[-empyre-] introducing week 3

[Ana Valdes]

I had yesterday for lunch a jail comrade she is an Anarchist and spent 13 years in prison, the whole dictatorship. Her husband her sister and her brother in law were murdered in Argentina, disappeared until now. She has been called as a witness to the trials held in Argentina against many of the high ranked military responsable of all it.
She is one of the most courageous women I know. Her mother in law is 94 still waiting for his son to be found a bone a part of his clothes anything should be welcomed. 
Ana
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De: Monika Weiss <gniewna at monika-weiss.com> 
Fecha:23/11/2014  17:59  (GMT-03:00) 
A: soft_skinned_space <empyre at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au> 
Asunto: Re: [-empyre-] introducing week 3 

Ana,
When I was preparing the project in Santiago, Chile, one of the women who worked at the Museo told me she was very happy on that one particular day, because they found, she told me, a little finger bone that belonged to her husband’s hand. Now, she said with a smile, I can finally have a funeral for him, after all those years of searching. Her smile was something I will never forget. 
Monika
On Nov 23, 2014, at 12:43 AM, Ana Valdes <agora158 at gmail.com> wrote:

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The Mothers of May started to walk round the plaza de Mayo, in Buenos Aires, silent, with huckles in their heads, carrying posters with the images of their missing children. It was in the 70:s. More than 30000 people dissapeared in Argentina and Uruguay. Many were buried alive. Many were drugged and thrown from airplanes to río de la Plata. 
We are still finding old bones in hidden graves. 
Ana


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De: Murat Nemet-Nejat  
Fecha:23/11/2014 02:42 (GMT-03:00) 
A: christina.spiesel at yale.edu,soft_skinned_space 
Asunto: Re: [-empyre-] introducing week 3 

Perhaps the most powerful form of symbolic space is the plaza, from Tienanmen Square to Tahir Square to Maidan (which is a Turkish word) to Damascus to Taksim Square in Istanbul, to cite a few relatively recent examples, the symbolic action most feared by governments. I wrote a poem about thirty years ago "Fatima's Winter" exactly on the idea of the square (attached to a tool) as a potentially revolutionary space. Participants to our dialogue at Empyre may be interested in it. Though published, the poem is not on line. I don't know whether I can include it within the the post or attach is as a document. The poem is a few pages.





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