Ollas Comunes – Collective Solutions for Individual Problems

In this episode, we talk about the Ollas Comunes in Chile. It can be translated as Solidarity Kitchens but it’s way more than that. How Pili describes it: “it’s a huge pod that everybody can eat from.” It’s about taking action in times of crises, about empowerment, and about learning how to self-organize. It’s feminist, it’s resistance, it’s powerful. And it has a longer history but started to bloom again in the recent crises connected to the repression during the 2019 revolte and the corona-pandemia.

It’s the collective jumping in to find solutions for the problems of many individuum in times of crises – but not just in form of charity or rationed food-packages.

How the collective cooking in a public place can cause all that and more will be discussed here.

Sendungsgestaltung: Hannah Barth und Pilar Mason

Im Interview: Pilar Mason, Cook

Sprachen: Englisch, Spanisch

Musik: Cuarencueca (Ollas Comunes) – Camila Chascona Cacerolazo – Ana Tijoux Antipatriarca – Ana Tijoux Quememos el reino – Camila Moreno

Video-Sections: El Páramo – Olla Comun – Chile Solidarity Network

Fotocredit: José Venegas