Today at 11am hundreds of people were gathered outside of the Hotel BAUEN at the first protest in response to the recently received eviction order. While the cooperative workers began the demonstration, delegations began to arrive from other groups throughout the city that have pledged some amount of solidarity with the threatened worker cooperative.By noon a crowd had gathered and taken over Avenida Callao in front of the hotel. They were playing drums, had a marching band, and were chanting. "Bauen es de los trabajadores, y los que no le gusta, se jode, jode." Or, "Bauen belongs to the workers and those that don't like it can screw themselves."
There were support delegations from a number of political parties, social organizations, and unions. A federation of neighborhood assemblies was well represented along with a number of unemployed and piquetero organizations. There was even a small contingent of members of the Industrial Workers of the World from the US and Canada.
After the delegations had gathered, we marched up Avenida Callao to the judicial offices that had ordered the eviction. With a line of riot police blocking the entrance and wathcing the crowd we sang and danced, demonstrating that we weren't afraid of the police or the judges they protected.
During the march, I had the empowering realization that this great rally was only a building block to further resistance in the coming month.
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Could you give a brief explaination of your last paragraph?
"During the march, I had the empowering realization that this great rally was only a building block to further resistance in the coming month."
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is there any way you can contact me? im with IWW and planned on staying at the bauen from the 31rst to the 6th. i would like to meet up to see what i could plug into or how i could lend a hand.
email: billz1936@hotmail.com
So where I mention that this rally is a building block for the coming month, Im talking some about the schedule of events in the post before.
While this rally had a significance of its own -- it actually won a month extension of the order -- the strategic purpose was as a momentum builder toward the rally happening on the 22nd. The 22nd was originally the last day of the order of eviction, making the rally that day a direct challenge to the eviction order.
Im not sure how things will change based on the extension, but it seems to me that it just allows time for more smaller events to build the movement in support of the Bauen cooperative.
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