Social organizations participate in the national day of protest to demand food

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Social organizations, left-wing, independent and Peronist, began this Friday morning a new day of protest “with 500 cuts” of routes throughout the country and in the accesses to the city of Buenos Aires, demanding food assistance for soup kitchens. and community picnic areas, among other demands.

The protests began at 9:30 with concentrations at different access points to the city and in the interior of the country, and will have their epicenter in the Juncal and Carlos Pellegrini building, where the Minister of Human Capital, Sandra Pettovello, set up her offices.

The day of protest was called to demand “assistance for community kitchens” and in rejection of the “freezing of salaries” and the amounts in the Empower Work plans, under the slogan “The Food Emergency cannot wait any longer.” “Enough adjustment!”

Gatherings were also already taking place at the Lavallol roundabout in Esteban Echeverría; on 197 and the Pan-American Highway in Tigre, at the doors of the Plaza Oeste shopping center, in La Plata and at the intersection of Route 4 and Route 8, all in the province of Buenos Aires.

The different concentration points had a significant presence of members of the National Gendarmerie, with trucks and motorcycles.

The Union of Workers of the Popular Economy (UTEP), the Piquetero Unit (UP), the Piquetero Struggle Front, the Front of Organizations in Struggle (FOL), the National Piquetero Block and the Organizations Block participate in the protest. in struggle, among others.

Also part of the call are the Free Organization of the South, the Classist and Combative Current (CCC); the National Territorial Front (FeNat CTA-A); the Coordinator for Social Change; the CTA-T Neighborhood Front, the Socialist Workers Movement (MST), the Milagro Sala Front, the Tupac Amaru Neighborhood Organization and the Federation of Social Economy Workers (Fetraes).

Other organizing organizations are the Rebel Argentina Movement; the Darío Santillán Popular Front (FPDS); the Movement for Latin American Unity and Social Change (Mulcs), the April 8 Movement; the FAR and Copa Marabunta; the Federation of Grassroots Organizations (FOB); the Darío Santillán Popular Front Plurinational Corriente; the MTD and the MTR for Direct Democracy.

The militancy of the Piquetero Fighting Front (FLP), the Polo Obrero (PO) will also join; MTR We Vote Fight; the CUBA-MTR/MIDO; the Armando Conciencia Group; MTL Rebel; the Resistance Front; Popular Rebellion; Free People; the William Cooke organization; I am Revolutionary Action; Struggle Movement and Women in Struggle.

For Eduardo Belliboni, Buenos Aires representative of the Polo Obrero (PO), it is “an unprecedented unity of all the movements” and – as he explained – “it is the beginning of an extended and unified plan of struggle” against the government. by Javier Milei.

“More than two months into Javier Milei’s government, they have shown that they want to starve the people and take everything they can from Argentina. We are experiencing the largest inflation in the last 30 years, with a very serious situation of hunger in the poorest neighborhoods, with a sharp drop in work and popular consumption,” Juan Carlos Alderete, national coordinator of the Classist and Combative Current, told Télam. (CCC).

For her part, Marianela Navarro, national delegate of the Front of Organizations in Struggle (FOL) warned that in the popular neighborhoods there is “a completely critical situation,” she considered that the Government’s position “is intransigent, abandons the poor and excludes the workers” and said that social movements “have supported some 44,000 soup kitchens” throughout the country for two decades.

Mobilization in Córdoba capital

In the city of Córdoba they gather at 11 in the morning in Colón and General Paz. Emanuel Berardo, a representative of the local Polo Obrero, told Miter Córdoba that they are going to mobilize together with other social organizations and picketers in the face of the “brutal adjustment carried out by the national government.”

“The government has not purchased food for the soup kitchens and anticipated that it would buy food that was about to expire; it wants to turn the loss into profit and give spoiled food to the soup kitchens,” said Berardo.

City of Córdoba. Day of national mobilization for food (La Voz). City of Córdoba. National mobilization day for food (La Voz).