Argentina
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From an agroecological and alternative perspective to capitalist globalization, "monte culebra" approaches the productive and organizational processes of peasant collective experiences in western Venezuela. A critical look at the agricultural development model that the Bolivarian government's agrarian policy promotes in rural cooperatives as a strategy to achieve food sovereignty. In addition, the evaluation of self-managed peasant experiences that practice agroecology -for more than 30 years- and participate in a network of food production and distribution through urban consumer fairs. "Monte Culebra" traces the history of Venezuelan rural displacement (common denominator in the world's peasant populations) and its resistance. In a context of corporate media dictatorship, community television emerged as a tool for the counter-hegemonic struggle, accompanying the experiences of rural life. Agroecological practices, inspired by ancestral methods and peasant rationality, insurge the agribusiness-educational paradigm and challenge the creativity of a government that tests new forms of territorial political action.
A Mapuche family has been forced off the land they were occupying in the province of Chabut, Patagonia, through a court injunction initiated by the Benetton Group. As a result of this experience the Mapuche people will reveal that they are still very much alive and willing to fight for their culture and traditional rights. This video is also an information tool to activate an international campaign against the Italian multinational, which owns 900,000 hectares of land in Argentina, making it the major landowner in what was once known as "the breadbasket of the world". The first part of a more extensive work in progress.
UntitledTwo summers ago we travelled to the southern winter, almost letting ourselves be led by chance, our eyes open with our backs to the wind, looking to the ground to protect them from the dust of dunes near the beach. We stopped for a few days in a wind place, where there are no networks yet and the few visitors are respectful and mostly silent. With these people, we were only accompanied by animal-monuments, nothing within a radius of 300 kilometres (what more could you wish for). Then we saw a group of tourists arrive (maybe we're tourists of monuments or of the spirit). They stopped and stared. Elephants and people stare silently. The power of the moment is such that the devices to steal light and sound fall silent. We met Mariano and he spoke to us, without expecting or even wanting to understand... We remembered one night, catching our breath at the whales' greeting. Let's not fool ourselves, because we weren't looking for it, something changed.
A video report on the occupation of lands by the Movimiento de Trabajadores Desocupados (Unemployed Workers Movement) on the 26th of June in La Matanza, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires. The story helps us to understand the methods of self-organisation used by unemployed workers from necessity, and how direct action can lead to a brutal confrontation with law enforcement forces. It also offers proposals for other ways to think about property, outside of the capitalist society.
UntitledLaura and María Luisa are women of the same generation but totally opposite social classes, who become in-laws when their children marry. Their lives have crossed only because of the stories of their children, who tried to bridge the social gap through political activism in the seventies.
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