not allow him to receive a hug, correspondence or touch and appreciate nature in the midst of these walls of grief and concrete. Alfredo daily shows us the strength of his conviction, his daily struggle for life, with more than 4 months of hunger strike in his body. For those of us who love to live, we know that there is no patient way to live locked up and isolated from our loved ones.
loved ones, to look at the sky, to feel the wind hitting our face or to sit under the shade of a tree. He would rather die than be repentant and dominated.
We send a fraternal embrace to the mothers, sisters and daughters of all the prisoners who on a day like today died in the San Miguel prison fire. To all those who make visible and continue to fight against femicides or attacks
We send a warm embrace to all those who continue to fight against femicides or hate attacks against their loved ones, for Nicole Saavedra, Ana Cook, Monica Briones and so many others murdered for being women and/or dissidents. We also send a loving embrace of solidarity to all those who are battling in points of confrontation in different territories, comrades of Wallmapu, Puelmapu, Kurdistan, Iran, Wayuu, Murui-Muina, Asháninka, Guarani Kaiowá, among many others who today cannot be less than an inextinguishable fire in our minds and hearts, to continue striking, attacking and destroying every strand of this rotten system.
In relation to our prison, we will not tire of publicly denouncing the jailers who carry out humiliating practices against fellow inmates. It is common to observe in this prison that most of the female prisoners reproduce practices prohibited in their own internal regulations. Day by day, the prison guards require the prisoners to lower their pants and underwear, as well as to open their legs, do squats and hold the squat for at least 30 seconds to perform body searches, they also require the inmates to pull up their shirts, raise their bras and show their breasts, Many of these searches are carried out in front of corridors where male officers, inmates, civil servants, etc. circulate or force the inmates to submit themselves in front of the sight of other prisoners. Months ago we denounced the application of this protocol in the visiting area, however it continues to be applied to prisoners. When the inmates refuse to submit, they are threatened with the punishment of their visits, orders and / or venusterios, in addition there is always the jailers who, when they complain, only mock contemptuously and proceed to tighten the protocol with even more humiliating practices. Jailers are not comrades, no police are and never will be.
Fire to the cis-tym and to the whole prison society!
Freedom to all subversive, anarchist and Mapuche prisoners!
Mónica Caballero Sepulveda, anarchist prisoner.
Mawvnhko, anarchist prisoner.
Itamar Diaz, anti-speciesist prisoner.
Source: Publicacion Refractario