{"id":71114,"date":"2018-03-30T18:08:10","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T18:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/?p=9699"},"modified":"2018-03-30T18:08:10","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T18:08:10","slug":"letter-from-sebastian-romero-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/letter-from-sebastian-romero-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter from Sebasti\u00e1n Romero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><em>My name is Sebasti\u00e1n Romero, and I am a victim of political persecution by Macri\u2019s government.<\/em><!--more--><br \/>\nI am a worker as many others, but for over three months I have not seen my family, my coworkers at the factory or my neighbors. I am persecuted as if I was a terrorist because I was part of the thousands that, on December 18, resisted on the streets against the theft that was taking place in the Congress against our elder. And they did vote the Social Security reform after all, but we stopped the Labor reform, and they will not let this go.<br \/>\nA few days ago, judges Gustavo Hornos and Ana Mar\u00eda Figueroa, from Division I of the Court of Cassation, once again refused my appeal for prison exemption, just like Judge Torres and the Division II of the Criminal and Correction Chamber did before.<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a> The government wants me in prison to scare all those who are struggling. So I ask all of you to share and diffuse this letter as much as possible.<br \/>\nAs part of the persecution, I was fired from General Motors, where I was also a delegate. My co-workers continue the struggle in the present, to take down all traitor delegates that endorse layoffs. All the strength, comrades! We can win this!<br \/>\nTo scare me and make me surrender, they are threatening and attacking my family, my friends and my party, the PSTU. They even set on fire the car of one of my lawyers, Mart\u00edn Alderete. But this the justice does not talk about.<br \/>\nWhat authority can this government have, when the President himself is prosecuted for robbing money from the State? A government that killed Rafael Nahuel, Facundo, and so many poor young people, in the back. A government that hides that Gendarmerie killed Santiago Maldonado, that keeps in jail the detainees of D14 with no trial as well as Milagro Salas for occupying a square, and that extradites Jones Huala as a terrorist?<br \/>\nHow is it possible that they order international arrest for \u201cthe mortar madman\u201d (as the media calls me) as if I was an ISIS terrorist, while they free military genocides of the dictatorship? This persecution against me, and against Arakaki and Dimas Ponce, has to end now.<br \/>\nThey want me in jail because they are scared of the growing number that confronts Macri\u2019s adjustment. But, despite not being able to see my people, despite the threats and bullying, I will not give up, because workers don\u2019t do that. I feel like just one more of the hundreds of miners from Rio Turbio that resist the layoffs, occupy the mines and confront Gendarmerie with whatever they have handy. They are an example of what needs to be done!<br \/>\nThe <em>puebladas<\/em> in Azul and the mills in the North are fighting for bread for their families! We cannot accept any more \u201cstick\u201d against our people and hunger for our children when we leave of lives at work every day. This cannot go on!<br \/>\nFor all this, I want to give a message to all workers that get to read this letter: do not leave the streets! Let\u2019s not allow any more layoffs! Let\u2019s not let them ruin our lives with an adjustment that our families will have to pay! We have to organize and unite to fight this famine-causing government! The leadership that says that wants to confront the government has to call for a General Strike, and if they don\u2019t, we have to organize it from the rank and file!<br \/>\nWe cannot take this anymore. Workers, women, youth, popular sectors, and everyone fighting for our rights have to take Macri down like we did with De La Rua in 2001. Let\u2019s organize assemblies and meetings with our coworkers at every workplace. Let\u2019s organize our outrage. There is no other way &#8211; it is them or us.<br \/>\n<strong>Long live the working class\u2019 struggle! Out with Macri!<\/strong><br \/>\n***<br \/>\nNotes:<br \/>\n<a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> See article <a href=\"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/we-repudiate-the-prison-exemption-refusal-to-sebastian-romero\/\">https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/we-repudiate-the-prison-exemption-refusal-to-sebastian-romero\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0My name is Sebasti\u00e1n Romero, and I am a victim of political persecution by Macri\u2019s government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9702,"menu_order":1071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"litci_post_political_author":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,4034,3504],"tags":[5503,4039,4840,5504,1626,191,4770],"class_list":["post-71114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-argentina","category-international-solidarity","category-working-class","tag-criminalization-of-protest","tag-international-solidarity","tag-mauricio-macri","tag-persecuted-activism","tag-pstu-argentina","tag-sebastian-romero","tag-working-class-struggles"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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