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This Saturday we go with the time and place in the Eighth Assembly of Insular Yes you can, in the organization than military. The time it looked glorious sunshine and the place we celebrate the meeting at the headquarters of the Neighborhood Association "The Union" Genet. The union, so loved and sought word on the left, was the prominent note of the entire assembly, especially when we were wonderfully hosted in one of the sites of struggle more active and militant neighborhood in recent years in Tenerife.
It is easy at this stage of XXI century in the Canary Islands together more than 140 people to talk politics and build alternatives. More so when there is through the search for a "cushy positions" or a substantial reward, such as those promoted by political parties that have dominated the institutional life of our islands in recent years. I look forward, if all those people who completely copamos plenary room we saw more new faces as well, many more young faces and veteran ready to listen and lend a hand to fill the space left Canary rightful canary in the political landscape. A left canaria that after all is the sum of scores of people from different political traditions and attitudes. A left that is capable of coming together under one name and act really coordinated with the force and voice of the assemblies to achieve real objectives, more and more real. That not "all" today represents the only possible and viable unit in place. At one point
assembly partner Antonio Gonzalez, a our shores in Buenavista, said that "almost without realizing we were assuming and preparing for our arrival in the institutions" by resolutions adopted and the level of specificity. That is surely a good sign when you do not get lost in endless debates and direct all your efforts to try to clean the bottom-up institutions, knowing where they hide the real adversaries and their obscure interests.
I especially like being in an organization that democratically elected as a fellow Garí Sunday to lead our bid to Parliament. A person of integrity, with a long history of political activism but also with a brilliant professional curriculum, which has enabled it to bring out several excellent publications reflections on the political or aspects of our recent history, almost unknown to the majority. A university professor who is able to react and express their opposition to a hate-filled editorials, breaking the unwritten rule that says a politician never charge against a media outlet. A newspaper that happens to be the most read of Tenerife-against which a trial has even earned its editor, which together with others are determined to put its target editorial about our young organization. Domi I have made it clear that that is the right thing consistently, decent. I think that attitude admirable life and politics. It's the same way of putting political action demonstrating compas de Buenavista when they go to El Palmar and explain-a-unconvinced neighbors alternatives to a road you have been sold as a panacea or Antonio Cabrera, Councillor for Culture of Granadilla, acknowledges that his thinking is not participating in the procession of his people, despite being a frequently used method to gather a handful of votes.
A Sunday I read in his books on nationalism canary before you know, a few years ago. Should-I-like Alternative Popular Canaria, where we understood almost from the beginning that the only way forward was to build bridges. Is a person who always has transmitted a speech in favor of unity of action on the left as a key step in our progress as a people. So, like him, many are sharing this project called Yes we can.
That idea was hatched nearly five years ago, unlike other prior or simultaneous attempts unit has managed to maintain an enviable ability to work, far from diminishing it is increasingly strong and heartfelt. Meetings like today show us the value of collective decision making, make us feel good as militants but also transmit an external message clear, we are here, like it or not and nothing is going to be beaten. And thanks to the daily effort and selfless, like other local organizations and islands, we have gained something that costs a lot: credibility and the ability to transmit more and better our work to the public.
today was another episode of "guerrilla warfare" as expressed by our colleague Pedro Fernández Arcila in the closing speech of the meeting. One more step in our collective effort to bring door to door, house to house, street to street and neighborhood at a political project of a left Canary plural but cohesive, walking in one direction, full of alternatives ranging from as near to far, under one sovereign assembly takes decisions, made without tinkering the last minute. We are the sum of our past, present work and a shared future, irrefutable proof that together Yes you can.