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The social movements that accompanied the CGT in its march against the Milei Government announce new protest measures - Infobae
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January 25, 2024

The leaders evaluated as “successful” the massive mobilization against the DNU and the Omnibus Law that “sweeps away the achievements of Argentine democracy” and warn that “this is the beginning of a stage of struggle against the Government of La Libertad Avanza”

By Andres Klipphan


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Social movements will announce new measures against the economic and social policies of Javier Milei

The social movements that make up the Popular Economy Workers Union (UTEP) that yesterday marched together with the CGT against the Decree of Necessity and Urgency and the Omnibus Law that is being debated in parliament, are preparing new measures of force against the Government of Javier Milei . On Friday the assemblies will begin to bring the proposals to the national table.

In the last hours, the main leaders of organizations such as the Evita Movement, Somos/Barrios de Pie, the Classist and Combative Current, the Movement of Excluded Workers and the Darío Santillán Popular Front, among others, were satisfied with the result of the march on January 24 led by the country's main labor union towards the National Congress within the framework of the 12-hour strike.

“It was a massive march, accompanied by all sectors of society that are affected by the criminal policies that this government is applying in economic and social terms,” said Alejandro “Peluca” Gramajo , secretary general of Infobae, when consulted by Infobae. the UTEP. “The Popular Movements had a participation of more than 100 thousand comrades and from what we recorded with each mobilization in the country today, in each province and each town in the country we mobilized more than 1,500,000 workers. This has to be a wake-up call for the government and legislators, if they follow the law and the DNU, they will be complicit in generating the worst economic and social crisis in the history of our country,” concluded Gramajo.

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Alejandro Gramajo, the general secretary of the UTEP, behind the truck driver Pablo Moyano, said that: "This has to be a wake-up call for the government and legislators, if they follow the law and the DNU, they will be complicit in generating the worst economic and social crisis in the history of our country"

Gildo Onorato , one of the main leaders of the Evita Movement along with Emilio Pérsico, assessed that yesterday's mobilization “was forceful.” “Hundreds of thousands of workers and those affected by Milei's economic policy mobilized throughout the country,” he said while remarking that “ this is the beginning of a stage of struggle against the social and economic policies of the government of La Freedom Moves Forward .”

Onorato estimates that yesterday "was the beginning of a process that will deteriorate with the wear and tear of the Government , with the impact of the economic measures and above all with the rejection that it is now receiving from sectors that supported and accompanied it." For the former union secretary of the UTEP: “The measures that the popular movements are evaluating are going to be announced in the coming days because the hunger that is being experienced is very relevant and the Government does not respond to the demands and needs of the most humble.”

Daniel Menéndez , the national coordinator of Somos/Barrios de Pie, told this medium one of the forms of protests that that space already voted for in a rally and assembly that took place in front of the Olivos presidential estate: “ Mobilize the supermarkets requesting food due to the lack of responses from the national government.”

Somos/Barrios de Pie has already organized several protest measures called “empty pots” to protest the lack of food assistance from the Secretariat of Children and Family (formerly the Ministry of Social Development) to soup kitchens and snack bars.

Menéndez also anticipated: “We are coming from a brutal adjustment and there is no listening on the part of the government in the face of this very critical situation, which is why we are going to promote a new food emergency law in the National Congress .”

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"I regret that there is not the same level of awareness in the political leadership to propose a multi-party action against a decree that sweeps away the achievements of Argentine democracy." Photo: Instagram Juan Grabois

For her part, Norma Morales , a reference in the same social space and deputy general secretary of the UTEP, maintained that "the president is more concerned about fighting on social networks than about the hunger of his people." And she added: “The food situation in popular neighborhoods is alarming, thousands of families only have one meal a day and the canteens have long waiting lists, this is an emergency situation. “We will go to the hypermarkets to request food next week.”

Walter Córdoba, secretary of Social Welfare of the UTEP and coordinator of Somos/Barrios de Pie of CABA, interpreted that the “massive march” called by the CGT “means a message for the National Government and for the deputies and senators who are discussing and will debate in the Omnibus Law and the DNU. Furthermore, he anticipated that social movements “will be on the streets and around Congress when the project is discussed in parliament.”

Juan Grabois , presidential candidate for Unión por la Patria, and a representative of the MTE and the Frente Patria Grande, was another of the social leaders who yesterday marched alongside Cegetista leaders such as Pablo Moyano , Héctor Daer and Carlos Acuña .

Minutes before the trucker leader stated that if the Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo , “carries out these measures, the workers will carry him on litters, but to throw him into the Riachuelo”; Grabois, with an ironic tone, expressed: “I see the labor movement mobilized, the social movements and the Union of Workers of the Popular Economy mobilized... And where is politics? Where are the Union for the Homeland parties? "Where are our leaders?" Grabois questioned, while some of those present shouted in response "they are asleep."

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Social movements will announce new measures of force against the Government of Javier Milei

Immediately, and surrounded by protesters carrying cardboard with the phrase “The Homeland is Not for Sale,” the lawyer continued: “Where is the president of the PJ, former president of the Nation - by Alberto Fernández -? Where is our candidate that I voted for, Sergio Massa ?” Likewise, he pointed out against the senators and deputies of Unión por la Patria “who have to come to stand here with the workers, be together with the multi-sector.”

Finally, the former presidential candidate added: “This was a mobilization of the CGT accompanied by the popular movements and I congratulate them for the reflection. "I regret that there is not the same level of awareness in the political leadership to propose a multi-party action against a decree that sweeps away the achievements of Argentine democracy."
 
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