At the 20th of dezember it's one year that the uprising of the argentinian population began. This rebellion goes on untill now and it developed to a movement, that creates alternatives of self government. On the occasion of this day, the movements in Argentina mobilize to big protests and call the global movements from Chiapas to Seattle and Genova to a global day of social disobedience. (call to action: http://argentina.indymedia.org/news/2002/10/53770.php)
The call was heard and the social movements worldwide will answer on the 20th of december. The preperations continue and networks surge...

Here a little overview of different countries. The list is (of course) not complete and is made of news and informations out of the different countries. More Informations to the mailing-list (l...@raaf.be) or as comment below....

NEWS FROM BELGIUM/EUROPE:

Here in Belgium we had another meeting to prepare D20-D21 and we decided to focus mainly on banks with a kind of "permanent image guerrilla". On the folowing ideas we're working for the moment with different action groups out of the main cities in Flandres en Brussel:
-D20: videoprojection of the Argentinean uprising on the facade of an important bank in Gent at a square full of headquarters of bank, with images of middle class people trashing banks (maybe we will try to invite financial analysts with a litte lie), with soup kitchen and music
-D20-D21: image guerrilla on cashpoints in the neaberhood of the most important shopping street: on permanently presented posters there will be the image of a cashpoint with on one side someone who is taking money out of the automat and on the other side an image of the destruction caused by profit seeking investments and speculation.
-D20-21: parade through the shopping street

NEWS FROM LONDON/UK:

UNDERGROUND- NIGHT OF RAGE
Friday 20 December
In Solidarity with the everyday acts of disobedience, a call-out for actions and individual acts of defiance against those institutions which enforce control.
OVERGROUND- DAY OF DISOBEDIENCE
Saturday 21 December
Chaotic mass proletarian shopping action on Oxford Street. Dress as Santa, steal from the rich & give presents to the kids, Just nick it...
for further details & to download our leaflet in pdf format, check out http://www.wombles.org.uk

2 other d20 related events in the UK:
1) The other cinema ( ex metro cinema) an independent cinema in central London are up for a day of films and discussion about Argentinas rebellion on Sunday afternoon the 22nd Dec.. should be a great event, its organised by a guy who managed to get several hundred people to watch and discuss the whole of the Gusman trilogy of films about Chile ( famous battle of chile film being one of them) over a sunday afternoon on sept 11th this year, the anniversary of the chile coup. (If any one has films they think should be show contact Gareth Evans )
2) The Guradian colour magazine on Saturday are going to run a 6000 word cover feature on the rebellion the weekend before D20, written by Naomi Klein and John Jordan with lots of pictures by Argentina IMC etc...

NEWS FROM BERNE/SWITZERLAND:

We are a group from Switzerland. Our actions for the 20./21. December take part in Berne. In the afternoon of the 20. we have a reclaim the shops, in the evening we want to show a film about Argentina, and on the 21. we will have an RTS against the Christmas Consum.

NEWS FROM BARCELONA/SPAIN:

some people who come from the dinners discussing about the next YOMANGO action over here in 20 and 21th of december (we continue making the YOMANGO dinners -the menu is cooked with stolen products- every two weeks. Eveytime more and more people are enjoying them, lastone more than 70 persons.) The idea of YOAMNGO-TANGO is growing and growing. By the moment some people is already investigating some places -commercial centers- where we could do the action, other people is making the graphic part of it, others are making the contacts with the medias, other group will care about the "security" of the action (stoping the police if they come, etc)
In these moment we think we will make the action during the two days, two strikes!: first day we will go to dance and steal food in a big coorporate-supermarket, then the second day we will make a dinner with all those stolen products inside of a bank -a BBVV bank which is one the most responsable of the argentinean ecinomic crisis-. -in some weeks we will make the first weekend workshop mixing a clasical civil dessobedence workshop and dinamics with TANGO dance, "how to use the TANGO moves for to steal things in coorporations"

NEWS FROM BERLIN/GERMANY:

For the 20th dezember a 'day of social protest' is planned. The date of the first meeting for preparation and coordination is going to be anounnced soon. Not only on this topic, there will be a information and discussion meeting at sunday (3rd nov) with activists from argentina and people without work from a local group:
"Information, comparing analysts (differences/similarities) and what can we learn out of this? In Argentina the state is bankrupt, in Berlin the city. In Argentina social changes take place, especially in the form of self-government from below. In Berlin i.e. the people concerned by the social shortenings demonstrate isolated. Are there possibilities of transmission or even concrete learning steps for an emancipatory and social movement from below in Berlin?
(Also in other cities in germany people think about actions.)

NEWS FROM ARGENTINA:

Regarding actions here, as I told you, huge demonstrations are expected. My own Asamblea is organising a coalition for an "Urban Piquete" for the 19th, consisting in the blockade of the central stock market and the buildings of all the big banks and corporations in the city center. The idea is to stop big business and financial economy for one day.

BUENOS AIRES:

With Intergalactika Buenos Aires and ATTAC, we are producing a video to screen on the street that day. We want to show the many effects that the Argentinean rebellion had in other parts of the world. Common Argentineans are still completely unaware of all the actions inspired in the cacerolazos and the piquetes that happened around the world. They are also unaware of the extent to which the new political experiences that we are exploring have inspired activists in many other countries.
So our idea is to expand global consciousness here, by showing how something we did linked with struggles in different parts of the world. The documentary will combine images of actions for Argentina in Canada, USA, Europe, and other Latin American countries, with interviews with local and international activists speaking about that. We are planning to hire a huge movile screen to sceen it during the big demonstrations that are expected in Buenos Aires the 20th of december.
After that, we will organise a "tour" of smaller screenings in all the places we can.

---> BUILDING GLOBAL NETWORKS:

during the European social Forum in florence (Italy) is going to take place a satellite laboratory of communication strategies and global practices of social activism... there is going to be a workshop: tango Argentino on December 20/21 day of social disobbedience for Argentina . There will be few people from argentina taking part in the workshop and we are working to set up a radio streaming with Argentinians (MTD lanus and solano, Intergalaktica argentina, indymedia argentina, assembleas...).
The issues will be around self organizing and self government, free shops , treque and alternative coin systems, strategies of counterpower, piquetes as a practice of social subversion.... it would be a good possibility to exchange ideas and coordinating the network for the actions of 20/21... are you up for coordinating/partecipating into something like this???
we will go to Florence the next week, so we hope to find some of you there and we can use the moment for to coordinate about theses two days of global desobedence. As you already know, in florence will be a workshop which is called as this mailing list "argentinean tango" and there we can discuss lot of doubts and differents ways of working.
Also florence can be a good place to make some tryouts of these kind of actions before we will do it in our own city. There is already a proporsal to make a big action in a coorporation over there! http://inventati.org/hub

NOW IT'S TIME: GLOBAL SOCIAL DISOBEDIENCE ON 20th DEZEMBER
think of actions and start resisting...