Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 05:33:40 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Re: AUT: Fwd: Argentina: Mass Assembly Votes for Revolutionary Program


There are two demands which seem contrdictory:
For a soveriegn constituant assembly, and
let the people govern through their popular assemblies

Does anyone know why both were passed?


 --- Scott Hamilton <s_h_hamilton-AT-yahoo.com> wrote: > 
> Fwd:
> 
> Comrades, if you read nothing else today, read this
> revolutionary program voted unanimously by workers,
> piqueteros and popular assemblies in the 4th
> Asamblea
> Interbarrial, with thousands attending in the
> geographic center of Buenos Aires, Argentina, a
> totally democratic meeting which lasted four hours.
> 
> [Due to its importance, I have translated this to
> English immediately, providing a few quick
> explanations to the best of my ability. Original
> Spanish below]
> Reference:
>
http://argentina.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=10814&group=webcast
>  
> (translation by Vicente Balvanera
> 
> Argentina Solidarity Committee, Los Angeles
> 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Argentina_Solidarity)
> 
> Independent Media Center (Argentina)
> http://www.argentina.indymedia.org:8081
> 
> Parque Centenario: Resolutions Neighborhood
> Coordinating Assembly (Asamblea Interbarrial) Sunday
> 03 Feb 2002 
> author: Marisa 
> 
> summary
> Resolutions y pronouncements of the Neighborhood
> Coordinating Assembly (Asamblea Interbarrial) 
> 
> 
> 
>
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> 
> 
> 
> 4th Neighborhood Coordinating Assembly (Asamblea
> Interbarrial) in Parque Centenario (Centennial Park,
> geographic center of the city of Buenos Aires)
> 
> Sunday, February 3, 2002 
> 
> "Pickets and pots, one single struggle"
> 
> 
> Resolutions of the Assembly
> 
> 1.. Call for a new Cacerolazo (pot banging protest)
> on
> Friday, February 8, EVERYONE to reach the Plaza de
> Mayo at 11pm.
> 2.. Support the March of the Piqueteros (Marcha
> Piquetera) on Tuesday 5. March to be welcomed as it
> passes through each barrio, join in the march as it
> goes on.
> 
> 3.. Escrache (Demo of denunciation) Tuesday 5 at
> 10am,
> at the Courthouse Comodoro Pi against Santos
> [responsible for repression against the people]. 
> 4.. Continuar el Cacerolazo en Tribunales 'contra la
> Suprema Corte' el Jueves 7 a las 17hs. 
> 5.. Call to surround the Congress building while the
> 2002 Budget is being discussed (Attention: this
> could
> be on Tuesday).
> e.. Coordinate the neighborhood Escraches
> simultaneously in all neighborhoods, privatized
> companies, functionaries and media every Wednesday
> between 1pm-2pm. 
> f.. Thursday 7 at 11am support the struggle of the
> Municipal Hospitals. In Defense of Public Health.
> Gather at the doors of every hospital in every
> neighborhood. 
> 7. Friday 8, 6pm. Support the mobilization to Town
> Hall of the hospital residents [Buenos Aires].
> 
> Pronouncements of the Assembly 
> 
> 1. Repudiation of the Argentine governments vote
> against Cuba. 
> 2. Return of the 13% to state employees and
> pensioners
> 
> 3. Repudiation of the release of Alfredo Astiz [part
> of the genocidal military regime, court released him
> instead of extraditing him to Sweden, for murder of
> Swedish citizen]. 
> 4. NO to the Federal Law of Education and the Law of
> Higher Education [enacted by the De la Rua
> government,
> they legalized structural adjustment and cutbacks in
> education, placing education at the service of the
> imperialist monopolies]
> 
> 
> [respecting original numbering in the translation to
> English]
> 
> 
> g.. Free and Sovereign Popular Constituent Assembly
> 
> h.. NO to 'superpowers' for Anbal Ibarra in the
> government of the City of Buenos Aires 
> i.. Repudiate and denounce the repressive measures
> and
> the presence of police dressed in civialian clothes 
> j.. 'Let the people govern through its popular
> assemblies. 
> k.. Minimum salary of $600, unemployment subsidy. 
> l.. Jail M. Seineldn [fascist plotter of military
> coups] and all the represors 
> m.. Adhesion to the Social Forum of Porto Alegre 
> n.. Defense of the Public Hospital and control of
> the
> Public Health Budget by the Popular Assemblies 
> o.. Control of the 'Planes Trabajar' (work fare) by
> the Popular Assemblies. 
> p.. Nationalization of Foreign Commerce 
> q.. Slash the rates of the privatized public
> services
> [i.e. telephone, gas, electricity, water] 
> r.. Implementation of non-payment of services with
> assesment and special plans of protection. 
> s.. Resignation of the functionaries of the
> Regulatory
> Commission of the privatized companies. All of them
> must go for negligence of their duty. 
> t.. The judges must pay income tax. 
> u.. Support and participation in the Marches for the
> kids assasinated in Floresta 
> v.. Plans for street children and adolescents. 
> w.. NO to the municipalization of education in the
> Province of Buenos Aires [transfer of responsibility
> for education from the Province (state) governement
> to
> the municipal authorities] 
> x.. Support for the struggle and demands of
> incapacitated and disabled persons. 
> y.. Return of the bank deposits in the original
> currency. 
> z.. NO to the purchase of dollars 
> aa.. Repudiation of the Corporacin del Sur
> [utilities
> company]
> ab.. NO to university fees 
> ac.. Control of the Health Plans by their members 
> ad.. Repeal of the Law of Labor Reform 
> 
> [The Labor Reform Bill, passed just over two years
> ago
> during the De la Rua government, among other things
> annulled all collective bargaining agreements after
> two years (now!) and decentralizes the trade union
> movement, making it next to impossible for workers
> to
> organize a general strike in any industry; start of
> the Pinochet-Chilenization of Argentina, at the
> behest
> of the IMF and its puppet government headed by the
> overthrown De la Rua. For one explanation (written
> after the Ecuadorean revolutionary process in 2000),
> see Andamio, May, 2000,
>
http://www.geocities.com/trotskist_1999/ea8/ea8_01_editorial_ing.html
> and
>
http://www.geocities.com/trotskist_1999/ea8/ea8_ing.html
> , plus visit sites of PO (http://www.po.org.ar) and
> PTS (http://www.pts.org.ar], for example, and search
> on reforma laboral]
> 
> ae.. Repatriation of Argentine capitals escaped
> abroad. 
> af.. NO to the installation of a nuclear base in
> Tierra del Fuego [southern-most province of
> Argentina]. 
> ag.. Publication of the sworn statement of wealth of
> all trade union officials. 
> ah.. For the free bus and train pass and
> scholarships
> for all students. 
> ai.. Throw out the trade union bureaucracy 
> aj.. Direct election of judges. 
> ak.. Repeal of Article 22 of the Constitution the
> people govern through their representatives 
> al.. Support for the assemblies of workers in
> struggle, independently of the trade union
> confederations and their leaders; for their
> participation with delegates in the Interbarrial of
> Parque Centenario. 
> am.. Restitution [to their biological family] of the
> children kidnapped during the military dictatorship.
> 
> an.. Repeal of the Laws of Obediencia Debida [Due
> Obedience: innocence of genocidal acts during the
> military dictatorship through just following orders,
> passed during the government of Alfonsin], and Punto
> Final (Final Point: the dropping of all charges for
> genocidal acts during the military dictatorship,
> passed during the Menem government) and repeal of
> all
> pardons. 
> ao.. Jail the genocides and their accomplices. 
> ap.. Registration of the orders for medical drugs
> from
> each hospital, demanding weekly compliance from the
> Municipal Government. Participative Budget under the
> control of the Popular Assemblies and hospital
> workers
> in each neighborhood. 
> aq.. Adhesion to and participation in the Asamblea
> Nacional Piquetera (National Assembly of Piqueteros
> (Picketers)) on Saturday, February 16 in the Plaza
> de
> Mayo.
> ar.. Call for a NEW NATIONAL CACEROLAZO (pot banging
> protest) of neighbors, workers and piqueteros in the
> Plaza de Mayo, Friday the15th, 10pm (just before the
> Piquetero Congress of the 16th). 
> Automatic call for the 'Plaza of NO' for the day
> immediately following any holding of the pro-Duhalde
> Plaza of YES. 
> 
> Next multi-neighborhood Assembly:
> 
> 
> Sunday, February 10, 5pm in Parque Centenario
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ====> For "a ruthless criticism of every existing idea":
> THR-AT-LL, NZ's class struggle anarchist paper
> http://www.freespeech.org/thrall/
> THIRD EYE, a Kiwi lib left project, at
> http://www.geocities.com/the_third_eye_website/
> and 'REVOLUTION' magazine, a Frankfurt-Christchurch
> production, http://cantua.canterbury.ac.nz/%7Ejho32/
> 
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