After the actions in the capital and several towns in the interior, it was announced that the measure would be suspended for 15 days in the middle of a negotiation. It is once again clear that there is a willingness to take action when it comes to defending our rights. The demand for an absolute guarantee of the ticket for the march on September 16 will continue. Together with the rejection of Milei’s veto, Monday’s march may have significant student participation.
In the capital alone, various assemblies and actions were held. Yesterday, in the context of the occupation of the Venezuelan pavilion, an assembly was held that voted to lift the measure but to continue the struggle in the streets with sit-ins and actions. In addition, it was resolved to promote an independent column for the mobilization of the Night of the Pencils, on September 16, in commemoration of the high school students kidnapped during the last civil-ecclesiastical-military dictatorship.
Important assemblies were also held at tertiary institutes such as the ICA and the Provincial University of Córdoba, which later led to a sit-in with a street blockade in front of the Ministry of Transport.
The occupation of the Manuel Belgrano School
Yesterday, we, the secondary school student group No Pasarán and La Izquierda Diario, approached the students to talk.
With the aim of regrouping the students and generating a political event, mobilized by the provocation of attacking this right just days before a historic date, they decided in an assembly with more than 700 students to take over the school. In perspective of strengthening the mobilization of September 16th. The massive participation shows the desire to defend our rights widely.
This pre-university school is connected to “two worlds”, the secondary level and the policies that concern university life, so it remains to be seen what direction the students will take in relation to the announced veto that President Milei would carry out against the approved university financing law that includes, among other items, the recovery of salaries for teachers and non-teaching staff.
Sit-in and street blockade with 200 tertiary and university students
Around 200 students from different tertiary institutes together with university students from different UNC faculties, staged a sit-in at the Transportation Secretariat. The anger over the attack measures generated a wide stir on social networks among students from the National University of Córdoba, but also among tertiary students. The Institute of Aboriginal Cultures, from Simón Bolívar and from the Provincial University of Córdoba, participated in the action together with the assemblies of Exactas, Psicológica, Artes and the Interfacultades.
How do we continue?
From La Izquierda Diario we asked Nazaranea Sauri, part of the assembly of the Faculty of Arts and militant of La Imaginación al Poder / PTS, how they plan to continue with the measures. “Yesterday we demanded that the Llaryora government guarantee our right to education, not for 15 days, we want it to be something definitive. We also went to spread the word that this Monday, September 16, we will mobilize with this demand as our central axis at 5 p.m. from Colón and Cañada, in an independent column together with student assemblies and political and social organizations that we will march against Milei’s veto and for the definitive continuity of the ticket” she declared.
In response to the government’s new announcements about open negotiations between the Llaryora government and FETAP, Nazarena added, “This shows that the struggle is useful, every assembly, every democratically voted action measure, every court is useful. It also shows, in contrast to any demoralizing speech that student leaders usually transmit that says “people don’t want to do anything,” that on the contrary, there is a willingness to fight for our rights.”
And he added, “It happened in Córdoba with Llaryora’s attempt to close the Primary Health Centers in the neighborhoods, which could not be implemented due to the occupations and blockades by neighbors and health workers. The same with the massive march on April 23 in defense of public universities. And it can happen again against Milei’s vetoes, both against retirees and against the increase in the university budget. No confidence in Congress, we have already seen how radicals and Peronists act. All confidence in our own forces.”
Olivia Pizarro is a History student at the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities, and a member of Tesis XI. We asked her about the call for a possible Federal March in the face of the threat of Milei’s veto. “With the announcement of Milei’s Veto, the anger will deepen. The mobilization on September 16 is a first step to fill the streets in the framework of a fight to build a great federal march organized from below, uniting the educational cause with the defense of retirees and against all attacks on working people. There is a desire to fight, it is seen in the face of each attack, but this plan of struggle must include a national strike that allows for total forcefulness against the entire plan of Milei and his accomplices, who we saw well how they voted for everything in Congress,” she concluded.
The students also commented that a festival in defense of public education will be held on Thursday 19/9. “It could be a great space for political-cultural expression to bring broad sectors to the fight, which would serve to strengthen new assemblies, action measures and a large mobilization in Córdoba. We invite artists, students, workers, retirees, scientists, teachers to be part of it.”
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
