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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 <mura...@gmail.com>
Fecha:23/11/2014 02:42 (GMT-03:00)
A: christina.spie...@yale.edu,soft_skinned_space
<empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
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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