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Federal March to Plaza de Mayo (in english)
Por Raymond -
Thursday, Dec. 19, 2002 at 6:41 PM
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Federal March to Plaza de Mayo (December 16-20, 2002) -
Federal
March to Plaza de Mayo
(December 16-20, 2002)
First Day
With a rally held in Salta Capital, the Federal March began, organized by the National Piquetero (Picketer) Bloc (Bloque Piquetero Nacional), the Independent Movement of Retired and Unemployed (MIJD), Neighborhoods on their Feet (Barrios de Pie), and the Anibal Veron Coordinator of Unemployed Workers (CTD Anibal Veron). With the presence of almost 1000 brothers and sisters, the highlight was the intervention of the Municipal workers, who were repressed last week by the government of [Salta Governor] Romero. Delegations from the interior of the province joined the march. The rally was addressed by Nina Peloso of the MIJD and Nestor Pitrola of the Polo Obrero (Workers' Pole).
Nestor Pitrola emphasized: "It is no coincidence that the mobilization begins in Salta, because it was here that the great uprisings of Tartagal and Mosconi took place, and where, in the battles against the Border Patrol (gendarmeria) our brothers Anibal Veron and Santillan fell." Pitrola went on to say "We denounce Romero's government for having sunk the province, mortgaged the oil royalties for 15 years and put 63% of the population of Salta below the poverty line. This failed governor is the one Menem chose as his running mate." He pointed out that "the slogans of the mobilization aim at putting an end to the government of Duhalde, responsible for the misery and surrender. The Polo Obrero --he added-- proposes that a Constituent Assembly should be convened by the people to take the reigns of the country and reorganize it in favor of the workers.
After finalizing the rally in Salta, the NOA (North-west Argentine) march held a rally at Rosario de la Frontera and is now on its way to Tucuman, a province ridden with hunger and infantile malnutrition. A great popular mobilization awaits Column 1, in order to organize a rally, for Duhalde and Miranda to go.
Tomorrow, the Southern, North-East and Western Columns will begin their march by holding rallies in Chaco, Mendoza and Rio Gallegos, in order to comply afterwards with the scheduled path and reach Capital and take the Plaza December 20.
Southern Column
- Ricardo Mercado 02966-435036
- ADOSAC 02966-421311
Western Column
Carlos Pacheco 15-4445-5609
North-West Column
Nestor Pitrola 15-5324-2356 / 0387-1540420474
North-East Column
- Daniel Garcia 03722-15629065
See photos and croniques at
Buenos Aires, December 17, 2002
SECOND DAY OF THE MARCH
After the great rally in Tucuman with more than 2,000 persons present the North-west column set out for the province of Santiago del Estero, where it will hold a demonstration in the center of the city, for Duhalde and Juarez to go. After this activity the column will set out for Cordoba where it will hold a rally and march at 8:00PM. A great welcome is expected from municipal workers and the unemployed, who are carrying out a campaign for the recall of Kamerath.
Tomorrow the North-west column will reach San Lorenzo by noon. After lunch it will hold a rally with the support of the local CGT (General Confederation of Workers) and several trade unions of the industrial belt. In the afternoon the column will reach Rosario.
The North-east column will set out today at 9:00PM from Resistencia composed of brothers and sisters from the Piquetero (Picketer) Bloc and Barrios de Pie (Neighborhoods on their feet). Before beginning their march they will block the bridge uniting Chaco with Corrientes to repudiate repression against piquetero organizations. As part of the plan of struggle, after the column sets out today, tomorrow a march on the Chamber of Deputies will be held in repudiation of the repression on Highway 11.
By the 19th all access points to the city will be blocked, and on the 20th the column will march on the provincial government house. The North-east column will join in San Lorenzo the brothers and sisters marching in from the north.
The Western column sets out today at noon from Mendoza, where a rally and march was held in the central plaza. The next stop will be San Luis and then Rio Cuarto en the province of Cordoba.
The two Southern columns are setting out today towards the Federal Capital. The one coming from Neuquen and Rio Negro will participate in the march called by the multisectorial that is demanding the resignation of Sobisch. Once the mobilization has ended, they will set out for Olavarria where at 2:00PM a rally will be held. The column setting out from Rio Gallegos will arrive tomorrow morning in Bahia Blanca in time for a rally in the Plaza Independencia.
Nestor Pitrola, who is heading the North-west march, expressed that the national march is crossing all the provinces of Argentina and picking up huge popular support along the way. He also pointed out that our aim is to put an end to this government and to all the provincial governments that have torpedoed the country for the benefit of a handful of big capitalists and have permitted the flight of capital in the amount of 15 billion dollars, reflected in the growth in hunger and misery. Pitrola underlined the fact that the piqueteros, the popular assemblies, the combative trade unions and the student movement should have as their objective the conquering of political power, convening a free and sovereign Constituent Assembly.
See photos and croniques at
Buenos Aires, December 18, 2000
THE FEDERAL
MARCH STACKING UP SUPPORT ON ITS MARCH
TOWARDS PLAZA DE MAYO
The North-West Argentina Column
On Tuesday, December 17, after the rally in Santiago del Estero, the North-West Argentina Column reached the province of Córdoba, where it was welcomed by a massive piquetero mobilization, that had set out from Century Bridge (Puente Centenario), comprised of columns of the Polo Obrero, Barrios de Pie (Neighborhoods on their feet), workers laid off from the daily Diario del Bolsillo, and the Coordinator of unemployed workers CTD-CUBA, marching to the Halac Clinic (with shows of support from those in the buildings and lining the street along the way), where a rally was held together with the evicted workers.
Later, in the Plaza San Martín, the march was joined by brothers and sisters from the MIJD (Independent Movement of Retired and Unemployed Workers), workers from the Junín Clinic, neighborhood assemblies, House of the People, the MTL (Movement for Land and Liberation) and other organizations, in order to hold the principal rally together with the Argentine North-West, where Ricardo Pucheta (Barrios de Pie), Eduardo Salas and Nestor Pitrola (Polo Obrero) spoke.
Shouting "Kammerath y Duhalde out", 3,000 people participated in this great rally "que se vayan todos – all of them have got to go" y "por un nuevo Argentinazo – for a new Argentinazo (popular rebellion)".
After holding rallies in Villa María and Belville, the march converged in San Lorenzo (Santa Fé) with the North-East Argentina Column, coming from Resistencia, which had just held a great rally next to the "Big Tent" in the capital of Santa Fé, and from accompanying them in their demand that the authorities re-establish the 3,500 cancelled work plans (PEL).
The rally in San Lorenzo received the support of the local CGT (General Confederation of Labor) and various trade unions from the local industrial belt. At 7:30PM a great march and rally was held in Rosario, prior to setting out tomorrow Thursday morning for Villa Gobernador Galvez, Villa Constitución, Zárate, and the encampment outside [President Duhalde's place of residence] the Quinta of Olivos.
The Western Column
After holding rallies in San Luis and Rio Cuarto, the Western column set out for Junín, where they will be welcomed by neighborhood assemblies, community kitchens and the local Polo Obrero, to hold a rally at 7:30PM in the central plaza.
Tomorrow morning the column will continue with rallies in Mercedes, Luján, Moreno, Morón, and will spend the night in La Matanza, after holding a rally there.
The Southern Column
The column that set out yesterday from Río Gallegos, held rallies this morning in Comodoro Rivadavia and Trelew. At dawn they will arrive in the city of La Plata, where tomorrow a mobilization will be held at 1:00PM.
In Neuquén a large column of 500 brothers and sisters of the Polo Obrero and Barrios de Pié participated yesterday in the march of the Multisectorial "para que se vaya Sobisch y que se vayan todos – Sobisch has got to go and all of them have got to go".
Under heavy rain and with prominent coverage in the media, the 3rd Southern Column set out today from Mar del Plata. Beforehand a rally had been held in which an important delegation of unemployed brothers and sisters participated from the Polo Obrero, the Fisheries Union (SOIP), Barrios de Pie and the MTR (Teresa Rodriguez Movement).
During his intervention, Alejandro Martinez celebrated "the tenacity of the brothers and sisters in holding out against the bad weather and guaranteeing a broad based mobilization during the last few weeks, which underlines the need to march massively to Plaza de Mayo for all of them to go and to impose a workers' government."
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Southern Column
Ricardo Mercado 02966-435036
ADOSAC 02966-421311
Alejandro Martinez 0223-156855836
Western Column
Carlos Pacheco 15-4445-5609
North-West Argentina Column
Néstor Pitrola 15-5324-2356 / 0387-15-4042-0474
North-East Argentina Column
Daniel García 03722-15629065
Press 15-4055-5424
See photos and croniques at
www.poloobrero.org.ar/marcha/argentinazo/index.htm