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Safe and Sound in Buenos Aires, Argentina - October 20, 2005
Date: November 6th 2005
Dear everyone,
We are here in Buenos Aires, settled into a really cozy hostel down town near one of the infoshops my friend Dave recommended we visit. The flight was relatively uneventful. We had a direct flight from DC to BA. it was like a 10 or 12 hour flight arriving here at 9 am this morning. We took a public bus from the airport to "centro", but we didn{t really have any idea where or what "centro" was. We just kind of rode the bus for two hours or so and got off when we thought it looked like a good spot! It ended up being perfect. On our walk from the bus to the hostel we happened across a protest outside some office of the authority over health and social services or something like that. It was very impressive. The entire 6 or 8 lane road in front of it was blocked off and chock full of people. Traffic was blocked on either side by activists who had their entire heads and faces covered with cloth. They were armed with large wooden sticks, nunchucks, and steel pip es. The cops with helmets but no riot gear stood in formation a block or so away but did not interfere. They chanted and held banners and spray painted the crap out of the entire outside of the building. It was great. I think the next few weeks are going to be very exciting!
BA is fun. There are spray paint tags everywhere, rarely is there a surface of wall without graffiti on it, most of which is either commy or anarchist. Lots and lots of anti-Bush graffiti. The main slogan is "Bush not one foot in Argentina", and that is spraypainted in Spanish everywhere.
Tonight we went to the infoshop to watch a showing of Bella Chow, which ended up being canceled due to technical difficulties. Instead there were a few speeches and a Q and A about the week of actions. With my Spanish I didn't get too much, but Oscar and Nicole did a little better. It got pretty heated, lots of people being like, "so what is going on BESIDES just the marches?" and the organizers being like, "this isn't the time or place to discuss that, lets just wait and see." Lots of energy and lots of folks were like, "let's start tomorrow, let's show bush he's not welcome, let's do a lot of stuff!" There was a debate over whether or not Chavez would be participating in the march. Some were excited about the prospect but suspect he won't 'cuz of possible asassination attempts. So it was a bit of a brain overload trying to get it all, but it was a lot of fun too and good to see. It seems as if people are already heading out to Mar del P lata, s oIi think we will do the same in a day or two.
After that who knows what!
Ok, I have to go now but I'll write more another day. Hope all is well at home and I'll talk to you all soon!
love Jamie
- Keep tuned for more...
We are here in Buenos Aires, settled into a really cozy hostel down town near one of the infoshops my friend Dave recommended we visit. The flight was relatively uneventful. We had a direct flight from DC to BA. it was like a 10 or 12 hour flight arriving here at 9 am this morning. We took a public bus from the airport to "centro", but we didn{t really have any idea where or what "centro" was. We just kind of rode the bus for two hours or so and got off when we thought it looked like a good spot! It ended up being perfect. On our walk from the bus to the hostel we happened across a protest outside some office of the authority over health and social services or something like that. It was very impressive. The entire 6 or 8 lane road in front of it was blocked off and chock full of people. Traffic was blocked on either side by activists who had their entire heads and faces covered with cloth. They were armed with large wooden sticks, nunchucks, and steel pip es. The cops with helmets but no riot gear stood in formation a block or so away but did not interfere. They chanted and held banners and spray painted the crap out of the entire outside of the building. It was great. I think the next few weeks are going to be very exciting!
BA is fun. There are spray paint tags everywhere, rarely is there a surface of wall without graffiti on it, most of which is either commy or anarchist. Lots and lots of anti-Bush graffiti. The main slogan is "Bush not one foot in Argentina", and that is spraypainted in Spanish everywhere.
Tonight we went to the infoshop to watch a showing of Bella Chow, which ended up being canceled due to technical difficulties. Instead there were a few speeches and a Q and A about the week of actions. With my Spanish I didn't get too much, but Oscar and Nicole did a little better. It got pretty heated, lots of people being like, "so what is going on BESIDES just the marches?" and the organizers being like, "this isn't the time or place to discuss that, lets just wait and see." Lots of energy and lots of folks were like, "let's start tomorrow, let's show bush he's not welcome, let's do a lot of stuff!" There was a debate over whether or not Chavez would be participating in the march. Some were excited about the prospect but suspect he won't 'cuz of possible asassination attempts. So it was a bit of a brain overload trying to get it all, but it was a lot of fun too and good to see. It seems as if people are already heading out to Mar del P lata, s oIi think we will do the same in a day or two.
After that who knows what!
Ok, I have to go now but I'll write more another day. Hope all is well at home and I'll talk to you all soon!
love Jamie
- Keep tuned for more...
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