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  Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Mothers of the May Square (Spanish: Asociación Madres de Plaza de Mayo) is an association of Argentine mothers whose children "disappeared" under the military dictatorship between 1976 and 1983.
The 14 founders of the association, Azucena Villaflor de De Vincenti, Berta Braverman, Haydée García Buelas, María Adela Gard de Antokoletz, Julia Gard, María Mercedes Gard and Cándida Gard (4 sisters), Delicia González, Pepa Noia, Mirta Baravalle, Kety Neuhaus, Raquel Arcushin, Sra.
Revolutionizing Motherhood: The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, by Marguerite Guzman Bouvard (1994).
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 Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Background
De Carlotto is a founder and longtime president of the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo (Grandmothers of May Square) an extraordinary group of women who have worked since 1977 to expose what happened to their missing children and grandchildren.
Next was de Carlotto's husband, Guido, snatched by undercover agents when he went to Laura's house after the family hadn't heard from her.
De Carlotto broke down and screamed at the officer that he was a murderer.
www.fire.or.cr /junio01/mothers2.htm   (1460 words)

  
 Documents reveal nuncio’s cautious human rights stance
Laghi, U.S. papal nuncio from 1980 to 1990, subsequently was accused by Argentinian groups such as the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, of complicity with the repressive regime.
Two decades later, in Rome, the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo called on Italian authorities to prosecute Laghi, an Italian citizen, by then a cardinal, as an accomplice of the regime.
In 1997, Gary MacEoin, writing in NCR, said the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo charged that Laghi silenced international protests, falsely stated to relatives he knew nothing of the fate of victims, and expelled from the country priests and religious who protested the “disappearances”; and tortures.
natcath.org /NCR_Online/archives2/2002c/083002/083002m.htm   (965 words)

  
 Madres de Plaza de Mayo
The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo have been fighting relentlessly for twenty two years in defense of life, dignity and unrestricted human rights.
The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo demand that the British authorities put the murderer Pinochet at the disposition, not only of the Spanish judges, but also of the European Courts, who have also demanded his trial.
We, the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo demand that it should be a message of justice and not one of impunity and barbarism.
www.oikos.org /mayo2.htm   (528 words)

  
 Argentina: She walks alone
Since 1983, on the Thursday closest to 21 July, Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo and other popular organisations go to Olga's village, and walk with her and other mothers the 7km between Calilegua and San Martin, to ask for truth and justice.
The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo are a leading example of nonviolent struggle in Latin America.
It took 20 years before those people began to talk, to say what the mothers and others had been saying for a long time, and if they did, it is partly because the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo are still walking around the squares.
www.yendor.com /vanished/walks-alone.html   (570 words)

  
 unit3/argentina.html
1985 Mothers adopted a new campaign slogan, "No exhumations, no posthumous homage, and no economic reparation!" In so doing, they categorically rejected any possibility that the disappeared be considered dead as a result of armed confrontation, but rather as a result of murder at the hands of the military junta.
The Mothers would not accept the deaths of their children without sending their murderers to jail.
Two of their current issues are the refusal to accept government reparations to families of the disappeared, and refusing to negotiate with the government concerning acceptable evidence of death.
www.humboldt.edu /~go1/terrorism/unit3/argentina.html   (1466 words)

  
 Argentina: The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo
The children of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo were kidnapped and nearly all were murdered by Argentina’s military during its “dirty war”; against the Left from 1976 to 1983.
The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo insist that they will not formally accept that any of their children are dead until the government comes forward with documentation to show what happened to them.
The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo want to make the most of the opportunity presented by the efforts of the Spanish judge who is attempting to prosecute Pinochet and are directly collaborating with his work.
www.labournet.net /world/0001/mum1.html   (967 words)

  
 Peace x Peace e-Newsletter
It is time for the mothers of the world to lead this charge – if not for yourselves as women, then for the children in need of some “motherly” protection and love.
It is time for mothers to connect with each other, to empower each other, to work together towards creating and sustaining peace, to stop the cycles of violence, and to hand down to our children a legacy of peace.
Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo have become an icon of women’s resistance against tyranny; supporting each other “in circle.” The depth inside the eyes of those still walking in the Plaza de Mayo is a lesson in pain suffered, pain remembered, and pain overcome.
www.peacexpeace.org /resources/newsletters/newsletter18.asp   (3874 words)

  
 2001 Proceedings of the RRCWL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
These mothers of disappeared Argentine youth reminded me, and not in a gentle way I might add, that a tyrannical police state that ruthlessly imposes terror and violence onto its citizens is not war.
While the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo-Founding Line work within the system to promote their cause, grateful for any small legislation that may help answer questions about their missing loved ones, the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo vehemently reject any acknowledgment that their missing ones are deceased.
Esa novela, hija, nunca ibas a poder escribirla de ninguna manera.
www.ndsu.nodak.edu /RRCWL/V3/colvin.html   (3129 words)

  
 Plaza de Mayo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Plaza de Mayo (Spanish for May Square) is the main square in downtown Buenos Aires, Argentina, at 34°36′30″S, 58°22′19″WCoordinates: 34°36′30″S, 58°22′19″W; it is flanked by Hipólito Yrigoyen, Balcarce, Rivadavia and Bolívar streets.
Several of the city's major landmarks are located around the Plaza: the Cabildo (the city council during the colonial era), the Casa Rosada (home of the executive branch of the federal government), the Metropolitan Cathedral of Buenos Aires, the current city hall or municipalidad, and the headquarters of the Nación Bank.
Since the late 1970s, this is where the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo have congregated with signs and pictures of desaparecidos, their children, who were subject to forced disappearance by the Argentine military in the Dirty War, during the National Reorganization Process.
en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Plaza_de_Mayo   (531 words)

  
 IRC Americas Program | Argentina 30 Years after the Coup
Nora Cortiñas, one of the founders of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, said that the same leaders responsible for illegally detaining, torturing, and killing 30,000 activists during the military junta dictatorship from 1976-1983 now benefit from state-sponsored impunity.
With national television cameras focusing on Astiz, infamous for infiltrating the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo and disappearing two of their leaders, the H.I.J.O.S. surprised the nation by yelling “murderer” and throwing rotten tomatoes at Astiz who asked to be excused to go to the bathroom.
Many of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo are now in their 80's, working to prevent a chapter in the fight for human rights from closing.
americas.irc-online.org /am/3170   (1770 words)

  
 Fierce Mothers Battle On, printer friendly
Juana is a founder of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, women who protested their children’s disappearances during Argentina’s brutal military dictatorship, the so-called “dirty war,”; from 1976- 1983.
The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo began the fight as a group of 14 on April 30, 1977.
The Mothers eventually discovered that their children were held in 340 secret detention centers where they were tortured, killed, and sometimes thrown into the ocean (the largest and most infamous, the Navy Mechanics School [ESM], will be turned into a public space next year).
zmagsite.zmag.org /JulAug2004/schoenbergpr0804.html   (1968 words)

  
 Madres de Plaza de Mayo
The presence of the Mothers in the Plaza was known through word of mouth, given that the press did not acknowledge any "desaparecidos" or missing persons, which determined no need for Mothers of the disappeared.
The Mothers stood together near the "Pirámide de Mayo" (May Pyramid) located in the middle of the plaza, but were told by policemen that they had to walk because the country was under siege and there was a law that prohibited groups of three or more people to stand together.
The Mothers of Plaza of Mayo continue with their marches every Thursday around pyramid of the Plaza de Mayo with the intention of affirming the truth to their demands.
www.easybuenosairescity.com /biografias/madres1.htm   (761 words)

  
 Bono salutes Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo - Boston.com
Bono salutes Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo - Boston.com
Five of the famously handkerchiefed Mothers, whose children disappeared during a state crackdown on dissent during the 1976-83 junta, were on hand for the last of two shows the band performed before more than 60,000 fans.
Bono walked across a platform near where the Mothers were standing after singing "Miss Sarajevo" and singled the group out while urging the audience to strive for world peace.
www.boston.com /ae/celebrity/articles/2006/03/02/bono_salutes_mothers_of_the_plaza_de_mayo   (231 words)

  
 UNESCO PRIZE FOR PEACE EDUCATION 1999 PRESENTED TO ARGENTINA'S MOTHERS OF THE PLAZA DE MAYO
UNESCO Director-General Koichiro Matsuura awarded the 1999 UNESCO Prize for Peace Education to the Argentinean Association of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo which was represented at the ceremony by its President Hebe de Bonafini.
Mr Matsuura spoke of the history of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo - an association created in 1977 by a group of 14 women who were asking the military dictatorship to give them news of their children who had disappeared.
In her address, Ms de Bonafini spoke of the demonstration the mothers whose children have disappeared have been holding every Thursday for the past 22 years on Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires: "Every Thursday, we feel that our children are alive [...].
www.unesco.org /education/ecp/edprize_99.htm   (631 words)

  
 Looking for Answers in Argentina
On April 13, 1977, a dozen or so Argentine mothers, despairing of learning what had happened to their children, put on white kerchiefs and gathered at the 220-foot obelisk in Buenos Aires's Plaza de Mayo.
So I was stunned on arriving for a politics-free vacation to learn that the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo would be holding their final March of Resistance the very next day.
Faded paintings of white scarves on the pavement testified to the mothers' claim to the turf.
www.thenation.com /doc/20060410/omang   (1502 words)

  
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Perhaps most significant is the claim the Mothers of the Plaza included in their charges last month that they can produce 20 witnesses, including two bishops, two priests and a mother superior who are ready to travel to Rome to testify against Laghi.
The Mothers take their name from the Buenos Aires square where they first marched 20 years ago to demand news of their children who had been "disappeared" under the military regime.
According to the Mothers' petition, Ada D'AIlesandro, a member of the Charles de Foucauld Fraternity, claims that when Laghi was approached on behalf of five "disappeared" Little Brothers of Jesus he refused to intervene, saying that these were people with dangerous ideologies who had infiltrated the church.
www.mosquitonet.com /~prewett/witnessagainstlaghi.html   (1771 words)

  
 Mothers of the Plaza De Mayo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Mothers still cry out in mourning when their children are executed.
Azucena Villaflor was one of the mothers who stood there pleading for her "disappeared" children.
Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo soon greyed and called themselves Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo.
gbgm-umc.org /umw/terrorism/mothers.html   (459 words)

  
 Mothers' group to stop ‘missing’ marches - Catholic Online
‘MOTHERS’ GROUP ENDS MARCHES FOR MISSING — Hebe de Bonafini, left, leader of the Argentine human rights group Association of Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, is embraced by member Maria Sierra de Palazzo during the group's "resistance march" in Buenos Aires Jan. 26.
In a message on the Web site of the Association of Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, founder Hebe de Bonafini referred to a "new wind blowing" from the government of President Nestor Kirchner, whose human rights policy she described as impeccable.
The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo organized to demand information about people who had been detained by government forces and disappeared under the military junta that ruled the country between 1976 and 1983.
www.catholic.org /international/international_story.php?id=18551   (1052 words)

  
 Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo
In October 1977 tWelve Mothers established the Association of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and organized around one specific demand: that the children who had been kidnapped as a method of political repression be returned to their legitimate families.
Some of the groups-such as the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, and the Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared for Political Reasons-were started by relatives of the disappeared who were pressing the government for information about their family members.
Similarly, Alicia de de la Cuadra's husband was told by an auxiliary bishop in La Plata, Monsignor Picchi, that their daughter had given birth in captivity, that the child had been given to a very influential family, and that nothing further could be done.
www.usfca.edu /fac_staff/webberm/plaza.htm   (20404 words)

  
 MercoPress - Falklands-Malvinas & South Atlantic News
The gray-haired Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo took center stage at the rock concert-styled rally, wearing the trademark white handkerchiefs of their long human rights struggle.
Blocks away from the plaza, giant enlargements of photographs of the victims were projected onto the capital's famous Obelisk monument.
The rally was led by Hebe de Bonafini, a leader of the most outspoken wing of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo — who have long demanded an accounting for missing sons and daughters.
www.falkland-malvinas.com /Detalle.asp?NUM=7510   (892 words)

  
 Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Action Alert   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Longtime peace activists in the group “Mothers and Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo” are denouncing a vicious attack and torture of the daughter of the organization’s president in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Hebe Bonafini, president of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, said that the attackers appear to be linked to the intelligence service of the military dictatorship, and part of a repressive campaign because nothing was stolen from their home despite the aggressive attack.
Write to the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo at: madres@satlink.com.
www.fire.or.cr /junio01/mothers1.htm   (224 words)

  
 Madres de la Plaza de Mayo, Las (1985)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
They want in this way to make it known publicly to the citizens of Argentina as well as to the whole world, their passionate plea to the present government, to investigate where their disappeared children went, as well as the children of their daughters' who were born in captivity.
It is a documentary that shows how the mothers are imploring for justice to be done, and to judge the guilty ones so that there is no impunity for those who were involved and perpetrated such crimes.
It is through testimonials that the mothers declare with intensity of feeling and deep sincerity, their sad and heart-rending stories, of those moments they lived when their children, sometimes in their own presence, were apprehended by the military and taken away to never come back.
us.imdb.com /Title?0226099   (373 words)

  
 CNN - Argentina's 'dirty war': an ugly episode that won't die - March 2, 1998
Many Argentines reserve a special hatred for Astiz, who, as a young member of a military death squad, was assigned to infiltrate the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, mothers of those detained and often killed by the military junta.
The inability to bury their dead is clearly part of what moves the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo to march each week.
The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo are ideological and unforgiving, but there is truth in their warning when they chant that there are "assassins walking the streets of Argentina."
www.cnn.com /WORLD/9803/02/argentina.dirty.war   (1082 words)

  
 The mothers of Plaza de Mayo to the Pope   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The mothers of Plaza de Mayo to the Pope
Sir John Paul, no mother of the third world that has given birth to a son who she has loved, covered, cared for with love and who has then been mutilated by the dictatorship of Pinochet, of Videla, of Bancer and Stroesner will accept resignedly your demand of clemency.
We the association "Madres de Plaza de Mayo" ("Mothers of Plaza de Mayo") plead, ask God in an immense prayer that he will extend over the world, that he doesn't forgive you, Sir John Paul II, that he denigrates the Church of a people that suffers.
www.oikos.org /mayo3.htm   (316 words)

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