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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: 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: 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: 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: 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...
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: 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: 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'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...
