Santa Fe Open Letter Presentation Document-final 2008
Paper presented on Thursday December 18 at 19 pm in the headquarters UNR government:
OPEN LETTER-Santa Fe-
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Other voices
popular symbols
Attack Is an act of violence? Do more or less violence than refusing to supply, preventing the free transit for months for domestic routes, disallowing democratically elected government? Any similarity to the grievances of strong sexist and racist content, in the midst of wild lock-out "of destabilizing agricultural and agro-media onslaught were hurled at the president and the sectors that provide support? About
few days ago the bust painted black to prevent not support democracy and the present with an act that is rooted in the darkest pages of our history, members of an oligarchic and despotic tradition not easily resign their privileges. The same which maintains that "the church", "the army" and "field" are the institutions that shaped the country. (The agricultural exporter and importer of manufactures, should be added, whose armed wing broke 'religious' in the national scene, until a quarter of a century, since the way 'democracy' is not guaranteed the safeguarding of their interests).
This hard core is the underlying and emerges at every attempt to move towards a fairer society, elitist hatred oozing forward to a past of horror. Old and new right-wing conservative powers reactive to policy changes with a strong vocation destituyente.
Seven years have passed since the days of 19 and 20 December 2001, which deeply touched the foundations of logic dominant neoliberal, a pair who questioned a system of representations that had been discredited, is empty of political content supporters who had given way in the past. A long silence country won the streets: the repression unleashed then claimed 31 deaths, which are still demanding clarification and justice.
Since 2003 government policy included a debate that involves history, and enabled the questioning of the discursive frame that held the impunity of the repressors of the dictatorship and the devastating effectiveness of neoliberal policies. Indispensable correlate with transforming political direction and wrongs has been traveling. The virulence of the conflict with corporations and agricultural sectors alignments that occurred around this dispute, which strongly marked the first year of government of Cristina Fernández, showed, among other things, the shortcomings of the devices placed at stake by the government to fully deploy this debate with the multiplicity of the social partners and especially with the popular masses, which are its most genuine base of support, and are indicators of how much still needs to be done in this field. But also show his face hardened when governments can not be submitted or surrender. Promote and star
this return to political thinking includes questioning our institutions, to reformulate the role of the state as sovereign intervention tool in the struggle for social interests, compared with highly concentrated economic power, perched on the apparatus of mass-media statement, eliminating the current law still broadcasting the dictatorship, which allows them to take over the media and biased stories daily build on the "reality" of the country in search of unthinking and automatic alignment of the readers-viewers.
have to re-discuss dimensions such as justice, equality, democracy building, distribution of wealth, disputes about the symbolic. Which is essential to mobilize all our cultural and social resources, linking the worlds intellectual, scientific and artistic gestation of national policies.
intellectuals, artists, educators, journalists, researchers, men and women of culture that come together in each of the spaces open letter first emerged in Buenos Aires and then in different parts of our country, we are aware of the importance that these spaces become plural meet us and allow us to meet, discuss, think lucidly about complex political events that crossed the Argentine and Latin American brothers. By acting collectively, we exercise our critical support to the ongoing political process, whose main lines we claim, without losing autonomy or hide or flatten our own differences, trying to contribute ideas and initiatives to democratic government, and firmly stating the issues that we consider erroneous. Open Letter Santa Fe has been working since July in that direction, convinced of the need to entrench against interests that seek to erode the legitimacy of government, wrecking the direction taken and forcing a rightward program.
culminates years of intense, difficult, contradictory, amid the financial crisis in the largest economy planet, whose effects - despite the reservations that from the national government are taking, have begun to feel at home and threaten to affect growth, employment levels and incomes popular. A stock of events shows an Argentina that has taken some important steps and still in debt to some strategic issues postponed. The experience of climate
coup, the treacherous legitimacy of the constitutional powers and deployed aggressive revenge on screens and on the roads by the Rural Society and its partners, paradoxically triggered memories of unforgettable episodes, and awakened many dormant consciousness, resulting in settlement a positive greening of participatory political stream, which was joined by significant number of young people just looking out into the public-policy, the recovery is the inherent reflective depth exchange of ideas and ideals that underlie the different models of the country in conflict.
A merit of the government, no less, has been the maintenance of democratic political convictions during the conflict with employers countryside and its ability to regain the initiative after a hundred days of blockade and shortage, and despite having suffered a heavy defeat in parliament. Although a deep rift cuts through the plan chosen at the polls a year ago, since the Vice President Cobos, mocking the most basic institutional ethical codes, holds the opposition from the very heart of government.
While the National Congress regained its rightful place as an ideal framework to discuss major national issues, the judiciary, a Supreme Court flawless, but still carrying unacceptable hindrances that often impede the realization of the right and reduce institutional quality. Question to redouble its importance in times when they are coming to the instance of trial many causes delayed seeking the prosecution of those guilty of crimes against humanity committed during the genocidal dictatorship. Accompany both nationally and in our province, "where hopefully will have the Senate vote, the legislative initiative already approved Deputies, which prevented from exercising the civil service who have taken part in the dictatorship. Both
human rights policy as foreign policy sovereignty, unity with the Latin American peoples are essential pillars that we strongly support.
Many measures taken in recent months the national government and were endorsed by Congress. The expropriation of Aerolíneas Argentinas and the political decision to terminate the Pension Funds and return to a single solidary pension system, dependent on the state, articulated in the recently passed Mobility pension law are two of the most important on the road to retrace the neoliberal devastation.
We are not happy, however, the presidential veto "technical" issues of law of glaciers, passed unanimously in both houses, we suspect shows the influence of sectoral interests related to mining concessions and exploitation of our natural resources .
Also, we again noted that remain untouched extraordinary income and pending tax reform claiming redistributive policies.
As we said in our paper of the National Meeting of the CA spaces in Rosario, we will continue our ability to think nuestrapotencia critical and creative to keep the political process launched in el2003, so beleaguered these days by másreaccionarios sectors, is interrupted, neutralized or rendered worthless. And in that sense, we must regain the políticacomo case of all, the only way to reinvigorate the institutions, to renew the collective life, and aim for greater social justice, an essential condition of democracy. Seciernen to the wiles that is essential to mobilize cultural resources and provide a solid socialescapaces scaffolding to measures which the government seeks to lift our nation from the swamp in which neoliberal was sunk.
Given in Rosario, in the South Hall Government Headquarters at UNR on Dec. 18, 2008.
