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ARGENTINA: ORIGINAL TOWNS

Regulate and Reign Over You: 3rd International Congress ofthe Spanish Language

rusl cut and paste 16 Nov 2004 23:38 GMT (translated by rusl cut and paste)
 


From the 17 to the 20 of November the Congress will be made in Rosary III the International of the Spanish Language, organized by the Real Spanish Academy and the Cervantes Institute with the support of the governments national, provincial and municipal. The senator and first lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner were named president honorary of this event, that will cost 500,000 euros per day and will have 1,100 cash police in the operative one of security. Under the motto "linguistic Identity and globalización", are not accidental that between the main auspiciantes of the Congress are Spanish multinationals like Telephone Repsol YPF and, some of the companies that became rich more during the last years in Argentina. President Néstor Kirchner and His Majesty the King of Spain, Juan Carlos I, will be in charge of the inauguration speeches the next Wednesday. Of ideologically opposed parallel form and, between the 15 and the 20 of November the I will take place in different independent spaces from Rosary Congress of the Languages. This encounter, of open and gratuitous participation, will agglutinate to academic institutions, cultural groupings and indigenous communities to discuss, among other subjects, the reasons and consequences of the imposition of lingüísticas policies and to affirm that the languages are not comercializables products: their only proprietors are the hablantes. According to they detail the impellers of this event, "we we are not going to speak ' gives the natives, the poor men, the marginal ones, the people of the historical independent communities of the Spanish state but that we are going to speak ' con'. We are social agents all, of an absolutely complex reality like it is the Latin American reality that we declared multilingual pluricultural and ".

On the other hand the coordinator Original Towns in Fight, where sectors of the indigenous population of Rosary come together, will make the next Monday a protest in the Consulate of Spain located in front of Seat 25 of May. Whereas an amplest fan of organizations mobilizes Wednesday towards a place that reduces to define, due to the limitations that the operative one of security will impose. This last activity arisen from an initial call of the space Table Debate Rosary and the local branch of the union of the educational ones (AMSAFE).

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The Municipality of Rosary spent 4 million weights for ' embellecer' the city. In the last months great facades were recovered, streets were fixed and paths and settled sentry boxes of group in the avenues. Only in the spare part of the theater the Circle, main seat of the Congress, was used almost 3 million weights that were collected appealing to the conscience of the local and national empresariado one. Of the cleaning the dogs of the street were not saved nor, that disappeared of downtown according to denounce defending organizations of the animals. In as much, the Municipal Council penalized the street painted ones and limited the distribution of steering wheels in the urban zone, when demanding that authorization is asked for.

Although the enemy operations to III the Congress of the Spanish Language are summoned from different spaces, all agree in indicating that the different authorities from government try to use the world-wide repercussion of the event to install, like it happened to the World-wide one of the 78, a new image of Argentina in the outside.

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Two groups of the network Indymedia Argentina will have participation in the I Congress of the Languages. The group Original Towns will coordinate Tuesday a table integrated by indigenous signallers, whereas the collective Rosary makes the days Wednesday and Thursday a factory of writing of the news and publication on line. In order to finalize both groups they will be Friday in one of pull-debates on alternative and communitarian means. Enterate here















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ayudante 28.Nov.2004 17:40

The coordinating organization, Pueblos Originarios en Lucha, which functions as a convergence for various indigenous groups of Rosario, is organizing a protest in front of the Spanish Consulate, located on the Plaza 25 de Mayo for this Monday. Additionally, a large group of organizations will also be holding a march Wednesday, but the location has not yet been set due to the security for the summit.
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The city of Rosario has spent 4 million pesos for the ‘beautification’ of the city. In the last few months they have restored facades, fixed streets and gardens, among other projects. A project to restore the theater El Circulo, where most of the Congress will be taking place, has cost 3 million pesos in itself, financed by donations from local and national businesses. Not even the street dogs were saved from the ‘beautification’ project, according to animal protection groups who said the dogs had all disappeared from the city center. The city council also exercised penalties against street advertising and limited postering in the zone, requiring authorization to post.
Even though the activities against the 3rd Congress of the Spanish Language happen in various locations, together they will show that the government authorities are attempting to use the international perceptions of this event, like they used the World Cup of 78, to create a new image for Argentina.