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H 1/; OO(t: ,I·) 'l'h ' old comradeship has moved to the centre
III 1111' 11'lIl" hut iL has shed its masculine image and declared
II I I lilli' liS lo v '. \
'I'IIL is wh:1t' is being emphasised in very many struggles: that,
\lVI'I IIlld b 'yond the immediate aims and their achievement (or
IInl ), I her ' is a crucial residue of different social relations created
nI' l't'COV 'red. Thus, after the War of Water in Cochabamba,
III whi ·h the people of the town came together to prevent the
privntisation of water, one of the participants concludes:
W learnt a lot of lessons really. I think that beyond conquering the water
for the people of Cochabamba it has been a re-finding of life, a re-finding
of solidarity, fraternity, and we have been developing very valuable, very
lasting friendships. Sometimes between neighbours we look at each other
and say 'how are you?' but now there was an opportunity to talk about
our children, about problems - in so many hours of keeping watch. We
became human again. (Cecefia 2004: 123)
Or again, from one of the participants in the uprising of the
19/20 December 2001 in Argentina:
There is an important break. That is, I meet my neighbour and chat in
the square of my neighbourhood or on some street corner, and we tell
each other our problems ... There is a recovery of old spaces of sociability
that had been lost ... One of the first things that is recovered with the
nineteenth and twentieth is face-to-face interaction. It is the community
itself. (Sitrin 2005: 5; 2006: 29)
The world we try to create is sometimes described in terms of
contrasting value systems. We reject the de-humanising values
that capital embodies and create a world according to different
values, different ideas of what is good and bad. Massimo
I e Angelis describes the experience of the anti-G8 action
in Gleneagles in July 2005 in these terms: 'the Stirling camp
hecame a place in which other values were dominating social
'ooperation, or co-production' (2007: 19), and argues that 'the
politics of alternative is ultimately a politics of value, a politics
t () sta blish what the value practices are, that is those social
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