Hommodolars Collective, "A Combative May Day in Santiago, Chile"
May 3, 2006 - 4:39pm -- autonomedia
Anonymous Comrade writes:
A Combative May Day in Santiago, Chile
Hommodolars Media Collective
The following is a new communiqué from the Hommodolars media collective. We send an international greeting to all of those who participated in this past May Day. From immigrant workers who went on strike in North America to protests in the most ignored—by the imperialist media—corners of the world, we are in an international struggle.
Diverse organizations took part in the action called for this May 1st in commemoration of the international worker’s day in Santiago, Chile which began at the corner of Alameda and Portugal, the neurological center of the capital. While the Central Union of Workers (CUT) presented a “show” to “celebrate” the day of “work,” diverse groups welcomed the call to make the day a day of “proletarian struggle.” Assisted by the march, but without marching together with the CUT, and while Tommy Rey had been dancing to his music, an ample and radical group commemorated this date through symbolic direct actions against icons of capital and confrontations with those that sustain it (the pigs).
Mass media are reporting that masked demonstrators destroyed symbols of capitalism throughout downtown Santiago. They also engaged in numerous confrontations with Chilean pigs. By the end of the day, there were 74 arrests.Here are some photographs of the street action:
Militants march in the May Day activities.
Pigs being attacking the protestors with water cannons.
The repression continues.
Marchers destroy police barricades and make their own.
Someone burns a cop’s hat.
Marchers fight back.
Police repression continues in the streets.
More barricades are mounted.
Protestors hold the streets to struggle for a newly liberated autonomous zone.
Masked demonstrators destroy capitalist shop fronts.
For more information in Spanish, check out www.hommodolars.cl
Anonymous Comrade writes:
A Combative May Day in Santiago, Chile
Hommodolars Media Collective
The following is a new communiqué from the Hommodolars media collective. We send an international greeting to all of those who participated in this past May Day. From immigrant workers who went on strike in North America to protests in the most ignored—by the imperialist media—corners of the world, we are in an international struggle.
Diverse organizations took part in the action called for this May 1st in commemoration of the international worker’s day in Santiago, Chile which began at the corner of Alameda and Portugal, the neurological center of the capital. While the Central Union of Workers (CUT) presented a “show” to “celebrate” the day of “work,” diverse groups welcomed the call to make the day a day of “proletarian struggle.” Assisted by the march, but without marching together with the CUT, and while Tommy Rey had been dancing to his music, an ample and radical group commemorated this date through symbolic direct actions against icons of capital and confrontations with those that sustain it (the pigs).
Mass media are reporting that masked demonstrators destroyed symbols of capitalism throughout downtown Santiago. They also engaged in numerous confrontations with Chilean pigs. By the end of the day, there were 74 arrests.Here are some photographs of the street action:
Militants march in the May Day activities.
Pigs being attacking the protestors with water cannons.
The repression continues.
Marchers destroy police barricades and make their own.
Someone burns a cop’s hat.
Marchers fight back.
Police repression continues in the streets.
More barricades are mounted.
Protestors hold the streets to struggle for a newly liberated autonomous zone.
Masked demonstrators destroy capitalist shop fronts.
For more information in Spanish, check out www.hommodolars.cl