08/05/2021 2:13 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 08/05/2021 18:52
Social organizations and picketers marched from 9 de Julio Avenue, at the height of the Obelisk, to the Ministry of Education in claims
of WiFi and computers
and after 6.30 p.m. they
began a camp in the place
.
The mobilization generated complications throughout this Thursday in the transit of the Buenos Aires microcenter that, late at night, still persist.
The surrounding streets (Marcelo T. de Alvear, Rodríguez Peña, Callao and Córdoba) are filled with protesters.
The
Polo Obrero
, along with other groups, mobilized after noon to the Pizzurno Palace, headquarters building of the educational portfolio, located in the homonymous passage at 900, where they first held an act.
Camp picketer at the Pizzurno Palace.
Photo Polo Obrero.
There, they proclaimed and
started a camp
because, they indicated, "they did not get the answers they wanted."
They set up tents and threatened to spend the night there.
"Without education, there is no future or work",
is the slogan of the protest that has as its epicenter the headquarters of the educational portfolio, whose head Nicolás Trotta is
isolated
by a close contact of coronavirus.
"We are going to march from the Obelisk to the Ministry and we are going to stay to camp until they take care of us," they had expressed through a statement.
The slogan that summarized the specific claim is
"for computers and wifi for everyone
.
"
Massive march of social organizations to the Pizzurno Palace.
Photo Rafael Mario Quinteros
"The officials who attended us the last time told us that they
did not have a budget
for that. We asked them to place WIFI in popular dining rooms and some devices, so that -at least- the youngest do their homework," they said.
After
6 pm
, the protest had already been going on for
more than 6 hours
and was still going on.
If at noon the traffic chaos in the Obelisk area had affected the downtown traffic, the demonstration in the afternoon, at the Education headquarters,
projected to complicate the return
.
Repeated claim
It is not the first time that the group has mobilized to the headquarters of the Pizzurno Palace to ask for connectivity and devices for the students of the popular neighborhoods.
A protest in front of the Pizzurno Palace.
In mid-July, the Polo Obrero held a protest in front of Trotta's ministry with posters that include the captions "Silver for education, not for the IMF" and "Without WIFI or compus, there is no education."
According to the group, it is the fifth that they carry out to the educational portfolio, but they criticize the lack of dialogue.
"
The minister never received us
, we were more than 10,000 kids from the poorest neighborhoods 15 days ago," they said.
In addition, they argue that
the Government is making a "bump"
against public education and they denounce that it is noticeable in teachers' salaries, but also in "schools without stoves, without water and an obvious deterioration in infrastructure."
The protest of social organizations takes place days after the start of classes both in the City and in the Province of Buenos Aires, jurisdictions whose efforts promise to go towards an absolute presence.
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