release from Chief Juana Calfunao on next steps with regard to the Mapuche political prisoners on hunger strike.
· Communications National Public and International Chief Juana Calfunao
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qualities my mother in a Mapuche hunger strike and lonko, I invite all mothers of the strikers, Mapuche sisters, all mothers and mothers Mapuche of Chile in general, to take a walk to Santiago, which starts on Wednesday September 29 at 10:00 am from the front of the men's prison in Temuco.
. From the point indicated, we will leave the outskirts of the city, where we board a bus to bring us to Concepcion, of this city will leave to us in the metropolitan area, where you walk to the Palacio de La Moneda. From now call on all social organizations that want to join and support in this walk.
The reason for this mobilization is to provide unconditional support to the demands of those thirty-four children of the Mapuche people in an act of utmost consequence, they are risking their lives in pursuit of freedom and the deepest demands of our people .
The Mapuche are not terrorists, therefore the Chilean State can not judge and jailed under the criminal type. We are an ancient people related to land and the past five hundred years, we have to confront those who have sought and intend to invade to take over our resources and our dignity.
Simultaneously the walk and also in support of demands of our fellow prisoners on hunger strike, the Mapuche VIII, IX and X Regions, march to Temuco, in order to block access to the city, where they will remain firm as long as necessary, until the government sit and talk with representatives of the people and the families strikers.
From those conversations, we expect a serious commitment that translates into real solutions with respect to the legal situation of prisoners and the main demands of our people.
Through this statement also reiterated the call for our traditional authorities and the Mapuche people in general, to attend a trawün, to be held on Sunday 26 September, in the town of Quepos, in the community where you want to install the airport, for the purposes of parley, make agreements together and devise a strategy as a people to confront, once and for all the major challenges that this fight us . Chief Juana Calfunao
September 24, 2010
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