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Hola Alva,<br>
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Thanks for sharing the work that you have been doing and developing
collectively.<br>
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The text that you shared reminds me of Alex Rivera's documentary the
<i>Sixth Section:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://alexrivera.com/project/sixth-section/">http://alexrivera.com/project/sixth-section/</a><br>
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</i>This perhaps this enfolds the question of transversal economies,
remittance cultures, and the field of dreams and immigration
(specific to Mexico/U.S. conditions) - but perhaps at play on global
scale as well, I would imagine.<br>
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The undocumented create not only a construct a baseball stadium, buy
a baseball team, get instruments of the band -a dream society back
home that most of them will never be able to touch or smell-but
non-the-less create a form of agency at a distance (a networked
existence or expression) that forces governance at state level to
finally responded and meet face to face with undocumented. The
undocumented use the "imaginary" sixth section of their to force the
state government to meet with them and start to build roads and
infrastructure. <br>
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Very best,<br>
Ricardo<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/16/16 11:52 AM, Alva Mooses wrote:<br>
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<span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">This is a clip from one of our first shared readings of the text: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://vimeo.com/155157046">https://:.com/155157046</a></span></span>
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<div><font face="Helvetica Neue" color="#000000"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;white-space:pre-wrap">We are currently discussing ways for our Grupo < > project to extend beyond the five of us.</span></font></div>
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