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Temperley Assembly: Fight Against Repression and Privatization

News about the activities of the Temperley residents' assembly, which faced repression threatening its members and fought against the privatization of municipal services during a period of acute social crisis in Argentina in 2001-2002.


Temperley Assembly: Fight Against Repression and Privatization

During this mobilization, Estela Cabral, a member of the Youth Commission of the Assembly of Temperley, was present. In this situation, the Interbarrial of Lomas de Zamora, made up of the assemblies of Temperley, Lomas Este, Lomas Centro and Fiorito, made a public repudiation of the persecution and intimidation that the assembly members had been suffering. During Friday meetings, details and operational rules were agreed upon. The event took place with a cut-off at Puente Pueyrredón, a photo exhibition, open radio, murals, murga, a festival, and a popular stew. On August 24, in Brukman, the worker-controlled factories had met to prepare the second national meeting, which would take place on September 7. What followed was a rain of kicks. They asked him if he belonged to the Assembly of Temperley, to which the companion answered yes, and then they berated him. After activities related to mobilizations, marches, escraches, and cacerolazos, the dynamics of the Assembly began to change, giving way to other types of territorial base tasks: popular stews, fairs, community breakfasts, festivals. It was the first impulse for the cultural mobilization of the neighborhood, with the presence of the Assemblies of Puente Saavedra, Lomas, Longchamps, Adrogué. One of the cuts at La Noria bridge featured the Assembly of Temperley. The assembly provided a community breakfast, as well as music and other cultural activities that accompanied the fair. The assemblies, lined up behind the motorcycle union, sang: “They thought they had fucked us, because we were disorganized, but now with struggle and patience, the new resistance has been formed.” They were in charge of disseminating the activities and positions of the assembly through bulletins, leaflets, and communiqués. The Assembly of Temperley clarified through a statement that the last two incidents occurred after the march against the privatization of the collection of municipal taxes, which ended in front of the municipality, in which two assembly members participated, one carrying the assembly's flag, and from the 2nd floor, where the Government Secretariat is located, several individuals took photos and filmed the protesters. The Government tried to instill fear with statements. To get to Congress, the protesters coming from the province had to bypass several police checkpoints. The response from the municipality came on September 6, through an offer of a waiver of fines and surcharges, offering a payment plan facilities. The intimidation. One asked for a light and the other kicked him in the back of the legs, making him fall, while threatening him: “Cut the shit with the ticket.” It was a national rebellion against surrender, hunger, and unemployment. The sky was leaden and threatening, it lacked a snap for it to rain. When the young man was able to recover, he went home, observing that he had bruises on his face and body. On Tuesday, September 3, Ricardo Sayas, a member of the assembly, was traveling from Turdera to Avellaneda, standing near the passenger doors, in a carriage with two or three other passengers. They promoted the unity of employed, unemployed, retired, students, small and medium-sized merchants, victims of the instrumental policies of the last 25 years. But picketers, leftist parties, assembly members, and students, taking into account the urgency and the climate of fear, produced an exemplary and massive mobilization. They invited all those who had or did not have a trade and were unemployed. The sky only remained threatening and leaden, luckily it did not rain. The chants, the tears, the stories, the anecdotes—a full afternoon of meaning. They came to the conclusion that they did it because they felt fear of a people who were generating spaces for organization. On Saturday, October 19, at ten in the morning, another subject followed several blocks a member of the Youth Commission of the Assembly of Temperley. The requirement was to approach the working group that met on Fridays at 7 pm or Saturdays at 2:30 pm in the assembly. They also conceived of the assembly as a space where everyone's word could be heard and decisions were made collectively. Therefore, they concluded by stating that in the face of each attack, they all stood together saying “we are all one,” and also held Duhalde and Sola responsible for the safety and integrity of all social activists. On July 27, almost a month after the Avellaneda massacre, Matías, from the Neighborhood Assembly of Temperley, left his house. At those meetings, different activities were organized, among them, a party with the purpose of raising funds. At the time of filing the complaint with the police, they saw the same car that the neighbors had identified as parked in front of his house. About 300 neighbors gathered at Boedo and Pavón under the banner that raised the general claim: “No to the privatization of rates, enough of hunger, adjustment and repression.” After walking a block and a half, one of the people, the tallest, grabbed him from behind by the neck, while saying: “you fucking idiot, it seems you don't understand things when they are told to you,” at the same time, with punches they threw him to the floor and began to kick him, commenting: “we already told you to stop fucking around and not to break balls anymore,” “you are going to learn with blows.” This demonstrated the continuous surveillance that spotters and the police exercised over the movements of workers and neighbors. The two with the look of colimbas and a typical short haircut. Although during the Saturday meetings, one was in charge of coordinating the presentations and debates concerning national and local problems, there was a need to organize the actions discussed, then the working commissions were formed: Youth Commission: The youth commission of Temperley was a space where young people met to try to debate and carry forward the different problems of youth. In the face of these events, the Assembly evaluated that the use of parapolice bands and the strikebreakers who attacked workers to defend their jobs were repressive methods used by parapolice forces to stop the organization of the people from below. They left him in the Villa Fiorito area, while clarifying to him: “look well at the path, tell your friends that next time they will find you here, next time we are going to throw you here.” On the same Saturday, July 27, a young woman from the Temperley assembly was intimidated near her home, from across the street from her house, two strangers made their index finger pass across their throat, gesturing that they were going to slit her throat and shouted at her to be careful. On Wednesday, July 31, the neighbors of the Popular Assembly of Temperley held an act in front of the railway station in the area in repudiation of the threats and blows received by a member of the Youth Commission, who had been participating in a struggle for the student ticket and scholarships for high school students. When the train arrived at the Lanus station, someone grabbed him from behind and another person showed him a federal police badge. When he arrived at the Claypole station, he gets off to go to the school where he studies. After about half an hour and after checking his bag and his money, they released him stealing money from him, for the cost of the trip they told him. They also demanded punishment for the material and intellectual authors of the murders of Maxi and Darío. The assemblies emerged after the uprising of December 19 and 20 as a response to the social crisis that was being experienced. After liquidating the labor conquests snatched in more than a century of struggles, after having caused an unprecedented mass unemployment. For the same date, another group accompanied the takeover of the School Council of Lomas led by teachers and parents, in protest of the shortage of school canteens. During the first days of May, the Assembly of Temperley coordinated with other neighborhood assemblies, environmental movements and Greenpeace a march to Mitre Square in Monte Grande to express the rejection of the installation of a nuclear landfill in Ezeiza. This fact was not isolated since days before a group of young people from the assembly was followed by two individuals. At another of the posts, a mother was dealing with one of her children while trying to give the last stitches to a hat she had begun to learn to knit in the crochet workshop, to add to the incense, pastries, and bread, which she, along with other companions, had made. After a few minutes of waiting, he observed that on another of the benches two men sat down, one very tall and robust, with very short hair and a dark beard and the other shorter, also with short hair and a beard, who were talking between them. A situation that allowed these leaders to feel like owners of popular destinies. The fair was held every Saturday from 10 am to 4 pm in Espora Square of Temperley. The commission was made up of Mónica, Sergio Guerrero, Jimena, José, Marcos Ibarra. Press Commission: the press commission met at the Bar Splendid on Tuesdays at 7 pm. The meetings began to be held on Saturdays, starting at 2 pm. In a group, the members of the Assembly of Temperley decided to state in writing and public the principles that brought them together. As soon as he could drag himself to his house, he closed the windows, tried to calm down and began to call his friends. The same day they also held a cacerolazo in Temperley Square. On May 31, members of the assembly were part of a debate with the workers of Brukman at the Lomas Institute. Second stage of the Assembly of Temperley. The Saturday meetings brought together more than 80 neighbors of Temperley, among them: Antonia, Luciano, Eduardo Vázquez, Javier, Lía Romero, Marcelo, Guillermo and Marina, Sandra de Alba, Mónica Rúa, Dante and Claudia, Esteban Garmendia, Jorge, Ale Bernabé, Carlos Macarroni, Manfred Heidecker, Patricia Rodríguez, Moira, Fabio Núñez, Ely Day, José Piquer, Javier Aparicio, Margarita, Kuky, Alicia de Vago, Susana Kramer, Pablo, Carolina Pérez, Fran, Rosa Illescas, Karen Trama, Norma Licari, Diego Touriño, Néstor, Chiquito Belliboni, Hugo Lorenzato, Eva López. Also present were compañeros from the original peoples, who sang a couple of coplas and painted a mural and compañeros from the assembly of Luis Guillón who made a puppet show. Although they considered that fear was not something new, but admitted that from fear itself they had learned that joint action, solidarity, and organization were the best response. They summoned everyone for September 13 at 5 pm in Grigera Square. The party had been scheduled for Saturday, June 22, at 10 pm at the Roberto Arlt Cultural Center, on Liniers street almost at the corner of Coronel Suárez. They called for a mobilization to the municipality to demand the repeal of Ordinance 10 172 that privatized the collection of municipal tax debts and the delivery of a petition of six points. Darío and Maxi radiated dignity and tenderness with their gazes from the t-shirts that had been prepared in the silkscreen workshop and intertwined with the cakes, croissants and blocks, making a solid and sweet combo. These were not isolated facts, the threats that the unemployed movements of Aníbal Verón and the kidnapping of a young man from the MTD Lanús were suffering, the threats and intimidations to the homes of the witnesses of the Avellaneda Massacre that ended up being shot. They protested against the permanent looting to which the population was subjected by the concessionaires of privatized service companies, the hypermarkets with their constant price increases, the oil companies, the banks and their managers, the politicians of the moment, the representatives of successive radical, justicialist governments and at that time, by the government of Eduardo Duhalde. Therefore, they proposed the defense of the human rights invoked in the National Constitution such as the right to work, health, public education, justice, housing. They considered it urgent to defeat the state terrorism of that moment, because threats and intimidation were common currency, while the government and the media were carrying out a reactionary campaign on insecurity. The policy of Menem, De la Rúa and Duhalde that ended up confiscating in a brutal way also the middle class and even a part of the bourgeoisie itself determined the origin of the popular uprising of December 2001. It was made up of Federico Hauscarriaga, Andrés Calabria, Aymará Heidecker, Estela Cabral, Diego Moreira, Celeste Quatromano, Matías Velázquez, Paula Landoni, Gustavo Panno, Ignacio, Gonzalo, Eli, Nico, Jorge, Maxi. Work Commission: it was in charge of organizing the craft fair and offer of services and work. They understood the assembly as a space where different ways of thinking could coexist, having as a common denominator the objective of changing this reality of social decomposition, built during 25 years by military and democratic governments. They proposed under the slogan “Together let's transform the reality for a society for all” to share meals, puppets, murga, tango, rock and chamamé. They also participated in the national cacerolazo. On May 1, commemoration of Labor Day, they organized an olla of mate cocido in Temperley Square and a march to the gates of Brukman, a textile factory recovered by the workers and put back into operation, then they would go to Plaza de Mayo. In that situation, the Temperley assembly summoned popular assemblies, picketer movements, occupied factories, human rights organizations, students, unions and neighbors to express in common the rejection of the repressive policy of the government and made the provincial, national and municipal governments responsible for the safety and physical integrity, of the social activists. The assembly of Temperley was present together with union delegations, political groupings, neighborhood assemblies. On August 28, the Temperley assembly, together with the assemblies of Lomas, Barrios de Pie, PO, CTA, Association of Health Professionals, MTL, House of Unity and Popular Resistance, MAS, PTS and others had formed a coordinator to stop the privatization of the collection of municipal debts. The project had half sanction in the Senate and it was a matter of preventing Deputies from approving it. Two blocks away, two subjects, in broad daylight, beat him up with clubs, at a bus stop in broad daylight. “Although our dream is utopian, for them it is already a nightmare and that is quite a lot.” On Saturday, July 20, 2002, at the conclusion of the assembly and the community fair, a member of the Youth Commission was approached by two men between 30 and 40 years old who threatened him with death, while boarding the train. Therefore, on February 2, 2002, the Assembly of Temperley was part of a mobilization to the School Council with teachers and parents. Also together with lawyers from Correpi and Ceprod they filed a complaint under the heading “Threats and injuries” in the Fiscal Unit of Investigations No. 13 of Lomas de Zamora. It was part of this commission Susana and Laura. Railway Commission: on Thursdays at 7 pm they met Javier Aparicio, Ricardo Sayas among others, at the Roberto Arlt cultural center, on Coronel Suarez and Liniers streets to deal with issues related to the railway. Also heard were the blues of R.J.Gauna, the tangos of Luis Grillo and Andean music. The festival started at 4 pm and ended at 8 pm. On April 20, they were part of the escrache to Ferrocarriles Metropolitanos, given the degraded conditions of the train service provision due to the connivence between officials of the then National Government, businessmen, officials of the control entity and the unions, who - for the purpose of obtaining particular benefits- had the quality of the service as a variable of adjustment. And it must be the dignity that you catch from the compañeros who still have the stubborn militancy of dreaming awake, and who work and fight daily to materialize those dreams. Similarly, the sister of Maximiliano Kosteki was violated when they entered her house, stole merchandise and left an intimidating note. And that's how the afternoon went, between laughter, chats and dance. They requested to approach with non-perishable foods, diapers, school supplies, etc. But as we left we felt soaked, but with dignity. They rescued political participation and debate. Similar intimidation had been received by the assemblies of Adrogué, Burzaco, Longchamps and Claypole. On Friday, October 4, a member of the Temperley assembly, member of the Youth Commission, was followed by a subject for several blocks who told her to stop fucking around. The parapolice grabbed him by the neck and said “you fucking idiot, you don't learn more”. A mechanical workshop gave shelter in its facilities, as well as to many protesters. Almost a thousand people paraded every Saturday through the 25 posts set up outdoors. On June 26, 2002, Maximiliano Kosteki and Darío Santillán, both militants of the Aníbal Verón Coordinator, were shot dead during a police repression exercised in the middle of a protest, at the Avellaneda station. One wore a black leather jacket; the other, an inflated black jacket. On the other hand, the assemblies proposed new forms of organization, the horizontality of the relationship between its protagonists, as well as the recreation among them of ties of solidarity and human brotherhood. By Patricia Rodríguez for ANRed The Assembly of Temperley. In this context, after the uprising of December 19 and 20 under the cry of “they all go so they don't keep stealing from us, to stop the banks, the hypermarkets in the daily looting”, on January 20, 2002, in the vicinity of the Temperley station, approximately 200 neighbors spontaneously took to the street with cacerolas and the anger to shout “enough already”. It was made up of Fabio Núñez, Elizabeth Day, José Piquer, Cristina Hanuch, Sebastián, Ana María. Health Commission met on Tuesdays at 7 pm at the House of Unity and Popular Resistance. At the event were present the Aníbal Verón picketer coordinator, PTS, CTA, MAS southern zone. For the same period, they also participated with other assemblies in Gerli, against the closure of stations of the metropolitan railway. For May 18, the Assembly of Temperley was part of the recently constituted Interbarrial Assembly of Southern Zone in Remedios de Escalada, as an intermediate space for articulation between the different Assemblies of southern zone, it proposed to empower the neighbors' demands and, at the same time, create a place to discuss common objectives. On May 25, celebrating the patriotic day, with the clear intention of reconstructing the social fabric in the neighborhood, they organized a guiso carrero in Temperley Square. On May 29, the CTA, the FTV and the CCC, student and business groups, had carried out more than a thousand road cuts and acts as a day of protest against the economic policy. One of them stepped on his back, “as if putting out a butt”. While the car continued its course, these subjects continued to exert psychological violence, threatening him continuously. The next day, the reaction of the people was forceful, thousands of people marched from Congress to Plaza de Mayo to demand clarification of the facts and the resignation of Duhalde. The station was full of police and infantry. On March 17, they attended the first National Assembly held in the Parque Centenario, bringing together about 150 assemblies from all over the country. On March 24, the neighborhood assemblies, the assembly of Temperley, human rights organizations, picketers, parties, unions and a lot of people crowded Plaza and Avenida de Mayo. Estela, to protect herself from the shooting that continued many blocks after the Avellaneda station, had to run to the neighboring Gerli station to take shelter. During said festival different bands paraded, social documentaries were projected, also malabars, murgas, theater. On March 13 they integrated the massive escrache to Duhalde's house. They forced him to go out to the street and a few minutes later a Renault 12, white color, with another person appears. They also demanded the exemption from payment of the electric service for the unemployed or those who received scarce incomes, a social tariff, condemnation of debts and elimination of the payment of municipal lighting in the EDESUR bill. On July 26, a month after the Avellaneda Massacre, the Youth Coordinator Southern Zone, made up of the Youth Commission of the Assembly of Temperley organized a day of struggle for dignity, work and social change at 10 am at Puente Pueyrredón. Lawyers Sergio Smeniastsky and Mariana Salomón participated in the proceedings for the clarification of the threats and aggressions to the young people. For such an event, the presence of Mabel Ruiz, mother of Maxi Kosteki was fundamental where not only did she address the attendees from the sweetness and the solidary request for justice for her son, but also accompanied the exhibition of Maxi's drawings that were hung around the square. The commission let's recover the train supported the struggle of the railway workers that ended up re-entering the railway after the massive layoffs and built the orange opposition list. From July 6 the work commission gave greater impetus to the craft fair of offer of services and work that was held on Saturdays from 10 am to 4 pm in Espora Square of Temperley. “Art opens paths”. To finish different malabarists closed the afternoon. During the month of October 2003, the Assembly of Temperley, together with the MTDs of southern zone (Lanús, Lomas and Almirante Brown) organizes a solidarity festival. Between the two subjects they compulsorively lowered him from the train” because they had to speak some things with him”. “Picketer news” MTD Lomas de Zamora. The objective was to rethink tactics to defend them from eviction and to put under workers' control any factory that closed. The incipient fair of the assembly of Temperley began to give its first steps. For Saturday, April 13 they organized a festival in Espora Square where neighbors and artists of the area got together to raise food for the dining room “Bichito de Luz”. Vanina Kosteki, his sister, also participated in the activity. Therefore, they impugned all organizations that said they represented the interests of the people and acted behind their backs, preventing a genuine participation, in the same way, they rejected every form of repression and every political organization that presented itself as an alternative, but did not emanate from the genuine popular participation and in fact was a continuity of the political system. Similarly, they repudiated all journalists and hegemonic media that hid and deformed the reality, trying to confuse the people so that this one does not interpret the reality. They highlighted that the neoliberal policy that led to the abandonment of indelegable functions of the state tried to convince that the problem was only the salary of deputies and senators. Throughout that afternoon rock groups, tango and folklore paraded. For the same, date they began to participate in the Interbarrial Assembly of Parque Centenario whose origin dates from January 13, 2002 and appeared, at least in its beginnings, as an emerging of coordination between the more than thirty assemblies that were functioning since December in Capital Federal and, to a lesser extent, in the Conurbano bonaerense as the assembly of Northern Zone (facing the Quinta de Olivos); La Plata, Berisso and Ensenada; Western Zone (in the Railway Union of Haedo); Southern Zone, Lomas de Zamora, Temperley, Longchamps, Burzaco, Remedios de Escalada, etc. On February 3 they went to the escrache in front of the Police Station No. 1 of Lomas de Zamora and began to participate in the interbarrial made up of the assemblies of Lomas. Successive activities were taking place during that summer, such as the intervention in the escrache to Edesur denouncing the tariff increases and successive cuts of the service for non-payment on February 25. However she was taken prisoner among the 160 prisoners of the repression. At the Constitución station, the Federal Police searched the bags that seemed suspicious to her. They sustained that they did not feel represented by their rulers and considered that they lived in a formal, limited democracy, so they proposed to deepen the democracy to decide together the desired future. one of the members, Maxi, headed towards the railway station, sitting on one of the platform benches to wait for the departure of the train that was heading to Bosques. The Youth Commission met on Thursdays at 6 pm in Temperley Square or 6:30 pm at the door of the Lomas Institute. They were in charge of dealing with issues related to education and culture. That afternoon, a group of the Assembly of Temperley, together with others stopped at the entrance of Channel 13 to make their repudiation heard through chants for hiding and deforming the reality. On Friday, July 12 at 10 am, they summoned the neighbors of Temperley in front of the municipality to demand the implementation of Law 12698 and Ordinance 10077 that established a 40% reduction in the electric rate for people with scarce resources. They enunciated the need to rescue public spaces as meeting places that had been abandoned during the neoliberal stage, where solidarities circulated as a previous step to any serious attempt at alternative construction. In the educational area in 2002, not only the irregular payment of teachers' salaries, divided in installments, with bonuses, tickets, patacones, but also reductions and discounts in teachers' and state employees' salaries, budgetary cuts as a consequence of fiscal adjustments, deterioration of working, building and infrastructure conditions due to lack of budgetary resources, flexibilization of labor contracts, precariousness of employment were registered. They considered that they were not isolated facts, but a repressive methodology that was being implemented and sharpened against those who wanted to organize and fight for social change. There were also several musical numbers. The assembly of Temperley, through a statement denounced the aggressions and persecutions that the members of the assembly were suffering and the intelligence work to which they were subjected, since they knew not only the addresses, the activities and the places of work of their members. On Thursday, August 29, 2002, the Youth Commission of the Assembly of Temperley met in a bar located in front of Espora Square, ending it around 6:45 pm. When the car started, they told him not to throw himself to the floor, but not to look at anyone. During the afternoon different musicians paraded, some members of the assembly such as the members of “Ave Juglar” and “Nadie”. They characterized these governments as managers of international and concentrated national capital interests, that only acted ignoring the popular needs. They also underlined the importance of rescuing the political activity of the whole population in function of discussing the solution alternatives, rejecting the concept of delegation of the representation in the authorities arisen from the electoral act, on the other hand, the rejection had become tangible a few months before, in the October 2001 elections where the blank vote had reflected the crisis and discredit of the main political parties. They proposed to build a new culture without excluded, without violence, without hunger, without repression, with work, with protagonism of all, with full and open participation for the defense of the people's interests. In the face of this, the Assembly of Temperley summoned for October 31, 2002, at the House of Unity and Resistance to organize and face the repression. On November 2, the Assembly of Temperley organizes a cultural and solidarity event “Art opens paths”. They put him in the vehicle, one of them getting in the back of it and the other with the driver, that is they kidnapped him. Similarly the work commission was promoting the formation of working groups with people that were without employment to train and start a labor activity in the elaboration and commercialization of diverse food products, they invited all those that possessed or not a trade and were unemployed. They interrupted, two seconds, when a bus stopped. The punishment lasted a few minutes without there being witnesses, until one of them tells the other:”leave him, it's already done” and they left leaving him lying on the floor. starting from 11 hs. Then they followed. Which concluded with a meaningful homage to the mother of Maximiliano Kosteki; Mabel Ruiz. Also among the students of the schools of the area an exhibition of diverse logos designed to identify the event in course was organized. From that moment on, Espora Square of Temperley began to be a place of encounters, recovering a public space to recognize each other and discuss own problems and solutions, proposing solidarities. Another 33 people suffered injuries from shots of the officials and 160 protesters remained detained. The uneasiness circulated among the assembly members, added to the misrepresentation of the facts by the media and the government's intention to implant fear. The Assembly of Temperley, that day took its solidarity to Brukman, demanding the nationalization under workers' control. On May 5 they participated in the assemblies meeting against the train that transports methanol, and although it was possible to get an injunction considering that it is a threat of “massive poisoning and intoxication” preventing the passage of the train with methanol, the circulation was established by road with state subsidy. “You are the ones who messed with the train and now with the taxes, why don't you stop fucking around”. At 7:05 pm, when the train leaves, the young man ascends to it, observing that the subjects do it in another carriage. They sustained that controlling the municipal government was a way to put it at the service of solving neighborhood problems. Also a sample of photos by Argentina Arde, a militancy and social commitment artistic experience, arisen in the year 2001 was exposed. They considered it indispensable to work for the construction of a new democratic system that makes possible popular participation, the control of the rulers, the revocation of the mandates, the joint debate of the country's destiny that assures a dignified life for the majorities. At the same time, accompanied by an attorney from the neighborhood assembly and two attorneys from Human Rights Organizations he filed the complaint under the heading “Injuries and threats, Velázquez Matías.” “They had black borceguíes, equal and new ones”. He needed to talk about it. But, the main slogan “They all go, not one remains left” was heard from the numerous column of the assemblies” in the national march from Congress to Plaza de Mayo. On Saturday, April 6 at 3:30 pm the assembly had organized one of its first activities, a solidarity musical festival. A murga put color to the afternoon. Matias proceeded to be examined at the Gandulfo Hospital of Lomas de Zamora, on Sunday, July 28 where he was diagnosed with a sprain of the right knee. With open radio and press conference, they underlined that to the repression it was faced with unity and organization and so it was the immediate answer of different assemblies, social groupings, political organizations, human rights organisms that showed solidarity with the assembly of Temperley. The objective was to provide a solidarity space be it of barter or service or of craft products. Similarly the work commission was organizing the formation of working groups with people that were without employment in function of training and starting a labor activity in the elaboration and commercialization of diverse food products (pizzas, pastas). The objective was to provide a solidarity space to those that wanted to participate or that had craft products or wanted to offer services in direct form or through barter. “The construction from below continues”. It was about the installation of nuclear waste coming from Australia that would end up contaminating the aquifers. “Stop fucking around”.