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Friday, May 17, 2013
Cooperativa Mom, acampe contra desalojo
Luego de permanecer un año en la empresa de Pompeya, en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, los 16 asociados de la Cooperativa Mom fueron desalojados el martes 14 de mayo de 2013 por más de 50 afectivos de la Gendarmería Nacional y 30 de la Policía Metropolitana. Con dos años de sueldos y aportes jubilatorios adeudados, los trabajadores decidieron ocupar la planta de la ex empresa Impresores Lanci SRL desde mayo de 2012 para preservar los puestos laborales. Fueron desalojados, pero la comunidad les abrió sus puertas para reforzar su lucha. Iniciaron un acampe hasta volver a entrar al taller y ponerlo a producir como cooperativa de trabajo.
Realización: Grupo Alavío
Mayo 2013
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Ocupar Wall Street: entre la democracia y el establishment
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Saturday, November 19, 2011
GMO Soy Assassination
Campesino murdered in Argentina
(photo: The man holding the gun was identified as Javier Juarez, employee of the Ciccioli agrobusiness firm)
Argentina’s genetically modified soy production model has spurred the nation’s economic recovery, but it has resulted in violent land disputes. A campesino was murdered during an eviction attempt this week. FSRN’s Marie Trigona reports from Buenos Aires.
Cristian Ferreyra, a 25-year-old farmer and campesino activist, was shot and killed while resisting a land eviction in the Northern Province of Santiago del Estero. MOCASE, the largest peasant organization in Argentina, says it has identified the armed men as working for an agribusiness firm called Ciccioli.
MOCASE says organizers received direct threats from Ciccioli, and that representatives from the firm said they would “kill” any peasant who resisted eviction from communal lands. Congressman Claudio Lozano spoke at a press conference Thursday.
“The expansion of GMO soy has caused the displacement of small farmers. When communities resist, they are victims of violent repression and even assassinations as in
this case.” In two years, at least four peasants and indigenous have been killed in land disputes in Argentina. Marie Trigona FSRN, Buenos Aires.
Wednesday, November 09, 2011
Justice Out of Argentina’s Dark Past: Dictatorship Era Torturers Sentenced
Wednesday, 09 November 2011 22:45 Marie Trigona
A federal court in Argentina recently sentenced 12 former military officers to life in prison for crimes against humanity carried out at the ESMA Navy Mechanics School, a former navy school and one of Latin America’s most notorious torture-centers. More than 30,000 people were secretly imprisoned and executed during Argentina’s bloody dictatorship from 1976-1983.
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Thursday, October 27, 2011
Argentina court sentences military officers for roles in notorious torture center
In Argentina, a federal court sentenced 12 former military officers to life in prison for crimes against humanity carried out at the ESMA Navy Mechanics School, which became one of Latin America’s most notorious torture-centers. More than 30,000 people were secretly imprisoned and executed during Argentina’s bloody dictatorship from 1976 to 1983. FSRN’s Marie Trigona reports from Buenos Aires.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Argentina re-elects Cristina Kirchner for second term
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Abortion debate erupts in Argentina as election nears
In Argentina, reproductive rights advocates are pushing lawmakers to ease restrictions on abortion. Most countries in Latin America have made abortion illegal, as is the case in Argentina. But Human rights groups say the ban is harming women. They point to illegal abortions as the leading cause of maternal death in the country. President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner’s is a strong supporter of the ban on abortion, but for the first time a bill was presented in Argentina’s national congress to discuss the legalization of abortion and that has spurred a lively debate both inside and outside of congress. FSRN’s Marie Trigona reports from Buenos Aires.
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Anti-Capitalism: New Book Out
Anti-Capitalism: The New Generation of Emancipatory Movements by Ezequiel Adomovsky has been released by Seven Stories Books. This book is a useful and fun to read resource for learning more about how to resist capitalism. I translated this book and it is great to see it in print.
Saturday, April 30, 2011
La Pelea entre Wall Street y la Democracia
Noam Chomsky en un artículo reciente, encuentra una conexión entre los levantamientos populares en Egipto, Tunes y Líbano con las movilizaciones en Madison, Wisconsin y otras ciudades de los Estados Unidos.
En ambos conflictos se lucha por la democracia, en el este contra regímenes dictatoriales y en Madison en defensa de derechos que fueron ganados con luchas duraderas y que ahora están bajo la amenaza que caracteriza el momento actual de la democracia en los EEUU. Ambas luchas populares se encuentran enfrentando a estados manejados por elites e intereses económicos. Chomsky hace hincapié en la capacidad de las elites para restringir y sofocar la democracia a pesar de las instituciones y reglas del juego: “En el mundo real, la aversión a la democracia por el elite es la norma. La evidencia es abrumadora, que la democracia se apoya en la medida que contribuye a objetivos sociales y económicas.” Es evidente que la democracia en los Estados Unidos ha experimentado unos cambios extraordinarios, una población que votó por el primer presidente Afro-Americano en la historia de un país fundando y construido sobre el legajo de la esclavitud. No obstante, la tesis de Chomsky resuena si se piensa en la igualdad como un criterio para la transición hacia la democracia. Hoy en los Estados Unidos, 400 individuos poseen más riqueza que todo el resto de la población combinados.[1] El gobierno advierte que el país está al borde de la bancarrota, sin embargo las corporaciones tienen más de 16 trillones de dólares en reservas de efectivo y publican ganancias record. La otra cara de los EEUU, uno de los países más ricos del mundo, muestra que más de 25 por ciento de la población no tiene acceso a la salud, dado la privatización de servicios. En el 2011, la educación, la salud, el sistema de bienestar social y las protecciones para los trabajadores se ven atacados, un proceso que se viene desarrollando desde la década de los ochenta.
Una elite o grupo corporativista está condicionando las “reglas del juego” para la democracia actual de los EEUU. Esto es evidente con los cambios en las políticas de los gobiernos estatales y federales aprobados desde la asunción a la presidencia de Barak Obama. Los miles que movilizaron en Wisconsin protestaron en contra de recortes a la educación, salud y ataques contra la libertad para sindicalización. Enfrentado una campaña para destruir los sindicatos del sector público en Wisconsin por el Gobernador Scott Walker, manifestaciones ocuparon el edificio del Capital del Estado de Wisconsin. Los cuídanos de Egipto, que dijeron basta a una dictadura, mandaron pizzas a las manifestantes de Wisconsin que congelaban en las calles resistiendo el avance para limitar los derechos públicos.
Los poderes del “establishment” tienen el control de los medios, pueden amenazar con una ‘aniquilación al sistema económico’ si sus instituciones financieras se colapsan, y parece que dado eso nadie puede hacer nada al respecto. En gran parte, ese mecanismo de alianza entre los poderes del establishment y los poderes del estado funciona por la financiación de campanas electorales. Se estima que las campanas electorales del 2012 va a costar más de 2 mil millones dólares, la mayoría del cual vendrá de las corporaciones.
Las corporaciones, han utilizando el argumento de la crisis económica como una palanca para desplazar los derechos de los sectores populares ganados en el siglo 20. Y hacen eso mientras pueden reducir radicalmente sus impuestos. Solo unos años después que los padres fundadores escribieron la Constitution of the United States, fue evidente el peligro de los monopolios comerciales que empezaron aparecer mientras la Revolucion Industrial tomó voracidad en la nación post-colonial. En un libro titulado Unequal Protection el autor Thom Hartmann cuenta como Thomas Jefferson se arrepintió de no haber incluido una enmienda a la Constitución para prevenir que algunas empresas puedan crecer a un tamaño que les permita dominar ramas de industrias o influir al gobierno soberano. Las cosas serian muy distintas si “la libertad de monopolios en comercio” hubiera sido incorporada a los Bill of Rights el 15 de Diciembre de 1791. Se podría estimar que los monopolios de comercio han sido los obstructores a la democracia por más de dos siglos. Tal vez en Líbano no hubiera habido un tirano, ni tampoco las bombas enviados por las Naciones Unidas y una clase media con seguridad laboral y un sueldo digno no sería el sueño perdido que es hoy en Estados Unidos.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Argentina’s Qom-Toba community call for an end to repression and discrimination of indigenous people
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Argentina probes role of US financial institutions in dirty war
Tens of thousands will march in Argentina to mark what they now call the National Day of Memory. Today marks 35 years since Argentina’s military launched a coup that overthrew Isabel Peron, and escalated that country’s “Dirty War.” Ongoing human rights trials have led to the arrest of over 200 former military officers for participation in torture, murder and the forced disappearance of up to 30,000 in the seven years following the coup. Now, these investigations are taking a different turn: human rights advocates are probing the role of US financial institutions in funding Argentina’s military dictatorship. FSRN’s Marie Trigona reports.
Listen to radio story: FSRN.ORG
Wednesday, December 01, 2010
Forced Sterilization: Oppressing Latin America’s Womb
I just finished up an inspiring week speaking to women from throughout Latin America who use community radio to promote gender equality. As I spoke to women from rural areas in Latin America about communication rights, they drew the connection between their voices, reproductive rights and human rights. So why has it taken so long for reproductive rights to be treated as human rights?
Women in this region have made incredible strides in the past decade. Chile, Argentina and now soon Brazil will have seen their first women presidents take power. Women’s movements in the region have grown, and proved themselves to be a force to be reckoned with. However, as we are well into the 21st, women’s rights still aren’t fully recognized. And it is the womb of Latin America that suffers.
The news of cases of forced sterilization in Chile sends an ominous reminder of how reproductive rights in the region are regarded. The report from the Center for Reproductive rights, Dignity Denied: Violations of the Rights of HIV-Positive Women in Chilean Health Facilities details the cases of 27 HIV-positive women who were forcibly sterilized.
The idea of an HIV-positive woman giving the birth to a child may bring up issues about health and responsibility. However, the State or government agency should not hold the authority to deprive a woman of her agency and right to make decisions regarding her body. This is exactly what occurred in the case of 36-year-old Julia, a HIV-positive woman who was forcibly sterilized in Chile. Julia had considered the facts about having a child, and the risk of mother-to-child transmission was low. When she experienced health problems, she was turned away at a local hospital and verbally abused. Later on she had a miscarriage.
Francesca, another HIV-positive woman was unknowingly sterilized after a Cesarean surgery. When she woke up, she had a healthy baby boy, but had been sterilized, according to a Global Post report.
Reproductive rights organizations have brought Francesca’s case to the Inter-American Rights Commission. The court will have to decide whether the Chilean government failed to protect her from forced sterilization. Forced or coercive sterilizations of HIV-positive women have also occurred in Mexico, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, South Africa and Namibia.
These recent cases of forced sterilization send painful reminders of the legacy of forced sterilization as a form of gender violence. Forced sterilizations have occurred all over the world, most notably in minority communities. In particular, indigenous women throughout the Americas have found themselves the victim of involuntary sterilizations. The United States government has also violated human rights during a campaign in the 1970’s in which at least 3,406 Native American women were involuntarily sterilized. Unfortunately, as we are well into the 21st century, the practice continues.
Sterilization is just one way in which sexual oppression of Latina, indigenous and African women in the Americas is implemented. Throughout the region, women do not have the right to safe abortions. In many countries, sexual education has been banned from public schools. In my residing country, Argentina, clandestine abortions are the leading cause of maternal death. In Chile, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic, abortion is banned under all circumstances, even when the mother’s life is at risk.
Globally, the lack of reproductive rights has also helped to stigmatize sexually transmittable HIV and AIDS. Around the world, religious groups have fought to prohibit sexual education in public schools and access to condoms. Women are hurt the most by the social stigma and shame prevalent in society. Aside from constituting a direct violation of basic rights, forced sterilization of HIV-positive women further stigmatizes the disease. And as this stigmatization deepens, women may be more reluctant to convince their sexual partners to use safer-sex methods, to get tested for HIV or seek out reproductive right health care.
Women, we need to look at our bodies as spaces where human rights must be respected. Our health, access to proper health care, and our right to make decisions regarding our own bodies should constitute human rights. In the very womb of the Americas, we mustn’t allow women’s bodies become prisons or instruments for oppression.
Marie Trigona is a writer, radio producer and blogger based in Argentina. She is a 2010 recipient of the BlogHer International Activist Scholarship. This post was originally written for Blogher.
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