{"id":10315,"date":"2005-08-09T07:00:08","date_gmt":"2005-08-09T07:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/56.3052"},"modified":"2005-08-09T07:00:08","modified_gmt":"2005-08-09T07:00:08","slug":"superbarrio-darthmouth-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/2005\/08\/09\/superbarrio-darthmouth-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Superbarrio: Darthmouth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Photo essay originally published online at Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at New York University <\/a>
\n\u201cYo comparto la idea de que tiene que haber una transformaci\u00f3n de la pol\u00edtica econ\u00f3mica, y si la pol\u00edtica econ\u00f3mica se est\u00e1 dictando desde Wall Street, desde el Departamento de Tesoro […] el gobierno norteamericano tiene un papel sustancial en dise\u00f1ar esta pol\u00edtica econ\u00f3mica \u2026 Por eso, lo que yo estoy haciendo es atacar por los dos lados. Con la organizaci\u00f3n social, con la gente en movimiento, con propuestas de modificar la propiedad econ\u00f3mica, y con la candidatura a la presidencia, para modificar de fondo esta pol\u00edtica. Y sin dar el beneficio de la duda, en la cosa de la candidatura, podemos perder aqu\u00ed, pero no podemos perder en el movimiento social.”
\nThe Future is Now<\/strong>
\nIn favor of progressive transnational politics via what can be understood as global gobernance, Superbarrio 1995\u2019s electoral campaign for US president proposed that the citizens of the Americas must have the right of self-governance by having control over the US electoral vote. In other words, Latin Americans, and Latinos\/as alike, must be able to participate fully in the US electoral process by having a representative voice. Superbarrio Gomez for US president against the \u201cpolitics of fear\u201d was the logic consequence.
\nNine years later, from September 20, to October 4, the “Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride”, a national march organized by labor and pro-immigrant rights organizations toured the US nation. Their claims, the provision of voting rights to non-US citizens. In the tradition of the 1961 “Freedom Rides”, more than 120,000 immigrants arrived to Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, New York, the largest pro-immigrant march in US history. Predictions attest that by 2080, Mexico\u2019s north and the US southwest will unify. The Mexicanization of California has already taken place long ago, now we are in the North East.
\n\u201cVoy a estar en Harvard el pr\u00f3ximo viernes, y me da miedo encontrarme a los mexicanos ah\u00ed, porque son ellos los que est\u00e1n pensando en qu\u00e9 va a hacer nuestro presidente, y hoy est\u00e1n estudiando un material nuevo que se llama: desastres econ\u00f3micos nacionales. La gente tiene una politizaci\u00f3n muy alta, tiene una conciencia social tambi\u00e9n muy alta, la gente ha desarrollado sus aspiraciones y sus formas de organizaci\u00f3n. El gobierno no ha sido rec\u00edproco con este sacrificio.\u201d
\n“The problem of NAFTA is not about workers, it is about corporations because they are the ones benefiting from this situation\u2026.the corporations take the industry to M\u00e9xico because the conditions are different, that is the problem. When the workers can find and meet each other, when they can talk between them, the problem is clear\u2026it is not our problem it is the corporation and the government’s problem. We want to be a voice that identify these problems and think together about the solution. The workers from Canada, the workers from the U.S., from M\u00e9xico should think together what is the solution about the problem of unemployment, social security, and work with unions…”
\n“\u2026una pol\u00edtica econ\u00f3mica de car\u00e1cter CONTINENTAL en donde tambi\u00e9n se puedan tener medidas para las plantas nacionales.”
\nWhile John Kerry, Rudolph Giuliani, and George W. Bush propose an America to reconcile either class division or national security promises, in 1995 Superbarrio\u2019s campaign proposed an America comprised of alternative transnational political cultures. Superbarrio’s unified America, in conversation with Benito Juarez \u201cAmerica for Americans\u201d, incorporated the participation of Latin American and Latino\/a civil societies within and beyond the US.
\n“El concepto americano hasta nostros mismos lo hemos tenido que asumir, ya que nos hemos negado a nosotros mismos nuestra condici\u00f3n de americanos nacidos en el continente.”
\nSuperbarrio has been a fundamental figure in Mexico City\u2019s electoral concientization, the way in which winning for the majoritarian class became a real political imaginary. Superbarrio’s premonitory discourse further promoted the possibilities of global governance as the only consequential logic in a global world economy and its centralized accumulation of capital. Superbarrio’s candidacy for U.S. President promoted a cross-border alliance among workers in the search of what are human rights, decent working and living conditions. Because the U.S.\/Mexico border has been the location to rehearse and promote the dehumanization of the labor force, and NAFTA its later institutionalized model, Superbarrio’s transnational mobilization becomes the wrestling scenario to conceptualized \u201cnew geographies of governamentality\u201d (Appadurai 2002). Superbarrio’s transnational activism became a fight for alternative forms of global citizenship in which to keep the mask on means to own one’s home within and beyond the Nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Imported essay about Superbarrio. Originally published for the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at New York University. Original publish date undetermined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[429,1029,1667,1669,1850,2090,2129,2544,2545,2795,2880],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}