Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo have a building at Plaza Congresso. It is a cafe, a bookstore, a resource center for human rights, a library, a video library, and a plethora of good ol' fashion radical ideologies. The cafe makes damn...damn good empenadas for 2.5 pesos. The bookstore has large sections reserved for Marxist literature and libros de carton, beautiful. There are comic books on gender and positive sexual vibes. It is a noisy, active, city hall-like place of forward thinking and support. La asociacion is also called La Universidad de las Madres, and you can imagine the sort of reference points, and ideologies, and power that might be brewing from the people in this open community. I have yet to view la Madres on Sundays but I imagine it is beautiful. Beautiful people tend to grace the building with their presence. Hearts take up more space there.
Walk through the doors, passed the bookstore on your left and cafe on your right. Follow the stares up, and enter the first door on your left, walk down the hallway of file cabinets and organizers. Anyone can join the video library, bring identification and a blank dvd. There is a strong culture of cinema in Argentina, and once the dictatorship went down, filmmakers rushed to manifest visually the horrifying era. Right now I have rented "La ora de los ornos" a very famous underground film made during the dictatorship. It is in three parts and a few hours long, it does not exist with English subtitles and it is a beautiful display of raw Argentina and powerful Marxist propaganda, it depicts a people, a faciest regime, and a solution.
get more info on the mommas at: www.madres.org
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