OUTBOUND TO MONTEVIDEO (7)

By: Mimi Lipson
September 27, 2018

Part seven of a series of posts adapted from a travel journal originally posted on apexart.org.

PART 7

Whatever else I do, I am looking at stuff on the walls.

I remember reading in anthropologist Shirley Brice Heath’s wonderful book Ways With Words how the children in “Tracktown” read the writing on the boxcars that rolled through their neighborhood like they were storybooks.

I have a bank, but…
Win 190: US$
and abandon the social role.
Neither close nor privatization.
Coordination.
?

The workers are Fidel. Nelson Mandela.

FA is Frente Amplio, the party of president Tabaré Vázquez. Wikipedia tells me it’s a coalition of:
Popular Participation Movement (Socialism)
Socialist Party (Socialism)
Communist Party (Marxism-Leninism)
Christian Democratic Party (Social Christianity)
Uruguay Assembly (Social democracy)
Party for the Victory of the People (Anti-capitalism)
Progressive Alliance (Progressivism)
New Space (Social democracy)
Artiguista Shed (Progressivism)
Go- (Socialism)
CAP-L (Socialism)
Revolutionary Worker’s Party (Trotskyism)
Socialist Worker’s Party (Trotskyism)

One day, finding myself with some unscheduled time, I walked past half a mile of banners billowing on the fence along the industrial port. Best of luck to the trabajadores.

This one stumped me. Just enjoy.

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One in a series of ten posts contributed by HILOBROW friend Mimi Lipson.

MORE MIMI LIPSON: Tube Your Enthusiasm: THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES | Wowee Zowee: THANK YOU | #Squadgoals: THE RUNAWAYS | Lost Objects: DODGE DART | Klute Your Enthusiasm: MEAN STREETS | Quirk Your Enthusiasm: HOW COME YOU’RE SUCH A HIT WITH THE BOYS, JANE? | Grok My Enthusiasm: 1973 SEARS ROEBUCK CATALOG and TRASH PICKING | Hermenautic Tarot: EUPHORIA | Significant Objects: HALSTON MUG | PLUS: HILO HERO items on Joey Ramone, Divine, Redd Foxx, Russ Meyer, Shelley Winters, Noam Chomsky, and many others.

OUTBOUND TO MONTEVIDEO (7)

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