STATEMENT OF SAN LORENZO
It's the nature of Globalization, transnational corporations that take ownership of the commons mislabeled natural resources. The consequences of these policies are: the devastation of ecosystems at the global level, the depopulation of vast territories, the extinction of rural life and the submission of the countries and their corporations to the needs of the new global markets. In our country, like many others, these policies have impacted with impunity, ignoring the Constitution and its laws, affecting life so brutal populations and eradicating poverty urban peripheries, always with the support and participation of officials, technicians and scientists, earned from his academic training for large-scale ideas, of unlimited progress and worship to technologies.
We met in the city of San Lorenzo, movements and organizations that fight against the spraying, those who fight against mega mining, urban industrial pollution, by new policies on treatment of waste, the preservation of glaciers, the proponents of sustainable production models, those who question the postulated growth projects and to respect the regional economies, struggling to stay on earth and those who are struggling to return to land. Men and women of the urban and rural, environmentalists and farmers, peasants and indigenous peoples, environmental and new poor exiles, generated by a system of theft and looting, by a systematic pattern of rural unemployment, pollution and urbanization forced .
San Lorenzo is not an ordinary city, is the focal point of coincidence of soy routes, mining and trafficking is the vortex of a funnel which called agro-export model and new mining, where bleeds every day Homeland of Argentines. And if we dare from the town of San Lorenzo to emphasize the memories of a common country, reports neglected and despised in the imagination of public policy and civic education, is that precisely in this land of San Lorenzo, was the first battle of the patriots against the English Empire in South America. We feel the ghostly presence of those heroes of yesterday, here today in this struggle we lead.
land in San Lorenzo , began the story of the emancipation of South America. These efforts have not ended, its aims and purposes are not only outstanding, but, are still far from fulfilled, and waiting for new generations resume lovable those flags. In the same area where San Martin made his first cavalry charge has been filed today corporations granaries, huge silos within the urban area, private ports, the vast esplanade park and await thousands of trucks, loading terminals where the minerals come from distant Alumbrera, the new biofuel plants and countless soybean processing mills and oil for export. San Lorenzo is the epicenter of a colonial model not yet have a Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz, who harshly exposed to the political consciousness of the Argentines.
For the first time in the heart of the country's extractive The presence of many comrades in the most remote regions, shows us in the streets the way that we continue to affirm our rejection of this model of pollution and death. We here in San Lorenzo, and from here take our people's will to resist the colonial model and stay in the struggle for sovereignty.
THE MEETING IN SAN LORENZO OF PEOPLE WHO STRUGGLE AGAINST LOOTING AND LOCAL POLLUTION POLLUTION DENOUNCE
Those who have come to San Lorenzo, Santa Fe, from all corners of the Argentina for this meeting of people sprayed and the Union of Citizens Assemblies, we seen, the many environmental problems suffered by residents of this town and are the result of political and business agreements that make up a constant impunity. San Lorenzo is a city occupied by giant silos, and stockpiles of pesticides and fertilizers, imposing Biofuel plants, oil with solvent extraction involving huge benzene tanks, attached to houses and as if all this were not enough urban hell, permanent caravan of trucks through the streets of the slum, heading for the private port where they unload, as well as trains from distant Alumbrera bring the port metalliferous rocks and mud from the entrails of Catamarca.
Pollution in San Lorenzo unbearable, the smell of solvents and pesticides permeates everything, the air is vitiated by poisoned dust is the result of processes drying in huge silos as high as skyscrapers, the rarefied atmosphere toxic for truckers to protect their cargo of weevils and abandon on the streets of the neighborhoods before entering the plant are everywhere. From the high cliffs we see dozens of ships awaiting loading transgenic beans and flour to bring the distant ports in Europe and China. While they wait for draining their cellars. They bring them full of water from rivers and seas in distant ports where ballast load. These procedures should do so before entering the Rio de la Plata , but the rule does not exist to defend one's wealth of biodiversity, drain with impunity while they wait. In these waters emptied to make room in the warehouses, are bacteria, larvae, fungi, eggs and all kinds of tiny beings beyond our biological diversity. The existence of exotic flora and fauna is already a serious problem in the area: mussels, snakes, mosquitoes have never seen it everyday, probably in the balance of the river microscopic imbalances have yet to be much stronger still. Gullies on the other hand, the collapse irreparably undermined by countless passing ships and the new drafts of the river required a constant traffic.
Perhaps one of the most emblematic of contamination while intrusion of corporations into the urban fabric is ACA Asociación de Cooperativas Argentinas, which occupies the historic site with their silos and wharf in the same place where it were the first combat homeland. This company has purchased land ten kilometers from the urban area, but delayed his reinstatement, protected by municipal and provincial power. On 26 April of 2002 noon ACA plant exploded causing panic in the surrounding area and damage to buildings and people in a wide radius. Several are dead on the ground witness to the violence and the risks that still remain outstanding.
We, members of the Campaign Stop Spraying and the Union of Citizens Assemblies, all militants against pollution and against looting, we return to our places scattered throughout Argentina, extremely concerned about the situation we experienced in San Lorenzo, a situation of severe pollution of impunity and violence on people is unacceptable that we accept. We demand that they give responses to complaints from neighbors of San Lorenzo and pledge to replicate across the country these allegations.
Campaign Stop Spraying and UAC, Union of Citizens Assemblies in San Lorenzo, Province of Santa Fe, the meeting September 13, 2009. Adhere to this document by acclamation to support neighboring San Lorenzo , all these groups.
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