[Reader-list] A Video and a City

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  VIDEO | A Video and a City: Parafonista and El Alto

  A look at El Alto, Bolivia: the city that took on and defeated power
just over a year ago, giving the people new hope. This music video by
jazz-fusion group Parafonista is a display of pain and rage, of the
unstoppable force of people organized to resist a tyrant that had been
selling their common patrimony to transnational corporations. It is a
portrait of the city that rose up to topple then-President Gonzalo
Sanchez de Lozada even as its fallen lay dead in the streets.

  Luis A. G�mez | Salon Chingon
  http://www.salonchingon.com/cinema/rios_profundos.php?city=ny