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Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo identify 140th stolen grandchild

Estela de Carlotto read a press release at the headquarters detailing the latest identification

The Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, the group which identifies children born in captivity to parents illegally detained and forcibly disappeared during the dictatorship from 1976 to 1983, have announced via social media that they have identified their 140th grandchild. They confirmed he is the son of political activists Graciela Alieta Romero and Raúl Eugenio Metz, who remain disappeared.

He was born on April 17, 1977, at the Bahía Blanca “La Escuelita” clandestine detention and torture center, as learned through testimonies from Graciela’s captivity. His mother was five months pregnant when she was kidnapped along with Raúl. They had a one-year-old daughter, Adriana, who was raised by her grandparents and went on to lead the search for her long-lost brother as she grew up. The grandson and his true family learned the big news on Friday.

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Estela de Carlotto, head of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, confirmed the news on Monday by reading a press release at their headquarters, the Casa de la Identidad (House of Identity). Hugs, emotion-filled voices and smiles were present around the room where members of the Abuelas organization, the human rights secretariat, human rights activists and the press awaited the major announcement.

“His sister Adriana always searched for him, always. Raised by her grandparents, always a weaver, she built a network that shelters her, and today she also embraces her brother in a long-awaited reunion,” the press release said.

“For us, this is a blessing to carry on despite the circumstances. Grandmothers announce with great happiness the return of another grandson,” the organization added in the release. “We confirm once again that our grandchildren are among us, and thanks to the constant struggle of 47 years, they will continue to appear.”

According to the information provided by the Abuelas, the parents of the newly identified grandson were originally from Bahía Blanca, a coastal city in Buenos Aires province, but moved to Cutral-Có, Neuquén, fleeing political persecution. They were kidnapped in December 1976, and taken to “La Escuelita” in Neuquén, where they endured torture. They were later transferred to a detention center with the same name but in Bahía Blanca. Raúl was last seen there in January 1977, but Graciela stayed there until after giving birth in April.

The military dictatorship named some of their detention and torture centres "The Little School".

Adriana Metz Romero joined the Abuelas in their search from a young age, knowing she had a stolen brother somewhere. Today, she is part of the organization’s directive commission. “It’s my turn to be on this side [of the desk],” she said, visibly emotional, during the press conference. “Although I’ve always been in the search, I never imagined this would be like this.”

Adriana confirmed that she spoke on the phone with her brother, who also spoke with Adriana’s son, his nephew. They haven’t met in person yet, but she said he is currently living in Buenos Aires, while she lives in the coastal city Mar del Plata.

Asked by the Herald about her brother’s identity and how the process of identification began, Adriana said that they contacted him to let him know that there were chances of him being the child of dictatorship victims.

“With the information the National Identity Commission (CONADI) gave him, he was asked if he agreed to provide a DNA sample to carry out tests at the National Genetic Database, and he did,” Adriana said. Although her family had been searching for the Metz-Romero baby for decades, CONADI — which is dedicated to investigating cases of child appropriation during the dictatorship — received an anonymous tip that allowed them to more consistently work on a theory that the baby was appropriated. After the investigation concluded in April, they contacted the man and he agreed to provide a blood sample.

“I never lost hope, but I sometimes got scared that maybe he didn’t live to 5 years, or 30. I was going to keep looking for him anyway. But he is 48 now,” Adriana said. In the time he awaited for the results, the grandson checked out the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo website to look at the family groups, and “some pieces of information led him to believe that his family was ours,” Adriana said. “He saw that and imagined it would be positive, but didn’t say anything because he didn’t want to cause false expectations.”

After the press conference, De Carlotto, Adriana and several other robbed grandchildren who had got their identities back changed the number hanging at the Abuelas headquarters that marks how many grandchildren they have found so far, in a frenzy of people chanting, hollering and overall celebrating the new achievement. After speaking with the press, they shared a toast.

Adriana told the Herald that she is not picturing how her relationship with her brother will be like, but confirmed that they will meet in person. “I don’t know how or when, but we will meet, not very far from now.” “I am happy, thinking about all the work that is to come after the identification of my brother, like telling each of the Metz-Romero family that Graciela and Raúl’s son is on this side of the truth,” Adriana said.

The search in her family began as soon as they learned Graciela and Raúl had been kidnapped, filing habeas corpus to demand they appear. They were looking not only for the couple, for also for the baby that was still growing in her womb. Adriana said that her brother’s reaction to learning his true identity was “relaxed” and that their first conversation was “very easy going.”

As part of her search process, in 2009 Adriana opened a blog called “Poncho de Lana” (Wool Poncho) in which she wrote letters to her brother every April 17, his birthday, and told him who she was, how she was searching for him and how much she awaited to find him. Adriana is not sure if he read them, although he told her he saw her blog when he looked up the family name. “Adriana participated in each institutional activity, with the certainty that she would only find her brother by searching for them all. And at the end, there’s a reward,” the press release read.


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The discovery comes after the group announced the identification of the 139th grandchild in January and the 138th in December. De Carlotto spoke with the Herald after the announcement concluded, saying that, for the organization, each new identification “is a victory of good over evil.”

“They are victims. They suddenly have a new name, a new family, and sometimes they endured mistreatments from those who pretended to be their parents,” De Carlotto said. “There are many more missing, but little by little, and hopefully with good governments that will come, we will be able to find more grandchildren.” De Carlotto questioned the defunding of memory policies by the government of Javier Milei, whom she called “the enemy” and said that he is “shattering” the country.

“We have a terrible history in Argentina, and the appropriation of children was used to dominate us,” De Carlotto said. “But they forgot that we have hearts and souls of mothers and grandmothers to look for them as long as we live.”

The first grandchild taken from their parents to be identified by the human rights organization was Tatiana Mabel Ruarte Britos. Born in 1973, her father was forcibly disappeared in 1976 and her mother the following year. She was identified in 1980.

For those who don't know, Argentina was ruled by a military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983 in the context of Operation Condor. The Argentine Military Junta of 1976 was unique among it's peers. The first years of the dictatorship were very violent, the State engaged in domestic violence against everyone who they deemed political opposition (Communists, Peronists, Socialists, Social Democrats, Liberation Theology Church, etc), not against the militant individuals only but also against their families as well, which explains the large number of disappearances (30,000). It is known as the dictatorship that ouright stole babies from their captive mothers and gifted them to friends of the regime, the fate of many of these parents remain unknown (hence the Desaparecido status). These babies were forced to start a new life under a completely artificial family to them, many of them questioned their origins and came in contact with the Madres or Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo and their extensive database, where they would find their true origins and reunite with what remains of their family.

Many of the criminals involved in the Military Junta (from Generals all the way down to police officers) are still being tried by the Justice, but they are done so in public civilian courts, something that is unique in the world. The Argentinian case is also unique in the sense that a civilian government pardoned military and police officers who carried out tortures, disappearances and killings. In 1986 two laws were put into place, the Full Stop Law and the Law of Due Obedience, which literally made prosecuting military and police officers illegal. And then, it was the civilian government under Néstor Kirchner who declared both laws unconstitutional in 2005 which allowed for the reopening of the trials (A civilian court handled the first round of trials in 1985 against the main members of the Junta).

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The entire database I do not know, however you can pick the emojis you want, type them in the comment box, preview, right click on the emoji and click on "open in a new tab", download the image and profit.

I've done so with some emojis that I transferred to whatsapp as stickers. It's kinda tedious but it works just fine.

[-] [email protected] 85 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Qassam anti-tank troops continue to deliver explosives by hand against the "IDF" armoured vehicles, this time the Merkava's ammunition suffered a cook off. Multiple angles available as well. The sheer emotion the cameraman has when his buddy returns alive after delivering the explosive is amazing too.

Absolute bravery from the palestinian fighters, there's nothing more to add really. Clearly shows how each side fights the other, while one likes to flatten the entire place with their air force and long range artillery, while going in inside their heavily armored vehicles taking zero risks, the other fights on as if they were the protagonists of a typical Hollywood war movie. But this isn't fiction: The palestinian fights like a true hero would. I can't stop but to think of Saving Private Ryan's movie, where in the last battle the US soldiers fight the SS troops up close and personal, planting explosives on the german tanks as they push into the town. In that movie, we're shown how the US soldiers are heroes for fighting that way when all odds are against them. Then again, that's a movie, and the palestinian fights like that in real life and proudly shows it as well.

Defeating the zionist monster, one hand-delivered explosive at a time.

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Clearly Tito didn't go hard enough, there was plenty of room remaining when they closed off the pits.

[-] [email protected] 115 points 2 weeks ago

Boy... October 7th really did set things in motion huh? Looking back at it, when we first saw the videos of our brave men and women crossing the Wall of Hate with motorcycles, pickup trucks, paragliders... didn't we all feel something really big was going to happen?

There is no going back now, we live in a new world. The brave palestinians who launched an all-out assault against the zionist monster changed the world, with nothing to lose and a lot to win. May that be the date that marks the beginning of "israel's" final moments on Earth.

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FIFA and UEFA to uphold ban on Russia from participating in international competitions at least until the 2026 FIFA World Cup

Meanwhile, FIFA and UEFA member "israel" killed a fuckton of FIFA-registered palestinian players in Gaza, dismantling a FIFA-regulated tournament in the process as well. You can sit comfortably waiting for them to take action against the zionist entity.

death to "israel"

[-] [email protected] 118 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I hate all zionists, but I have a particular spot for the bulldozer drivers. These aren't just your normal soldier who loots houses and takes selfies in ruined buildings. The bulldozer driver is the one responsible for destroying homes and running over people in very conscious acts, you have to be a special piece of shit to demolish houses with your vehicle, one by one. On the other hand, the military use of bulldozers is quite unique to "israel", even thought pretty much all armies use them. "israel" uses them very close to ongoing combat, usually armies employ them after areas have been cleared of enemies, but their bulldozers seem to follow frontline troops to begin destruction immediately, no time wasted there. I think this shows how much "israel" just loves destroying stuff, how their incursion into Gaza is simply to destroy it.

Remember that video of a bulldozer going through a refugee camp, running over and destroying people's tents, a bulldozer that you can't see but you can still hear destroying stuff, but then it comes face to face with a Qassam fighter that fires a very accurate RPG shot into the cabin? That is one of the most powerful videos by the Resistance that emerged from Gaza. Instant Justice I would say. These bulldozers are an integral part of "israel's" plan for Gaza, and seeing it get destroyed as it's doing it's work is amazing. The bulldozer works for the genocidal cause, the Qassam fighter puts a swift end to it, it's extremely symbolic. Here's the video for those who didn't watch it

And yes, this is related to that fucking piece of shit bulldozer driver who had PTSD and then suicided because he couldn't bear with it. Hope many more zionists follow him tbh.

Death to "israel".

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My University held a student's assembly today and decided: The University is now taken and partially managed by it's students until Wednesday, when the action will be temporarily suspended because we will hold a protest. However, if the Argentinian Congress fails to overturn milei's veto on education funding, a new assembly will be celebrated to decide on the next action. An indefinite occupation of the premises is not out of the question. We joined our efforts with the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Buenos Aires and other institutions that have carried out similar actions. This can become a big snowball very quickly.

Wherever this ends, it's valuable experience. Even if we don't achieve political victories, let it be known that we can work together and we can act in solidarity with one another. That's a big win, because we can find the ways to transform the material reality in capitalism, and that is, to me, the way to bring it down.

[-] [email protected] 116 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I've seen it, the videos coming out of Gaza of the huge crater made by the US-made bomb dropped on a refugee camp by the zionist genocidal entity. This, coupled with the very recent video of a palestinian emergency worker carrying the lifeless body of a young girl amid the rubble, whose head is completely cracked open and is later seen being filled with pieces of cloth just to give it some proper form for a proper humane burial... It's over, it's completely over. If the continued stream of horrific information that comes out from Gaza doesn't turn you into a radical anti-Zionist and anti-Genocide person, you're dead to me and to everyone else. There is no more room for doubters, either you're against this genocide or you fully embrace it and celebrate it. Large portions of the western world fall into the latter. Let us not forget about the decadent comprador regimes and royals who plague the Arab World, those like Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia... whose lack of response directly aids the genocidal effort of "Israel".

There is no more discussion to be had, it cannot get any clearer than this, it is impossible. "Israel" has done everything they can to show the world their genocidal intentions, they're very open and shameless about it. Whoever doubts, at this stage, is supportive of genocide.

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Watching a livestream from Gaza at the moment. It's night, and it's very eerie. Pretty much the entire city is pitch black, only a few lights can be seen in the distance. But the sounds, that's where it gets terrifying.

The nights are not calm, the Palestinian does not sleep, the night in Gaza is full of activity and dangers. There's the constant sound of an aircraft engine, it's very likely that this is at least one UAV flying above the city, watching them closely from above. From time to time, a jet engine can be heard, and not long after, an explosion. The explosions are heard intermittently, they break the silent of the night, they wake people up, and those who are not asleep will most likely rush towards the explosion to begin the horrible task of removing debris and see who can be pulled out alive... The average palestinian in Gaza does not sleep, they can't, they know that any minute now could be their demise. There's no shelters, no fancy Iron Dome, just counting on your blessings that the incoming missile doesn't hit your place. These nightly sounds are all meticulously crafted to break the Palestinian's spirit, every sound is there to remind them they're stuck in this concentration camp called Gaza.

To every fucker both-siding this conflict: First, suck every nanomillimeter of my third world cock. Second, watch 5 minutes of live night footage from Gaza. Tell me if the average brooklyn colonizer piece of shit in Tel Aviv has to live through the same horrors EVERY. FUCKING. NIGHT.

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Formed in 1943, it was largely destroyed in the battle of Brody

Completely unsurprising lmfao. The majority of SS volunteer formations absolutely sucked in combat, exceptions being for example "Nordland" but their actions were completely reckless and suicidal, achieving nothing in return. "Galizien" was among the terrible ones, units like these were good in nothing else than "anti partisan activities", and that often means pure war crimes -- hanging suspected partisans, surrendered partisans or general combat with irregular units, where the Germans conducted their war with no rules whatsoever. But when the time to face the actual Red Army came, these units were almost always utterly swept aside by the Soviets. After a good few days of intense beatings, their remnants would pull back and reorganize far from the front, where they resumed "anti partisan activities". "Galizien" took part in supressing the Slovak National Uprising, which they did by massacring civilians.

Also being volunteer formations make every single soldier absolutely guilty of every terrible action their units did, if some soldiers were forced into service there might be an argument, but there isn't, because each one of these fucks knew what they were doing. I am glad the Red Army brought ultimate justice to these pieces of shit, althrough this one might have slipped away.

And he slipped away to Canada like a fucking rat. And years later, Canada would give this fuck a standing ovation. Canada. Ask Canadian WW2 vets what they thought of the SS, ask any of their Normandy vets what they would do to any prisoner belonging to the "SS Hitlerjugend" division, this unit has a very particular history with Canadians. The SS commited numerous war crimes against Canadian troops in WW2, and these motherfuckers are now giving them standing ovations? Man fuck the west, fuck every bit of this worthless concept. Fuck all liberals, motherfuckers are an insult even to their own history.

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Very unique image showing the use of barricades by the popular movements during the 1848 Revolution, in this case, in the city of Paris.

This image corresponds to the "June Days Uprising", which was a big urban revolt staged from June 22nd to June 26th triggered by the plans to abolish the Ateliers Nationaux (National Workshops). The Workshops was a government program in which work was provided to the unemployed by the French Second Republic after the 1848 Revolution, which happened in February. During the February Revolution, workers made clear demands to the Provisional Government: Right to Work and Organization of Labor, said demands were heard and passed by one of the members of the Provisional Government, Louis Blanc, a Socialist. Unfortunately, the National Workshops were finally abolished and in response the workers revolted.

The Garde Nationale (National Guard) was called in and the revolt was suppressed, leaving about 3,000 dead insurgents and about 3,000/4,000 were deported to Algeria. The defeat of this workers-led insurrection marked the end of a long series of events protagonized by Socialism in it's infancy, it also marked the final victory of Liberals over the "République démocratique et sociale" (Democratic and Social Republic) and soon it would form an alliance with the aristocracies around Europe.

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Let's go comrades, cum with me. :lets-fucking-go:

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