SA; Plaza Dorrgeo-Milonga del Indio- AT RISK Please see the facebook page and link to sign the petition http://www.facebook.com/josh.rigley?ref=ts#!/group.php?gid=359229282855&ref=ts
Plaza Dorrego "Milonga del Indio" - AT RISK-(in english) support, pass to friends for greater understanding and support from the english speaking milongueros!! MILONGA DEL INDIO, PLAZA DORREGO, AT RISK Through this statement we want to announce to the whole community of the city of Buenos Aires, the risk situation of the legendary Milonga del Indio de Plaza Dorrego. As is well known, the neighbors of San Telmo and the whole city of Buenos Aires have in Plaza Dorrego a space to meet and develop one of the most original creations of our popular culture: Tango dancing. Every Sunday, since twenty year ago and with the impulse, organization and constant presence of dancer Pedro Benavente known as "el Indio", plaza Dorrego transforms into a popular, open, free and inclusive milonga where many, from new and old generations took our first steps to tango and continue dancing every Sunday. This space is managed without any subsidy or public support, is sustained with the presence of Pedro, a group of neighbors that collaborates in the organization, and through voluntary contributions (cap) that each participant can or wishes to give. With these contributions we bought the floor mats, lights, stereos, without any collaboration but that the contribution of the neighbors. Of course many believe that this milonga, which is already an icon of San Telmo district of Buenos Aires, contained in all cultural and tourist maps of the city, should have some official backing, but what we have to report now is a much more delicate matter: PLAZA DORREGO HAS BEEN OCCUPIED, FOR SOME YEARS NOW, WITH THE TABLES OF THE SURROUNDING BARS WHICH STARTED TAKING THE PUBLIC SPACE FROM THE MILONGA AND THE NEIGHBORS ATTENDING IT. FOR SOME TIME NOW WE HAVE BEEN VICTIMS OF CLAIMS, VERBAL AGGRESSION, AND FOR SEVERAL MONTHS NOW WE HAVE RECEIVED PHYSICAL ATTACKS FROM THE MANAGEMENT OF THOSE STABLISHMENTS: THEY HAVE SHOWED UP WITH SUBJECTS HOLDING BATS AND HAVE BROKEN SOME OF OUR WORK INSTRUMENTS TRYING TO INTIMIDATE US. We are also victims of constant complaints to the police saying we have no right to occupy the spaces we have occupied for 20 years: the porteños have no right to express ourselves through the most authentic of our popular culture in a square that is PUBLIC, because some men want to occupy it with their businesses of exorbitant prices that can only be paid by foreign tourists. This attitude besides being selfish and unfair is suicidal because the tourists don't go to San Telmo for its fashionable bars, they go for its culture, its architecture, and especially because it is a reservoir of the tango culture in our city. Faced with this situation that is becoming increasingly MORE AGGRESSIVE AND DELICATE, SINCE LAST WEEKEND POLICE THREATENED WITH ARRESTING THE ORGANIZERS, we want to ask, to the neighbors of Buenos Aires in general and in particular to the milonguero community, support for this constant harassment to desist. ALL WE ASK IS AN ACT OF PHYSICAL PRESENCE IN PLAZA DORREGO NEXT SUNDAY AT 6PM; LET'S MEET THERE TO DO ONE OF THE THINGS WE LOVE MOST: DANCE TANGO. WITH OUR PRESENCE WE WILL SHOW THOSE BARS THAT OUR MILONGA IS NOT A BUSINESS BUT MUCH MORE THAN THAT, IT IS A GENUINE PRODUCT OF OUR POPULAR CULTURE THAT THE PORTEÑOS, PARTICULARLY THE TANGO DANCERS, ARE WILLING TO DEFEND. THE POLICE, WHO ARE MEDIATING BETWEEN THE CLAIMS OF THE BARS AND THE RIGHTS OF THE NEIGHBORS, WILL REALIZE THAT THE MILONGA IS NOT A WHIM OF THE NEIGHBORS BUT ONE WAY TO EXERCISE THE LEGITIMATE RIGHT WE ALL HAVE TO ENJOY OUR CULTURE. We thank you with a milonguero embrace your presence and collaboration. Organizers of the Plaza Dorrego milonga. Please see the facebook page and link to sign the petition http://www.facebook.com/josh.rigley?ref=ts#!/group.php?gid=359229282855&ref=ts Karen Jaffe www.tangogypsies.com [email protected] Live fully,... Love freely,... Laugh out loud! Dance like no one is watching..... _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail is redefining busy with tools for the New Busy. Get more from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID27925::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:032010_2
