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Social movements will march to supermarkets to demand food and ask for responses from the Government - Infobae
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January 31, 2024
They will also demonstrate in front of the Ministry of Human Capital and the Coordinator of Food Products Industries (COPAL). The Ministry of National Security will monitor the protest and apply the “Anti-Picketing Protocol” if access is cut off. It is the first measure of this type that they have taken in seven years
The Peronist picketers will march in front of the supermarkets and the Ministry of Human Capital due to lack of food delivery in the dining rooms
For the first time in more than seven years, the social movements grouped in the Popular Economy Workers Union (UTEP) and that are part of Unión por la Patria will march tomorrow to the super and hypermarkets throughout the country, to the Ministry of Human Capital and to the Coordinator of the Food Products Industries (COPAL), located at 400 Viamonte Street, in the heart of downtown Buenos Aires. They demand food for the dining rooms and picnic areas. They assure that since November they have not received assistance from the State and that demand increases week after week due to the impact of inflation and devaluation among the most disadvantaged.
The last time that organizations linked to Peronism marched to demand food from businesses and shopping malls was between 2017 and 2018 during the administration of former president Mauricio Macri .
Meanwhile, Unidad Piquetera, led, among others, by Eduardo Belliboni, from the Polo Obrero, will not bow to the measure. “Those responsible for the lack of food in soup kitchens are not the supermarkets, but the Government of Javier Milei,” reflected the left-wing leader, who today will lead a mobilization in Congress against the Omnibus Law that will be debated in the Chamber of Deputies. .
In dialogue with this medium, the main representatives of the measure of force, including leaders of the Evita Movement and Somos/Barrios de Pie, announced that they will contact the Ministry of National Security, headed by Patricia Bullrich , to inform them. to the authorities the route of the marches, and announced that they will avoid confronting the federal forces or the City Police, who have already warned Infobae that they will enforce the “Anti-Picketing Protocol.” They will avoid cutting arteries and will demonstrate on the sidewalks in front of the businesses.
The general secretary of the UTEP, Alejandro Gramajo, assures that the situation is “desperate” and that “the purchase of merchandise through funds from the United Nations and the World Bank is not even activated.”
The Government clarified that “we will closely follow” the alternatives to the marches that the Peronist picketers promise to carry out throughout the country.
As Daniel Menéndez, national coordinator of Somos/Barrios de Pie and former official of Alberto Fernández , told Infobae , the measure - announced on Monday - will be “a national day with the focus on the food emergency in the absence of responses” from the of the government of Javier Milei. They are also urging Congress to declare a new “food emergency.”
The supermarkets where they will demonstrate have not yet been scheduled. For that reason they did not communicate with Bullrich's line officials, but they will be "some hyper emblematic of CABA, the Buenos Aires suburbs and the main cities of the country." They will also display empty soup kitchens as a sign of repudiation of the lack of food in soup kitchens, COPAL, to demand a reduction in the price of food in the basic basket, and the former Ministry of Social Development, now the Secretariat of Children and Family that is the department in charge of supplying merchandise. To the Minister of Human Capital, Sandra Pettovello , on whom the sensitive secretariat depends, and to its owner, Pablo de la Torre, they will leave a petition to demand, among other points, “the urgent delivery of food for soup kitchens that are not carried out since the arrival of La Libertad Avanza to the government.”
The decision to carry out new protest measures by the UTEP came after the strike and mobilization on Wednesday the 24th ordered by the CGT and which for the UTEP leaders was “an enormous demonstration of unity and strength.” Johana Duarte , Union Secretary of the UTEP and leader of the Evita Movement, expressed in response to a question from this medium: "We must continue down this path to put on the agenda the main problems that our people suffer, which for us is hunger."
Social leaders affirm that since November the soup kitchens have not received assistance from the State
“We social organizations support thousands of picnic areas and dining rooms throughout Argentina that the government ignores. They are supported by the efforts of our colleagues, but the government does not provide answers,” continued Duarte, and added: “In the face of this situation, we have been delivering petitions to supermarkets and organizing donation campaigns, but it is urgent that the State begins to provide answers in this matter. “food” he continued.
“We are not going to sit idly by while Milei takes charge of an agenda that has nothing to do with the true emergencies of the Argentines. The only need and urgency in Argentina is hunger,” she concluded.
"From the Secretariat of Children and Family there is no response to the food supplies to the thousands of community kitchens throughout the country which, as a result of the devaluation and liquefaction of income, causes more and more neighbors to come to ask for food,” the representative of Somos/Barrios de Pie described to this medium. Menéndez recalled that they had already asked the authorities for a response to this problem and since there was none, "from UTEP we are going to request different private institutions, large food producing companies and hypermarkets , for food to support this network." The former official also announced that they are going to ask deputies and senators for “a new food emergency law.”
The discontinuation of food items to the soup kitchens in popular neighborhoods is not new. The leaders of the Piquetera Unit had already been denouncing it in the previous government, but the Evita Movement and other social organizations, then pro-government, did not take any action.
We are/neighborhoods of Pie promoted the empty pot protests to denounce the lack of food in dining rooms and picnic areas
Through a statement from the UTEP, they denounce that in the Ministry of Human Capital "funds for assistance to soup kitchens are blocked, as well as the delivery of bags or boxes of merchandise through other organizations, such as PAMI."
The general secretary of the organization, Alejandro “Peluca” Gramajo , assured that the situation is “desperate” and that “the purchase of merchandise through funds from the United Nations and the World Bank is not even activated.”
The objective of the “national day with the focus on the food emergency”, as explained by the Evita Movement “is the claim against the adjustment and reforms carried out by the administration of La Libertad Avanza, through the Omnibus Law that is "It will be discussed in Congress and the 'Mega DNU' to deregulate the Economy."
Yesterday, the Ministry of Human Capital announced that it is working to make food policy transparent. And they announced that: “The discretionary delivery system for dry food was canceled to implement the modality of direct monetary transfer to soup kitchens and associations without intermediation. We want to end poverty managers. The priority is and will be that no Argentine goes hungry,” they stated. Meanwhile, they assured: "The amount of money allocated to the most needy has been increased so that they can buy food" and that "food aid has doubled since the beginning of the administration."
From the popular organizations they argued: “The devaluation and deregulation of prices carried out by President Milei brought more hunger in the neighborhoods, we have empty pots and more and more people asking for a plate of food,” said Norma Morales , deputy secretary. from UTEP.
Although the ministry in charge of Pettovello did not confirm the version, one of the projects being analyzed is to carry out a program of “direct transfers” of funds to the canteens and picnic areas instead of “distributing food to the organizations as in the past and let the picketers and leaders be the intermediaries between food for the neediest and the Government.”
Officials from the La Libertad Avanza administration acknowledged to this medium “supply problems” and blamed Alberto Fernández's management “for not carrying out the relevant tenders for the purchase of food last November.”
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Los movimientos sociales marcharán a los supermercados para reclamar alimentos y piden respuestas del Gobierno
También se manifestarán frente al Ministerio de Capital Humano y la Coordinadora de las Industrias de Productos Alimenticios (COPAL). El ministerio de Seguridad de la Nación monitorearán la protesta y aplicarán el Protocolo Antipiquetes si se cortan accesos. Es la primera medida de este tipo que...
www.infobae.com
January 31, 2024
They will also demonstrate in front of the Ministry of Human Capital and the Coordinator of Food Products Industries (COPAL). The Ministry of National Security will monitor the protest and apply the “Anti-Picketing Protocol” if access is cut off. It is the first measure of this type that they have taken in seven years
The Peronist picketers will march in front of the supermarkets and the Ministry of Human Capital due to lack of food delivery in the dining rooms
For the first time in more than seven years, the social movements grouped in the Popular Economy Workers Union (UTEP) and that are part of Unión por la Patria will march tomorrow to the super and hypermarkets throughout the country, to the Ministry of Human Capital and to the Coordinator of the Food Products Industries (COPAL), located at 400 Viamonte Street, in the heart of downtown Buenos Aires. They demand food for the dining rooms and picnic areas. They assure that since November they have not received assistance from the State and that demand increases week after week due to the impact of inflation and devaluation among the most disadvantaged.
The last time that organizations linked to Peronism marched to demand food from businesses and shopping malls was between 2017 and 2018 during the administration of former president Mauricio Macri .
Meanwhile, Unidad Piquetera, led, among others, by Eduardo Belliboni, from the Polo Obrero, will not bow to the measure. “Those responsible for the lack of food in soup kitchens are not the supermarkets, but the Government of Javier Milei,” reflected the left-wing leader, who today will lead a mobilization in Congress against the Omnibus Law that will be debated in the Chamber of Deputies. .
In dialogue with this medium, the main representatives of the measure of force, including leaders of the Evita Movement and Somos/Barrios de Pie, announced that they will contact the Ministry of National Security, headed by Patricia Bullrich , to inform them. to the authorities the route of the marches, and announced that they will avoid confronting the federal forces or the City Police, who have already warned Infobae that they will enforce the “Anti-Picketing Protocol.” They will avoid cutting arteries and will demonstrate on the sidewalks in front of the businesses.
The general secretary of the UTEP, Alejandro Gramajo, assures that the situation is “desperate” and that “the purchase of merchandise through funds from the United Nations and the World Bank is not even activated.”
The Government clarified that “we will closely follow” the alternatives to the marches that the Peronist picketers promise to carry out throughout the country.
As Daniel Menéndez, national coordinator of Somos/Barrios de Pie and former official of Alberto Fernández , told Infobae , the measure - announced on Monday - will be “a national day with the focus on the food emergency in the absence of responses” from the of the government of Javier Milei. They are also urging Congress to declare a new “food emergency.”
The supermarkets where they will demonstrate have not yet been scheduled. For that reason they did not communicate with Bullrich's line officials, but they will be "some hyper emblematic of CABA, the Buenos Aires suburbs and the main cities of the country." They will also display empty soup kitchens as a sign of repudiation of the lack of food in soup kitchens, COPAL, to demand a reduction in the price of food in the basic basket, and the former Ministry of Social Development, now the Secretariat of Children and Family that is the department in charge of supplying merchandise. To the Minister of Human Capital, Sandra Pettovello , on whom the sensitive secretariat depends, and to its owner, Pablo de la Torre, they will leave a petition to demand, among other points, “the urgent delivery of food for soup kitchens that are not carried out since the arrival of La Libertad Avanza to the government.”
The decision to carry out new protest measures by the UTEP came after the strike and mobilization on Wednesday the 24th ordered by the CGT and which for the UTEP leaders was “an enormous demonstration of unity and strength.” Johana Duarte , Union Secretary of the UTEP and leader of the Evita Movement, expressed in response to a question from this medium: "We must continue down this path to put on the agenda the main problems that our people suffer, which for us is hunger."
Social leaders affirm that since November the soup kitchens have not received assistance from the State
“We social organizations support thousands of picnic areas and dining rooms throughout Argentina that the government ignores. They are supported by the efforts of our colleagues, but the government does not provide answers,” continued Duarte, and added: “In the face of this situation, we have been delivering petitions to supermarkets and organizing donation campaigns, but it is urgent that the State begins to provide answers in this matter. “food” he continued.
“We are not going to sit idly by while Milei takes charge of an agenda that has nothing to do with the true emergencies of the Argentines. The only need and urgency in Argentina is hunger,” she concluded.
"From the Secretariat of Children and Family there is no response to the food supplies to the thousands of community kitchens throughout the country which, as a result of the devaluation and liquefaction of income, causes more and more neighbors to come to ask for food,” the representative of Somos/Barrios de Pie described to this medium. Menéndez recalled that they had already asked the authorities for a response to this problem and since there was none, "from UTEP we are going to request different private institutions, large food producing companies and hypermarkets , for food to support this network." The former official also announced that they are going to ask deputies and senators for “a new food emergency law.”
The discontinuation of food items to the soup kitchens in popular neighborhoods is not new. The leaders of the Piquetera Unit had already been denouncing it in the previous government, but the Evita Movement and other social organizations, then pro-government, did not take any action.
We are/neighborhoods of Pie promoted the empty pot protests to denounce the lack of food in dining rooms and picnic areas
Through a statement from the UTEP, they denounce that in the Ministry of Human Capital "funds for assistance to soup kitchens are blocked, as well as the delivery of bags or boxes of merchandise through other organizations, such as PAMI."
The general secretary of the organization, Alejandro “Peluca” Gramajo , assured that the situation is “desperate” and that “the purchase of merchandise through funds from the United Nations and the World Bank is not even activated.”
The objective of the “national day with the focus on the food emergency”, as explained by the Evita Movement “is the claim against the adjustment and reforms carried out by the administration of La Libertad Avanza, through the Omnibus Law that is "It will be discussed in Congress and the 'Mega DNU' to deregulate the Economy."
Yesterday, the Ministry of Human Capital announced that it is working to make food policy transparent. And they announced that: “The discretionary delivery system for dry food was canceled to implement the modality of direct monetary transfer to soup kitchens and associations without intermediation. We want to end poverty managers. The priority is and will be that no Argentine goes hungry,” they stated. Meanwhile, they assured: "The amount of money allocated to the most needy has been increased so that they can buy food" and that "food aid has doubled since the beginning of the administration."
From the popular organizations they argued: “The devaluation and deregulation of prices carried out by President Milei brought more hunger in the neighborhoods, we have empty pots and more and more people asking for a plate of food,” said Norma Morales , deputy secretary. from UTEP.
Although the ministry in charge of Pettovello did not confirm the version, one of the projects being analyzed is to carry out a program of “direct transfers” of funds to the canteens and picnic areas instead of “distributing food to the organizations as in the past and let the picketers and leaders be the intermediaries between food for the neediest and the Government.”
Officials from the La Libertad Avanza administration acknowledged to this medium “supply problems” and blamed Alberto Fernández's management “for not carrying out the relevant tenders for the purchase of food last November.”
