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The Defensor?a Popular is a group created in the 2008 by a group of workers (lawyers,
prosecutors and students) in order to defend human rights, a tool to defend the activists
engaged in social struggles. ---- This group works to defend criminal people, workers,
trade unions and student organizations engaged in social struggle in Chile. Social
struggles that are violently repressed by the Chilean state that relies to criminalize
social activists on laws and a system inherited from a dictatorship that was condemned
worldwide. ---- The Defensoria Popula r defined as social activist any individual or
community social or political exercising his right to protest, to demand changes in public
policies by administrative authorities. ---- Since its formation, the group Defensoria
Popular is present in the street, in every event and in the courts where the state turns
the law uses the judiciary to repress the social struggle and condemn militants.
Popular Defensoria denounced the use of "anti-terrorism law" and demonstrated the use of
police arrangements in lawsuits against student activists, labor, social and Mapuche. The
class is shown in the famous "Caso Bombas" trial, he was able to demonstrate the violation
of the rights of defense, police reveal many fixtures against militants who were
arbitrarily arrested, kidnapped and found guilty by the Chilean State before the courts
have the "evidence".
In order to continue to act, this collective of people's defense needs a physical,
economic and political support. Two of its members, lawyers, conducting a tour of Europe
to present its action, make contacts, to force the media to break the silence.
The conference in Pianofabriek, Friday 28, will discover this group, disassemble
mechanisms that authorities set up when to repress social movements. About topical in a
time when social movements stand in Belgium to demand the maintenance of social benefits
while the government puts in place the means of repression, wants to limit the right to
strike by imposing a minimum service, offers police overprotection and criminalize activists.
Organized by Fewla Mapuche Struggle
Friday, November 28, 2014
Pianofabriek Culturencentrum (Rue du Fort, 35, 1060 Saint-Gilles)
