I was proud to take part in a demonstration yesterday in the heart of Buenos Aires.
There were many collective/cooperative organizations rallying in solidarity for crucial issues of the day: the rights of the people to organize labor unions, the rights of indigenous peoples to retain their homelands, and the rights of the Earth to be protected from corporate greed. I enjoyed meeting people from these cooperatives who work for the social freedom and equality of all.
I marched with mothers carrying children, with drummers keeping the beat, with jumping singers chanting LUCHA LUCHA, with men holding giant banners proclaiming "BASTA DE PATOTAS, REPRESION Y MUERTES" steady in the wind. A phalanx of strong, young, bandana-masked men and women with wooden bats formed a line protecting the people along the way.
The march cleared the main street (after a police stand-off) to the symbolic center of Buenos Aires, the Obelisco in the Plaza de la Republica, and continued with super-high energia to the Plaza de Mayo y La Casa Rosada (home of el Presidente). I felt a lot of emotion for this form of democracy - the people, together in action, standing up for PEACE.
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