"Welcome to all those who have responded... to the invitation of the indigenous Zapatistas... from these mountains of southeastern Mexico and The Zapatista Army of National Liberation." "La Realidad ( reality ), Planet Earth," "August 3rd, 1 996." "Neoliberal globalization is premised on state repression." "It is a world war," "The most brutal." "The most thorough." "The most universal." "And the most effective." "But there are those who will not comply, those who decide to be uncomfortable." "Those who will not be sold, who will not surrender." "Everywhere in the world there are those who resist being annihilated in this war." "There are those who decide to fight." "The echo continues..." "The reflected images of the possible and the forgotten." "An echo that becomes many voices, -in a network of voices..." "Choosing to speak amongst itself, knowing itself to be one and many" "A network of voices that resist the war Power wages against it." "A collective network of all of our particular resistances..." "A network of communication among all of our struggles." "An international network, for humanity." "I am out of work," "I have to drive a taxi." "Do you have any idea how much I get a day?" "I'll tell you...in dollars." "The dollar is falling..." "It's three, three times five- is fifteen." "I make eighteen dollars a day." "What can you buy with that?" "You used to be able to survive working eight hours a day... now I work eighteen hours a day and can't." "Under Menem there was work." "But he gave away everything." "He privatized everything." "He left us holding the bag." "He sold everything, he gave it away." "Only the land is left." "They want the South." "If they get it, that's it." "We might as well put up an American flag." "You'll see" "You'll see." "Are you saying it was planned?" "Yes." "I think the empire has perfected it's form of infiltration." "Definitely." "Look" " President Alvear found out that he became President while drinking champagne in Paris!" "This is what has happened to us." "Buenos Aires is a huge megalopolis." "Totally screwed up with hunger, unemployment... with people that come just to eat the McDonalds trash." "Just go out at night and you will see all of it." "Just go out at night and you will see all of it." "In the nation of beef!" "We are in the San Martín barrio." "It's one of the many neighborhoods In San Francisco Solano." "Solano has a very special history because it's 70% illegal settlements." "12,000 people live here" "It begins at those factories..." "and it continues for 10 or 12 more blocks." "Aren't you afraid of this image...?" "Of this spreading?" "Aren't you afraid for the future of these kids?" "What future can I expect for me..." "my partner, our children?" "We had 20 years of dictatorship..." "and it's not over." "It has left its mark." "The system has etched it in fire." "It has been recorded in fire." "It has been recorded in fire." "Warning!" "Warning!" "To the people of the neighborhood" "Next to your house is living a killer!" "During the '80s, we lived in a culture of forgetfulness." "It was a society of complicity." "We are suffering from an economic plan that was developed under the dictatorship." "It was necessary to disappear 30,000 people to enforce this economic plan." "We know that in this country nothing is a gift." "We know that justice is not going to fall out of the sky." "This is why we make a public condemnation through the "Escrache. "" "Olé, Olé..." "Olé, Olá" "Just as with the Nazis," "The same will happen to you." "Wherever you go, we will come and find you." ""Justice and Punishment"" "It has to do with loosing our identity..." "the loss of our memory." "It's about taking our own problems and solving them ourselves... and not waiting for the government to do it." "We can see they won't do anything." "We know there is a crisis of representation in the government." "Companeros- (Friends-brothers ) We are going to read a speech..." "To tell this killer that we don't want him in this neighborhood anymore." "We are a people that says enough!" "We want to have a leading role in our own history." "We want to change the present and build the future, with our own hands." "Because in every Argentine that stops being a spectator of its own destiny- live the 30,000 disappeared companeros." "This is why we make the Escrache." "Another government, the same impunity." "We don't forget!" "We don't forgive!" "We don't condone!" "If there is no justice there will be the Escrache!" "The 30,000 disappeared companeros..." "Are here!" "The 30,000 disappeared companeros..." "Are here!" "The 30,000 disappeared companeros..." "Are here!" "Now" "And forever!" "Now -and forever!" "We are making a documentary about information, counter-information Independent ways of communicating." "Don't lend anyone any money." "We can't pay it back, we are bankrupt." "Hey, are you filming?" "!" "I totally agree..." "Look-when I have to sign any papers I think it ends up with the secret service." "The less places you appear the better." "Anyway, I am complaining..." "I mean they're filming us from everywhere." "It's not that I am suspicious of you but I have to ask myself..." "If you already have the camera on..." "then I am acting foolish." "You learn to value life." "It's not fear..." "but you have to take precautions." "I could tell her what I think, but I don't know you." "Anyway" " You want some ice cold tonic water?" "It's Amazing!" "There were a lot of struggles..." "but without political hypotheses." "They were resistances that hadn't constructed a new idea about... how to make, politically, a new social reality." "Until the mid 90's, with road blocks... with the uprisings in the rural areas, with a new generation involved in politics" "We see a new social agent that in Argentina has had important manifestations much earlier" "only they were not very visible." "We can say that people who were working from the perspective of autonomy..." "trying not to separate politics from daily life and outside of political parties..." "The ones working in that line, their work was invisible." "What a lot of people had been thinking was expressed in action." "The oppression, the lack of money, getting screwed over..." "That the bourgeoisie politicians are truly just that they just make policies for big business." "Shamelessly." "And as a result they rejected all political parties." "It didn't matter if they were from the left or the right." "They ALL must go..." "None can stay Not even one " "They ALL must go..." "They ALL must go..." "None can stay Not even one " "There was a small circle around the obelisk in the Plaza de Mayo of "Mothers of the Disappeared" Older women..." "And the police received the order to evict everyone...and well..." "And one of the guys said- Let's protect The Mothers!" "So we started to throw rocks from far away..." "I got stuck between the protesters and the police..." "It was a baptism by fire from the point of view trying to do photo-journalism." "Then a rock hit me in the head." "Then a rock hit me in the head." "I felt a hand grabbing me and someone asked if I was alright..." "I said no, no..." "I am not alright." "I wanted to go back..." "but in reality I had a cracked skull." "It wasn't such a good idea to go back to the obelisk." "After that I started working with a couple of friends on a video of the 1 9th and 20th..." "It was called La Bisagra de la Historia..." "At the same time we were editing it I met Sebastian in a meeting." "He was very excited about exchanging material... and creating a big movement of counter-information." "I went home" "Because I didn't have the internet there, I went to my mom's house." "It was crazy." "The news wasn't showing what was going on." "I went online and through Google and out fell Indymedia." "I don't remember the search words..." "but it was the third listing." "Google found it in a second." "During that time I met Francés and Rulo, another photographer..." "I met Francés on a scaffold." "We were both taking pictures." "We shared a cigarette I think, or a piece of lemon." "We started talking and I told him about Indymedia." "He said, Put your photos on this web page called Indymedia." "Later when I ran into him, I told him I couldn't find the website ''Multi-Image.''" "He said, It's not called Multi-Image." "It's called Indymedia." "What did I know." "I didn't know about Indymedia." "I was taking pictures to show to my friends." "He told me they were meeting at a bar, called Academia." "There were 7 or 8 people there, and at that point I started attending." "Indymedia started here two years ago." "But the real beginning was last year." "on December 1 9th and 20th." "It was when Indymedia became more of a movement and a tool used by everybody." "...and a tool used by everybody." "We were a really small group at first." "We didn't have cameras or computers." "Anyway, last year I got this camera in a looting." "It was a strange situation." "It seemed fated." "We were sort of fighting with the police and people started smashing bank windows." "They set fire to the banks and the McDonalds." "There was a big multinational photo chain and they destroyed it." "Somebody passed me a camera." "Now it's my camera." "I got it because I was there." "Basically what I do in Indymedia is write." "I write reports everyday." "...Trying to describe things from inside the movements." "Their evolution, how people live through them..." "I try to show things as they are." "I try to show things as they are." "Introductions...?" "My name is Lali," "Gambit, for those who know me from the radio in Indymedia Argentina." "During the day I have a job..." "I work at a bank." "If there aren't any problems I work from 2pm to 8pm... but sometimes I stay until 2am at the bank... which pays me, and allows me to survive this jungle." "I am at the bottom of the ladder." "Above me is a boss, above him there is another boss... above him another boss, and so on." "Lots of bosses, until you reach the top of the pyramid- and the president." "I don't know..." "Citibank, Bank Boston" "What do they do?" "They buy your bank..." "But first they undermine it with false information." "So they get it at half its value, and then they close it down." "What I do is collect information about business that the bank is involved with." "Then I write a detailed report when something related to the bank happens in the news." "Here is everything so far." "The Morning Report The IMF visit, the road blocks, protests..." "This is from the whole year?" "No..." "It's a week." "Later on, as if it wasn't enough with one bank..." "I go to another bank, where I spend even more time than this one." "There aren't any bosses but it is a bank." "Let's go to the other bank, the second bank." "Here you know when you are going to arrive but you don't know when you are going to leave." "You might work 7 days a week, 30 days a month, 24 months a year." "This is another bank, ''Banco Mayo.''" "It went bankrupt." "It shut down and fired its workers." "It's where the Parque Centenario neighborhood group meets." "The most important thing for me now, is to work with the occupied spaces." "The most important thing for me now, is to work with the occupied spaces." "I don't know." "In how many places in the world does the Indymedia office work out of an occupied bank?" "That's a good tag line for the movie!" "It seemed natural, because we were already involved." "But if we thought about it a year ago, it would have seemed impossible." "From this point of view it's really amazing." "Come on!" "Come on!" "Faster!" "..." "How do you feel?" "I feel euphoric." "I want to start doing stuff now." "Hoping this will fill with people... and eager to reach people in the neighborhood, who couldn't be part of this- because we didn't have a space." "Beyond that, I think this will energize the neighborhood group." "To open a space like this, a bank, has its own meaning." "A physical space is the starting point." "That is what we believe." "I didn't know anything about politics or the parties that we talk about today." "I didn't know they existed." "I went to protests almost like a tourist, to see how the people acted." "My resistance was day to day but it wasn't as an activist." "That started this year." "I sustain this small family selling empanadas." "I work with my wife, she makes them." "And I go out and sell them in the street." "I used to wash cars...work at hotels, whatever it took to pay the bills." "The idea has always been to make a living through my photography." "Right now though, I think it would be tough... because, well..." "things are how they are." "I printed them and went online to the site." "We scanned the photos and published them." "I think they showed up..." "Indymedia used them..." "Indymedias all over the world used them..." "In France too." "Hello Juan..." "How are you?" "It was at 7 in the evening right?" "..." "Okay, great." "I'm glad you called." "Okay, great." "I'm glad you called." ""Work, Dignity, Social Change"" "Nobody else is getting through..." "Hold up!" "Don't go." "Don't move!" "We are workers who were laid off from the factories but instead of occupying them as was done in the 70's..." "Now we are on the outside in our neighborhoods." "We see that the primary mode of capitalism is to move goods around." "So that's why we block the highways." "It's what hurts them the most." "We who don't have anything, realize that we are not going to resign ourselves to death for their greed." "So we block the circulation of truck that carry the profits of the corporations who have drained the country dry." ""Work For Everyone Brukman in Struggle"" ""Work For Everyone Brukman in Struggle"" "They say that patriotism is A rifle and a flag" "My country is my brothers who are farming the soil" "My country is my brothers who are farming the soil" "Meanwhile they teach us how to kill in war" "I won't shoot- I won't shoot" "I'm not going to shoot my brothers" "I was shooting, yes..." "I was shooting, yes..." "Shooting at the ones who were drowning Spain." "Whatever they broke we are going to recover it twice over!" "Because we are strong." "because the factory is ours." "At two in the afternoon we came down and there was nobody in the office." "No managers, no bosses, -nobody." "After a meeting with all the companeros, and talking with everyone, we decided to start selling the back stock." "We restarted the factory." "and we are moving forward production." "It's a complete change from before." "The people share more things." "At meal times for example..." "You had breakfast at your machine at your machine!" "You only had a limited time." "We changed that." "Now at noon everyone gets together." "We share and talk about what we are doing... the good things, the bad." "There is more comradeship." "It's something that didn't exist before." "There is more comradeship." "It's something that didn't exist before." "To make propaganda is..." "I don't know..." "To show what the major media isn't." "Which is nothing." "Is it good or bad to make propaganda?" "It depends on what you are saying." "We are trying to describe this experience- the experience of the occupied factory." "We try to give a specific vision of the workers movement..." "Their experiences, their organizations, their struggles." "I am twenty six years old... and am thrilled that my life is taking place at this moment in history." "I see that there are many possibilities to change the status quo." "If you take things into your own hands and work on it, they can change." "Not because of what one person can do, because you're just a tiny grain of sand." "The important thing is how many grains of sand are contributing." "If you can use it for this..." "to bring these experiences to other places where this stuff isn't going on but they can understand it anyway... and decide if they are in favor or not..." "If it's possible to do that, Then great!" "It's not a certainty about how things are... a new political line, or an established movement" "Counter-Power is fundamentally a question." "It's:" "How do we do things - in another way?" "That's Counter-Power." "Sustained with the body, physically, - the question of how to live in another way." "We don't have the political categories in our heads, to understand what is going on." "It's on the level of eating or drinking." "You have to eat, sleep and be informed." "It's necessary to be able to make decisions." "The idea behind Indymedia is that it's a network of volunteers." "no one gets paid a penny for their work." "Journalists and activists, people who got together around Indymedia- they go out looking for the news, for what's going on in a road blockade... a protest -an occupation, -an eviction and try to show a point of view that the corporate media won't." "With little or no resources almost with nothing..." "We try to do the maximum possible." "There is also the possibility to publish in an uncensored way on the web page." "This guarantees that each person who takes the initiative... or wants to upload a piece of news or testify to an event... they can upload their pictures, audio or an article about what they have witnessed." "I don't know, there are a million." "Everything has to do with everything." "Everything is related." "It's the way the network is interlaced..." "Pull out Indymedia and you screw it all up." "We are the Action Net News ( ANRED ) We are going to have a central office." "Later we'll give you the phone number to coordinate with Indymedia." "At the same time we are going to have our people writing dispatches." "and the proposal would be to also send them to Indymedia... for the web page and the radio that you will be doing." "The work of the correspondents would be to send raw information to the people who are in the office so they can write the articles." "The idea is to cover this minute by minute, and give the media a lesson... on how the alternative media who work outside commercial censorship can offer coverage that is more serious and much more complete than what they plan on doing." "...than what they plan on doing." "Indymedia is an idea based on the possibility of working as a network." "Working as a network and with the internet, is the key." "It's like a big box..." "Where anybody can put in what they want, or take out what they want." "This helps us to live with different ideas and keep them from clashing." "The working groups function under minimal agreements." "After that, in the everyday work you see each other's political viewpoint interests, and what their focus is." "I think though, in the end, it is about making things, not talking." "Each one of us got involved with Indymedia because of individual interests." "We got together over a project that already existed and we made it our own..." "We are individuals -through a collective... but we were drawn to a project that was already created." "All the people in the family groups that ''are.'' ...with an accent on the ''a''." "Yeah, like that." "...with an accent on the ''a''." "Yeah, like that." "No, no... "coordinator"" "Co-or-di-Na-tor." "It's all a big mess." "Leader has an accent too?" "Yeah ." "There are thirty or forty ''tents.''" "Why don't we listen to what it says?" "Everything here is a collective." "There is no other way." "Because if you are working with the idea of transforming society..." "Without the question of collectivity, you are going to do it like the bourgeoisie- corporately and individually." "We know that this model doesn't serve us anymore." "We want to look for other alternatives." "Everyone in the camp has direct information about what's going on." "There are 300 family groups." "Each of these groups contain 30 to 40 families, or households." "Each family group picks a coordinator, a person to represent a group." "It's not a leader, because we don't have leaders." "And this coordinator has a mandate to transmit all that's discussed in the meetings." "They return to the family group with a proposal." "It is discussed and sent back to the group of coordinators." "There aren't fights or anything." "We all just get together... so that we don't need a leader." "It's pretty bad when there's a leader, so instead we get together here helping each other out." "Whatever you need, there is always someone to help." "Whenever you to a meeting... no one knows for how long it will go on for." "It usually goes for a long time." "Each position builds on the other." "Here you always feel the lack of hierarchy, nobody above anyone else." "Each one contributes what they can." "Maybe some work more than the others... but no matter what you do, everyone has a space... and a sense of belonging to the collective." "This is how it feels." "and a sense of belonging to the collective." "This is how it feels." "Consensus, as it's classically understood... is that if 1 00 people can not completely agree on something- then it is not done." "But how do you reach an absolute consensus in an organization of 1200 people?" "A gesture of humbleness and selflessness is required." "You have to say" " I disagree, but lets move forward, it's not a problem." "The general meeting is the highest decision making body we have." "We don't have political leaders." "We don't have paid activists." "Everyone has to put in their 4 hours of work... and after that comes voluntary activism." "But first they have to work." "It's a basic idea." "For you to talk about work you have to have the moral authority." "The only way to get that is to work." "It's not just recognizing it." "Autonomy also implies the challenge of being autonomous in thinking." "To stop being tied to the old structures... and the fairy tale that we have been repeating for 150 years." "The challenge is to create new ways of relating, of making politics... and proposing self determination." "as a people." "That's what it implies." "For us, Autonomy is not just a tactic" "a convenient neutrality between political parties." "No- for us autonomy is a strategy." "It is a long term plan." "No- for us autonomy is a strategy." "It is a long term plan." "In addition to being the biggest library of human knowledge... it's a question of creating connections as it breaks down distances." "For example, some people in Germany- threw a party, collected money and sent it over here." "It seems a little frivolous- because its about money but for them, it wasn't such a pain to organize a party... and that amount of money, which wasn't much for them- meant a lot to us." "Look" " In the first world you can gather resources easier than in the third... and in the third world you can generate images, -ideas -motivations..." "Let's not fool ourselves." "If you approach this as a market relationship... then the activism of the first world needs what happens in the third... or they would die of boredom." "With the anguish of the world after September 1 1th and with the ideological and material triumph of the right... that nullifies any possibility of change that enters the system... even while it marginalizes the groups with more radical ideas." "This is the situation in the First World." "There are many from the First World that see the best thing they can do... is help grow movements that exist in the Third World." "At the same time, they are very different cultures." "We have a culture that is very different than that of an activist in the US." "And we've had some big disputes, the best known one around the Ford Foundation..." "Where they saw it as something totally natural... that the Ford Foundation would give them money and we saw it as something of an insult ...that we would dirty our name with Ford's." "But that is an example of the negative aspect." "On the positive side- the exchange of information continues in solidarity." "We are concerned with the following processes that occur in other places..." "It's not so much that we are worried about who finances our projects... as much as the relationships it will create and how that affects the network." "We know that it's relative who has money and who does not." "At any moment the U.S. is going to go broke and go to hell... and there won't be any more money there." "Sooner or later its going to pass, -and same will happen with Europe." "And the borders will break down and they will be flooded with people." "This is going to happen." "It's a question of time." "Therefore, as long as we are in a world continuing with globalization,- or all this phenomenon of increasing communication between people..." "Well, in this case, we are a community of rebels." "It's not about the First World or the Third." "We are all in the same." "It's not about the First World or the Third." "We are all in the same." "Before knowing about Indymedia..." "I would read all the newspapers." "And I didn't believe any of them." "When Genoa was happening it was really impressive." "They were updating the web page every 10 minutes." "There were days of just sitting in front of the computer with a friend... following what was going on." "and I couldn't believe it, because on the other hand... we were watching the television too and they were showing...whatever." "They didn't show anything." "They were showing movies!" "It's terrible how they isolate you from the world and what's happening." "When they want it, nothing is happening anywhere." "It's terrible." "They cut the flow of information..." "You don't know what is going on." "It's like being on an island in the Pacific." "This is Genoa!" "Look!" "Supervideo!" "I'm talking to you." "You recognize me right?" "I am the ghost of free speech." "You have to help me!" "You have to set free communication!" "It will be a long battle and you will have to overcome many difficult trials." "Take this tape..." "Record as many voices on it as possible." "You'll have to overcome thousands of obstacles." "Find your helpers." "Avoid checkpoints!" "But you will succeed Super Video if you use your super powers" "Activate Turbohertz Z!" "Synchronize Super Scanner!" "Go Supervideo!" "Go Supervideo!" "They are attacking the media center here in Via Battista-Genoa!" "They are trying to force the door..." "We are barricaded inside." "We are like mice in a trap." "I am not going to leave the mixer until they force me." "This is like a scene from Chile!" "Radio GAP is being shut down." "This is a live on-air eviction..." "Stay calm." "The phone lines have been cut." "We hope communication will continue." "Everyone who is listening..." "Please spread the word." "There is a danger- in the idea of the emergence... of a global culture that is not global... that only belongs to the ones that participate in the global circuit." "The people in Solano -or here -or in a school -or from M.O.C.A.S.E..." "or the MST in Brasil -or Chiapas -or India... are always hosting young people with cameras, who are eager to talk... and tell things about Palestine, blah, blah, blah..." "But those people don't really participate in this circuit." "They benefit from it." "They are in solidarity with it." "They are informed by it." "They want to see the videos about it." "They promote the struggles..." "But there is a culture that is purely global, and very virtual, very internet... that is made up of a generation of activists who go all over the place." "and it creates a rift." "It seems to me that the global network is great because of the information and the possibilities flow all around..." "and we all benefit from it." "But there are things to be discussed." "This is one of them" "The difference between the people that belong to the global network and the people at the extremes of the network- at the end of one of the links." "It's very decontextualizing." "It's dangerous because it destroys diversity." "One of the sayings that we have taken from Indymedia Chiapas- is to be the voice of the voiceless." "To give a space to those that don't have space anywhere... who are marginalized, who the corporate press presents as the worst of the worst... because they are masked or hold a wooden pole." "When the only thing they have to defend themselves against the bullets is a stick... to protect their children -their women." "It's not just about showing the masked faces that protect the road blockade." "It's about showing what they are making in their neighborhoods." "To give them the chance that no one else will." "Mariano was making the point..." "I have it all on video." "It's at my house." "I used Marcela's camera..." "Anyway, he was saying- It's really important for inside the movement, and for outside the movement..." "Outside because it spreads it around and inside because they see themselves... on the TV and in the photos." "it generates a sense of self-esteem." "Who was telling you this?" "Mariano..." "It's all recorded." "The relationship between the movements and Indymedia." "Good work." "Interesting..." "Keep working on it." "Yeah, we are going to." "Go on..." "My name is Mariano" "I am a member of the Unemployed Workers Movement (MTD ) from Almirante Brown..." "It's a district in the south of Buenos Aires." "We are a grassroots, land based movement." "It's organized in the poor neighborhoods where workers lost their jobs." "Where single mothers live alone with their kids..." "These women were housewives." "Now they are at the head of the struggle." "They are the ones that organize the road blocks known as piquetes... which have been taking place in Argentina over the last few years." "What do you think about the circulation of information?" "What do you think about the circulation of information?" "During screenings in the neighborhood there was a projection of a video." "It was about the June 26th massacre on Pueyrredón Bridge- where two of us were killed by the police." "It helped us reflect a little on what happened- and it helped raise the self esteem of those involved in the movement." "It's through the general meetings in the neighborhoods with delegates of the working groups that guarantee the direct democracy... that we are advocating." "We are an autonomous movement, and one of the principles... that we talk about, is democracy." "Work Dignity and Social Change- Maxi and Dario:" "Are Here!" "Work Dignity and Social Change- Maxi and Dario:" "Are Here!" "Sons of bitches!" "Sons of bitches!" "We deposited dollars." "We want dollars!" "Danger!" ":" "Banking District" "Robbers!" ""Ahorristas" (Savers )..." "Let's go!" "Everyone together!" "Thieves!" "Give us back our savings!" "It's not a criticism of communication." "It is a criticism of when communication is forced to seduce." "In this situation we're always watching, -separated from our ability to act." "You can consume road blocks ..." "You can consume revolution." "You can consume Ché Guevara..." "or not." "For us, the situation of the Audience is equivalent to absolute impotence." "If I watch TV..." "Sometimes they show me Madonna, and sometimes they show me road blocks" "If more road blocks are shown it doesn't make me less of a spectator." "I'm just a spectator of things I think are better." "For us, struggles produce real and material action that displace things." "They are not transferable nor communicable." "They produce effects, and those effects can move only the people that are taking action." "Somebody that is sitting as a passive audience... even if they see everything they are not going to understand- or they might think they understand, their opinions might change... but that is not important." "What is important is:" "How can a concrete material change happening in one place, result in concrete change somewhere else?" "...and because the political system is failing... the alternative is... for the nation... in every country..." "in every city..." "This 1 9th and 20th, it was totally subdued, folkloric" "It was a thermometer to measure the state of the collective psyche." "Blichero interviewed "The Situaciones... " and it was really interesting." "They were saying - the only thing that remains is the spectator." "But if you aren't a spectator, then the spectator doesn't exist." "The only thing that exists is what We do." "It was very interesting." "Yes, I totally agree." "It is what produces a separation in society." "Without a doubt." "It's what feeds fascism." "It's the crack where fascism can enter, and it is entering." "The media manipulates, it controls, and leads to a specific kind of thinking... a particular kind of logic that determines the situation, the situations... in terms of good, bad, -positive -negative -identity..." "This whole year we have been bombarded by all the media." "Including the left newspapers..." "Which in reality have a deceitful rhetoric." "because they occupy the space of criticism, without generating a real critique." "That's serious" "This is what I say is extremely serious." "It's not as if we are still under the dictatorship." "What you build around yourself is much more profound." "It's your fence." "When you go in the subway," "When you are in your house..." "In invisible ways," "In our attitudes..." "In the way we are," "In the way we relate to each other..." "Everywhere, on every corner" "In every person..." "Fascism lives inside us, in miniature." "Without us noticing." "They say it is arriving" "They say it is a clear streak of light-." "They say it is a clear streak of light-." "They say a little, they say a lot" "With the whisper of a snail." "That is what the lanterns say- shining from far away." "They say you are a brief memory- a red hot unhappy conviction." "When we started with this we wanted to be the voice of the voiceless." "And to me this means breaking the silence." "When you break the silence, the idea is to hear all the voices..." "And no two voices are the same, we try to reflect this." "Before we were collecting information about other groups and organizations." "Now they are the ones involved and making the work." "It's what we are calling the decentralization of Indymedia Argentina." "working with the groups, with the movements, with the individuals... for them to take this tool as their own." "It is much more interesting than running after the news... that the mainstream media isn't going to cover." "It's better if the person that is involved in a particular situation- can produce the information" "It's better than someone coming from outside of it saying..." "Look here, I see what's going on." "These things here have these little bolts..." "and they are making these little holes." "Which means leaks in the roof." "Our logic is to be not ourselves." "Everyone is a correspondent." "Let us start with a digression, something we Argentines love so much." "We wanted to tell you that from now on... when you talk to Indymedia Argentina... you should know that you are not talking to Indymedia Argentina." "We confess, that we are not ourselves." "It took us almost a year to figure it out." "And what are we if we are not ourselves?" "Are we a road block" "A burning tire?" "A masked face?" "A wooden pole in someone's hand?" "Bullets arriving?" "A food bank where all the hands are one, and all the mouths are thousands?" "Are we an occupied factory?" "A machine that produces magic?" "That produces love?" "That gives back to humanity what belongs to it?" "Or maybe we are a neighborhood meeting." "A woman that changes the lives of her household." "Eyes that are awaking." "Rebelliousness that takes the word." "Or might we be the voice of the people of the land?" "Fists in the air!" "Hands in solidarity that knows no borders." "A while ago, closed up in an office..." "(It wasn't as hot as it is now.)" "We asked permission from everyone, to be part of everything." "and everyone gave us permission to be part of them." "And we disappeared." "And we disappeared." "And we disappeared."