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Friday, March 28, 2008

Anti- Emo violence spreads to Chile

More coverage of this major problem.

Emo kids attacked in Mexico and Chile
NME.com, UK -

Pokemon are not the same as emo from what I make out. Similar but not identical.

Mexico's Emo-Bashing Problem
TIME -

Daniel Hernandez's blog, Intersections, which has extensively covered the incidents:

The spark came first in Queretaro on March 7. An estimated 800 young people poured into the city's Centro Historico hunting for emos to beat the crap out of. They found some. The next weekend it spread to Mexico City, where emos faced off against punks and rockabillies at the Glorieta de Insurgents, the epicenter of emo social space in the capital. There's also been reports of anti-emo violence in Durango, Colima, and elsewhere...

Posted by alterophobia@gmail.com at 12:38 AM  

Labels: attacks, Chile, emos, Mexico

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