Referents of the social organizations that marched from Liniers to the Buenos Aires downtown in the Saint Cajetan’s Day led the central act with requests to the Government, after the assumption of Serge Massa as Minister of Economy.
Under the slogan “Bread, peace, land, shelter and work”, the leaders Esteban “Gringo” CastroSecretary General of UTEP; Gildo Onoratounion secretary of the UTEP and referent of the Evita Movement; Juan Carlos Alderete, leader of the Clasista and Combative Current; and the assistant secretaries of UTEP Norm Morales (We are Barrio de Pie) and Dinah Sanchez (Frente Popular Darío Santillán), gave their speech on a stage on Avenida 9 de Julio and Avenida de Mayo.
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In addition to the claims of the social movements to the Government, there were requests to the economic sector, criticism of Justice and messages to politics in general, as anticipated TN. Onorato warned: “It is clear that there are difficulties. It seems unbelievable that they give us that nickname when we mobilize, we are not destabilizers, but guarantors of social peace”.
In relation to the Government’s measures, Onorato stated that they understand that first “the macroeconomic problems must be put in order.” However, he criticized: “If the only proposal to the sector is control, judicialization, Argentina has no destiny, since we workers do it.”
Alderete warned about the economic crisis: “The situation is getting worse for our sector, the crisis and emergencies are getting worse,” he also stated: “We have been suffering enormous persecution,” with accusations against the opposition, he said that “if necessary” The Food and Gondolas Law must be applied and that they are “part of the solution, not the problem.”
In her turn, Norma Morales warned about “stigmatization and hate speech” and joined the criticism of Justice: “It is we, the people, who have to question you.”
“With great honor we are picketers. You need to raise your voice we cannot allow others to tell our storiesMorales remarked. In that sense, he referred to Mariana, the woman who went viral in recent days for talking about social plans: “That girl who walks around in the media saying that she doesn’t want to work, clearly that is armed and paid. But, how do we deconstruct that discourse, those myths that we are planers?
“We are not going to allow them to play with the hunger of our people. It’s all together pushing from the place that touches us, “he said.
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On her turn, Dina Sánchez also insisted on the persecution of the sector and stated: “The houses of our colleagues are found, they invent causes for us, but from here we want to make it clear that Every time they touch a worker, we are all going to go out and respond.”
“We heard the anger and disappointment in the conference and we asked ourselves what about the government that we militate to remove Macri. How can it be that after 6 years, where the crisis and the debt hit us, let’s just hear response for the marketsfor the oil companies, for those who have been carrying it around for a long time?”, Sánchez pointed out.
The act took place after the seventh edition of the mobilization, which was born in 2016 and was promoted by the Union of Workers of the Popular Economy (UTEP) which is made up of social organizations such as the Avoid Movementthe Classist and Combative Current (CCC) Y We are neighborhoods standing (the San Cayetano triumvirate, the main social pillar of the Government), the Darío Santillán Popular Front and the MTE that he leads John Grabois, among other.
The claims of social organizations
Among the claims of the UTEP are the “Comprehensive Law of Land, Roof and Work to strengthen the popular economy and advance with a Universal Basic Salary to end poverty in Argentina”, in addition to a request to the political leadership so that ” take dimension of the seriousness of the social situation and the need for urgent measures”.
From other sectors such as the Frente Patria Grande, which is part of the ruling party and has Grabois as a reference, the national deputy Federico Fagioli called for the implementation of the SBU, which he said is an “income policy in the face of a situation of loss of purchasing power and very high inflation.” great”. This is a project that is rejected by the Government.