Escrache

Performers at an escrache. In the mid 90's activists developed this tactic to denounce government members of the dictatorship guilty of kidnapping, torture and the murder of dissidents. A number of collectives arose, such as HIJOS, Etcetera, mesas de escrache and these actions have developed into visual and sonic spectacles. Protestors gather in front of the business, or home of a businessman, a politician or some other abuser of power and basically "out" them in a fun carnivalesque manner:theater,performance, music/noise, chants, banners, signs. This was a smaller escrache. I'm told sometimes there are over a thousand people participating. This one happened outside of the offices of a company named Telefonica and it's owner (yes power has names and faces) was being denounced for labor abuses.