Mi novia es la basura y yo soy el cartonero

The title translates into something like "My girlfriend is the trash and I am the trash collector." Very romantic, I saw it scribbled on a trash can today.
I met with Fredi earlier this afternoon for a coffee. He is a member of one of the social movements here in la Matanza and a contact of mine for many years now. It was interesting to have another update on how his movement is doing and their dealings with the government and their position regarding all of the current uproar in the agrarian sector. Mostly it seems they have turned away from the government and consequently several of their projects have lost funding. The sewing association no longer functions and really their only major work is the clinic and a small kindergarden. What also drew my attention was that he told me that really they had no intention of changing Kristina for another president, that what they wanted was more financial support and for her to follow through, but that they had no interest in seeing her go. Their's is a struggle for the every day necessities and there seems to be no interest and no real desire to create a political project or any ideological backbone to their movement.
Fredi also told me that all the factions of his organization that didn't have any kind of productive aspect to them (clinic, kindergarden, soup kitchen, etc) were disbanding or disolving for lack of support and members. The only ones left were those that had some sort of productive aspect to them.
It was nice to see him and I think he was genuinly happy to see me again too. I might run into him tomorrow at the annual gathering for the anniversary of the death of maxi and dario at the puente puerrydon.
I found this great link made by some computer savvy piquetero (and blogger):
http://www.buscarjusticia.linefeed.org/