The story of this cooperative Liberté told in the version of Graciela, who, together with a group of people from outside this prison, worked intensely, side by side with those inside the prison, to make this cooperative a reality.
Graciela told us how the figure of Liberté began to appear as a cooperative:
Her long-time friend, "Riky", Augman, with whom she has a long-standing friendship, had a coffee, where he explained to her the situation of our space, telling her how they worked here, so she mentioned that we worked as a cooperative, and I asked her friend, who has strong ties to our space, if he would like to make a real cooperative, from Liberté, to which he agreed and she agreed to find out from someone with a lot of experience about cooperatives.
He says that finally he consulted the people of the Federation of Cooperatives about whether it was possible to form a cooperative officially, especially the question arose due to the condition of confinement and when speaking with the manager of the aforementioned entity, Alberto Bavestrello, he answered that yes it was possible and that it was fantastic.
Finally, meetings in between, via zoom on Fridays, Graciela said, and after a lot of work, the Liberté Cooperative came out, and she also stated that the most important thing about this concretion is that it is a cooperative formed with people deprived of liberty , whose Board of Directors is achieved with actors of that condition and that is for her, as for many, an unprecedented situation.
She also said that getting to know each other via zoom is not the same as being in the place and being able to see with your own eyes what is being done here, which she called the task being done here commendable.
Source: Liberte