Social organizations advanced a day of national protest for Tuesday, May 7. They announced that they will demonstrate against the Argentine president, Javier Milei, for the “adjustment to the dining rooms” and in addition, they will carry out provincial mobilizations. There will be march to the Neuquén – Cipolletti bridges and in the center of Neuquén.
This Sunday, social organizations announced a new day of national struggle for Tuesday. The call is to continue making visible their claim regarding the situation of the soup kitchens and make clear their rejection of the Argentine president Javier Milei.
“Milei-Pettovello’s adjustment policy hits all the people and is cruel to the most vulnerable sectors,” according toThey came from the Classist and Combative Current (CCC).
They also indicated that their mobilization is because “they suspended all assistance to community kitchens, productive projects and works in popular neighborhoods and froze the salary of the “Potenciar Trabajo” from November 2023″, and added to their claims: “Now they have cut the salaries of 200,000 workers in half and have decided to liquidate the social monotax.”
According to this, they decided that another national day of struggle has been decided with mobilization in different parts of the country.
The protests in Neuquén and Río Negro
Cipolletti announced a concentration at 9 in Mengelle and Pacheco to the Fortín on Route 22 and 151, right at the entrance to the highway bridges that connect Neuquén and Cipolletti. In Neuquen capital The concentration will be at the same time, in the monument to Saint Martin.
This Sunday, the representative of the Polo Obrero in Neuquén, César Parra, through a statement informed the call for a day of national and provincial struggle to make the claim visible.
In this sense, it was detailed that in addition to the national claims, There will be an order at the provincial level that will bring them together. The claim will point towards the governor of Neuquén, Rolando Figueroa, to demand the start of work on public works.
«It happens that the government delays the times, it does not establish the budgets for the works and the specifications. When work should have started in mid-April, we are still waiting and every week there is a new delay,” they stated in the statement. “We urgently need to start working,” they highlighted.
They also added that they will demand from the government the urgent increase of the “Employability Incentive” program that is in the miserable sum of $32,000, an amount that does not even cover the electricity bill or the bus fare. Finally they reported that social organizations They called for a rally on Tuesday at 9 at the monument to San Martín.
For his part in Black Riveror from the UTEP union in Cipolletti they announced that on Tuesday the 7th they will join the national day and along these same lines they will ask for: food emergency; against unfair dismissals and the freezing of the former Potenciar Trabajo; and the continuity of all works in popular neighborhoods. They reported that the protest is scheduled for 9 on Menguelle and Pacheco streets.
Cut of Route 22 in Roca
In the same line as the mobilizations scheduled for the cities of Neuquén and Cipolletti, this afternoon the UTEP union announced that on Tuesday, May 7 from 9 They will join the national day with cuts throughout the country. It will also be “against the adjustment, the elimination of social programs and the closures of dining rooms”, and they will also target Governor Alberto Weretilneck.
“Without answers we return to the routes,” they stated and reported that they will make a mobilization toward Félix Heredia street and National Route 22. There they will define whether they will make a “partial or total cut.”
