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Community Intelligence: why Liberté's AI is not just another AI
Juliana is, technically, an artificial intelligence. But at Liberté, AI stands for something else: Community Intelligence. Developed by VERUMax, curated by Liberté's human team, and built to serve a specific community. What sets it apart.
Join the Human Team of Juliana's Legal Guidance Area
Before opening Juliana's Legal Guidance service, in this first phase, to the entire prison population of Argentina, we are calling on a team of people in prison, released people, and direct family members —led by the Colectivo de Detenidos/as— to test it: no one knows better whether this works than the person who needs it.
«Learning to think like foreign ministers»: Hernán Alberto Terneus taught a class on international conflicts at Liberté
Consultant Hernán Alberto Terneus —United Nations specialist in science and development— gave an open class at Liberté on how international conflicts are born, managed and resolved. From Spinoza and Kant to Ukraine, Gaza and «the money trail», an invitation to think the world like foreign ministers and stop seeing it from your own small corner.
A New Knowledge Laboratory Is Born: "The Prison as a Practice of Freedom"
Liberté and IRICE launched the Laboratorio de Saberes, a nine-session cycle that thinks about incarceration as a practice of freedom. Guests from Mexico, Chile, Colombia, and Argentina, and over a hundred people in conversation simultaneously: the first step toward a collective book to be published in 2027.
PUPAA Liberté: the first community kitchen self-managed by incarcerated people to be officially authorized in the country
Liberté now has its kitchen officially authorized by the provincial government: the first community PUPAA self-managed by incarcerated people in the country. Inside Unidad Penal N°15 in Batán, healthy, safe, and artisanal food is prepared — sustaining the community life within.
Thinking security from inside prison — fifth year of the Liberté Diploma
Diana Márquez and Ricardo Augman, who share the general coordination, talk about the fifth year of a one-of-a-kind program: coordinated from inside a penitentiary unit by people in prison, crime victims, and formerly incarcerated people. An inside view of the project.
«Labor "Modernization" as the Destruction of Social Gains»: a class by two labor lawyers at Liberté
Labor lawyers Cynthia Benzion and Leonardo Elgorriaga taught an open class on labor reform in Liberté's territory. More than eighty people — between Zoom and in-person at Batán — traced a century of labor law, from Article 14 bis to the Ley de Modernización Laboral, with a focus on what those who live off their work stand to lose, including people in prison.
The Cátedra Libre is born: Universidad Liberté's classes, written down and open
We are launching the Cátedra Libre, the imprint with which Cooperativa Liberté publishes the full, written version of Universidad Liberté's gatherings —EnClave Libre, diploma courses, the Laboratorio de Saberes and workshops—. The first edition is already available.
Punishment cells: the dictatorship systematized them and democracy did not abolish them
At Batán Penitentiary Unit Nº15 the punishment cells —the extreme isolation device of the Buenos Aires prison system— were abolished. Three public bodies —CELS, the National Penitentiary Ombudsman and the Provincial Memory Commission—, the Argentine government itself before the UN Committee against Torture, an institutional investigation by the Ombudsman directed by Alcira Daroqui and Carlos Motto, and survivor testimonies from the Camps Circuit describe those cells as a common matrix with the dungeons of State terrorism.
Proyecto CAMBIA 2026 Arrives: the first Universidad Liberté workshop — meditation to transform behavior
On Wednesday, June 3rd, Proyecto CAMBIA 2026 kicks off — the first workshop of Universidad Liberté: twelve weekly sessions of meditation and personal transformation, led by Dr. Aída Lhez. Hybrid format — in person in Batán and via Zoom —, fully subsidized and open to the entire community. Sign up.
EnClave Libre: "labor modernization" and the defense of workers' rights
On Saturday, June 6, EnClave Libre opens the debate on the "Labor Modernization Law." Labor lawyers Cynthia Benzion and Leonardo Elgorriaga unpack what is at stake for workers' rights. A hybrid event, with discounted registration, open to the whole community. Sign up.
At Liberté I found a little more peace of mind
After five years and three months at Batán's Unit 15, José Ignacio V. regained his freedom. In his final weeks he joined the Liberté community and, minutes before walking out, stopped by the radio to tell how he found work, calm and a little peace of mind there.
Introducing Dossier Liberté: documentary investigations with every citation verifiable
Cooperativa Liberté launches a new editorial imprint: Dossier Liberté. These are documentary investigation pieces built from verifiable public sources. Every quote is transcribed word for word, attributed with the honesty of flagging when it is a chained citation, and backed by a permanent snapshot on archive.org or archive.ph so it stays verifiable even if the original URL breaks in the future.