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 _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.
