Página/12. March 22, 2010
to deal with abusive police conduct, how to conduct a protest, how appropriate the city. The right to have rights group intends to seek strategies to the violation of social rights.
is not a manual either: a handbook of rights human social organizations. There is a manual made only by professionals from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP): a manual born of dialogue with grassroots organizations in becoming daily show that rights to food, adequate housing and work not met. "The idea is to start with a problematic situation for the people, to review the rights and establish strategies to achieve a target of change," said Gabriel Appella, project coordinator. The right to have rights is the name of the graduate program manual and a lawyer, a social communicator and a geographer carried forward from 2006 with the aim of adding new lines of discussion social organizations and develop strategies to fight on two premises: "The right to protest is the first right" and "Without organization there is no collective rights."
The experience began with training workshops for social organizations regarding the locations of Berisso, La Plata and Buenos Aires metropolitan area who performed pro bono a group of students and academics, on the initiative of the coordinators, program, who are also activists in the Frente Popular Darío Santillán and the Collective for Research and Legal Action. After three years of militant, in 2009 the Faculty Journalism and Communication at the UNLP decided to incorporate the workshops as part of university extension programs.
then, "the right to have rights" and on the street was the first edition of the manual (published by Editorial Collective) bringing together the experience of debate between the academic and the neighborhood. "The project allows the student to bring social issues from careers in law as viewed from a perspective that is missing the most affected," noted Stephen Rodriguez, a lawyer, professor and coordinator of the program that had its origins in a lecture on "criminalization of poverty and protest. "
The questions raised in the heat of debate opened several areas: the right to protest, rights against the abusive and violent police and right to the city. These issues are then transformed into chapters and at the time of publication would add one more: community communication. "The community approach of the manual is intended as a tool of mediation on the issues and allow the construction of a collective solution among human rights organizations, territorial and effective transfer of the contents of the manual by reference in the neighborhood," said Appella.
The five chapters of the book summarizes specific issues, provide legal remedies, report documents prepared by other organizations and gather input from neighborhood experiences in boxes called "to do", something like a collective solution to the absence of daily duties.
"The manual did not take as its starting point should know, 'You right you have a. ..'. Not aim at the eyes of the law because we work with social organizations that are specific offenses charged against the interests of the sectors that was recruited to the vulnerability. What is sought is that each organization discuss what it can cope with the problems and create collective actions, "concluded attorney.
With the manual published and distributed among more than 300 grassroots organizations, unions and public libraries across the country, the work continues. "Not only is manual and deliver them to fix it with a job and support, it should be noted about what issues the district will work with the manual. The axes that are far closer to cover all the issues and also provide solutions. The manual is to be inserted into an existing dynamic in organizations to bring new looks, "said Mariana Relli, geographer and program coordinator.
popular high school teachers came to use the manual material, which initially was not prepared for these spaces. Neither was expected to transcend the border, but the issue came to countries like Uruguay, Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, Venezuela and Mexico. "The material has different forms of ownership because the manual is to be completed in usage, according to the problems experienced by each organization," said Appell.
Report: Nahuel Lag.
Hidden Violations
With the right axis to the city is looking to add "the practice of recognizing degraded habitat, housing and neighborhoods unsatisfactory service problems as a violation that is not displayed," noted geographer Mariana Relli. To Relli the difficulty is that "if you torture a policeman in a police violation of the law is clear, but if you live in a house that has no water, dirt floor and you fly the roof after every storm is a matter each in a single plane and analyzed as a particular action to take money to build the house. " Therefore, the manual aims to put text on legislation to the problem for organizations, "after discussion of a package to be armed when they go before the state management was not satisfied to go with four plates, they do not solve the problem of habitat appropriate. "
An approach that overcomes
coordinators "The Right to Have Rights" say try to go a step beyond textbooks, to those who qualify as "small manual arrested" because , according to attorney Stephen Rodriguez, useful if you're white, you have glasses and walk with two books under arm. "If you inform a young kid, poor and dark-skinned that you have to do in the neighborhood is to tell the police 'you you can not stop me' or 'I have the right to call' the kid you're guaranteeing a beating," said Rodríguez. Our questioning is what we must do as an organization when they are held to a friend or neighbor in the neighborhood. Therefore, we say 'no rights without collective organization. "" To the lawyer of the' any 'race' of vulnerability begins with an arrest, for example, a criminal background check "and the problem is that" it very difficult in the daily judicial work show that an arrest is an unlawful act "so" we must organize an institutionalization of the problem from the neighborhood and change the relationship between human rights organizations and social organizations that be a spare tire that comes when the problem has already exploded. "
''Some people can not wait,''
In 2003, the government of Nestor Kirchner said he would cut short any social protest by force, cutting the inheritance of repression and death from the first stitches in the second term of Carlos Menem. But the lawyer and coordinator of the manual stated that "provincial governments continued to use the Penal Code to give cash to social protest: the state in Santa Cruz, Neuquén Mapuche, the tareferos in Misiones, the Toba in Chaco." "Social organizations come to the protest because her voice is not taken into account by the companies holding public communication, while the state should not expect a squad with two thousand residents to be open forums for dialogue" noted Rodriguez- . Social protest is the way to provide a channel for a host of questions that society has for the ruling class. Criminalizing free speech means to leave the most vulnerable sector of society. The Constitution provides for the electoral vote for the people to express themselves, but there are sectors of society who can not wait: if a child is malnourished, it dies. So they do not go against the law but to update rights such as freedom of expression, "he summarized. Appella added that "there is a stigma on those sectors that rely on the protest. There is a consensus in the rest of society, bother, do not want to work, are lazy, all are constructions that give spring to the State for crimes where there is a claim for rights. " Against that, the manual calls for "community outreach as a way to influence the public space through various strategies to build another," said the coordinator.
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