They will make a public intervention at the Faculty of Economics

On Monday, April 22, at one o’clock in the afternoon, a public intervention will take place at the door of the Faculty of Economics of the National University of La Plata (UNLP), located at 6th and 47th streets.

“Without universities there is no future” is the slogan of the activity in which all student groups, non-teaching staff and teaching staff will participate. Furthermore, they invite the entire community to participate.

As explained, the day was initially promoted by student groups of the college together with the Association of Non-Teaching Workers of La Plata (ATOLP), and the activity was subsequently agreed with the authorities.

In this sense, the demand, like the central demand of the march planned for tomorrow in the city of Buenos Aires, is to modernize the budget and defend public universities.

For this reason and regarding the activity, the organizers emphasized that “Economicas falls within the framework of the education crisis affecting national universities across the country.”

In this sense, they explain: “The locations are determined in a context in which the national government positions public universities as the center of the struggle. Only in the first months of the government was its work jeopardized by the freezing of budget items, meaning that the 2024 budget is exactly the same as the 2023 budget.”

“However, annual inflation is already over 276%. In addition, there are systematic policy attacks on science and technology and brutal cuts to the entire scientific sector. “Teachers and non-teachers have already lost more than 30% of their purchasing power to date,” they concluded. this year”.