Saturday 8 May many things floating around in my head. I have now (Movimiento por los Derechos Humanos Ecumenico ) on a series of meetings of MEDH
participated. What I want here? Maybe a little something out of the reality of poor people in Argentina, in Buenos Aires. Why? Poverty Tourism? Masochism? Guilt? Feelings of guilt because I am so much better, my student from the first world? Search for authenticity? How can I accuse demonstrate that the theology of the First World is not theology that comes from the excluded, if I do not know their situation? Test my background as a human being from the North to reduce that? Is there still a tough criticism of feminists out of the middle class of the northern hemisphere. Maybe I'm too hard to court with myself. In a way, I was not exactly belong to a middle class set. Search for orthopraxy. Javier, a fellow student, said that it means above all an encounter with people much. Te encontrás con una persona, no sólo con un pobre. The has touched me.
What are the struggles of the poor? Well, my group in Quilmes, which is certainly not the poorest in fights, especially with their husbands, their still existing or even long divorced men. They shape their lives, they have a destructive effect. The husband of Ursula, for example, from whom she is divorced for eight years, but the house where she lives, the son has overwritten, so he has free access when ever he wants, and she terrorized by phone calls to them to keep available. Many
fight about even once a little time for yourself and for example Defensoría go to the MEDH. Qué tengo yo beneficio si te vas ahí, example, asked a man his wife, Inés, with whom I was now in a small group, the national gathering of all defensorías , which takes place twice a year. Wife - property - sex object - a housewife - mother. Shall not include the often the image of these men that they have on women?
One told me that she has started to catch their evening bachillerato . I like the man, not because it's gone. Of course, they must organize so far that the food for the children there. If they want to learn, study, they are considered putas . The trick that seems to be working with women always without being aware that this accusation is just the nasty psychological abuse, so v exercise everal men.
example, you have to be tired of the nice sweetheart. Anger, outrage, about the eternal Genervtsein same is expressed. But not always. Verónica from Quilmes seems like an incredibly good woman who always tries to do her own behavior critically reflect and to change. It can now probably also separate from her husband.
Some have no patience more, scream at their children.
The Defensoría is a place where they can come to rest. Family. Place of contentment. Place where the problems are usually very open. The women press very positive about the space of Defensoría out. There are also linked to great expectations, such as Sol, on Tuesday waited the whole time that she would ask someone how their long-awaited trip to Cordoba was, and just before the end it started to cry. On the way back on the bus she was discriminated against as paraguaya de mierda, paraguaya naranja because they bear on the loud music and not to the issue had requested. Who do you think of who you are, she was the Vice President of jubilados organization that organized the trip, thrown at his head. Here 50 people are against you. Terrible! Nancy later said Los que somos bestios, los argentinos . Even at school there was much discrimination against people from Paraguay and Bolivia. Perhaps there. And things like shapes. Sol just said that the Defensoría but a family for them, since they had no one else has here in Argentina. Your children probably only, but maybe she does not so much anymore. They will be grown up. You, an energy bomb, is one of those who press for the opening of the Defensoría for other people. Professionalize in to help other people. That's fun to watch.
All personal names in this and the following entries in the series have been changed.
