On this day, 28 June 1976, Elena Quinteros, Uruguayan teacher, anarchist and opponent of the military dictatorship was kidnapped from the grounds of the Venezuelan Embassy, having escaped military custody. A member of the Federación Anarquista Uruguaya (FAU), she escaped her army escort and jumped over the wall of the Embassy, asking for sanctuary. Embassy staff tried to help her but soldiers grabbed her and a tug-of-war ensued, in which her leg was broken. Finally the troops managed to drag her off and transport her to a military torture centre where she was “disappeared”. The Venezuelan ambassador demanded her return but it was refused, leading to a major diplomatic incident and resulting in Venezuela cutting off diplomatic ties with Uruguay.
Here is a short biography: https://libcom.org/history/elena-quinteros-1945-1976https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1462517353933410/?type=3
We are standing at a crucial crossroads. Not only does the age-old
“social question” concerning the exploitation of human labor remain
unresolved, but the plundering of natural resources has reached a point
where humanity is also forced to politically deal with an “ecological
question.” Today, we have to make conscious choices about what direction
society should take, to properly meet these challenges. - Eirik Eiglad
Anarchists have been a part of the movement for an ecologically
sustainable society since its beginning; here is a documentary about
how Green Anarchist and Libertarian Socialist ideas have been applied in
urban planning and architecture.
From taking direct action to create green spaces, to the ideal of the
garden city, to the Italian anarchist partisan Giancarlo De Carlo who
revolutionised architecture after fighting against fascism (coining a
process called “participatory architecture”)
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