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los Piqueteros: Road Blocks, Argentinian Style

A series of articles on the piqueteros movement from Argentina: Beginning in the mid-90s, unemployed workers, Native peasants, refugees from Bolivia, and other marginalized peoples in Argentina began self-organizing to meet their communities needs. They started community gardens, bakeries, craft shops, barter markets, factories, clinics, and schools. They organized autonomously (without political parties or government […]