Social Movements Focus Today in Atlanta and Define G20 Summit Demonstrations

The first major convocation to protest the G20 summit, which will focus in 72 hours in our country, the world's major powers, will take place this afternoon at the Atlanta stadium, under the slogan "No to the G20, outside the IMF."

Twenty social organizations such as the Movimiento Evita, Barrios de Pie, the current Clasista and Combativa, Popular Unity, the Revolutionary Communist Party, Seamos Libres, Martín Fierro and Baronos Peronistasamong other things, will attempt to show mbadive concentration in the stadium at the corner of Humboldt and Murillo. Felipe Solá, dThe iputados of the interblock compliant as well as leaders like Victoria Donda and Leo Grosso and the trade unionists could be part of the game.

However, this will only be the first convocation, in a wide range of social movements and anti-globalization groups, who have been planning protests against the summit for this Friday and Saturday for months. the calendar of street events is not yet defined. For today, a second meeting with the official authorities is planned. Advance an agreement guaranteeing that there is no violence.

Three weeks ago, there was in this sense a summit at the office of Marcos Peña, until here kept in reserve.

As he was able to rebuild Infobae official sources and the environment of some officials, in addition to the chief of staff, ministers Patricia Bullrich, Carolina Stanley and Rogelio Frigerio; Secretaries Eugenio Burzaco and Carlos Pedrini from the Ministries of Security and Social Development, respectively, and Hernán Lombardi.

The discussion was sometimes lively. There was a counterpoint between Stanley and Bullrich for interaction with social movements, the so-called places of concentration in the street. The call for this afternoon's event on the grounds of the Atlanta club, for example, had been agreed two months ago by the organizers and the Department of Social Development during discussions. informally, they said.

During this meeting, on the first floor of Casa Rosada, interlocutors, possible street cuts and possible venues were badyzed. For example, the possibility of cutting or not the bridge of Pueyrredón, one of the main access to the city that connects it to the south of the Buenos Aires Conurbano zone, was fired.. Although far from the planned cutting areas for the summit, Bullrich's position is at the moment uncompromising.

At the end of the week, officials from the Ministry of Security met Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Nobel laureate of La Paz and leaders of social organizations. They did not reach an agreement. They agreed to see each other again today.

The anti-establishment groups – grouped under the name of Confluencia outside the G20 IMF – which will appear these days in the street demonstrations are composed, in addition to the traditional social organizations, of the Association for the taxation of financial transactions. and Citizen Action (ATTAC), anti-capitalist in red, Action for Argentina UK and nearly two dozen foreign groups.

In recent weeks, according to Interior Ministry sources, several activists who wanted to enter the country and were prevented from doing so were arrested at the border. Juan Grabois, leader of the Confederation of Workers of the People's Economy (CTEP), which has good relations with a sector of the government and has registered for several months behind the figure of Cristina Kirchner, He had talks with anti-globalization protesters. Grabois was last year at the G20 summit in Hamburg.

ATE, CTA and the trade unions have not yet defined the protest locations before Friday's summit. Meeting points, itineraries to be covered, are still subject to negotiations with the government, which wants to organize as much as possible the manifestations of the security barriers.

All sectors explained that there was no violent mood apart from anti-summit slogans. And that the costs of logistics complicate mobilizations. Several social movements will spend a good part of the budget in this afternoon's act.

Between Thursday and Thursday, acts are planned at the Congress and near the Plaza de Mayo. But they depend on restrictions on pedestrians and vehicles.

The intersection of Avenues 9 de Julio and Belgrano, near the Department of Social Development, was to be, originally, one of the meeting points of the Friday demonstration. But the area will be restricted.