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IMAS - Immigrant Mutual Aid Society

IMAS GETTING-YOUR-DNI SEMINAR

Tuesday, September 22, 7pm

areatres, Malabia 1720, Palermo Soho, Buenos Aires

Collaboration on living-skills for immigrants in Argentina

The Immigrant Mutual Aid Society will hold its first seminar on September 22, 2009 at areatres, Malabia 1720 (behind Starbucks), Palermo Soho, Buenos Aires.

This first seminar, conducted by Argentine immigration lawyer, Solange Verón, will begin at 7:00pm and will deal with DNI and legal residency with an emphasis on citizens of countries outside Argentina's Patria Grande.

Ms. Verón is a graduate of the University of Law at UBA and currently performs politics and government studies in a joint degree program with UN de San Martín and Georgetown University of Washington, DC. She has worked with city and national government for 10 years.

The presentation will focus on obtaining legal residency in the most general terms and will be conducted in English. After the presentation the audience will be encouraged to participate in a question and answer session regarding their legal residency experiences and plans. No questions regarding DNI will be considered too general.

Future seminars concerning DNI and legal residency are planned with specific emphasis on the various stages of the process. All instruction will be directed toward both do-it-yourself efforts and those represented by legal counsel.

IMAS is grateful for the generous support of areatres in providing its flexible workplace solutions and work environments for this seminar. (www.areatresworkplace.com)

IMAS is a non-profit, self-help immigrant mutual aid net in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Providing open-source collaboration on living-skills, personal help, and instruction to those making Argentina their home; IMAS seeks to fill an English language void among similar societies in Argentina's great history as a magnet for those seeking a better life. (www.immigrantmutualaid.com.ar)

Contact IMAS at:

info@immigrantmutualaid.com.ar

IMAS is a non-profit, self-help immigrant mutual aid net in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Providing open-source collaboration on living-skills, personal help, and instruction to those making Argentina their home; IMAS seeks to fill an English language void among similar societies in Argentina's great history as a magnet for those seeking a better life. (www.immigrantmutualaid.com.ar)

SEMINARIO IMAS: COMO OBTENER SU DNI

Martes, Septiembre 22, 19 hs
areatres, Malabia 1720, Palermo Soho, Buenos Aires

Colaboración para inmigrantes en Argentina

La red Immigrant Mutual Aid Society llevará a cabo su primer seminario el día 22 de Septiembre del corriente en areatres, Malabia 1720, en el barrio de Palermo de la ciudad de Buenos Aires.

Este primer seminario será conducido por la abogada argentina especialista en inmigración, Dra. Solange Verón, comenzará a las 19 hs y tratará acerca de cómo obtener DNI y residencia legal, en esta ocasión, con énfasis en la situación de ciudadanos de países más allá de Sudamérica.

La Dra. Verón es graduada de la Facultad de Derecho de la UBA, actualmente especializándose en política y gobierno en el programa conjunto de la Universidad de San Martín y Georgetown University of Washington, DC; habiendo a su vez trabajado por más de 10 años en posiciones a nivel gubernamental tanto en la ciudad como a nivel nacional.

Esta presentación se enfocará en la obtención de residencia legal en general y se llevará a cabo en inglés. Luego de la misma, la audiencia podrá participar en una sesión de preguntas y respuestas en lo referente a sus experiencias y planes en cuanto a su residencia legal. Serán consideradas todas las preguntas relacionadas con la obtención de documento nacional de identidad.

Asimismo se han previsto futuros seminarios para cada etapa del proceso de obtención de residencia legal. Las sugerencias estarán orientadas tanto en el sentido del hágalo-usted-mismo como para aquellos casos que requieran representación legal.

IMAS agradece profundamente el generoso aporte de areatres al proveer su espacio de trabajo flexible, así como sus soluciones y ambiente de trabajo totalmente novedosos para este seminario. (www.areatresworkplace.com)

IMAS es una red de mutua ayuda y sin fines de lucro para la comunidad de inmigrantes angloparlantes en Argentina, que provee colaboraciones abiertas en experiencias y conocimientos cotidianos, ayuda personal y guía para aquellos que eligieron Argentina como su nuevo hogar. IMAS busca crear un espacio para la comunidad angloparlante en el ámbito de las organizaciones de ayuda mutua, dentro de las ya establecidas históricamente por otras comunidades en Argentina. (www.immigrantmutualaid.com.ar)

Contacto IMAS:
info@immigrantmutualaid.com.ar

IMAS es una red de ayuda mutua, sin fines de lucro en Buenos Aires, Argentina. Provee colaboraciones abiertas en experiencias y conocimientos cotidianos, ayuda personal y guía para aquellos que eligieron Argentina como su nuevo hogar. IMAS busca crear un espacio para la comunidad angloparlante en el ámbito de las organizaciones de ayuda mutua, dentro de las ya establecidas históricamente por otras comunidades en Argentina. (www.immigrantmutualaid.com.ar)

Margot and the posts

- Are you concerned Negrita?
- Hi 99, a little... remember my friend Margarita?
- I have the feeling I´ve met her once. Isn´t she 2008 milk cow National prize winner?
- Right. Margarita was able to give 28 liters of milk per day when milked with tango music.

- What a cow!
- Yeah... and all the bulls in the ranch were dying for her. When she was present the rest of us were invisible to our males...
- I didn´t know cows could be jealous.
- Oh no! Of course we can be jealous but none of us were jealous of Margarita. We were proud of her and everybody wanted to be her friend and give milk with her charm.
- Why do you speak in past tense?
- Way too much applause and posts finally got into her soul. After so much of those posts watching she became obsessed with both applause and posts.
- So?
- After a while the posts around the tambo became boring for her. She was also aware that Argentina´s dairy industry is sinking and she decided that since a champion like her was so badly paid here she should take off to conquer other pastures.

- What did she do?
- She traveled the world and tried everything that had to do with posts. Everything that had to do with applause. Everything that had to do with tango music.

- So she must be happy, I told the cow that was still looking concerned
- I´m not so sure... I have just received a postcard form her. She´s in Paris. She´s working with children and she´s listening to tango music 24 hours a day but she says that she´ll come back because she doesn´t like the weather. I don´t believe it.
- Why not?
- For one, milk cows don´t like children because children don´t like milk.

- I liked milk when I was a kid.

- That was chocolate milk, 99, sighed the cow, also I noticed in the photo that she looks dry and sad. She bleached some spots of her hair and she´s not attracting bulls any more.
- Maybe the music still makes her happy and she really doesn´t like the weather...
- I don´t think so. Tango 24 hours a day? Come on, gimme a break! said Negrita a little pissed. Be serious 99, who cares about the weather in Paris? They don´t have palm trees like in Buenos Aires but it´s still a great place to live in. We´re talking Paris!
- And you´re concern about her coming back because tambos are closing and she might end in a slaughter house?

- No!

- Sorry, I don´t get it Negrita
- Look at this, said the cow unrolling the postcard and showing it to me, You know nothing about tango, do you 99?

- Not much...

- She changed her name to Margot for Christ sake!, she added, “Ya no sos mi Margarita, ahora te dicen Margot” Does it ring any bells? It´s about her soul. You´ve learned nothing today, and she left really pissed at me.

I don´t understand cows at all and I still don´t have a clue of what she was saying. I´ll ask her again next time when she´s in a better mood.

Or maybe I better check some tango lyrics before doing so.

Argentina: no milk today, no dairy tomorrow

Breaking News -ENG
Industria Láctea -- Protestas -SP

The bottle stands for lorn, a symbol of the dawn
No milk today, it seems a common sight
But people passing by don't know the reason why
...
How could they know just what this message means
The end of my hopes, the end of all my dreams
...
No milk today, it wasn't always so
The company was gay, we'd turn night into day
But all that's left is a place dark and lonely
...
No milk today, it wasn't always so
The company was gay, we'd turn night into day
...
How could they know just what this message means
The end of my hopes, the end of all my dreams
...

The cat in the hat

"kids can see a moral coming a mile off" Dr. Seuss

Feliz 9 de Julio

Día de la Independencia Argentina

Hug a swine

Eternauta

Gobernar es cuidar
Pagina/12 REP al pie/bottom

The stylish heifers

- Hey there 99!
- Hola Negrita! How’s the herd doing?
- Oh well... the heifers are complaining about skirts..., said the cow
- What?- See, yesterday when you came late at night they saw you in your Jackie dress and this morning they were all excited because they say they don’t want to walk around naked... they’re so young, she sighed
- Negrita, I don´t want to lecture them on harmonious relationship with nature or the surroundings but they are Aberdeen Angus cows for Christ sake!
- I know, you know, but they don´t and they do not like being told how to think. Their own decisions respond to the needs of the moment because they are young. You´re aware that we cows like routines and a standardized way of doing things and now they all want black dresses... just like yours, she explained.
- Men... I don´t have that much money... maybe for some black mini-skirts, will that make the heifers happy?

- I think so. They’re also proud of their big bellies and long legs. That’ll do. Do you think the gaucho will help them dress up before dawn every day?, she said while blinking.

- I hope you´re only making a theoretical speculation. You know he has difficulties in dealing with cows' emotions. Remember how hard I had worked with him against his instinct for animal abuse? And how tough it was for him to understand that under no circumstance I would allow the herd to be mistreated?
- Yeah, I remember when you told him about rapport, empathy, compassion and he laughed at you... , burped Negrita
- ... But he did understand when I compared your feelings with his own emotional reality and how often gauchos are ignored or looked down or abused... Remember I told him about our hero Temple Grandin and the animal welfare movement? I think he got that.
- No 99, he did not. He got it when you threatened to fire him if you ever knew that only one of us was beaten. Sorry, but asking him to help the heifers to dress up won’t work... besides the girls don’t trust him much...

- So? How can we make everybody happy? I´m confused Negrita.

- I have an idea! Why don´t you buy yourself a nice black catsuit and walk around the pastures as if that were the newest fashion look? That way I assure you the heifers will feel that their natural black leather outfit looks even better than yours.

- It´s a great idea Negrita!

- Now, what are we going to do with the perdices, 99? They want to have their hair long and curly like you.

- That´s it Negrita! I´n not going to walk around the pastures in a black catsuit with feathers on my head. No way! Is everybody spoiled in this estancia or what?! Get out of here with your ideas!, I shouted.
- 99 you seem to be specially irritable this morning. Too quick to take offense this morning. I´m out of here.
- ...gulp... sorry my friend, it happens to be my birthday. But she couln´t hear me, she was already gone.

Te quiero en mi paraíso

Tus manos son mi caricia
mis acordes cotidianos
te quiero porque tus manos
trabajan por la justicia

Si te quiero es porque sos
mi amor mi cómplice y todo
y en la calle codo a codo
somos mucho más que dos

tus ojos son mi conjuro
contra la mala jornada
te quiero por tu mirada
que mira y siembra futuro

tu boca que es tuya y mía
tu boca no se equivoca
te quiero porque tu boca
sabe gritar rebeldía

si te quiero es porque sos
mi amor mi cómplice y todo
y en la calle codo a codo
somos mucho más que dos

y por tu rostro sincero
y tu paso vagabundo
y tu llanto por el mundo
porque sos pueblo te quiero

y porque amor no es aureola
ni cándida moraleja
y porque somos pareja
que sabe que no está sola

te quiero en mi paraíso
es decir que en mi país
la gente viva feliz
aunque no tenga permiso

si te quiero es porque sos
mi amor mi cómplice y todo
y en la calle codo a codo
somos mucho más que dos.

Mario Benedetti