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On the 45th anniversary of the 1976 military coup in Argentina, leaders in the struggle for memory and justice asked supporters to stay off the streets for the second year in a row. Instead, they called people to commemorate the Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice on March 24, 2021 by planting thousands of trees across the country—one for each of the 30,000 victims forcibly disappeared under the seven-year reign of state terror.
“In times of fires, deforestation, and climate change, we invite you to plant life as an act of memory and future,” read the call to action from the organizers, including the Madres and Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, among other groups. “Because the memory of every detained, disappeared