Activist Pensioners, a Contradiction in Terms? Argentina’s Jubilados

I found just the place for me...even though one doesn’t accomplish great things. But we know what we want. We chose this...We aren’t going to give in to power, staying home. It’s good for us to be out in the street, doing something, awakening the recognition of folks. It’s tied to the solidarity of others with you... It comes from my father and sharing a plate of food, and the neighbours...You are shouting for all that you’ve lived, all that. It’s not disconnected from that. Others say that we don’t accomplish anything.... It’s about feeling good doing something. I’m proud to be President of a senior center where today, when it was 3 degrees below zero [Celsius], there were seven compañeros collecting signatures... And it’s more than the cold numbers; that’s 450 people [who signed] expressing solidarity. It’s a commitment to solidarity, despite this trashy society we live in. Solidarity is the only thing that is going to save us... This morning we were cold, we were standing there... but it’s Activist Pensioners, a Contradiction in Terms? Argentina’s Jubilados