I had no luck this morning to accompany the many hundreds of residents of Santa Cruz de Tenerife in their mobilization against the hasty adoption of the General Plan, for me it was a shame. I acknowledge however that despite the work did not stop zapping between different stations radio to follow minute by minute what was going on outside the Town Hall.
I think a while now we are getting used to people out into the streets to protest, we assume almost normally but our history shows us that unfortunately in many cases our people have fled the political participation society like a cat avoids water. In recent years, working from the base, has been articulating an emerging civic movement that gradually gives more and more people and more capable. Tuesday mobilization is the fruit can be picked up after centuries of colonialism and repression of divergent insular society, a fruit although it may seem gradually grows scarce.
I find it exciting that in a day, with a strong media campaign for the document that was intended to approve, with a strong police presence and even a counter open through neighborhood groups close to power, hundreds of residents be able to leave their homes and neighborhoods to stand in front of City Hall and stand up to a project that they will not benefit them. Sincerely
is much easier and grateful to be one of a herd of sycophants neighborhood with which ATI has been in power for the last thirty years. These men and women rush to defend the pattern is always the more and better paid, they and their families. Today however, despite being professionals, they did the ridicule of a municipality made by the critics. I was struck by the interview on local radio to one of the demonstrators in favor of the PGO saying that she was there because he had talked to a couple of friends and had decided that it was "best for Santa Cruz."
always have, the same speech year after year, decade after decade if you're against them are a "bad Chicharrero" an enemy of Santa Cruz, as they have grown tired of hitting and in pamphlets distributed throughout the city.
However, despite all today the people who wants to be heard, that want to decide your future based on their interests, those of the majority and not a few were tide to the gates of the session.
We were lucky, the queen once again demonstrated lack of technical and municipal leaders has allowed the final decision on the PGO is transferred to the 4th of January. The truth which will be nice to start the year by stopping a large speculative project, which is what lies behind the PGO, but whatever happens that day, being almost opening in 2010 along with many hundreds or thousands of concerned citizens believe it can be a good sign of hope for those who believe as Benedetti "slow but comes the future is coming slowly, but is "... and see where this morning it was thundering at the gates of City Hall.
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