Within the framework of the scrapping of the State and organized by the Internal Board of ATE in the Ministry of Justice of the Nation together with the workers of Line 137 of the ‘Victims Against Violence’ Program – accompanied by the Secretary of Gender and Diversity of ATE Nacional-, last Friday, May 3, a film-debate day was held in which the documentary ‘Every 30 Hours’, by Alejandra Perdomo, was screened. The film gives an account of the work carried out by the Program, which was created by Dr. Eva Giberti and which serves victims of family, sexual and grooming violence. There are currently 19 dismissed colleagues, psychologists and social workers, most of them with more than 10 years of seniority, and 7 of them will be admitted during 2023.
The Secretary of Gender and Diversity of ATE Nacional, Clarisa Gambera, commented: “This day has a multiple dimension: It is pedagogical and allows us to value our work and what is lost when a public policy is attacked with layoffs. “It is a form of meeting and organizing resistance.”
“The proposal for a documentary that narrates the violence and shows us the interventions that we usually carry out from the 137 hotline. The documentary was possible because there was support from INCAA, and that allowed us to tell things that the market does not tell. The same thing happens with public policies that guarantee rights that the market chooses not to see. It is the State that can promote action programs, in this case listening to professionals who have built concrete responses to social problems, accumulating years of experience that are systematized by those who work with commitment and activism on various issues,” Gambera added.
“We won these policies by fighting survivors, their families, workers on the streets and in State agencies, with civil society organizations that know that it is not possible alone. That is why it is important to highlight the importance of ATE promoting these spaces for reflection, organization and collective struggle, and for embrace in times of cruelty,” said the leader of ATE Nacional.
Alejandra Perdomo is a comprehensive documentary filmmaker born in Buenos Aires. The fight for Human Rights and for women and children on issues linked to sexual violence, gender violence or the search for identity, are an essential part of her militancy. His documentary ‘Every 30 hours’, which was made in 2016, addresses the issue of femicides in Argentina and the work carried out by the Victims Against Violence Program, Line 137, of accompaniment and containment in the emergency. in situations of family and sexual violence.
In the Program there are currently 19 dismissed colleagues, psychologists and social workers, most of them with more than 10 years of seniority, and 7 of them will be hired during 2023, the only ‘justification’ being the non-renewal of the contract. The dismissals occurred in different areas of the Program: 12 colleagues from Line 137, 3 colleagues from the coordination team, 4 colleagues from the monitoring team (of 19 dismissed, 18 are women).
“The positioning of the professionals is political, in the actions carried out it is not just about therapy or empty accompaniment but rather they work to guarantee the basic rights of the people we accompany, their Human, economic, political and social rights, their right to a life free of violence, respecting their times and their word,” said Laura Boggon, from the Internal Board of ATE at the National Secretariat of Justice.
“The proposal of a minimal, absent State generates immediate and detectable impacts in the field of citizenship, and particularly in the field of violence (…) We understand that each dismissal of a worker implies a direct attack on the rights, that is why we fight for each reincorporation, not only for our colleagues, but we consider that the fight is for the defense of public policies in general, for a present State, which is where it is most needed,” Boggon added.
Some of the guests at the screening and debate: Marcela Morera, Gustavo Mellman, Jimena Arduiz, Manuel Iglesias and Alicia Iglesias (Atravesados por el Femicide); Eugenia Vázquez (CTA Florencio Varela – PRONALCI); Cecilia Pérsico (Copitos de La Boca Dining Room); Patricia Cáceres (UNThe Social Work Career); Lic. Storino (Laura Bonaparte Network Hospital); Lic. Miriam Castro (SIEMPRO); Lic. María Bar (College of Social Workers of the Province of Corrientes); Dr. Marisa Montero (former Minister of Social Development of the Province of Tierra del Fuego); David Paoli Testa (photographer and activist); Mabel Mendoza (Gender Area and Self-Convened Assembly of Gerli-Avellaneda / Radio Program Gente que NO); Gender Area Radio Program La Conquista del Bread; Kasandras Program – Caterpillars and Butterflies Radio; Carlos Lordkipanidse (Memory, Truth and Justice Meeting); Marcela Val (Che Pibe Foundation); Lic. Concepción Palumbo (Patronato de Liberados Provincia de Buenos Aires – Les Rotes); Beatriz Regal and Jorge Tadei; support and solidarity of the Roundtable of Human Rights Organizations, of the former Ministry of Culture, of the former Ministry of the Environment, of the former Ministry of Women (First General Secretary of the Internal Board, Fernanda Fuentealba), of Crime Prevention, of Navigable Routes, of the ENRE, of the ENACOM, of the PAMI, of the Posadas Hospital (ATE Morón), of the National Library, of the ATE Congreso; Érica (Secretary of the Internal Human Rights Board of ATE Capital).
