Mapuche Awareness Day
Sun, Feb 16
|Medicine For Nightmares Bookstore and Ga
Join Medicine Nightmares for an in-person reading by the author of Palestine 1492: A Report Back on the resistances and rebellions in the 500-year struggle for life.
Time & Location
Feb 16, 2025, 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Medicine For Nightmares Bookstore and Ga, 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
About the event
Mapuche Awareness Day invites us to reflect on the disappearance of Julia Chuñil Catricura, a Mapuche leader and president of the Putreguel Indigenous Community in Máfil, Chile. Julia was last seen on November 8, 2024, and more than 70 days after her disappearance, there are still no clear answers about her whereabouts. Her fight to defend Mapuche territory and her constant denunciation of threats from forestry companies are at the heart of this injustice.
Where is Julia Chuñil? This question calls us to action, to demand justice for a woman who has been brave in her defense of the Mapuche people, facing the interests of the economic and political power that threatens her land and her life. At this event, we will reflect on her story, her legacy, and the reasons behind her disappearance.
Presented by Mapuche Chief, Lonko Juanita Millal, head of the Chol-Chol Mapuche Community in Oakland, California.…