Thousands of people gathered in front of the entrance to the art and human rights space, following the announcement of its restructuring.
Thousands of people participated this Saturday in a festival at the exESMA to repudiate the hundreds of dismissals in the Human Rights Secretariat and the announcement of the “closure and restructuring” of the Haroldo Conti Cultural Memory Center, located at the site.
“Without workers there is no memory” was the main slogan of the festival “A memory that burns” organized by workers from the Conti cultural center and the Association of State Workers (ATE). In December, 2,400 contracts were terminated in the Ministry of Justice under the modality known as ACARA, 400 were Human Rights contracts. Entire areas and sites of Memory were decimated by workers. Some remained at zero.
Added to this picture was the announcement by the Secretary of Human Rights, Alberto Baños, of the closure and restructuring of the Haroldo Conti Cultural Memory Center. In response, workers and ATE organized this festival where different human rights leaders such as the Nobel Peace Prize winner participated. Adolfo Pérez Esquivel and renowned musicians such as Liliana Herrero and Juan Falúamong others.
ANDThe stage was set up in front of the entrance to the Conti cultural centernow temporarily closed by decision of Secretary Baños. Among the attendees, there were flags of workers’ unions from Aerolíneas Argentinas, the Bonaparte Hospital and Sipreba. Also from human rights organizations such as Mothers and Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo.
The Government responded to Estela de Carlotto and denied that it was going to close the exESMA
In dialogue with Scopethe Secretary of Human Rights, Alberto Baños, denied this saturday that the Government is going to close the exESMA Memory Spaceas the president of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo had denounced, Carlotto’s Stele. He also dismissed ATE’s accusations of dismantling public policies in the area.
About the closure of El Conti, Baños assured that, in reality, It is a “cessation” to carry out a restructuring. “You couldn’t do all that with people at the door. The union entering the buildings, etc.,” he considered.
Source: Ambito
