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Trigona: Grassroots Unionism Under Attack in Argentina
Znet Article, October, 31 2010
Marie Trigona
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The killing of a 23-year old labor activist has sparked massive protests in Argentina. Argentina’s rich labor history has been plagued with violent episodes...
Trigona: Argentina’s Mothers of Plaza de Mayo: A living legacy of hope and human rights
Znet Article, October, 29 2010
Marie Trigona
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The Mothers of Argentina’s "disappeared," have passed down a legacy in defending human rights, as they walk steadily together...
Trigona: Long Standing Impunity Challenges Argentina: 4 Years Without Julio Lopez
Commentary, October, 01 2010
Marie Trigona
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Argentina recently commemorated the four year anniversary of the disappearance of Julio Lopez, to demand that the torture survivor and human rights activist be found alive.
Trigona: Mujeres Libres Presentation
Video, September, 07 2010
Marie Trigona
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The blog www.mujereslibresblogspot.com was inspired by the anarcho-feminist group Mujeres Libres and their call for equality, freedom, and revolution.
Trigona: Plan Condor on Trial
Audio, June, 08 2010
Marie Trigona
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A human rights trial in Argentina is looking into a US-backed program that engaged in torture, assassination and disappearance. The program, called Plan Condor, was a shared strategy in Latin America's Southern Region during the 1970s and 80s and ...
Trigona: Argentina's indigenous continue to struggle as country marks bi-centennial
Audio, May, 27 2010
Marie Trigona
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Argentina celebrates the bicentennial of a revolution that paved the road to independence from Spain with the nation’s capital transformed into a gala event. But not everyone is celebrating. The nation’s indigenous people are calling attention to...
Trigona: Murder of Human Rights Witness Sparks Fears
Znet Article, April, 23 2010
Marie Trigona
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The recent murder of Silvia Suppo, a key witness in a human rights trial on crimes committed during the Argentine dictatorship, has sparked fears for the safety of witnesses who testify publicly in the cases. Suppo, a torture survivor, was stabbed...
Trigona: Argentina Revisits Dictatorship: A Year of Human Rights Trials
Znet Article, April, 07 2010
Marie Trigona
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Tens of thousands in Argentina recently marked the 34th anniversary of the nation’s bloody military dictatorship, flooding into the historic Plaza de Mayo with cries of nunca más, or never again. On March 24, 1976 the military ceased power and ins...
Trigona: Resisting Mining: Brutal Repression and Uprising in Argentina
Znet Article, February, 26 2010
Marie Trigona
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World-wide, mining operations have been associated with exploitation, corruption, violence, environmental devastation, human rights abuses, and impunity. However, despite threats and violent attacks, local movements resist mining operations and as...
Trigona: Where is Luciano Arruga? Disappeared in Argentina’s Democracy
Znet Article, February, 16 2010
Marie Trigona
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"‘Where is Luciano Arruga?’" His mother, Monica Alegre, struggles to answer this question, responding with hopelessness and despair in her eyes, the look of a mother who has lost her child. "Luciano Arruga is a 16-year old boy who was forcefully d...
Trigona: Landmark Human Rights Case in Argentina Puts Torture on Trial
Znet Article, January, 07 2010
Marie Trigona
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Argentine courts have launched an investigation into crimes committed at the ESMA Navy Mechanics School during the nation's military dictatorship. The landmark human rights trial is one of the most far-reaching attempts to bring crimes of Latin Am...
Trigona: Memory and Justice
Znet Article, December, 21 2009
Marie Trigona
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A Photo Essay on Argentina's Human Rights Movement
Trigona: ESMA: Survivors of torture in Argentina await trial
Audio, November, 22 2009
Marie Trigona
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In Argentina, the President and a council of judges postponed a human rights trial for crimes committed during the nation's military dictatorship of the 1970s and 80s. The trial was supposed to examine crimes committed at a Navy Mechanics School, ...
Trigona: Argentina: Disappearing Farmers, Disappearing Food
Znet Article, November, 01 2009
Marie Trigona
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Worldwide, industrial mono-culture farming has displaced traditional food production and farmers, wreaking havoc on food prices and food sovereignty. This is particularly true for the global south, where land has been concentrated for crops destin...
Trigona: Community on the Airwaves: End to Dictatorship Media Law in Argentina
Znet Article, October, 21 2009
Marie Trigona
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Like the United States, media laws in Argentina favor big corporations over small community groups. But this changed recently when Argentina passed a media law which will radically transform media ownership regulations. Senate approved the bill, w...
Trigona: Kraft Firings Feed Protests
Znet Article, October, 08 2009
Marie Trigona
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Mass firings at Kraft Foods' plant in Argentina sparked protests throughout the nation, and ignited a new wave of worker organizing. In August, Kraft fired 160 workers after they went on strike to demand proper health measures at the company's fac...
Trigona: Julio Lopez: Impunity Yesterday and Today in Argentina
Znet Article, September, 24 2009
Marie Trigona
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Julio Lopez went missing three years ago on September 18, 2006 in his hometown of La Plata, Argentina. However, September 18, 2006, was the second time the father, construction worker, activist and torture survivor was disappeared. Julio Lopez wen...
Trigona: The Soy Republic of Argentina
Znet Article, September, 08 2009
Marie Trigona
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The increasing export of genetically modified crops is part of a regional trend with Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay now adopting a soy-based economic model. Argentina has made a radical shift toward soy, which has displaced cultivation of...
Trigona: FASINPAT: A Factory that Belongs to the People
Znet Article, September, 04 2009
Marie Trigona
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The workers at Argentina's largest worker-controlled factory are celebrating a definitive legal solution to a nine-year struggle for the right to work and workers' self-determination. The provincial legislature of Neuquén voted in favor of exprop...
Trigona: Factory in the Hands of Workers
Commentary, August, 14 2009
Marie Trigona
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The workers at Argentina's occupied ceramics factory FASINPAT won a major victory this week, the factory now definitively belongs to the people in legal terms. The provincial legislature voted in favor of expropriating the ceramics factory and han...
