https://padlet.com/bhatcher2017/cycqrs78bibq The best group! en-us 2018-11-11 16:57:05 UTC 2026-01-23 03:19:32 UTC hello@padlet.com bhatcher2017 https://padlet.com/bhatcher2017/cycqrs78bibq/wish/303009091 The general conflict is between a tyrannical military government and a group of mothers who children have disappeared.  A group of mothers gathered in front of the Presidential palace in public defiance of the government and to try and end its tyranny.  They wore white head scarves on there head to symbolize diapers of there missing children. After a year of the initial march the protest grew from just a dozen mothers to several hundred mothers. They where able to gather courage though each other for they feared a government who made people disappear if they opposed them. As the number of the disappeared grew so did the movement gaining international media coverage. It ended with both Alfredo Astiz and Joerge Rafeal Videla facing life sentences in jail. Investigations where going on as long as 2005 when they where still finding bodies of the "disppeared". The final march was held on Jan 26, 2006. ]]> 2018-11-11 17:11:29 UTC https://padlet.com/bhatcher2017/cycqrs78bibq/wish/303009091 fcarring https://padlet.com/bhatcher2017/cycqrs78bibq/wish/303045539 The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo were some extremely brave women. The Argentine military junta or dictatorship was one of the strangest forms of totalitarian governments seen in modern times. Argentine politics have also been shaky but in the late 1970s and early 1980s the country’s government hit all-time lows. Often countries with dictatorships backed by its military seek to keep the status quo by turning their guns against their own people. The Argentine military was no different in this sense. It seemed like the Peron’s had Argentina guided towards a more sensible government but in fact they were not much help themselves (they were fairly brutal as well). The army had taken over the complete civil affairs of the country by 1976. Poor economic growth had led to an unsatisfied population. Dissenters of the regime were sought after. The government / army would kidnap their opposition or dissenters in the population. In the end over 30,000 people were kidnapped and murdered by the military junta. This war against its own population was known as the dirty war. The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo did the unthinkable and protested against the regime by marching through Plaza de Mayo in the Argentine capitol, Buenos Aires. For the rest of the military junta’s existence and in some ways still afterwards mothers, grandmothers and all other family members protested against the regime and were often brutally hunted down by the army. Even with the junta long gone – there is still an effort to discover what happened to kidnapped people and often their children. Many orphans from 1980s Argentina can only imagine what happened to their parents. In the end the military junta decided to take a break from beating up their own population and take on someone their own size. Galtieri and his cronies attacked and occupied the Falkland Islands in 1982. Within a few months the Argentine forces were soundly beaten with 15,000 Argentine soldiers taken prisoner by the British. The military junta’s regime collapsed soon after. In bizarre fashion – the Dirty War was over thanks to Margaret Thatcher.

]]> 2018-11-11 21:01:43 UTC https://padlet.com/bhatcher2017/cycqrs78bibq/wish/303045539 mdimuro2015 https://padlet.com/bhatcher2017/cycqrs78bibq/wish/303057291 The group of Argentine mothers who've struggled to carry the burdens of losing their children during a costly state terrorism not only speaks volumes of pain, but is indicative to their hard fought battles that made differences. Although the military dictatorship lasted from 1976-1983, the group of women took advantage of their opportunity in 1977 to march at the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aries. The practice of non-violence was so imperative they made their attire a symbol of the loss each of the mother's received. As a statement, each mom used white scarves and tied them over their heads in which symbolized the diapers for their children. Together, these women opposed the Argentine government and became human rights activists for all the other women struggling to have a voice.

Madres de Plaza de Mayo. (2018) https://socialhistory.org/en/collections/madres-de-plaza-de-mayo

Refused to be Silent. The Guardian. (2018) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/28/mothers-plaza-de-mayo-argentina-anniversary]]> 2018-11-11 22:32:24 UTC https://padlet.com/bhatcher2017/cycqrs78bibq/wish/303057291 grimmd2016 https://padlet.com/bhatcher2017/cycqrs78bibq/wish/303083519 The military junta running the Argentinean government had a surprising dependency on the Mothers. Having claimed to be defenders of "the Argentine family and Christian values," to have various mothers and housewives protest against them, demanding to know the truth behind the "disappearance" of their children, put a huge dent in that public image. (219) They may not have been people who could truly disrupt them, but the Mothers were defying the regime's expectations that they could intimidate the citizens into complete submission, keeping the will to oppose going even through the worst of it. (221) The Mothers depended on their government as anyone else typically would for a government, for law and order. But when it was clear this would not be given equally, they began their protests. (217-218) When the government sealed off the plaza from them, the Mothers broke through just to run across, proving they could act independent of a tyrannical regime that did not satisfy what they depended on them for in the first place. (219) However, their main dependency was the truth on their children's fate. Only the people who currently ran the military would know for sure what happened, so they needed them to confirm the truth. (218)]]> 2018-11-12 01:48:50 UTC https://padlet.com/bhatcher2017/cycqrs78bibq/wish/303083519 jhiggins2016 https://padlet.com/bhatcher2017/cycqrs78bibq/wish/303086713 In this trying time in Argentina where there were thousands of missing children the group named "The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo" arose. Though with every great group there are bound to be ones that oppose their movement either because the are being hindered by what they stand for or there is a general opposition with what their goal is. In this case the opposing group would have to be the Argentinian military junta or dictatorship. The dictatorship was in direct control of the country and its military. The dictatorship an The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo are technically interrelated due to the government have control over their citizens, though the government is dependent on the citizens to keep the economy moving. This dictatorship relies on authority based on the fact that the government would reframe from giving any information regarding the status of the missing individuals.

Madres de Plaze de Mayo. (2018)
https://socialhistory.org/en/collections/madres-de-plaza-de-mayo

Worldcat.org. (2016)
https://www.worldcat.org/title/history-of-modern-latin-america-1800-to-the-present/oclc/915135785

]]> 2018-11-12 02:08:42 UTC https://padlet.com/bhatcher2017/cycqrs78bibq/wish/303086713 scunningham2014 https://padlet.com/bhatcher2017/cycqrs78bibq/wish/303102107 During events that took place in 1977-1983 in Argentina with the Mothers of the Plaza De Mayo Argentina; there were multiple parties involved within this movement that played a major factor. Some of these third parties that had a part can be seen in both friendly and hostile aspects. The government played an active role in encouraging this hostile invasion of the military to eradicate any subversion from the Argentine society. Backed by General Videla, the military acted as a hostile third party setting the creation of the issues that were to come. Another third party that can be considered during this time, can be the mothers of those disappearing individuals, they acted as an opposition to the forces of the military. They acted as a key force that pushed for the resolution of these disappearances. Although these two particular groups were the main contributors to the third parties during the mothers of the plaza de mayo issue; there still were outside influences such as government officials. (217-221)

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