2023-07-04 12:06:00
This Tuesday the organizations grouped in the Piquetera Unit (UP) will carry out a day of protest with roadblocks in the center of the City of Buenos Aires and in different parts of the country. The objective is “to demand an increase in social programs and food for soup kitchens.”
Specifically, the groups will gather from 10 a.m. in the vicinity of the Pueyrredon Bridgewhich connects CABA with Avellaneda, and then They will march towards the headquarters of the Ministry of Social Developmentlocated on Avenida 9 de Julio and Belgrano.
“It will be a great day of protest with many roadblocks in the interior of the country”assured Eduardo BelliboniBuenos Aires referent of the Polo Obrero (PO), in dialogue with telam regarding the mobilization that will be carried out under the slogan “Not with the food of the kids.”
Said day of protest had been announced last Friday during a press conference held by Belliboni in the company of Mercedes “Mecha” Martinezon behalf of the group, the coordinator of the neighborhood unit Movimiento Teresa Rodríguez (MTR), Monica Sulle of the Social Movement of Workers (MST) and Cristina Menaalso from the MTR, among others.
Likewise, the social leader warned that, if he does not have a favorable response, there is the possibility that the protesters camp in the Buenos Aires microcenter. “If there is no response, on Avenida 9 de Julio and throughout the country there are picketers encamped. We call on all social organizations to join,” he said.
It is estimated that poverty in Argentina will reach 43% in this semester of 2023
The claims raised by the organizations also include the demand for a “immediate response to the situation of misery, hunger and exploitation” and one “urgent solution to the lack of food” in soup kitchens, as well as asking for tools for work crews and an increase in social plans.
“The electoral campaign is not the only thing that happens in this country,” said the leader of the PO, pointing out his criticism of the Casa Rosada and remarked: “It happens that for four, five months food has not been received in soup kitchens. The government is making an adjustment“.
In addition, he concluded his statements by stating that there was a “detour” of the resources destined to social aid towards “the payment of the external debt of the IMF” and to the electoral campaign, “leaving 100,000 people without any assistance from the State”.
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