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Publication Date
Spring 2024
Abstract
Around the year 2003 some friends and I from “el way,” the self-referential youth slang the alternative music scene and subculture members used in the Dominican Republic, started attending meetings for the youth political group Juventud Rebelde at the borrowed backyard of the left-wing political party Fuerza de la Revolución. The yard had a gazebo-like structure with a cemented floor and a zinc roof under which foldable chairs were arranged in a circle. There we participated in multigenerational study groups to discuss radical communist and anarchist texts in relation to current political issues, we heard talks and report backs on topics such as squatting and the anarcho-punk scene in Spain and we also attended punk shows. This was during Hipólito Mejía’s presidency (2000-2004), during which the country experienced multiple mobilizations, including a 48 hours general strike in January 2004 due to inflation and the devaluation of the Dominican peso, resulting from the collapse and Central Bank bailout of three private banks and neoliberal free trade agreements (Franco).
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This article was originally published in LL Journal, available at https://lljournal.commons.gc.cuny.edu/lopes-de-barros-rodrigo-distortion-and-subversion-punk-rock-music-and-the-protests-for-free-public-transportation-in-brazil-1996-2011-liverpool-university-press-2022-348-pp/
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