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December 16, 2019
Mohawk Nation News 'O Cana'jon' the Revised Anthem'
CHILE -- Video: Lawyer for Acquitted Mapuche Goldman Prize Winner Speaks About Case
Video: Lawyer for Acquitted Goldman Prize Winner Alberto Curamil Speaks About the Case
This video includes many of my photographs – Orin Langelle
This video was shot over the week of 25 November, during the trial of Mapuche Lonko Alberto Curamil over manufactured charges that he was involved in a robbery.
Lonko Alberto Curamíl during court hearings in Temuco, Chile photo: Orin Langelle/GJEP
In fact, his arrest and subsequent year and a half in jail awaiting trial are understood to have been retribution for his role in leading a campaign that stopped two hydroelectric projects on the Rio Cautín, a sacred river to the Mapuche, the headwaters of which start in the snowfields of the Lonquimay volcano.
In the video, his attorney Rodrigo Román speaks about the case and the greater issue of state repression against Mapuche people, whose land has long been the target of expropriation for industrial timber plantations. As another Mapuche Lonko explained, “first they stole our land, now they want to steal our rivers.”
December 14, 2019
Mapuche Lonko Alberto Curamíl Acquitted of All Charges
Mapuche Lonko Alberto Curamíl Acquitted of All Charges
2019 Goldman Environmental Prize winner to walk out a free man
Lonko Alberto Curamíl during court hearings in Temuco, Chile photo: Orin Langelle/GJEP
Temuco, Chile – On 13 December the Court of Temuco acquitted Lonko Alberto Curamíl and Werken Álvaro Millalén of all charges, allowing the Goldman Environmental Prize winner to walk out a free man.
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His daughter Belén Curamil said, “I am very happy because we knew they were innocent, both the lonko Alberto Curamil and the werken Álvaro Millalén. If they were in prison for so long, it is because they raised their voices and fought for our territory, for the freedom of our Mapu, the freedom of our rivers and the freedom of the people and the Mapuche people.” Belén Curamil accepted the Goldman Prize on behalf of her father, because he was imprisoned awaiting trial.
Another Day in the Chilean Uprising
Another Day in the Chilean Uprising
Santiago: where militancy, music and art meet and complement each other
Copy and all photographs by Orin Langelle
Protesters tear up the sidewalk to make projectiles for later street fight with the Carabineros (national police)
Santiago, Chile – Last night, 13 December, thousands of people took to the streets lengthening the almost daily protest to almost two months. Plaza de la Dignidad was filled and overflowing down side streets in what was reportedly one of the biggest turnouts to date in the mobilization. It appears unless the government backs down and organizes a constitutional assembly, the protests promise to keep going.
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