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Trigona: FASINPAT (Factory without a boss): an Argentine Experience in Self-Management
Znet Article, August, 13 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 belongs to the people in legal terms. The provincial legislature voted in favor of expropriating the ceramics factory and handing it over ...
Trigona: Study Released in Argentina Puts Glyphosate Under Fire
Znet Article, July, 28 2009
Marie Trigona
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Argentina has seen an explosion in genetically modified (GM) soy bean production with soy exports topping $16.5 billion in 2008. The fertile South American nation is now the world's third largest producer of soy, trailing behind the United States ...
Trigona: Workplace resistance and self-management
Znet Article, July, 21 2009
Marie Trigona
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Capitalism has taken a turn for the worse, spinning itself out of control into a ruinous downward spiral which many are characterizing as the first depression of this century. Under capitalism there are always winners and losers, even without a ...
Trigona: Argentina's President Loses Power in Mid-Term Elections
Commentary, July, 01 2009
Marie Trigona
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Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner faced a major test in the recent mid-term election in which she lost considerable power and her party's congressional majority vanished. The June 28 mid-term election could be better described ...
Trigona: Monsanto soy chemicals could pose health risk
Audio, June, 25 2009
Marie Trigona
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New research released by Argentina's top medical school has found that a chemical used in soy farming could be harmful to human health. The study has alarmed policy makers in the South American nation which is one of the world's largest producers...
Trigona: Argentina's Community Media Fights for Access and Legal Reform
Znet Article, June, 16 2009
Marie Trigona
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In response to misinformation and lack of access in the mass media, citizens have created alternative media networks that play a fundamental role in today's Latin America. Together, these community television stations are transforming the media la...
Trigona: Charley abandoned his chocolate factory
Commentary, June, 06 2009
Marie Trigona
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We all know the childhood tale of Charley and the Chocolate Factory best emulated in the psychedelic inspired 1971 film. Charley a poor, well intentioned boy wins the Willy Wonka chocolate factory in a stroke of good fortune – every child's ...
Trigona: Argentine Factory in the Hands of the Workers: FASINPAT a Step Closer to Permanent Worker Control
Znet Article, May, 29 2009
Marie Trigona
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While many workers around the world are worried about downsizing, lay-offs and how to protect their jobs, workers in Argentina have come up with their own solution to business closures – Occupy, Resist and Produce. Many factories, like the Z...
Trigona: May Day Massacre - 100 years ago: Simón Radowitzky, Anarchist and Legend
Commentary, May, 01 2009
Marie Trigona
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May 1, 1909. Police kill thirty workers in a South American city. The workers are gunned down and violently beaten during a protest to demand an eight hour work day and remember the Hay Market Martyrs. Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires, was the sc...
Trigona: Worker Occupations and the Domino Effect
Commentary, December, 10 2008
Marie Trigona
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For many the worker occupation of the Chicago Republic Windows and Doors plant on December 5 may have come as a surprise. But for US workers who are facing a very bleak economic horizon - the Chicago sit-down strike has ignited a spark amongst wor...
Trigona: Lucio, The Good Bandit: Reflections Of An Anarchist
Znet Article, June, 09 2008
Marie Trigona
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Lucio Urtubia could be described as a modern day Robin Hood, a man who stole from the rich to give to the poor. Lucio, a 76-year old Spanish anarchist and retired bricklayer carried out bank robberies, forgeries and endless actions against capital...
Trigona: Argentina: Human Rights Witness Goes Missing And Is Released
Znet Article, May, 09 2008
Marie Trigona
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Juan Puthod, a human rights activist was kidnapped in Argentina; his disappearance prompted an intense manhunt and concern from rights groups. This is the third case in as many years of a human rights witness going missing since Argentina opened u...
Trigona: Argentina's Recuperation Movement: The struggle to work without a boss continues
Commentary, May, 01 2008
Marie Trigona
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Who wants to work for a boss? I'm guessing that most people would say no. Since the birth of capitalism, workers' movements have pondered the utopian dream of liberating the working class from exploitive bosses. Argentina has been home to a phenom...
Trigona: Wal-Mart Faces Accusations of Anti-union Practices in Argentina
Znet Article, April, 26 2008
Marie Trigona
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Wal-Mart's aggressive efforts to keep labor unions out of stores worldwide have come under fire across the hemisphere. Workers report how the retail chain systematically violates international labor laws protecting workers' rights to free associat...
Trigona: Argentina’s Soy Storm
Znet Article, April, 25 2008
Marie Trigona
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Argentina has often been described as the bread basket of the Southern Cone, with plenty of fertile land for grains and cattle. In fact, the economy is based on agro-exports. But with soy production taking over massive tracks of land, producing fo...
Trigona: From Sweat shop to Co-op
Audio, April, 18 2008
Marie Trigona
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For some, it may come as a surprise that Buenos Aires's fashion industry relies on slave labor. Even with Argentina's miraculous economic revival, the practice of using undocumented immigrants as slave laborers in sweat shops continues. An estimat...
Trigona: On film and inspiration: Best films of 2007
Blog Post, January, 22 2008
Marie Trigona
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I thought it would be fun to inaugurate my blog with a list of the best films of 2007. These are not all new films, just films that I saw in 2007. Some of these films are political, others just inspired me.
Trigona: Plan Condor in Latin America radio story
Audio, December, 08 2007
Marie Trigona
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Former military dictator Jorge Rafael Videla and 16 other military leaders in Argentina will be prosecuted on charges of conspiring to kidnap and kill political activists in a scheme known as Plan Condor, developed by Henry Kissinger and George Bu...
Trigona: Plan Condor: Crimes without borders in Latin America
Znet Article, December, 07 2007
Marie Trigona
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he United States and Latin American military governments developed Operation Condor as a a transnational, state-sponsored terrorist coalition among the militaries of South America. In Argentina alone some 30,000 people were disappeared as result, ...
Trigona: Plan Condor: Crimes without borders in Latin America
Commentary, December, 07 2007
Marie Trigona
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Plan Condor: Crimes without borders in Latin America
