Chile Coup Anniversary Protest Turns Violent

SANTIAGO -- Protesters hurling Molotov cocktails clashed with police in
the center of the Chilean capital on Sunday at an anniversary
commemoration for leftists killed after Gen. Augusto Pinochet took power
in a 1973 coup.

Witnesses said police fired tear gas and water cannons at protesters,
some of whom were hooded, on a march to a monument in Santiago's General
Cemetery.

Violence is common at the annual protest, which marks the death of an
estimated 3,000 people killed by the armed forces after Pinochet
overthrew leftist President Salvador Allende on Sept. 11, 1973.

Several South African anarchist projects -- Bikisha Media
Collective (BMC), Zabalaza Books (ZB) and the Zabalaza
Action Group (ZAG, formerly the Anarchist Union) -- have
signed up as members of the new anarchist network
International Libertarian Solidarity (ILS) of which the
following organisations are also a part: Al Abdil al Taharouri
(AAT, Lebanon), Alternative Libertaire (AL, France &
Belgium), Confederacion General del Trabajo (CGT, Spain),
Organisasion Communiste Libertaire (OCL, France), RÈseau
No Pasaran (France), Consejo IndÌgena Popular de Oaxaca --
"Ricardo Flores Magon" (CIP-RFM, Mexico), Confederation
Nationale du Travail -- "Vignoles" (CNT-V, France), Federacio
Anarquista Ga?cha (FAG, Brazil), Federacion Anarquista
Uruguaya (FAU, Uruguay), Marmitag (Greece), Organizace
RevolucnÌch Anarchistu-Solidarita (ORA-S, Czech Republic),
Organizacion Socialista Libertaria (OSL, Argentina),
Organisation Socialiste Libertaire (OSL, Switzerland), Sveriges
Arbetares Centralorganisation (SAC, Sweden), and the
Workers' Solidarity Movement (WSM, Ireland).

Other groups that support the ISL are the Industrial Workers of
the World (IWW, international), Anacho-Sindico (India), the
North-Eastern Federation of Anarcho-Communists (NEFAC,
Canada & the USA), Sibirskaya Konfederatsia Truda (SKT,
Russia) and Unione Sindacale Italiana -- "Roma" (USI-R, Italy).

chris volkay writes

At the one year anniversary of 9/11, I can’t help but
observe our nation, sadly, acting like abused children who,
immediately run to their tormentor. In the aftermath of 9/11, there was a call to return to
religion as a salve for our latest rash of problems. As I pointed out in an article for the Council for Secular
Humanism, we have a “Gentleman’s Agreement” regarding all
strains and mutations of religion. Never speak ill of the
other person’s religion, lest he throw stones at yours. So
we never begin to address the real causes involved with
9/11. Religion itself. Not only “theirs,” but “ours” too.
How many non-believers fly planes into buildings, occupy
other people’s lands, etc. There are many factors, but
underpinning it all is religion.

As long as we continue to embrace superstition over science,
these tragedies will continue as surely as the sun setting
this evening.