CINEMA UNDER THE BOUGAINVILLEA OF VECINX – MAY 2025
“…There’s a frightening calm vague memories of a Chicago that May won’t let you forget. For today… …May come overflowing from its own heart.”
Fragment of the song
“Los otros días”
Rubén Olivera
A new May with the smell of combat that leaves the black smoke of the street,
history that moves to action, action that moves to history.
Questioning and questioning everything, in order to embrace chaos with strength.
This is why we invite you to this new cycle of May cinema, to
reflect always heading towards anarchy …
“… The contempt I feel for the current system of exploitation and my love for true freedom, obliges me not to ask or allow to ask for any kind of clemency for me. … Finally, I beg you to extend to my friends and colleagues my affectionate memories and my last goodbye. In the impossibility of seeing you again, beloved friend, I send you with all my heart a tight embrace. With a viva la anarchy, your comrade bids you farewell. Louis Lingg”
Letter from Louis Lingg jail of Coocar Country, November 6, 1887.
Extracted from the book
“Ya lo sabrán lo sabrán por los estruendos”
Collections Black Memory
“There are those who defend work, condemn revolutionary actions and from platformist, statist and syndicalist positions criticize direct action and indignantly call themselves anarchists(…) I do not want to fall into the monotony of work, nor do I want to sit all the time watching from below, living on my knees, is not having blood in my veins and my heart beats red hot, something worthwhile : burn it all!”
Punky Mauri
PROGRAMMING
4/05: VIVA LA LIBERTAD (1931)
Two convicts are discovered in the middle of an escape attempt. One
decides to sacrifice himself so that the other can reach freedom. Years later
they meet again.
11/05: NO PROJECTION!
We will go to Anarkiza La Punk in Chillán!
18/05: HOW TO BLOW UP AN OIL PIPELINE (2022)
A diverse group of people, each with their own motivations,
decides to blow up an oil pipeline in Texas, USA.
05/25: THE SOCIETY OF DEAD POETS (1989)
A teacher inspires the students of a renowned and prestigious school through poetry to seek greater meaning in life.
WE WILL HAVE:
– Vegan delicacies
– Various infusions
– Anarchic propaganda table
– Discussion
– Collection for prisoners
NEW HOURS
Now from 17:00 hrs, (almost) every Sunday from May 2025
Ask for address (Santiago) to biblioangryantiso@riseup.net
As every March 29, with greater or lesser intensity, a new Day of the Young Combatant is commemorated in different parts of the territory dominated by the Chilean state. This year the date fell on Saturday, causing that on Thursday 27 and Friday 28 high school students from Liceo de Aplicación, Liceo Manuel Barros Borgoño, INBA, Liceo 1, Instituto Nacional and Liceo Eduardo de la Barra (Valparaíso), university students at the Juan Gómez Millas campus, Universidad de la Frontera (Temuco) and Universidad de Playa Ancha (Valparaíso), and comrades in general, were rioting and confrontations with the police in high schools, universities and in the center of Santiago, also different gestures of agitation accompanied all these days.
On the night of Saturday 29th the streets of Cerro Navia, Estación Central, Quinta Normal, San Bernardo, Huechuraba, Peñalolén, among others, lit up. With Molotovs, stones and homemade or industrial weapons, comrades confronted the police in a new commemoration of the Day of the Young Combatant with combative memory for Eduardo and Rafael Vergara Toledo, Luisa Toledo, Mauricio Maigret, Claudia López, Mauricio Morales, Sebastián Oversluij, Luciano Pitronello, Belén Navarrete, among so many other dead comrades who still remain present through anarchic action absolutely far from any iconic, symbolic role or elements of admiration.
Finally, the day left a total of 42 detainees who went to detention control and were released in the course of the following day.
(For those who wish to print the newspaper, see the instructions below.)
The 3rd issue of the anarcho-nihilist/insurrectionary newspaper “Blessed Is The Flame” has been published. Its pages contain reports of direct actions, claims of responsibility, texts, poems, and news from anarchist prisoners and trials that were published in November and December 2024 in ten different languages across various parts of the world, or were sent to us via email and are being published for the first time. (Some of the texts published for the first time will also be uploaded as standalone posts on our blog, blessed-is-the-flame.espivblogs.net.)
Our goal is not only to break down the linguistic barriers that hinder information, solidarity, and the dissemination of propaganda by the deed on an international level but also to give counter-information a printed form. We believe it is crucial for counter-information to transcend the limits of the digital realm.
In an era of rapid developments, we unfortunately published the 3rd issue a bit later than we had planned, as this is the first time the newspaper is officially published in seven different languages: Greek, English, Spanish, Indonesian, French, Italian, and German. A new post will include links to all these translations, once they are published on the respective counter-information platforms.
We extend our heartfelt thanks to all comrades—both within Greece and abroad—who contribute by translating, offering financial support, and enabling the circulation of this newspaper in different parts of the world. Anyone interested in helping translate “Blessed Is The Flame” into even more languages can contact us at: blessedistheflame@riseup.net.
Printing Instructions:
For those interested in printing the newspaper, ask a trusted print shop to print it in A5 format as a colored booklet. In a few weeks from now, the English and the Spanish editions of the newspaper will also be available in an alternative format appropriate for the US paper sizing system.
For printing, please download the PDF directly from our website, as the download link may be updated in case we detect minor formatting errors in the file that may have overlooked.
THEMES OF THE 3RD ISSUE:
Counter-information for November – December 2024 (p. 1–11)
Luigi Mangione and political violence (p. 2–3)
Ampelokipi case: Memory and solidarity (p. 2–7, 17–18)
Italy: Words and actions against militarism (p. 7 – 10)
Statement from the Anarchist Union of Sudan (p. 10)
Anarchist news from Indonesia (p. 10–12)
Offensives against green capitalism (p. 12–13)
Responsibility claims with guides for action (p. 14)
Chile: Black memory, attacks, words from the prisons (p. 14–16)
Christmass offensive actions and anarchist wishes for the New Year (p. 17, 20)
04/11 Incendiary Attack to Bus Red del Transantiago in población La Victoria 6 years after the death of comrade Kevin Garrido, in the place were found pamphlets with the phrases:
“War to death against all bastard authority!”;
“Compañerx Kevin Garrido present!”;
“May solidarity not be just a manhandled word, may solidarity be an angry action that gives injections of strength and energy to the heart of every brother in captivity”;
“For the destruction of all prisons! Compañerxs Joaquin Garcia Aldo and Lukas, prisoners of July 6th and every comrade in prison to the street! With our dead in memory and in action Kevin Garrido, Freddy Muñoz, Alonso Verdejo, Lupi, Belen, Bau, Mauricio Morales, Sebastian Oversluij, Luciano and every comrade assassinated present! Solidarity with the comrades of the inba”.
Opening the tensions of dialogue, we present the following section of interviews with individuals, collectivities and related spaces that make up the anarchic body in different parts of the world.
The interviews are a valuable contribution to the observation in detail and depth; they come, in a certain way, to broaden the view to give us feedback among comrades and to debate with perspectives and projections, that although they may be different, they converge in the ideas and practices of freedom against all authority.
Without further ado, we have in this first venture of dialogues the comrades of Espacio Fénix.
1-How and when did Espacio Fénix arise, and what projects converge in the space?
Espacio Fénix was born in the middle of the pandemic, at the beginning of 2021, in the midst of a series of ridiculous mobility restrictions and increased police intervention under the excuse of controlling and preventing the spread of covid-19.
Thus, a group of compañerxs got together, seeking to open a crack, a fissure within the asphyxiating panorama that was regulating everything, imposing the rhythm of power and where many seemed to be accommodating or waiting for the authority to give us “permission” to resume our lives.
We embarked on the idea of opening a physical space where comrades could converge, where anarchic material could circulate and where new comradeships could be woven and articulated. Thus in May 2021 we opened the doors of the space, we began to set up its infrastructure and in July we held our first activity in memory of compañero Santiago Maldonado.
Claustrofobia Ediciones, the Biblioteca Antiautoritaria Sacco y Vanzetti and various anarchic individualities converge in the space.
2-The “Ciclos de Cine” (Film Cycles) is the tool you have used the most to carry out activities. What is the significance for you of the screening of films, documentaries, etc.?
We started with the film cycles in October 2021 and we have not stopped every Tuesday, month after month, grouping the films by specific themes, seeking to stress our ideas and nourish our arguments with content, it is the beauty of the feedback between colleagues with diverse experiences and views.
From the very beginning, we proposed the screening of films as an excuse to sit down and converse, because after each screening, the central part of the activity comes to life, which is the discussion about what has been screened. There the words run, without leaders, where everyone can expose their dislikes, their liking or the results and analysis that is made of what we have seen. With this gesture we also seek to break the logic of passive spectators, of consumers, very typical of socially imposed roles.
In this sense, we have screened diverse audiovisual material, industry films, documentaries made by compañerxs, films that we like or dislike, always aiming at the discussion and tension between compas.
We do not seek to fill the cultural gaps of authority, nor to be the free panorama for those who lack resources; we seek, by different means and tools to spread our anarchic and anti-authoritarian ideas/actions, therefore the film cycles are just one more tool we choose.
Ciclo de Cine March 2024Ciclo de Cine November 2021
3-Regarding the written material, what is the importance and power that you perceive in it?
The written material certainly has another power, another depth and transcendence, of course the spoken thought is important, but writing allows the ordering of ideas, so as to be able to reflect more carefully on what is going to be exposed and to assimilate/discuss more deeply on what is read.
In a present where immediacy, image culture, the digestible and pyrotechnical, where almost the medium is the message, emptying of content many of our tools, writing/reading is a weapon, which can also serve as a refuge, where to continue polishing and sharpening our ideas.
The written material is an instrument that impels us to grow, to argue and continually revise our positions, widening our views, shining light where there was darkness.
On the other hand, it is necessary to say that written material has always accompanied anarchists, as propaganda for the dissemination of ideas, it is an effective tool to enter into dialogue with more comrades wherever they are: in the street, in prison, or other territories. It is important because it nurtures individual thinking, as well as possible collective discussions.
The written material as propaganda can bring together comrades and depending on the objectives and projections that we have, we can realize initiatives of various kinds. In the same way that we can find ourselves on the path of anarchic struggle, we can also distance ourselves from people who spread anarchist propaganda of other tendencies, for us those who are called to participate in the electoral circus, appeal to platform organization, dream of unity and large federations and those who reject legitimate political insurrectional violence – to give just a few examples – puts us in another place on the sidewalk and in several cases as enemies.
4-There are political-cultural spaces that coexist peacefully with power, while others attract police attention. Why do you think this happens? Are there more dangerous ideas-practices? If so, what would these be?
We don’t think this was the intention of the question, but it is worth clarifying to avoid pejorative atmospheres. For us, anti-power spaces/ideas/practices (truly anti-authoritarian and anarchic, leaving out and fighting the bullshit of “popular power”) by definition do not coexist peacefully neither with power, nor with authority, nor with the police and their investigators of all kinds.
Police eyes and ears are always there, to believe otherwise is naive and dangerous. They let themselves be seen or directly attack depending on conjunctures or panoramas that mark a change of rhythm.
In this sense, it is not the police harassment that defines our comrades’ ties -it is defined by our ideas, values and projections- because valuable initiatives that are undoubtedly a contribution to the anarchic tide, may not receive the police onslaught in an evident and grotesque way and not for that reason be considered “legal”, “innocent” or in any way aspire to coexist peacefully with the power. For example, at present there are activities that do not receive police interference, but that 3 or 4 years ago were seen as a danger and received harassment; we are talking about common pots or self-defense activities. It does not change the activity or the background, but it changes the perception of power or the effect it seeks to achieve as a chain reaction (fear, disarticulation, etc.).
Now, it is important to emphasize that these types of practices carried out by those in power are part of their work, and must be understood as such. They have always existed and will continue to exist, we do not say this in an alarmist way, much less to call for immobility or to “disappear” from certain spaces. Simply because it must be clear, those who consciously decide to undertake a confrontational path to power and propagate it in multiple ways, may encounter those enemy dynamics, therefore, the consequences must be assumed. Continue reading “Chile: Interview with Espacio Fénix EN/ES”→
The last days of December in the midst of the consumerist frenzy for the end of the year celebrations, we, some anarchic individualities, decided to act in memory of our comrade Sebastian Oversluij, 10 years after his death, who was killed by the guard of a bank branch in Pudahuel, when he tried to expropriate it on December 11, 2013.
We grieve for your death Angry… we grieve for your last moments… but we are proud of the life you chose to live. We embrace your anarchic conviction, we embrace your kaos.
In your memory we seal padlocks of a center of profit and animal exploitation, as well as three butcher shops and two places of religious and authoritarian indoctrination, all this in Santiago, Chile.
Sebastián Oversluij presente! Solidarity with the anti-speciesist and anarkist prisoners. Nothing is settled.
“Walking in the countryside near Lampa we found homemade traps for hares, with a metal stick buried underground holding a metal wire to catch wild species. We did not hesitate to dig them out and break them. There were 20 in total, they were rendered completely useless and taken away from the location.
We dedicate this small sabotage to Sebastian Oversluij Seguel, who was assassinated by the police a decade ago. He was an anarchist comrade who took part in many actions to further the animal liberation struggle, being part of the antispeciesist fight using direct action with everything he had available and pushing his politics forward.
Sabotage wherever you go, do not stay put! Total liberation, against all cages, against all authority.”
SPANISH (original)
Individualidades sabotean 20 trampas para liebres.
Recibido de forma anónima:
“Caminando por un sector rural cercano a Lampa, logramos identificar la instalación de trampas caseras destinadas a la caza de liebres, las cuales estaban enterradas en la tierra con un fierro que amarraba alambres para la captura de especies silvestres. No dudamos ni un segundo en desenterrarlas y romperlas. Eran 20 en total, quedaron inutilizables y fueron retiradas del sector.
Dejamos registro de este pequeño sabotaje en memoria de Sebastián Oversluij Seguel, a 10 años de su asesinato por un mercenario del capital. Compañero anárquico que realizó diversas acciones por la liberación animal, aportando a la lucha antiespecista de acción directa con lo que tenía a su alcance, sin delegar a nadie más que a sus propias convicciones.
Sabotea donde sea que vayas, no te quedes inmóvil.
Liberación total, contra toda jaula, contra toda autoridad.”
On December 16, 2009 I was expelled from Argentina after 21 months of confinement in different units of the province of Neuquén to be at the disposal of the Chilean state and it has been 14 years since then.
In 2014 I was sentenced to 14 years for two bank robberies. Strictly speaking, I am serving this sentence in its entirety, from beginning to end, without any benefit and it ends today December 16, 2023 and still the state keeps me behind bars.
According to the gendarmes, I must serve 12 more years of imprisonment to be able to apply for some intrapenitentiary benefit only in 2036. According to their retroactive modifications of the illegal Chilean law, in 2056 I will definitively expire my sentences, all of them from events that occurred more than 30 years ago.
A madness of numbers and years typical of Pinochet’s military justice shamefully in force and still today endorsed by recent rulings of the Court of Appeals of Rancagua, of Santiago, of the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court of this amnesiac country governed today by the Communist Party, the Broad Front and all the progressive and social-democratic scum always at the service of the interests of the great god of capital.
In this context, a few days ago, Mónica and Francisco, anarchist comrades of action who received the full revenge of the state, were condemned by the capital’s democratic inquisition, particularly Francisco to whom the domination imposed 86 years, becoming today the revolutionary prisoner in the Chilean prisons with the highest sentence and whom we must know how to accompany from the daily practice without pauses since the road will evidently be longer. Always from the complicit affinity and never from the victimization!
On the other hand, in the occupied wallmapu, in the same week, the racist Chilean justice declares Peñi Luis Tranamil Nahuel, who these days is about to receive a hefty sentence, as well as Peñi Nelson Queupil, who faces an imminent sentence, both walking the path of the weichan, are in Chilean prisons, fists raised, living the onslaught of the state offensive of occupation. Continue reading “$hile: “Words from the confinement, necessary letters” by Marcelo Villarroel”→
