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argentine piqueter@s speaking tour

LOOKING FOR COLLEGES, UNIVERSITIES AND
SOCIAL JUSTICE GROUPS INTERESTED IN HOSTING PART OF A SPEAKING TOUR BY
PIQUETER@S FROM MTD LA PLATA IN ARGENTINA
There has been a lot of interest in the autonomist
movements happening in
Argentina- here’s a chance to hear more about what’s going on straight
from some piqueter@s.
We are planning an October '05 speaking tour for one of the
Movimientos de Trabajadores Desocupados (MTD) or “Unemployed Workers
Movement” located in the city of La Plata, two and a half hours south
of Buenos Aires. MTD La Plata, which consists of six neighborhoods in
and around La Plata, is horizontal in membership and decision making.
They employ a diversity of tactics; their actions range from operating
community kitchens in each of the 6 neighborhoods to taking to the
streets each month for the past 2 and a half years to protest the 2002
murder of two piqueteros at the hands of the police. In order to
increase their self sufficiency and decrease their reliance on
government welfare money they are trying to develop their own small
industries and begin to raise money through international tours.
Specifically, through this (their first) speaking tour they want to
raise enough money to build a community health center and a worker run
pizza shop.
For this tour to work we need some help. Macalester College in St. Paul
MN will be funding a large portion of the expenses, but we are obviously
hoping to raise as much money for them as possible as well as getting a
ton of people to come and hear what they have to say. So we would like
to find college students throughout the Midwest who would be interested
in having these speakers at their schools. Since we will be using fat
college student activities budgets to finance all of this we would like
to get these speakers out, without any fee, to any other groups who are
interested.
If you or your group might be interested interested or have any
questions send an e-mail to sarah at sjsmall (at) riseup.net or luce at
luce (at) riseup.net
For more information about MTD and the autonomous movements in
Argentina check out:
www.zmag.org/lam/argentina_watch.cfm
www.autonomista.org
argentina.indymedia.org/
 
 

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