‘Let’s get uninformed’, 15 years of giving voice to “Los Nadies”

Mexico City. Let us be misinformeda communication portal focused on social movements, defense of human rights and territory, celebrated its 15th anniversary, a milestone it celebrated in the amphitheater of El Colegio de San Ildefonso, followed by a photographic exhibition in the Patio de los Pasantes.

Let us be misinformed It is a global communication space based on the union of many different wills. A space that joins an autonomous media effort that, fortunately, already exists and continues to grow. It is a space with information about the countryside, neighborhoods, study centers, factories and indigenous communities.

A space of the streets and plains, with testimonies of men and women invisible to the mass media: migrants, indigenous people, refugees, artists, sex workers, boys and girls who live on the streets, farmers, workers, students and a long etcetera made up of the dispossessed classes, Los Nadies, as the Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano names them.

The portal was born on October 15, 2009 and is growing as an autonomous, free and independent communication project, made up of a team of communicators, people from social movements, intellectuals and academics, men and women of various generations. The name of Let us be misinformed it was borrowed from the Uruguayan poet and wrestler Mario Benedetti. It is a poem that, with humor and irony, unravels the world of information from above, to conclude with a verse that gives meaning and horizon.

The photographic exhibition includes work by Ángeles Torrejón, Prometeo Lucero, Antonio Turok, Gerardo Magallón, Raúl Ortega, Luis Jorge Gallegos, Ricardo Trabulsi, Gabriela Sanabria, Miguel Tovar, Mario Olarte, Noé Pineda, Elsa Medina, Consuelo Pagaza, Maya Goded and Iván Castaneira.

Among the women fighters called to participate in the 15th anniversary were: Krizna, Aracely Osorio, Trinidad Ramírez, Haizel de la Cruz, Cristina Bautista, Teresa Castellanos, Maya, Aracelia Guerrero Rodríguez, Joaquina Paulina Doroteo, Juana Ramírez, Ana Enamorado, Patricia Espinoza, Argelia Betanzos, Doña Fili and Laura Rocha.