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Champagne!
Tomas delivered the Kingston Hotpress to INTI on Thursday as scheduled, and after about 2 hours of fiddling around with the electrical installation, we had a go of it with the strips of plastic bag that Caroline had been cutting up all morning - a task that was as...
Sin Patrón.
While waiting for the final tweaks to the hotpress - by the way, Tomas has tweaked it and is delivering it to INTI this Thursday, December 13 - the remarkable Erika Loritz has helped us conduct street interviews with cartoneros. (I met Erika in October on a side trip...
The Mighty Hotpress is Finished (almost)
We passed by Tomas Benasso's workshop a few days ago to gaze at the finished hotpress and go over some of the minor kinks that he's going to work out during the next 2 weeks. It's a mighty beast of a machine and a tangible measure of one of the things we're trying to...
Reciclando Sueños
On a rainy Thursday, October 11, I accompanied Caroline and Eric to the cooperative Reciclando Sueños located in La Matanza, the largest zone of the Province of Buenos Aires with about two million inhabitants. The cooperative, which has collected recyclable waste in...
The Phoenix of Lanzone
Renacer Lanzone or the Pheonix of the barrio Lazone is a social organisation run by Adam Guevara. Adam had an idea over twenty years ago, that CEAMSE should send the trucks to groups of cartoneros, before putting the garbage in the ground, so that they could take the...
Pressing Ahead
There have been more than a few unsettling moments during the past 3 1/2 months. Most of them have to do with the recognition that we have round-trip tickets and will be leaving here, that we will be alright. But the people we work with and have grown so close to...