| Back | Search Results - New Search |
Trigona: Grassroots Unionism Under Attack in Argentina
Znet Article, October, 31 2010
Marie Trigona
Trigona's ZSpace page
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
Trigona's ZSpace page
The Mothers of Argentina’s "disappeared," have passed down a legacy in defending human rights, as they walk steadily together...
Trigona: Murder of Human Rights Witness Sparks Fears
Znet Article, April, 23 2010
Marie Trigona
Trigona's ZSpace page
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
Trigona's ZSpace page
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
Trigona's ZSpace page
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
Trigona's ZSpace page
"‘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
Trigona's ZSpace page
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
Trigona's ZSpace page
A Photo Essay on Argentina's Human Rights Movement
Trigona: Argentina: Disappearing Farmers, Disappearing Food
Znet Article, November, 01 2009
Marie Trigona
Trigona's ZSpace page
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
Trigona's ZSpace page
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
Trigona's ZSpace page
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
Trigona's ZSpace page
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
Trigona's ZSpace page
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
Trigona's ZSpace page
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: FASINPAT (Factory without a boss): an Argentine Experience in Self-Management
Znet Article, August, 13 2009
Marie Trigona
Trigona's ZSpace page
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
Trigona's ZSpace page
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
Trigona's ZSpace page
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 Community Media Fights for Access and Legal Reform
Znet Article, June, 16 2009
Marie Trigona
Trigona's ZSpace page
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: Argentine Factory in the Hands of the Workers: FASINPAT a Step Closer to Permanent Worker Control
Znet Article, May, 29 2009
Marie Trigona
Trigona's ZSpace page
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: Lucio, The Good Bandit: Reflections Of An Anarchist
Znet Article, June, 09 2008
Marie Trigona
Trigona's ZSpace page
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
Trigona's ZSpace page
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: Wal-Mart Faces Accusations of Anti-union Practices in Argentina
Znet Article, April, 26 2008
Marie Trigona
Trigona's ZSpace page
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
Trigona's ZSpace page
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: Plan Condor: Crimes without borders in Latin America
Znet Article, December, 07 2007
Marie Trigona
Trigona's ZSpace page
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: Wal-Mart Faces Accusations of Anti-union Practices in Argentina
Znet Article, November, 30 2007
Marie Trigona
Trigona's ZSpace page
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: Priest Imprisoned for Dirty War Crimes
Znet Article, October, 19 2007
Marie Trigona
Trigona's ZSpace page
Former Chaplin Christian Von Wernich was sentenced to life in prison on October 9th in Argentina, for committing crimes against humanity during the nation's bloody military junta. He is the first catholic priest to be charged...
Trigona: Human Rights in Argentina: A Year Without Julio Lopez
Znet Article, September, 20 2007
Marie Trigona
Trigona's ZSpace page
Human Rights groups in Argentina rallied September 18 to mark the one year disappearance of a key witness who helped convict a forme...
Trigona: Workers' Power in Argentina
Znet Article, September, 14 2007
Marie Trigona
Trigona's ZSpace page
Nearly six years since Argentina's worst economic crisis in 2001, both the level of popular participation in struggles and the breadth of the political spectrum have been radically transformed. There has been a resurgence of struggle inside the wo...
Trigona: Argentina: Hotel Bauen's Workers Without Bosses Face Eviction
Znet Article, August, 16 2007
Marie Trigona
Trigona's ZSpace page
Argentina's worker occupied factory movement is rallying across the count...
Trigona: Clergyman to Stand Trial for "Dirty War" Crimes in Argentina
Znet Article, July, 29 2007
Marie Trigona
Trigona's ZSpace page
A much awaited human rights abuse trial is underway in Argentina. The accused is a catholic priest charged with carrying out human rights abuses while working in several clandestine detention centers during the nation's 1976-1983 military dictator...
