After the long "poverty line" that members of social organizations made in the vicinity of the Ministry of Human Capital, in Retiro, cooks and coordinators of community kitchens will hold a "national day of protest" this Wednesday called "
Cooks against the hunger
", demanding
food assistance for soup kitchens and snack bars
in different parts of the country.
The action begins at 10 with a rally in front of the building of the former Ministry of Social Development, located at the intersection of Belgrano and 9 de Julio avenues, and in all delegations in the country.
"We cooks are going to a new national day of struggle to demand food for popular soup kitchens and picnic areas," the organizing organizations explained in a statement.
The protest measure has the support of the National Territorial Federation (FeNaT-CTAA), Libres del Sur, the Rebel Argentina Movement, the Darío Santillán Popular Front (FPDS), the Coordinator for Social Change;
the Front of Organizations in Struggle (FOL);
the FPDS-Plurinational Current and the Movement for Latin American Unity and Social Change (MULCS).
In addition, the leaders of the April 8 Movement will be present;
FAR and Marabunta Cup;
the Federation of Autonomous Base Organizations (FOBA);
the Free People's Organization (OLP) Resist and Fight;
the Juana Azurduy Movement;
Up those who fight;
the MTD Aníbal Verón and the MTR for direct democracy, among others.
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Piqueteros groups put pressure on Minister Pettovello and set up a “poverty line” to receive them.
The organizing organizations explained that "hundreds of
soup kitchen coordinators and cooks had to reduce to a minimum or interrupt their activity due to lack of food deliveries
. "
"The demand for the delivery of food, from those in charge of the dining rooms and picnic areas, will be accompanied by a demonstration of the multiple activities and networks that are generated around these community spaces, which in the most humble neighborhoods of the Argentina fulfills a broad and irreplaceable social role, they distribute
more than 10 million daily rations of food
," they emphasized.
Along these lines, they considered that
Pettovello "does not seem to be aware of the current food crisis and the sensitivity it demands."
Furthermore, they stated that the national official "does not seem to know that reality, nor the concepts about community building and citizenship."
Fight between the Government and the picketers over food
The picketers redouble the fight with the Minister of Human Capital, Sandra Pettovello, who did not receive this Monday members of social organizations who claimed in front of her portfolio for food for soup kitchens, despite the fact that she had said last Thursday that she was going to attend. "one by one" to "the people who are hungry."
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The Minister of Human Capital met protesters and clarified that she will not speak with leaders, but with "people who are hungry."
Pettovello's response occurred on February 2, when the leaders and protesters of the UTEP social organizations mobilized to his offices in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Retiro to present him with a petition for the lack of food in soup kitchens.
"People are hungry, let them come. I'm going to attend to the people who are hungry one by one, but not to the referents.
Are the people hungry? I'm going to attend to the people who are hungry one by one, not to the referents.
Come one by one, I will write down your ID, your name, where you are from and you will receive help individually," answered the minister at the entrance to the Casa Patria Grande Néstor Kirchner, where she has her main offices.
The line that the picketers made to be received by Minister Sandra Pettovello.
Photo: Reuters
However, members of social organizations formed a long "poverty line" this Monday in the vicinity of the Ministry, but the national official did not receive them.
"I did not summon the people to be under the sun, the leaders summoned them. The other day, seeing them at the door of the ministry, I went down to attend to them due to a specific situation. But this time I am not going to receive them because I am not "I summoned them. They were the leaders who use people and make them stand in line under the sun," replied the Minister of Human Capital.