The left-wing organizations grouped in the Unidad Piquetera (UP) bloc continued to be concentrated in the Plaza de Mayo, where they plan to hold a general assembly at 6:00 p.m. to decide whether to camp in front of the Government House.
“We don’t know if we are going to deconcentrate today, we are going to hold an assembly in a while, it will be discussed within each organization and then we are going to put it to a vote in a general assembly,” said the social leader Edward Belliboni in statements to Radio Con Vos.
Before him request for a meeting with the Minister of Economy, Silvina BatakisBelliboni replied that were not received and that “they told them that next week someone from the institutional relations secretariat would receive us, as if this were a minor problem.”
“Here there is a very big social crisis and we have to push for a common salary claim and an emergency bonus so that the workers who are having a very bad time have a palliative,” he emphasized.
Also present at the concentration was the national deputy for the PTS-Left Front, Myriam Bregmanwho stated from his Twitter account that “the adjustment of the government and the IMF is confronted in the street, we accompany the mobilization of the Piquetera Unit.”
The adjustment of the government and the IMF is confronted on the street ✊
We accompany the mobilization of the Piquetera Unit. pic.twitter.com/Qdc7LTDiNA— Myriam Bregman (@myriambregman) July 14, 2022
For its part, the Buenos Aires legislator for the Workers’ Party, Gabriel Solanoin statements to Prensa Obrera from the Plaza de Mayo, said that “these are urgent demands of the Argentine people, the bonus of 20 thousand pesos is essential because inflation has eaten up wages, as well as the reopening of social plans.”
Also present in the square was leader of the Evita Movement, Fernando “Chino” Navarro, who stated from his Twitter account “I think it is a difficult time for the Argentine economy and the claims are legitimate” and expressed that he can “share or not all the slogans, but there are needs and that must be recognized.”
“We continue to vindicate work as the great organizer of the Argentine socioeconomic crisis and there are many organizations that express themselves in different ways,” Navarro considered.
in the Plaza de Mayo Were performed different activitiessuch as the performance of live artists and the installation of stalls with samples of the work carried out by organizations in popular neighborhoods.
The demonstrators arrived at the emblematic square after gathering from different points of the city of Buenos Aires, among them, from Avenida 9 de Julio and Avenida de Mayo.
The demonstration began after 10.30 to demand that the authorities “a bonus and the reopening of the Empower Work program“, as well as demand a increase in the amounts and quotas of social plans, bags of food and economic assistance for families of the unemployed and retirees.
“We ask for an aid bonus similar to the one that was carried out in the last two months, that it be for retirees, precarious and unemployed workers, and we also request the reopening of Empower Work and its universalization,” said Silvia Saravia, leader of Barrios de Pie. , it’s a statement.
In recent days, organizations They requested, through a note, a meeting with the new Minister of Economy.
“Let’s defeat the adjustment! Out with the IMF! For work and wages, against hunger and poverty; stop criminalizing those of us who fight,” are the slogans of UP, made up of the Polo Obrero, MTR-Votamos Luchar, the CUBA-MTR, the National Piquetero Bloc, the Armando Conciencia Group, the November 17 Organization, the MTR Teresa Rodríguez, and the Liberation Territorial Movement (MTL-Rebelde), among others.
Secondly, the Union of Workers of the Popular Economy (UTEP) held a popular fair in front of the National Congress to request the sanction of the General Law of Land, Roof and Work and the creation of a national food company, with “concrete proposals” to “improve the reality of workers who need it most.”
That day began at 10 a.m. with a “great fair” with products and activities from the different branches of the popular economy, UTEP reported in a statement, noting that the activity is scheduled to close at 3 p.m. that “will seek to make visible the role of social movements and work cooperatives in the sector”.
