Argentina Autonomista Project
Over the last few years an incredible wave of social protest and action has engulfed Argentina. In the midst of a severe economic crisis there have been massive street protests, over 200 factories taken under worker control, more than three hundred coordinated microenterprise cooperatives organized by unemployed women and men, countless neighborhood associations formed, and many other autonomous popular initiatives. Yet, little is heard about this in the United States or in Europe.
The purpose of the Argentina Autonomista Project is to bring news about events in Argentina to North America and Europe, through people-to-people exchanges and to facilitate non-hierarchical communication within Argentina, especially among groups with a minimum of resources.
Speakers/Presenters will include:
Graciela Monteagudo, coordinator of the AAP, Argentine human rights activist and community artist. Graciela holds an MFA from Goddard College and has worked internationally with diverse communities both on her own and with Bread and Puppet Theater. Some of her work has included co-ordinating puppet and street theater actions at protests in Buenos Aires; Vieques, Puerto Rico; the April 20th, 2002 protests against the war in Washington, DC; and the January, 2002 protests against the World Economic Forum in New York City.
Soledad Bordegaray, a co-founder of the MTD La Matanza, an an unemployed workers organization that has created through direct democracy an amazing array of microenterprises, an organic community garden, and an elementary school.
Claudia Acuna, human rights organizer and award winning independent journalist and co-founder of La Vaca, a web based counterinformation agency. Claudia is also the main organizer of solidarity campaigns with the piqueter@s of the UTD Mosconi, and three different indigenous organizations presently struggling to get their lands back from the US-based Seabord Corporation.