Argentina - 5 October 2022
Ciudad Evita, La Matanza, Greater Buenos Aires
ALERT! ALERT!
Under the orders of Judge María Belén Casalgatto, Kicillof’s Police want to evict 250 working families
We call on all labor and human rights organizations to be on alert and mobilize and be present in Ciudad Evita to support the families who are being threatened with being evicted from their land.
Like it happened in Guernica, the national government of the Fernándezs, Massa and Kicillof, in Buenos Aires, comply with the IMF and the bloodsucking bankers to the letter, and before the most immediate needs of the exploited, launch full crackdown against the workers and they do it again against the right to decent housing. The cry of the mothers of families is “we don't want crackdown, we want land to live on.”
The Mapuche comrades in Río Negro continue to be imprisoned for fighting in defense of their land against Lewis and the big landowners, while they deepen the persecution against all the comrades of the Lof Lafken Winkul Mapu.
ENOUGH! AN INJURY TO ONE IS AN INJURY TO ALL!
EVERYONE TO CIUDAD EVITA TOGETHER WITH THE 250 FAMILIES IN DEFENSE OF THEIR HOMES!
Press release
District 1ero de Noviembre
October 05, 2022
In La Matanza we continue fighting for land to live
For an inclusive and popular urban project
No to the abandonment of land for open-air dumps and insecurity
We are children and grandchildren of neighbors from bordering neighborhoods from the property that is located between Route 21, Av. Cristianía and neighborhood 22 de Enero. Lands that have been cared for by us for more than 20 years in the face of the situation of evident abandonment of more than 40 years. We group together as the 1ro de Noviembre neighborhood looking for a collective solution to the serious problem of family housing that affects us, either because we can no longer continue paying higher rent every day or because we live crowded in relatives' houses or precarious or borrowed places.
This situation does not start today, it already has a history of claims, creackdown and frustrated negotiations. On November 4, 2018, there was the first entry of families to the property that were evicted by the police, 47 of those families were registered and offered a Dialogue Table to find a solution. They were never summoned by the Municipality.
After 3 years without answers and years of adjustment and health crisis, there are already 250 families that re-enter the property.
On November 1, 2021, police officers were present at the scene and they attacked -without a court order- against the families that inhabited the land, firing rubber bullets and tear gas. They left dozens of people injured and others apprehended, running us more than 300 mts from the place. They kicked up to the doors of the parish where we asked for shelter.
Since then, the police harassment has not stopped.
On December 8, after standing for more than 6 hours in the intense heat, to avoid another eviction, we reached an agreement with the prosecutor in charge and the departmental chief to maintain the 5 soup kitchens and 14 huts, until a dialogue table is established to reach a solution for every family. Agreement that was not respected, the same day the police evicted one of the community dining rooms and arrested 2 minors. Repression that saw its cruelest face on December 24, 2021 at 6am, when police officers set fire to the other community dining rooms attended by more than 300 children and the huts where families with their children were sleeping.
Due to all that we have experienced and given the lack of state responses to our claims, on July 25 we knocked on the doors of our municipality again because we want to be heard and to ask that these rights that are violated be guaranteed.
Once again, a meeting without results on August 5.
On September 21, we handed in a note in the HCD (Argentine Chamber of Deputies) -another gesture of the neighborhood looking for a solution and offering a possible concrete proposal- accompanied by a sketch of urbanization of the land in a situation of abandonment and health risk that we believe can be used to develop a neighborhood with services and ample spaces to allocate to education, health, sports and recreation that respond to the needs of this neighborhood such as the boundaries that do not have this presence of the state according to the growth of the population. We did not receive signs of interest in facing or dialoguing with us in search of a possible and necessary solution.
The blows of inflation, rent increases and salaries that are not enough lead us to enter again into the land that we have cared for and wanted as the place to our future neighborhood. We ask the different state instances to make a call for dialogue to provide a solution and not to resort to repressive measures that showed that they cannot prevent the claim from being expressed again.
Contacts
Delegates
Eli 11 6978-9094
Sara 11 3084-6445
Beba 11 2780-6034
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