[Imc-finance] another quetest for support from argentina

[Sabastian Hacher]

Hi All

After two weeks of riots with a payed by the goverment band, we decided to stay 
for a month or two in Neuquen, a city that is located 12000 km from home.
We was two weeks working in common with unemployed unions and the workers of 
Zanon, that had recently their "ocupation birthday" with the  factory working 
in their own hands.

In this dificult time we worked making and intensive (and sometimes dangerous) 
coverage, but we are trying to resolve and structural problema now, and our 
second step is try to resolve an structural problem, making a big teachin with 
workers to teach they to make they own coverages. 
We started today a work shop with 10 unemployed workers and with 9 workers of 
zanon, and we'll start another one with a similar quantity tonight (we are 
doing it in the same hours that they are working)

the main problems here are:
1.-they don't have any experience. They are wonderfull people that is taking a 
150 million valuated factory, that is giving work to 300 families and making an 
amazing work in common with unemployed and all the community, but they don't 
have any skills using internet, making prints or making photo or video. We are 
making an intensive work shop  of 1 months or more, to work in common with 
they. We are practicaly living inside the factory . The workshop that we are 
doing is focused in four things.
-How to read the press and the big media. Some tips to know how they lie
-Internet: how to use internet, how to post in indymedia, how to make an online 
coverage and use a computer.
-Radio: how to edit sounds. We have a 1 hour radio show waiting to be made. we 
also are talking about the posibility of open a community radio in a unemployed 
barrio.
-Print: how to write a press release. How to write a nice report. Some skill 
about photomaking.
we are talking about make video too, if we can fix the video cameras that they 
have here.

In the work shop (or teach-in, i don't know the right translation) we are 
working with workers of the factory and unemployed people from the MTD, the 
biggest piqueteros organization in this land.


2.-Recourses. There are a few computers in the factory that we are using to 
work, but that's the only equipment that they have. Actually there is no 
internet, no audio recorders, no money to make a print, etc. Today 5 young 
unemployed activists  come to make the workshop without eat and walking from 7 
km. to be there.


That's why we are looking for support to get:

1 audio recorder
1 photo camera
2 bateries to fix a video camera
1 microphone and cables to edit audio 
1 internet conection (we'll use a dialup one)
money to edit the first print publication and to pay the people cost to 
go to the factory to work in the workshop.

we are talking about an amount of 500 dollars from the global founds to get 
this very basic equipment. If somebody knows somebody that want to help with 
more, you are welcome. We don't say to wait people coming with equipment from 
another countries, because they are in a dificult situation, with strugles 
coming and going every day and we are doing it  very fast because one day 
sometimes it's the diference between life and dead.


We also are making a few nice experiences in Buenos Aires and Rosario, moving 
our spaces to ocuped banks and houses. This one, in Neuquen, for the people 
working here, it's the wonderfull way to be the "voice of the people without 
voice". We are not really teaching, we are learning to talk with the words of 
the people of our land. 

A fine deadline, i think, it's October 27, because we have, in first time, a 
dificult strugle here (see the reports) and in second term, because the 
duration of the work shop is 1 months, and we need maby 2 weeks to teach people 
how to use the tools.




thanks a lot 


sebastian


ps: you can see lot of coverage from the indy team that is working here ; 
pictures and reports in spanish about this nice place 
and the dificult situation that they live every day here. I hope you enjoy it:

http://argentina.indymedia.org/news/2002/10/56666.php
http://argentina.indymedia.org/news/2002/10/55129.php
http://argentina.indymedia.org/news/2002/10/54838.php
http://argentina.indymedia.org/news/2002/10/54433.php
http://argentina.indymedia.org/news/2002/10/54420.php
http://argentina.indymedia.org/news/2002/10/54122.php
http://argentina.indymedia.org/news/2002/10/53960.php
http://argentina.indymedia.org/news/2002/08/43584.php
http://argentina.indymedia.org/news/2002/08/42764.php
http://argentina.indymedia.org/news/2002/05/29099.php
http://argentina.indymedia.org/news/2002/02/14991.php

and tons of posts, audio and some video there too. Also, you can see a
few reports in the pasts editions of FSRN