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Monday, December 22, 2008
VILLA CONSTITUCION - SANTA FE
¡Sí, se puede! ¡Sí, se puede! ¡Si una mujer avanza ningún hombre retrocede!”
The chant by the women from Paraná Metal, growing ever stronger, was heard in the Villa Constitución Plaza on December 19. The drums stopped beating so the 5,000 people present could hear: “Yes, it’s possible! Yes, it can be done! If a woman steps forward, no man retreats!”
They are the wives, sisters, mothers of the Paraná Metal workers. They are the women of Villa Constitución, members of the Women’s Commission.
When the Paraná Metal bosses decided to suspend more than 1,300 workers without paying them their wages and stop production, the workers responded. They are at the factory entrances with a tent, taking shifts in the factory to prevent it from being stripped. They are demanding what is theirs.
On December 19, an historic day, they marched from the entrances of Paraná Metal to the Villa Constitución Plaza in a big workers’ and popular contingent, generating support from the entire community of Villa, with businesses closed, with neighbors applauding from balconies. The column grew larger as it proceeded, and workers from Acindar, from Tenaris, from the workshops, hospital workers, teachers, housewives, neighbors joined.
The women of Paraná Metal have gotten organized and already had two meetings of the Women’s Commission in the auditorium of the Villa Constitución UOM [metalworkers' union]. Last Saturday, some 80 women participated. Because, as they said in the meeting, women are the ones who have to keep house, many of them are also workers, and they are ready to fight beside the workers.
This December 24, they are calling on all the workers and all the people of Villa to go with them in the factory entrances to spend Christmas. Donations of food, beef, pork, beverages and sweet bread for everyone, from the city council and several unions, are already promised.
Pan y Rosas is joining this struggle, marching with them, going with them in the tent, on the ticket line. We are also joining the Women’s Commission to offer them our complete support, to contribute so that they will win, and be at their disposal, for whatever they need and decide.
Today the women of Villa Constitución are an example!
34 years ago, other women made heroic history in Villa Constitución, when from the Women’s Commission they organized to support the struggle, through a big strike fund, adding to the community, confronting repression.
Today the daughters of the Villazo are in the street, fighting once more!
Total support to the women from Paraná Metal!
Total support to the workers from Paraná Metal!
Women’s Group Pan y Rosas
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