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Title: With Land, Without the State: Anarchy in Wallmapu

Author(s): Anonymous

Date: 2010

Topics: Chile clandestinity colonialism deep ecoloy direct action eco actionindienous South America

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With Land, Without the State: Anarchy in Wallmapu

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We dont 3ant autonomy

Tim$er4

Clandestinity

Little $y little


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5Walmapu Li$erado

Con Tierra, Sin +stado

The uards at the Temuco prison search us o"er, and lead us into a room o%%the main hall3ay6 The %our men come in a little later and $ein tellin us theirstories6 They choose their 3ords solemnly, and ta7e lon pauses6 Se"entydays 3ithout eatin has ta7en its toll6 5#ur $ones hurt, 3e et di88y, tired,3e ha"e to rest a lot, lay do3n a lot6 9ts uncom%orta$le oin so lon3ithout eatin6 -ut 3ere oin to o until the %inal conseuences6Were puttin our $odies and health on the line %or the ;apuchepeople6

They start 3ith 3hat 3e already 7no3: the reasons %or the hunerstri7e, theChilean states use o% the antiterrorist la3 aainst ;apuche 3arriors, andthe lon history o% their strule6 When they %ind out 3ere not humanrihts acti"ists, $ut anarchists, they smile and 3arm up to us a little more6A%ter all, the human rihts orani8ations ha"e sho3n concern %or the;apuche once they end up in prison, $ut ha"e ne"er ta7en a position on;apuche independence6 #ne o% them tells us: 5irst politics6

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?os@ Llanuileo is %our years into a %i"e year sentence %or arson6 or threeyears he 3as li"in in clandestinity 3ith his partner, Anelica, and %or a year3as one o% the Chilean states most 3anted %uiti"es6 9n 200B, the t3o3ere %inally captured6 She 3as acuitted on chares o% illeal association,under the antiterrorist la36 e 3as con"icted %or $urnin pine trees on a%orestry plantation $elonin to a maor loin company, as part o% a landreclamation action6 term solidarity6


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ortunately, 3e can start on a ood %oundation6 The le%tists ha"e had apatroni8in attitude to3ards the ;apuche, says ?os@, $ut 5theanarchists ha"e $een "ery respect%ul, and sho3n lots o% solidarity6 9 thin7 3e

should $e rate%ul %or that6 es clear, ho3e"er, that the

;apuches strule is their o3n6 ;ar/ism 3as in%luential at a certainmoment, $ut they are not ;ar/ists6 #ne could characteri8e the ;apuche 3ayo% thin7in as en"ironmentalist, $ut they are not en"ironmentalists6 Theyha"e a%%inity 3ith anarchists, $ut they are not anarchists6 5We are;apuche6 We are our o3n people, 3ith our o3n history, and our strulecomes directly out o% that6 Contrary to the assertions o% the le%tists, the;apuche are not the marinali8ed lo3er class o% Chilean society6 They are notthe proletariat, and the idea o% class 3ar does not correspond to their reality6Conseuently, they may %ind some a%%inity 3ith the re"olutionary mo"ementsthat de"eloped in the conte/t o% class 3ar in +uropean society, $ut these

mo"ements do not adeuately address their situation6

5The Le%t consider the ;apuche as ust another sector o% the oppressed,an opinion 3e dont share6 #ur strule is ta7in place in the conte/t o%the li$eration o% a people6 #ur people are distinct %rom Western society6;oreo"er, the ;apuche people ha"e a proud history o% %ihtin in"asion,resistin domination, and orani8in themsel"es to meet their needs and li"ein %reedom, so their o3n 3orld"ie3 and culture are more than su%%icient as anideoloical $asis %or their strule6

This point is stressed $y nearly e"eryone 3e meet, and 9 thin7 our a$ility to$ecome %riends and compa@Eeros rests directly on the %act that 3e respecttheir 3ay o% strule rather than tryin to incorporate them into our 3ay o%strule6

9 3ant to $e up%ront 3ith the people 9 meet, 3ith 3hom 9 3ant to $uild

relationships o% solidarity, so on the %irst day 9 tell him my moti"ations andassumptions6 The comrades 3ho put us in touch already told ?os@ 9man anarchist, and in%ormed him o% the 7ind o% 3or7 9 do, so the %act that hein"ited us into his community and too7 time o%% to uide us around is a oodsin6 9 let him 7no3 that many S anarchists already ha"e a little %amiliar 3iththe ;apuche strule, and our understandin is that their culture is anti>authoritarian, and they orani8e hori8ontally6 9s this correctF


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?os@ says it is, $ut 9 notice a little eurocentrism on my part, a di%%erence in3orld"ie3s, 3hen he automatically replaces my 3ord, 5hori8ontal,3ith the 3ord 5circular, to descri$e ;apuche society6 There is no

centrali8ation o% po3er amon the ;apuche, 3ho in %act are a nation o%se"eral di%%erent peoples, li"in in di%%erent eoraphic reions, and spea7indi%%erent dialects o% the same lanuae6 The land $elons to the community,and it is maintained collecti"ely, as opposed to indi"idually or communally6+ach community has a lon7o, a position enerally translated as5chie%, $ut each %amily has a lare deree o% autonomy, and manydecisions are made $y the 3hole community in assem$lies6 Lon7os areusually men, $ut ha"e $een 3omen as 3ell6 There are other traditional roleso% in%luence: the machi is a reliious %iure and a healer6 ;en and 3omen can$ecome machis, $ut they are neither chosen nor sel%>appointed6 Those 3hoha"e certain dreams or et ine/plica$ly sic7 as children, and 3ho

demonstrate a certain sensiti"ity, 3ill $ecome machis6 Then there is the3er7en, the spo7esperson, a role that has ta7en on e/plicitly politicalcharacteristics as ;apuche communities orani8e their resistance6istorically there 3ere to7is, 3ar leaders that di%%erent communities %ollo3ed"oluntarily, thouh currently no one plays this role, as the ;apuche ha"e notone to 3ar since $ein occupied $y the Chilean and Arentinean states inthe 1GG0s6

9 as7 a$out ender relations and ho3 the ;apuche "ie3 thins li7e %amily

structure and homose/uality, ma7in clear my o3n %eelins $ut also tryinnot to $e udmental6 ?os@ says the ;apuche %amily structure is the sameas in +uropean society, and there is a reat deal o% conser"atism, pressure tomarry and ha"e children, and disappro"al o% anythin that %alls outside o% this%ormat6 e thin7s that may$e it didnt used to $e li7e that, and perhapsthe Catholic missionaries and conser"ati"e Chilean society ha"e chanedtraditional "alues6 9n any case, the 3omen 3e meet durin our limited time inthe communities are all stron, acti"e, "ocal, and in"ol"ed, and in the homes3e stay in there seem to $e a sharin and a %le/i$ility o% roles6 The people inour roup, mean3hile, dont try too hard to present as heterose/ual or

cis>endered and dont ha"e any pro$lems6

H H H

9ts an e/citin time to $e in Wallmapu6 All the communities in resistance


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are united $ehind the hunerstri7in prisoners, $ut $ehind the scenes,important de$ates are ta7in place6 The hunerstri7e, $ased directly on theonoin strule (all the ;apuche prisoners are accused or con"icted o%crimes related to land reco"ery actions, such as arsons taretin the %orestrycompanies, or related to con%lict 3ith the Chilean state, such as the sei8in o%

a municipal $us or a shootin that a"e a ood scare to a statesattorney), has %ocused the ;apuche nation and captured the attention o% theentire Chilean population6 9t has 3on a popular leitimacy %or the ;apuchestrule, underminin the demoni8ation o% the direct tactics they use and3ea7enin the o"ernments position in castin these tactics asterrorism6 9n this situation, the ;apuche can o $eyond calls %or reaterautonomy or land re%orm 3ithin the Chilean state6

5The so>called ;apuche con%lict doesnt ha"e a solution6 The demands

3e ha"e necessitate a $rea7 3ith the %rame3or7 o% the state6 What 3edemand is so"ereinty and ;apuche independence6 We consciously proposethe historical %oundations o% these demands &666 #ur strule is%undamentally opposed to capitalism and the state &666 9 $elie"e 3e ha"e toopen a space internationally to spread our demands6 The ;apuche strulehas to $e internationalist, as the strule o% a people6 ;any o% the thins thata%%ect us, li7e capitalism and the states that represent it, the S, the +, arean enemy to peoples, irst


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rather, the place has a name, and the roup o% people has another name6?os@s community, ?uana ;illahual, at !uca@Ean7o, sits on a steep hilla$o"e one arm o% the la7e6 9t is a small community, 3ith ust a %e3 do8en%amilies6 ?os@s $rother is lon7o6 The houses are mostly small,rectanular, 3ooden $uildins sittin atop lo3 stilts6 ?os@ e/plains that the

traditional houses, the ruca, had thatched instead o% tin roo%s, $ut these ha"e$een mostly $urned do3n o"er the decades o% strule6

The oldest 7no3lede they ha"e o% the community is in 1GIJ, 3hen?os@s reat randmother had 10,000 hectares6 day Santiao, 3here they 3ere de%eated and consistentlypre"ented %rom ad"ancin any %arther6 When the Spanish arri"ed, the;apuche treated them as ust the most recent in"aders, and de%eated themas 3ell6 9ts a point o% pride that the 9nca, 3ho had an ad"anced,


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centrali8ed ci"ili8ation, %ell easily to the conuistadors, 3hile the ;apuche,3ho 3ere decentrali8ed, ne"er did6 What the Spanish couldnt understand3as that there 3as no sinle ;apuche army6 +ach roup o% communities hadtheir o3n to7i, and i% the Spanish 3on a $attle aainst one roup o% 3arriors,as soon as they ad"anced a little %arther theyd ha"e to %ace another one6

Durin my time in Wallmapu, 9 thin7 a lot a$out 3hat it means to $e a people6rom the traditional anarchist standpoint, a people or a nation is anessentiali8in cateory, and thus a "ehicle %or domination6 o3e"er, it$ecomes immediately clear that it 3ould $e impossi$le to support the;apuche strule 3hile $ein dismissi"e o% the idea o% a people6

ope%ully $y this point all Western anarchists reali8e that national li$erationstrules arent inherently nationalist that nationalism is a +uropeanmode o% politics insepara$le %rom the %act that all remainin +uropean nationsare arti%icial constructions o% a central state, 3hereas in the rest o% the 3orld(e/ceptin, say, China or ?apan), this is usually only true o% post>colonialstates (li7e Chile or Aleria) that e/ist in direct opposition to non>statenations6 ;any other nations are not at all homoeni8in or centrallyorani8ed6

Moin $eyond this, thouh, is it essentiali8in to tal7 a$out a ;apuche3orld"ie3 or 3ay o% li%eF The more 9 listen, ho3e"er, the more 9 dou$t myaccustomed standpoint6 To a reat e/tent, ;apuche is a chosen identity6 ;ost5Chileans ha"e $lac7 hair, $road %aces, and $ro3n s7in, 3hile lessthan 10N o% the population o% the Chilean state identi%y as ;apuche6 9n aconte/t o% %orced assimilation and a history o% enocide, choosin to identi%yas ;apuche is, on some le"els, a political statement, a 3ill%ul inheritance o% acultural tradition and hundreds o% years o% strule, and an enaement 3ithan onoin strateic de$ate that perhaps ma7es it leitimate to tal7 a$out3hat the ;apuche 3ant, 3hat they $elie"e, in a more sinular 3ay6 At onepoint, 3hen 3ere tal7in a$out mesti8os, ?os@ ma7es it clear that

someone is ;apuche i% they identi%y as such, e"en i% they ha"e mi/edparentae6 9n other 3ords the Western notion o% ethnicity, 3hich lea"es noroom %or choice $ecause it is $ased on $lood uanta, does not apply6 Also, the%act that the ;apuche call the +uropeans the 5ne3 9nca sho3 thatthey do not ha"e an essentiali8in, enerali8in "ie3 o% sameness $et3eenall indienous peoples6 #n the contrary, many people 3e met speci%ied aninterest in connectin speci%ically 3ith other irst


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$ac7 aainst their coloni8ation, sho3in that 3hat they cared a$out 3as nota racial cateory, $ut a strule6

So i% ;apuche is a chosen identity $ased on a "ery real shared history, sharedculture, and onoin collecti"e de$ate o% stratey, is it actually all thatdi%%erent %rom the identity o% anarchistF Well, yes: it has a loner history, tiedto a speci%ic eoraphic territory and cultural>linuistic inheritance6Anarchism also contains a reater di"ersity o% 3orld"ie3s, $ut on the %lipsideno one 9 met tried to present the ;apuche as homoenous, e"en as theytal7ed a$out a ;apuche 3orld"ie36

9n sum, the concept o% $elonin to a people $rins a reat deal o% strenthto the ;apuche strule6 -ecause the state %alls outside o% and aainst thatpeople and their history, 9 %ind some elements o% the ;apuche reality, o% their3orld, to $e a more pro%ound reali8ation o% anarchy than 9 ha"e %ound amonsel%>identi%ied anarchists6 And considerin that those anarchist mo"ementsthat ha"e $een a$le to maintain ust *0 years o% historical memory (Mreece,Spain) are consistently stroner than anarchist mo"ements that ha"e a hardtime e"en understandin the concept o% historical memory (S, O), it is nosurprise that the ;apuche, 3ho maintain o"er P00 years o% historicalmemory, are so stronly rooted that they seem imper"ious to repression6

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or the third time, 9 carry a smolderin $ranch %rom the coo7in %ire to thenest o% dry 7indlin 9"e placed in the $rush, and %inally it catches, and theorane %eathers %lap and %lutter li7e a $ird stuc7 in a thorn $ush6 Despite allthe anarchist romancin o% %ire, 9"e ne"er $e%ore thouht o% arson li7ethis6

Anelica and ?os@ ha"e ta7en us to reclaimed land, a plot 3ell suited %or

%armin, 3here the hillside isnt so steep6 ?os@ is dri"in the team o%o/en o"er the acre that 3as cleared last year, pullin a hea"y iron plo3throuh the earth to ma7e %urro3s %or so3in potato and onion6 The adacentacre has already $een seeded 3ith $arley6 Anelica, mean3hile, is tendinthe %ire6 #ne %ire is patiently coo7in our lunch, 3hile its children arespreadin throuh the $rush to clear the earth %or ne/t years %ields6 Andmy %riends and 9 are helpin6 +n"ironmentalists startin %orest %ires, 9 snic7er6


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#% course, theres $een no %orest here %or decades6 This 3as a pineplantation on stolen ;apuche lands, identical ro3s o% enetically modi%ied,non>nati"e pine trees planted $y orestal ;ininco, a company o3ned $y one

o% the 3ealthiest %amilies in Chile6 Ten years ao, a num$er o% hectares 3ereta7en o"er $y community mem$ers6 At %irst, only the most politically acti"emem$ers o% the community dared to participate in the re>occupation, andsome others 3ould come out to coo7 or other3ise i"e support6 When thecourts %ound out that $oth the community and the tim$er company held titlesto the same land, they declared they could ta7e no action, and on the roundthe community mem$ers ha"e o"er3helmed the %orestry employees6 cutson my ash>$lac7 hands, and then 9 3al7 do3n to the la7e, the Lleu Lleu, tocool o%% in its 3aters6

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;apuche land ta7eo"ers $ean in the early 1JJ0s, a%ter the end o% the'inochet dictatorship, 3ith roups li7e Conseo de Todas las Tierras6 They3ould ta7e o"er plots o% usurped ;apuche lands %or one day, sym$olically, toremind themsel"es and the 3orld that it 3as their land6 9t 3as an important


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step %or3ard, $ut li7e any step %or3ard, it 3asnt enouh6 59t didnt%rihten the $i companies6 Anelica tells me ho3 su$seuently, in 1JJG, the C6A6;6 %ormed, Coordinadora de Arauca>;alleco6 -y de"elopin the tactico% 5producti"e reco"eries, the C6A6;6 5enraed the landlords6

They reco"ered land %or ood, comin in 3ith a roup o% thirty people to cut

do3n the trees, turnin tim$er plantations into ardens so ;apuchecommunities could %eed themsel"es6 -ac7 in Temuco, 3hen 9 as7ed a$out allthe 5C6A6;6 s 9 sa3 ra%%itied on the 3alls, ?os@ had o7ed that5C6A6;6 3as to the Chilean state 3hat Al Qaida is to the 6S6o"ernment6

Anelica tells us ho3 $oth she and ?os@ had $een mem$ers o% C6A6;6, and ittoo 3as an important step %or3ard, $ut they le%t the orani8ation 3hen theyreali8ed it had a %undamentally le%tist 3ay o% thin7in, 5not truly ;apuche6

We"e al3ays sur"i"ed $ecause 3e ha"e our o3n 3ay o% thin7in6 We can$uild solidarity 3ith the Le%t $ut 3e cant $ecome part o% it that 3ould $eaainst 3ho 3e are6

9 as7 i% the land reco"ery actions sometimes in"ol"e replantin nati"e %orests6Anelica says that some ;apuche are replantin nati"e tree species, andperhaps it needs to happen more o%ten, $ut %or no3 they are %ocused onplantin ardens so they can 3in the a$ility to %eed themsel"es, and createtheir independence at an economic le"el6

Later, she tells us a$out li"in in clandestinity6 5or one thin, youdont ha"e any peace o% mind6 #n top o% that, you cant plan %or the%uture or ha"e any proectuality6 While youre eatin $rea7%ast, youll$e 7eepin your eyes on the road outside, ready to run at any time6 #netime, a cara"an o% *00 cops 3ith $uses, tan7s, 3ater cannons, and eepscame to arrest them, a hue display o% %orce to sho3 the %utility o% resistance6-ut Anelica sa3 the cara"an 3hen it 3as still on the other side o% the la7e,and they ran %or the hills6 5The 3hole path 3as reen 3ith uni%ormed

police6

Anelica a"e $irth to their son 3hile the t3o 3ere underround6 +"entuallythey 3ere cauht 3hen a neih$or $ecame an in%ormant %or P00,000 pesos(a$out a thousand dollars)6 Anelica spent * months in pretrial detention and3ent throuh three trials, $ut 3as ultimately acuitted o% 5illeal


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association under the antiterrorist la36 -e%ore $ein accused she hadalmost completed uni"ersity, e"erythin e/cept the %inal e/ams, $ut it 3as aCatholic school and they 3ouldnt let her ta7e the e/ams in ail so shene"er ot her diploma6


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'roudly, ;iriam sho3s me a line o% trees they ha"e planted near their house,all nati"e species li7e the notro, haulli, arayan, and ha8elnut6 5We %oundthe seedlins up in the mountains and $rouht them do3n here, shee/plains6 The top o% the hill is still co"ered in e/otic eucalyptus trees, 3hichdrain the 3ater ta$le, $ut theyre har"estin the eucalyptus %or %ire3ood

and slo3ly replacin them 3ith nati"e species6

They 3ant their dauhters to o to school at least until they learn ho3 toread, $ut there doesnt seem to $e any reat pressure to attend6 Durinthe days that 3e stay 3ith them, one dauhter seems to $e playin hoo7ypermanently6 ;iriam says she li7es to $rin her dauhters alon on landreco"ery actions so they can et a sense o% the strule, and anunderstandin that all this is their territory6

9n the past, most youn ;apuche 3ent to the cities $ut no3 an increasinnum$er are stayin in the country6 What they really need no3 is anindependent school in their community, that 3ill not train Chilean citi8ens $ut3ill $e $ased in the ;apuche 3orld"ie36

-oth Daniel and ;iriam used to $elon to the C6A6;6 $ut they ha"e since le%tit6 5The C6A6;6 came %rom the outside and did their 3or7 "ery 3ell, $uta%ter the actions theyd lea"e, and 3ho 3ould recei"e the conseuencesF

The community6 We dont thin7 thats a ood stratey6 We 3or7 insidethe community to ma7e the strule %rom the inside6 +"en i% it ta7es 1P, 20years6

C6A6;6, thouh it 3as the most radical ;apuche orani8ation until recently,proposes autonomy instead o% independence, meanin that the ;apuche3ould recei"e cultural and political rihts, and perhaps their o3n reionalo"ernment, 3ithin the Chilean state6 Some o% their lands 3ould $e returnedto them, thouh o3nership 3ould still $e %ormulated accordin to the e/istincapitalist la3s6 An increasin num$er o% ;apuche are $einnin to thin7 thatthe time has come to openly propose independence, restorin the pre>1GG0$orders, as uaranteed $y multiple treaties 3ith the Spanish cro3n and theChilean state, and restorin a so"erein Wallmapu, sel%>orani8ed accordinto its o3n cultural traditions, circular, ecocentric, decentrali8ed, andnonhierarchical6


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We tal7 3ith Daniel and ;iriam a$out all the similarities $et3een thestrules in Wallmapu and in +us7al erria, the -asue country6 The -asuesha"e 3on an autonomous o"ernment 3ithin the Spanish state, and some

cultural rihts %or the preser"ation o% their lanuae, coupled 3ith an e"enstroner repression that applies the antiterrorist la3, torture, and lon prisonsentences aainst anyone 3ho %ihts $y any means %or the %ull independenceo% the -asue people6 9% thats autonomy, 5then 3e 3ont %iht %orautonomy, lauhs ;iriam6

As the ;apuche strule strenthens, the repression also $ecomes moree%%ecti"e6 9n the past, the police 3ould come into ;apuche communities andet lost, $ut no3 they 7no3 3here e"erythin is6


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the usurped lands6 Around the 200*, the houses 3ere set on %ire, and the3or7ers and their %amilies 3ere $urned out6 Then the state set up a ma7eshi%tcommand center 3here a num$er o% police li"ed, to uard the tim$erplantation6 Chiles stratey o% control is hihly lealistic, so instead o%hirin mercenaries or paramilitaries as they miht in other countries, the

tim$er corporations rely directly on police protection6

Around 200B, it 3as time %or the police to o6 This time, the communitymem$ers didnt come in the niht, $ut in the daytime, in their hundreds,and %orced out the police6 Since then, that particular pine plantation has $eenunprotected, and the community has $eun clearin it so they can plant%ields6 p until then, the %orestry company 3anted to rent out land riht onthe $an7s o% the la7e, the Lleu Lleu, to $uild a tourist hotel6 The local;apuche 3ould recei"e employment, Daniel relates 3ith disust, 3or7in at

the hotel %or the tourists, sellin them "eeta$les, cleanin their toilets6 A%terthe police 3ere %orced out, the hotel proect 3as put on hold6 Some touristca$ins o3ned $y outsiders 3ere also torched around this time6 Around!anuilhue there are a %e3 "acation ca$ins o3ned $y ;apuche and rentedout in the summers to enerate some income, $ut they are lo3 7ey and e/iston the terms o% the community mem$ers themsel"es6

There is, ho3e"er, a pro$lem 3ith indienous capitalism6 Daniel and ;iriamrelate one story o% a community mem$er 3ho used his lands %or small>scale

ari$usiness, and others 3ho 7ic7ed out the loin companies only tocontinue to har"est and sell e/otic trees on that land6 -ut the only companiesa$le to $uy the lum$er 3ere the "ery same loin companies, so in the endthey didnt care 3ho controlled or manaed the land as lon as itcontinued producin under a capitalist loic6 !ecreatin capitalism 3ithintheir strule is a reconi8ed daner6

And then there are ;apuche politicians6 There are those 3ho 3or7 3ith theo"ernment, and those 3ho try to %orm political parties to co>opt the

strule, 5$ut there is no ;apuche political party, it doesnt e/ist,$ecause 3e closed the door and theyre le%t on the outside6

5The ;apuche can ha"e their independence, $ut i% they lac7 the spiritualside o% thins its nothin6 A ;apuche 3ithout ne3en is not ;apuche6


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the enery one recei"es %rom the natural 3orld6 5The time 3hen the s7yoes %rom dar7 to liht is 3hen you recei"e all your strenth6Accordinly, there is a speci%ic ;apuche ritual that one underta7es in times o%di%%iculty, ettin up $e%ore da3n to as7 %or strenth and dra3 on the po3ero% the 3orld6

Tim$er4

A %i%ty year old pine tree, standin one hundred %eet tall, does an incredi$lethin to sound as it %alls to3ards the earth6 irst, 3hen it %irst starts to lean,you are incredi$ly attuned to e"ery crea7 and crac7 o% 3ood6 Then, as soonas nothin is le%t holdin it up, the ra"ity o% its %all pulls all other sounds 3ithit into an acoustic $lac7 hole, and the 3hole 3orld oes silent6 Then, ust$e%ore impact, you $ecome a3are o% a terri$le 3ind, as all the thousand

$ranches pull %aster and %aster throuh the air6 inally, 3hen the reat treehits the round, you %eel the thunderclap in your "ery $ones, as i% %or amoment, you are the tree6

9ts a sad thin to 7ill such a reat tree, especially 3ith a tool so crude asa chainsa36 -ut death can also $e an occasion %or oy6 This tree should not $ehere, and in its $ody is held %i%ty years o% richness, that a coloni8in companytried to steal, $ut that 3ill no3 $e returned to the soil %rom 3hich it came6


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9ts late at niht 3hen 3ere ta7en o"er 3indin roads to the place3here ?uan Carlos ;illanao is hidin6 es on the run, li"in a %e3 monthsno3 in clandestinity, accused o% a crime under the antiterrorist la36 Theprosecutor is see7in IK years imprisonment in his case6 e tells us his story6

e le%t his community at 1B years old, and li"ed in the city %or nine years,homeless, learnin a %e3 di%%erent trades in order to sur"i"e6 9n 1JJ0, hereturned home, $ut %ound that no one 3as tal7in a$out strule6 So he 3entto Santiao, 3here he %ound a o$ in a mine in the north6 or ten years he3or7ed in the mine, occasionally comin $ac7 home to $rin money andparticipate in the strule, lea"in aain $e%ore he appeared on theauthorities radar6 or years he supported the strule and e"aded arrest6A%ter ten years o% 3or7, his community %inally too7 o"er the estate that hadusurped some o% their lands, and he returned home to li"e and thin7 a$out

independence6 59 ha"e to %iht %or my people, he says6

5The ;apuche strule has all it needs, he tells us6 5And 3ere al3ays three steps ahead o% the state6 Theyre "ery strateic, hee/plains6 #nce, they too7 o"er an estate surrounded $y a moat and electric3ire and uarded $y police6 undreds o% people came to protest and con%rontthe police at the %ront o% the estate, and then others appeared inside theproperty, $ehind the police, and $urned it do3n6 The police ne"er %iured outho3 they ot in, he chuc7led6

Clandestinity, e/plains ?uan Carlos, rarely lasts more than t3o years $e%orethe %uiti"e is cauht, $ut oin on the run can sho3 contempt %or state

ustice and a re%usal to su$mit to their institutionality6 The time on the run canalso ma7e thins more di%%icult %or the prosecution, as 3itnesses are lost orchane their story6

At another point in the con"ersation, he e/plains ho3 important the la7e is topeople in that reion, and ho3 its no coincidence that its 7ept soclean6 +arlier, 3e had $een $rouht across the la7e on a little motor $oat,$ecause tra"ellin %rom one side to the other 3as almost impossi$le, $utusually the la7e is undistur$ed, and a motor$oat 3ill ne"er $e le%t in the3ater 3hen it is not in use6 e o7es that i% any tourists came and tried to ets7i on the Lleu Lleu, they 3ould $e ta7en care o%6 5We ;apuche are "eryood 3ith a roc7 and slin, he smiles6


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When 9 as7 a$out their relations 3ith the anarchists, he arees that they i"eood solidarity, $ut the Chilean anarchists 5lac7 ne3en6 The spiritualside is completely missin, and thats a reat 3ea7ness, he says6

The hunerstri7ers in the Temuco prison also underscored the importance o%their spirituality6 Their machis had $een a$le to "isit them and tend to them3hile they 3ere loc7ed up, and this support allo3ed them to o much loner3ithout eatin6

Little $y little

;auricio uauillao, one o% the hunerstri7ers in the Temuco prison, told us:5We 3ant to re$uild our people, and this proect directly leads us tocon%ront the state $y all means possi$le6 ntil no3 3e ha"ent had anyarmed orani8ations6 Were danerous %or our ideas6

The $est solidarity is $ased in personal relationships and reciprocity6 Asanarchists continue to support the ;apuche strule and attac7 those 3horepress them, 3e also ain a reat deal, as the ;apuche $urn out the shallo3%oundations o% State and Capital in one corner o% the 3orld, and continue to

de"elop a pro%ound strule 3e can learn a reat deal %rom6

We also ha"e $een strulin %or hundreds o% years, $ut 3e need to re"i"ethese roots in order to ain strenth %rom them6 We can see that there are ahundred paths o% strule, and a hundred 7inds o% anarchists 3ho are notanarchists, comrades 3ho are di%%erent, and separate, $ut re%lect a little o%oursel"es, in our shared lo"e o% %reedom and hatred o% domination6 Asanarchists, 3e do not need to $elon to the same orani8ation as them, usethe same stratey, or adopt the same 3orld"ie3, to %iht toether and apart

as comrades, $ecause 3e are aainst the 3orld o% %orced centrali8ation6

ope%ully, they 3ill succeed in mo"in %rom autonomy to independence, andhope%ully 3e 3ill succeed in %indin roots in rootless countries, andde"elopin a strenth that oes %ar deeper than repression6


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or Land and reedom, 3e continue6

anarkia en wallmapu - anonimo

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