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What's happening at the cooperative.
I didn't come to prison to make friends
It's one of the phrases you hear most often between these walls. This Friendship Day, we take it as our starting point: no one comes here to make friends, and yet friends appear anyway. They're brought by shared work, self-management, standing side by side every single day.
Juliana joins live classes: takes attendance, answers questions, and summarizes each session
Starting today, Juliana, Liberté's assistant, connects to live Zoom classes: takes attendance on her own (no forms needed), answers questions in the chat, and leaves a summary of each session in Aula Liberté.
Universidad Liberté launches Aula Liberté, its own virtual classroom
Universidad Liberté launches Aula Liberté, its own virtual classroom: built for it by VERUMax, free, inclusive, and grassroots. It's fully run by Juliana, so people can take courses through the web, email, or WhatsApp. It's open to everyone, with partnerships and the relaunch of Instituto Liberté's courses on the way.
The community lunch returned to Liberté
On a Saturday afternoon, the Liberté community gathered around a table again: a shared pasta lunch at the Punto de Paz Hall, among peers.
Liberté opens doors: the case of José L and judicial recognition of community work
A young man in prison finds a space of support and progress in Batán. The organization's reports are now received by the courts to evaluate access to legal rights related to release.
Liberté turns 12: dignified work is possible inside
On July 3, 2014, a stamp at the entrance desk of Unit 15 in Batán marked the start of Liberté. The story of that first day, twelve years later.
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.