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Women gather to collect their famies' afternoon meals at the olla comun (literally translated "common pot") in the shantytown Villa Cobre. The ollas communes were among the grassroots organizations to emerge in the wake of the 1980 economic crisis. In an olla comun, shantytown women gather to cook a mid-day meal using their own and outside resources. Today over 200 ollas comunes continue to provide a daily meal for 20,000 shantytown dwellers...

Author: By Michelle Haner, | Title: Struggle and Subsistence | 12/12/1991 | See Source »

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