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Translation of front page
Por Domenica -
Friday, Dec. 20, 2002 at 6:56 PM
domenica@ad-free.info
Translation of front page updates from 5:30 pm till 7:30 pm
5:30 pm - The MUP20, FUTRADE, MTD, 'Resistir y Vencer', FULP, CTD en Anibal Verón and other groups are entering the Plaza de Mayo. The motorcyclists of Si.Me.Ca are also there. The Piquetero Block, Barrios de Pie and the MIJD are starting to march. At the Brukman occupied factory, the workers are starting to march, accompanied by 500 people. All of the accounts on Radio Indymedia Argentina conclude that the march is enormous.
6:00 pm - The Block Piquetero Column, the MIJD, Barrios de Pie and the MST Teresa Vive (Unemployed Workers' Movement - Teresa lives) are two blocks from the Plaza de Mayo, along with various popular assemblies. From the HBC it looks like the column stretches to the Congress. The AyL column is already in the Plaza de Mayo and a column of 300 people. The column of workers from Brukman and Zanon (occupied factories) and the Neuquén MTD are arriving at the Congress, where they are meeting with the Madres de Plaza de Mayo (The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo organisation). The columns of the left parties, the MAS, Partido Obrero (workers' party), PTS and CS, are nearby. Indymedia correspondents calculate that there are around 4000 protesters around the Congress.
6:10 pm - "The Piquetero Block column has entered the Plaza, joined by Barrios de Pie and the MIJD. The last columns have not even left the Congress, and their are many people in the Plaza de Mayo." Report from Radio Indymedia.
6:50 pm - The columns are still entering the Plaza de Mayo and positioning themselves in front of the stage.
7:00 pm - Radio Indymedia is translating live the speeches in the Plaza de Mayo.
7:30 pm - We hear from Rosario that the protesters can now enter the Plaza de la Madre in Villa Gobernador Gálvez, and are commemorating the murder of Gracielo Acosta. There is still a large police presence, but the tension is decreasing. There is talk of incidents in Cordoba, but these are not as yet confirmed. Radio Indymedia Argentina continues to transmit the speeches - except when our phone line is cut. The Plaza de Mayo continues to fill.