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Commentary 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.

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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 ...

Commentary 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 ...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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

Commentary Trigona: Hotel BAUEN: Workers without bosses face eviction

Commentary, August, 09 2007 Marie Trigona
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Inside the BAUEN Hotel, one of Argentina's worker-run workplaces, janitors, repairmen, receptionists and maids sit in an assembly with worried but determined faces and sheets of paper in hand. Each of the workers, some of whom have been working at...

Commentary Trigona: Biofuels: a danger for Latin America

Commentary, May, 26 2007 Marie Trigona
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Renewable fuels, in particular Biofuels, energy sources derived from agricultural crops have suddenly won the support from the United States. This is partly due to George Bush's recent 5-nation tour of Latin America to wedge out unity and push thr...

Commentary Trigona: Argentina: Police killing of teacher sparks massive protests

Commentary, April, 18 2007 Marie Trigona
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The police killing of a public school teacher on April 4 in the Southern Province of Neuquen has sparked massive protests in Argentina and reawakened the slogan: Que Se Vayan Todos or All of them Out! Argentina's teachers and trade unions particip...

Commentary Trigona: What does Bush want with Uruguay?

Commentary, March, 26 2007 Marie Trigona
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"The precise pain, in the precise place, in the precise amount, for the desired effect." These are the words of a US instructor in the art of torture teaching techniques in Uruguay during the nation's 1973-1985 military dictatorship. The US played...

Commentary Trigona: Patricia Isasa's fight for justice

Commentary, February, 20 2007 Marie Trigona
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Patricia Isasa has fought for justice and transparency for over 30 years. At the time of her kidnapping, July of 1976, architect Patricia Isasa was 16 years old. She was abducted by a commando group of the provincial police and taken to one of the...

Commentary Trigona: Workers without bosses at a turning point

Commentary, November, 09 2006 Marie Trigona
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In recent years leading up to ArgentinaÕs 2001 financial crisis, thousands of factories have closed and millions of jobs have been lost. Many workers have decided to defeat the destiny of unemployment, taking over their workplace and recuperating ...

Commentary Trigona: Democracy's disappeared: Argentina searches for missing witness

Commentary, September, 29 2006 Marie Trigona
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Argentina has opened several high profile criminal cases charging former military officers for human rights abuses during the 1976-1983 military dictatorship. For the first time in the nationÕs history, an Argentine court sentenced a military offi...

Commentary Trigona: Israeli Security Forces Kidnap Argentine Journalist

Commentary, August, 26 2006 Marie Trigona
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The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo report that a journalist from their radio station was detained while crossing into Palestinian territory. The journalist detained, Tamara Lalli says the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires handed over personal information ...

Commentary Trigona: ArgentinaÕs dictatorship: 30 years fighting for justice

Commentary, August, 11 2006 Marie Trigona
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A federal court in Argentina sentenced former police chief Julio Simon to 25 years in jail for the forced disappearances and torture of dissidents during the 1976-1983 dictatorship. This is the first sentence against a former government agent for ...

Commentary Trigona: Argentina’s dictatorship: 30 years fighting for justice

Commentary, August, 11 2006 Marie Trigona
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A federal court in Argentina sentenced former police chief Julio Simon to 25 years in jail for the forced disappearances and torture of dissidents during the 1976-1983 dictatorship. This is the first sentence against a former government agent for ...

Commentary Trigona: ArgentinaÕs soccer passion

Commentary, July, 04 2006 Marie Trigona
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The world cup is here. Until July 9th, 32 national teams will play for the Word Cup title. It is estimated that the World cup will draw five billion viewers world wide. Argentina is no exception to the frenzy. South Americans are the wildest about...

Commentary Trigona: Argentina’s soccer passion

Commentary, July, 04 2006 Marie Trigona
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The world cup is here. Until July 9th, 32 national teams will play for the Word Cup title. It is estimated that the World cup will draw five billion viewers world wide. Argentina is no exception to the frenzy. South Americans are the wildest about...

Commentary Trigona: Made in Argentina: Slave Conditions for Bolivian Workers

Commentary, May, 02 2006 Marie Trigona
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Bolivian workers in Argentina are pressing the government to take action against slave-like conditions inside clandestine textile shops after a fire in a factory killed six people in Buenos Aires on March 30th. The government has initiated inspect...

Commentary Trigona: Erasing traces of ArgentinaÕs dictatorship: 30 years later

Commentary, April, 04 2006 Marie Trigona
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Argentina recently marked the 30^th anniversary of the military coup and the ensuing methods of imaginable terror. Record number of protestors, some estimate 100,000 marched to Plaza de Mayo on March 24 this year to commemorate ArgentinaÕs disappe...

Commentary Trigona: Erasing traces of Argentina’s dictatorship: 30 years later

Commentary, April, 04 2006 Marie Trigona
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Argentina recently marked the 30^th anniversary of the military coup and the ensuing methods of imaginable terror. Record number of protestors, some estimate 100,000 marched to Plaza de Mayo on March 24 this year to commemorate Argentina’s...

Commentary Trigona: Latin AmericaÕs Autonomous Organizing

Commentary, March, 22 2006 Marie Trigona
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Activists met in Uruguay for the fourth Latin American Conference of Popular Autonomous Organizations in February. Over 300 activist delegates from Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Uruguay organized this year's annual event as a space to stra...

Commentary Trigona: Latin America’s Autonomous Organizing

Commentary, March, 22 2006 Marie Trigona
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Activists met in Uruguay for the fourth Latin American Conference of Popular Autonomous Organizations in February. Over 300 activist delegates from Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Uruguay organized this year's annual event as a space to stra...

Commentary Trigona: Latin AmericaÕs Autonomous Organizing

Commentary, March, 02 2006 Marie Trigona
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Activists met in Uruguay for the fourth Latin American Conference of Popular Autonomous Organizations in February. Over 300 activist delegates from Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Uruguay organized this yearÕs annual event as a space to stra...

Commentary Trigona: Latin America’s Autonomous Organizing

Commentary, March, 02 2006 Marie Trigona
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Activists met in Uruguay for the fourth Latin American Conference of Popular Autonomous Organizations in February. Over 300 activist delegates from Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Uruguay organized this year’s annual event as a space...

Commentary Trigona: Rock for BAUEN and Zanon

Commentary, December, 27 2005 Marie Trigona
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Workers from the BAUEN hotel and hundreds of supporters marched on December 15 to the city legislature to demand that Buenos Aires mayor annul a law to return the hotel to the former management. Meanwhile, rock groups are performing a series of me...

Commentary Trigona: New forms of resistance, new scenarios in Argentina

Commentary, October, 25 2005 Marie Trigona
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ÒWorker leave aside your tools, itÕs time to struggleÓ

Commentary Trigona: Argentina: Repression Made Easy

Commentary, September, 28 2005 Marie Trigona
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"Yes, to win power, whether legally or illegally, one needs to have left by the roadside a large part of one's ideological baggage and to have got rid of all one's moral scruples. And then, once in power, the big problem is how to stay there. One ...

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