The workers of the Haroldo Conti Cultural Centerlocated on the property of the former Navy Mechanics School (ESMA), They called for an artistic festival in defense of the institutionwhose closure was announced by the Government.
This Tuesday, on the eve of the New Year celebrations, The Secretariat of Human Rights announced an “internal restructuring” of the space for memory and for the promotion and defense of individual freedoms that has been operating since 2004 in the ExEsma.
“The Secretary of Human Rights informs all staff of the Haroldo Conti Cultural Center that it will be closed as of January 2, 2025,” They reported via WhatsApp from the portfolio commanded by Alberto Baños.
Festival against the closure of the Haroldo Conti Cultural Center
Now, the space workers, together with representatives and human rights defense groups, called for an artistic festival titled “A memory that burns”which will take place this Saturday, January 4 at 6 p.m., at Libertador 8151.
“They sent us to live the January fire at home and we are going to listen to them. That is why, this *Saturday, January 4* we find ourselves at the door of Conti with the candles lit,” They indicated from the Capital Federal branch of the State Workers Association (ATE).
At the same time, the invitation says: “We call on our beautiful, dignified, belligerent community – the one that made this great stage the strength, transformation and freedom of truth – to join us.”
“Bring your words, your chords, your masks, your poems, your intensity, your discomfort, your joy. Bring your heart set on fire, stuck in a knife, with its roots exposed to the elements,” the call states.
And he concludes: “May the memory burn, may the story continue, may the Conti continue standing.”
Closure and layoffs
This Thursday, after the January 1st holiday, sA massive assembly was held at the Haroldo Conti Cultural Center, in which not only workers participated, but also union members, journalists, human rights activists and other social and political figures.
There the group demonstrated its total rejection of the layoffs, while at the same time repudiating the dismantling of historically achieved memory policies.
Last Friday, a hug had been held for the exESMA against the 600 layoffs and the dismantling of policies of memory, truth and justice and human rights.
As reported ATE“there are more than 600 families that will be affected by massive layoffs in January.” They hold the Minister of Justice responsible, Mariano Cuneo Libaronaand to the Secretary of Human Rights, Alberto Bañosto “disarm, dismantle and empty” the area.
The layoffs are linked to the official announcement of the termination of labor contracts paid by the Association of Automotive Dealers of the Argentine Republic. (ACARA). With this decision, 2,400 workers from the Ministry of Justice, including those from the Human Rights Secretariat, received news of the end of this type of employment without any specific answer as to whether they will be rehired under another modality.
Source: Ambito
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