Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002
argentina first hand

the good word first hand from argentina:

i just had a wonderful time hitching
through a 150km section of northern argentina which is controled by
activists who have kicked the police and army out. The piqueteros are
amazing. They've used non-violent direct action to liberate a town of
30,000 people, shutdown oil refineries, and generally kick ass. Also down
here the workers have started taking over and running the factories
themsleves without bosses or the owners. Also they have all these directly
democratic assemblies which are coordinating all the protests against teh
economic system, but also they want to scrap represnentivie democracy. Now
i-m in bolivia working on starting an imc here... :)

Even if the US is fucked up there are some amazing things happening in
south america. Who knows if it will become a revolution, but it's the
closest thing i've ever seen to one.

from a friend with protest.net

Argentina | www.agp.org