"'By all means,' Luisa said, 'I believe the violence within us is just. It’s necessary. I believe that we can no longer try to turn the other cheek. Not only is this motto a lie, but it also isn’t good for anybody. It can’t be. We have to be capable of defending ourselves by being beautifully violent. We must cover our faces (“encapucharse”) and go out into the street to be against everything that represents the atrocious powers we fight against.'"

  • Pavlichenko_Fan_Club [comrade/them]
    hexagon
    ·
    3 years ago

    Here's another banger of a quote:

    "As the estallido social gives way to the constitutional convention, hundreds of rebellious youth remain in jail, either charged for crimes related to protests or in preventative detention awaiting trial. A movement has grown to demand the release of all the prisoners of the revolt. This movement includes a large portion of the constitutional delegates who have refused to negotiate until they are out of jail. Inevitably, this discussion will lead to a nuanced debates about questions like Who counts as a prisoner of the revolt? What actions are political, and which actions were criminal?

    Luisa leaves us a lesson about how to escape this discursive quagmire. Instead of debating who to include or exclude, we can start by affirming that the end result of the disruption and destruction that occurred during the estallido social was to produce the conditions for the profound institutional changes that we are now beginning to witness. The important thing is not to be civil, but to fight."

    Emphasis mine