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- Sunday, Oct 31, 2010
ZNet Article 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... -
- Friday, Oct 29, 2010
ZNet Article The Mothers of Argentina’s "disappeared," have passed down a legacy in defending human rights, as they walk steadily together... -
- Friday, Oct 01, 2010
Commentary 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. -
- Tuesday, Sep 07, 2010
Video The blog www.mujereslibresblogspot.com was inspired by the anarcho-feminist group Mujeres Libres and their call for equality, freedom, and revolution. -
- Tuesday, Jun 08, 2010
Audio 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 ... -
- Thursday, May 27, 2010
Audio 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... -
- Friday, Apr 23, 2010
ZNet Article 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... -
- Wednesday, Apr 07, 2010
ZNet Article 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... -
- Friday, Feb 26, 2010
ZNet Article 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... -
- Tuesday, Feb 16, 2010
ZNet Article "‘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... -
- Thursday, Jan 07, 2010
ZNet Article 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... -
- Monday, Dec 21, 2009
ZNet Article A Photo Essay on Argentina's Human Rights Movement -
- Sunday, Nov 22, 2009
Audio 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, ... -
- Sunday, Nov 01, 2009
ZNet Article 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... -
- Wednesday, Oct 21, 2009
ZNet Article 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... -
- Thursday, Oct 08, 2009
ZNet Article 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... -
- Thursday, Sep 24, 2009
ZNet Article 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... -
- Tuesday, Sep 08, 2009
ZNet Article 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... -
- Friday, Sep 04, 2009
ZNet Article 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... -
- Friday, Aug 14, 2009
Commentary 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... -
- Thursday, Aug 13, 2009
ZNet Article 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 ... -
- Tuesday, Jul 28, 2009
ZNet Article 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 ... -
- Tuesday, Jul 21, 2009
ZNet Article
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 ... -
- Wednesday, Jul 01, 2009
Commentary 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 ... -
- Thursday, Jun 25, 2009
Audio 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... -
- Tuesday, Jun 16, 2009
ZNet Article 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... -
- Saturday, Jun 06, 2009
Commentary 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 ... -
- Friday, May 29, 2009
ZNet Article 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... -
- Friday, May 01, 2009
Commentary 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... -
- Wednesday, Dec 10, 2008
Commentary 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... - All Most Recent Content
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- Tuesday, Jun 08, 2010
Audio 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 ... -
- Thursday, May 27, 2010
Audio 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... -
- Sunday, Nov 22, 2009
Audio 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, ... -
- Thursday, Jun 25, 2009
Audio 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... -
- Monday, Jul 07, 2008
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During Argentina's financial meltdown, many unemployed workers occupied their closed factories and forcibly reopened them--under employee control. Four years later, Argentina's economy is well on the road to recovery, and many worker-run f... -
- Friday, Apr 18, 2008
Audio 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... -
- Saturday, Dec 08, 2007
Audio 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... - All Recent Audio
Recent Video-
- Tuesday, Sep 07, 2010
Video The blog www.mujereslibresblogspot.com was inspired by the anarcho-feminist group Mujeres Libres and their call for equality, freedom, and revolution. -
- Wednesday, Aug 29, 2007
Video During a protest march to the Bush estate in Maine in August 2007, Iraq war combat veteran Eli Israel tells of dissatisfaction among the troops and failure in the war. - All Recent Video
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- Friday, Oct 29, 2010
ZNet Article The Mothers of Argentina’s "disappeared," have passed down a legacy in defending human rights, as they walk steadily together... -
- Friday, Oct 01, 2010
Commentary 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. -
- Friday, Apr 23, 2010
ZNet Article 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... -
- Tuesday, Feb 16, 2010
ZNet Article "‘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... -
- Thursday, Jan 07, 2010
ZNet Article 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... -
- Monday, Dec 21, 2009
ZNet Article A Photo Essay on Argentina's Human Rights Movement -
- Thursday, Oct 08, 2009
ZNet Article 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... -
- Tuesday, Sep 08, 2009
ZNet Article 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... -
- Friday, Sep 04, 2009
ZNet Article 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... -
- Friday, Aug 14, 2009
Commentary 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... - All Featured Trigona's Articles
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