The words in the title of this blog and the picture reproduced above are both from Marcello Brodsky, an Argentian photographer, who has dedicated himself to the memory of the victims of state terrorism in both Argentina and in Latin America. The picture is from his 8th Grade class in 1967, and as he explains in the film, The Quiet and Subtle Cyclone, five per cent of his classmates in that picture are now dead, eliminated by the dictatorship under the military that ruled Argentina from 1976-1982.
Brodsky's piece is part of larger film that was produced by the Guerrilla News Network in 2002 to be shown at the Diamantina Film Festival in Brazil. If you have quicktime on your computer, the film is well worth checking out, as are a number of the other activist films featured on both the GNN website and the Dissidents website.
Both websites make no claim to impartiality, providing in their own words partisan videos and films that serve as a counterpoint to the views that are expressed in the mainstream media. You won't and don't have to agree with everything that is said in any of the films listed, but it helps to be able to see a different viewpoint to compare and contrast every once in a while.
I think old Gil may have got it wrong.
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