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An exploded frozen Gatorade bottle. Presented without comment.
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Happy Mother’s Day 2012
First let me say Happy Mother’s Day and Happy Birthday tribute today to my late Mother.
When we traveled to Argentina this year, we made it a point to go to the Plaza de Mayo to see this historic protest and to me proclamation of the love, loyalty, and determination of a mother. My original thoughts were to get at least one picture that I really liked which I could print and then give to the special women in my life, who are “Mothers” as a gift for Mother’s Day this year. I however am a procrastinator…so I’ve not gotten to that yet.
Anyway here are some of the photographs, and for those who are unaware of this powerful story, you may Wiki or Google about them because a writer I am not.Backstory
The children of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo were kidnapped and nearly all were murdered by Argentina’s military during its “dirty war” from 1976 to 1983.
“The military has admitted that over 9,000 of those kidnapped are still unaccounted for, but the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo say that the number is closer to 30,000 - a predicted 500 among this figure are the children born in concentration camps to pregnant ‘disappeared’ women and given to military related families, whilst the remaining number are presumed dead.” sited Wiki
They walk in a circle in silent protest around the Plaza de Mayo, this is deliberate and you should read the history about why they walk in a circle. They also wear white head scarves with their children’s names embroidered, to symbolize the blankets of the lost children.Three of the founders of the mothers of the Plaza de Mayo have also “disappeared”.
Their name comes from the Plaza de Mayo which is located in centralBuenos Aires; this is where the bereaved mothers and grandmothers first gathered and they have continued to convene there every Thursday afternoon for almost two decades in protest.
They have been active for more than twenty years; they are human rights activists and symbolically they have become mothers to all victims of repression in contemporary Argentina.
“The children of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo were kidnapped and nearly all were murdered by Argentina’s military during its “dirty war” against the Left from 1976 to 1983. The current Argentine government acknowledges that some 9,000 of the leftists and labour leaders who died at the hands of the military during the dirty war are unaccounted for. The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo and other human rights activists believe the number of dead who remain unaccounted for is more like 30,000. No one really knows for certain because these victims of the dirty war “disappeared” without a trace.” —- sited labournet.net
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