Cultural Writing, Latino/Latina Studies. HORIZONTALISM: VOICES OF POPULAR POWER IN ARGENTINA recounts the birth of the popular rebellion beginning in December 2001 as told by participants. The rebellion-of workers and the unemployed, of the middle class and the recently declassed-erupted without leadership or hierarchy and toppled five national governments in just two weeks. "These are the voices of Argentina's grassroots activists, captured amidst the most important burst of democratic innovation the world has seen in the last decade. Listen, and learn how to make history from the bottom up!"-Marie Kennedy
Marina Sitrin, a New York City-based lawyer, writer, and activist, has spent large portions of the last three years in Argentina working with, and studying, the autonomous popular movements developing this oral history.