The brand new publication produced entirely by neighborhood assemblies Zavaleta, Rodrigo Bueno, Villa 31 bis, 21-24 and Soldati Fatima has Carlos Mugica, Julio Cortázar, Roberto Santoro and Rodolfo Walsh between journalistic colleagues, and instead uses the western alphabet numbering quom. "The goal is to let everyone know what happens in the Rancho from the mouths of those who live here, without intermediaries," says one of its makers.
By Nicholas Sagaie
Photo Powerful Throat
courtesy "Journalism is free or a farce"
[Rodolfo Walsh]
Buenos Aires, January 1919 (NAN Agency, 2010) .- From bowels of the poorest neighborhoods of the City of Buenos Aires began to grow vigorously on a collective voice that will crash every month. It choked the word before a group of young people embraced journalism as an act of freedom, to have it hidden, so invisible and distorted by the mainstream media. The way they found to release this call is through Powerful Throat, the villera first magazine designed, written, illustrated, photographed, directed and financed by neighborhood assemblies Zavaleta, Rodrigo Bueno, Villa 31 bis, 21-24 and Fatima Soldati. "The goal is to let everyone know what happens in the Rancho from the mouths of those who live here, without intermediaries," says William Cartagena Farfán, one of the drafters of the brand new newspaper staff. So, no spokespersons or mediators, with your feet stuck in the mud, the kids sent to walk the street its first issue, with Juan Roman Riquelme on top, a recipe spiced with humor, some mates with Joan Manuel Serrat, a remarkable Facundo response to Pastor and stories from the inside. In total printed little more than three thousand full-color copies sold in Buenos Aires with the idea that in future editions the message is going to expand up to ten thousand copies.
The task is not easy but the push to bring no small feat. Proof of this is the platform from which to write, supported by the strong will of thousands of residents, the utopia of Carlos Mugica, the madness of Julio Cortázar, Roberto Santoro's dreams and militancy of Rodolfo Walsh, all references as collaborators in the journalistic staff of the magazine. "Because when we write and maintain their ideals: the people" Cristian Romero stated as 14 years with an enviable lucidity. With that back in the publication, he and his colleagues in a style that breaks the guidelines of the hegemonic journalism degrees in the bottom "because the important thing is down" and the alphabet to replace Qom Western numbering, for example. "The issue also has no dependence on advertisements or advertisers," unclassified only rented to people from the neighborhood, features a quick glance seem simple but are not innocent. "It's about a way to change little by little the structures. Now we will have to listen, "remarked William, an" old young "living for years in the Villa Rodrigo Bueno.
The winds of change began to blow past three months, when the popular media cooperative NGO La Poderosa concluded that "something must be done" because the traditional media groups do not reflect the reality of the corridors of the villa and its people. "Besides, stirring history, we realized that there was no news concerning emerged from the popular sectors," said William. Then each assembly was introduced in the difficult task of identifying prospective editors, photographers and cartoonists, formed by a scholarship scheme that allowed them to learn and go out there prepared. Then conditioned newsroom, anchored in the heart of the Zavaleta, street Ernesto Che Guevara, strip 6, house 85 bis. Corner of the world easy to spot because from the front it was announced that production there is an accurate painted warning that "terror is based on the lack of communication" and that "violence is lying." Such phrases are still inside the house, now the sanctuary of writing, where one wall is colored flag of Cuba, another has photos and portraits of the makers of the project in the village, while one of the fronts all is commanded by an old Olivetti typewriter.
Throat ... first used his vocal cords when the meetings got the necessary funds with raffles, bingo and voluntary contributions hundred percent anonymous ("because no matter the personalities here but the whole group", a condition that applies to those who want to help) to print three thousand copies. "Now the February issue is guaranteed by the proceeds from sales in January, March and hopefully we get print ten thousand magazines, are eager young journalists. At the same time anticipate a steady growth: first, with a trip to Formosa to a correspondent who interviewed Toba community of Spring and then with a much more ambitious journey to cover the career of Michael in Italy in homage to Miguel Sanchez, athlete disappeared during the military dictatorship. "In the long term, by the good reception he got the magazine, we hope to become an engine of community financing of all meetings, as a genuine and independent action," they explain. However, they are aware that everything will require much effort and innumerable roadblocks.
The first hurdle to move forward on this initiative met last week when they were spreading the pedestrian magazine in Villa Gesell. In operating a stranger, on Monday 10, the Buenos Aires police arrested five people who were selling copies and receiving donations. First, civilian people without identifying themselves as arrogant and forced them to retreat. "In refusing to say who they were, colleagues refused to stop what they were doing until they dropped some in uniform, moreover, wanted to steal magazines. That a man defended us, the troops severely beat him and we all jumped right away, "told the referents of La Poderosa. Completed all inside the police station No. 1 of that town. In cells "prisoners were rated as long as 'lefties' and asked them if they were Bolivians. They treated everyone very badly for no reason, "complained during a press conference to protest in the neighborhood Zavaleta, where the head of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, Hebe de Bonafini, was present to protest the fact and solidarity with members of La Poderosa.
"Beyond all, are not going to stop, gonna cry Throat," repeated in chorus with the same slogan that come up since January 2 when the group officially the "lanzaNomiento" magazine . At that time its members had already received accessions, messages and greetings from the Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano, a journalist Víctor Hugo Morales and Nobel Peace Prize Adolfo Perez Ezquivel. In a brief letter written to all the human rights fighter advised: "You guys / girls keep building and walking towards new dawns of new dawn." And that's what they do daily: "The magazine works against the disinformation in looking for a different future, "says Paola Vallejos, de la Villa 21-24 and highlights the work in the kitchens, workshops, literacy and recovery of the places in the neighborhoods. Each of the issues featured in the 24-page publication has, in which there are notes with the likes of Olga and Naomi, who tell how their children were stolen, one in a democracy and another dictatorship.
"I think it helps make visible the hitherto invisible and change a lot the concept that many have of us. While we know that the villa there are bad things, there are good people who give a hand to a neighbor or any outsider, considered Ayelén Toledo, a 14 years. The team with whom he is preparing the second issue of the magazine is completed with Claudio Miguel Savanz, Kathy Benitez, Oscar Cristaldo, Dada, Jorge Lopez, Hernan Segovia, Castillo and Fabian Sebastian Corro. The sale will continue with the same mode as before, in hand "at affordable prices." Although be achieved in two kiosks Federal Capital: Lavalle 790 and at the intersection of Las Heras and Salguero, in Palermo. The idea is to multiply and "continue reading the" say changing the renowned phrase Diego Armando Maradona as coach of the era. And last but not least, ask for "quiet hospital" for the "sick journalism", in the same manner as required by Riquelme from the cover of the magazine.
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