“I have the honor of accompanying two colleagues with their books from Grupo Editorial Sur. Paloma García is a photographer and journalist, she worked for Channel 7 and Telesur and wrote for newspapers such as Página 12. Her book includes the photos she took during the December 2001 conferences,” said María José Cano, director of the Department of People’s Rights of ATE when presenting the author, who is also a member of the union’s Department of Culture.
While his photos were being seen on the screen, Cano introduced Marcos Sierras: “Marcos traveled with us to Peru during the popular repression and made an invaluable contribution to the relatives of the fierce repression. Today we saw Paloma with her Sipreba vest and she remembered that when we did not find Marcos, she would suddenly get up and see her vest and we would remain calm ”.
“These books record and recover events such as 2001 and the pandemic and keep records against the politics of oblivion. An image remains that tells us everything: it is a testimony of history”, concluded Cano.
“We are workers and workers, that is why we are proud to present the book here, at the ATE and CTA Stand. I wanted to thank María José, Marcelo Paredes and Mirta Matheos (director of Culture at ATE) and tell them that we are joined by a dear friend, Toba García, who was the one who saved Martín’s life,” he said, pointing to the person sitting next to him. , a survivor of the 2001 massacre.
“This book represents what we went out to say and 20 years ago I wonder what happened to us. According to Correpi, from 1983 until now, there have been 8,701 deaths due to easy triggers, which is why it is not by chance that we continue to put the camera where we believe it should be,” said Paloma.
Then Martin spoke: “I was wounded on December 20, 2001. Seeing the repression of the Mothers was what defined me to go out and I ended up wounded by a police bullet to the head, Toba saved my life, He gave me breath, protected me from the police and took me to Argerich. Thanks to him, today I can tell about it”.
Marcos Sierras, author of Intima 31, was the one who closed the activity: “I was thinking about the common thread between these two realities, between these two books that I think that ultimately what they show is popular resistance. In these two extremely serious situations we try to show how solidarity and organization are always present”.
“The organization to face social inequality was key. A food truck never arrived from the city government. Íntima 31 tries to show organization and resistance. In this world of digital and artificial intelligence, what is going to make the difference is going to be ethics”, concluded the photographer.
The presentation ended with the signing of books and the memories of those two events that will remain in the collective memory.
2023-05-10 23:38:38
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