x Anti-Fascist Coordination d 'Asturies
35 reminds us that since September 2005 have not stopped raining and enforcement cases criminalization of protest: union prison, systematic implementation of laws that say "exceptional" police chase immigrants, fines for participating in neighborhood movements or media harassment for exercising the right to abortion ... All could be black and white owners of the Franco regime, but all this is happening to us here, now in full color.
Text of presentation of the "35 reasons"
First, thank you for your assistance, we know how difficult it is to promote any act that share best practices, feelings and utopias because this world shrinks and living room and wastes the collective experience, the past and the present. I have invited, even though you are falling, just get together against we are falling. To protect the water we use the umbrella, so why not do the same when we showered the sticks? Herein is 35 and this is so, then we will explain.
What is 35?
is a number and, therefore, is abstract but something very concrete. In particular it represents the sum of the prosecution request made to 14 young people who committed the crime of participating in a demonstration. They face 35 years in prison and fines totaling € 120,000 just because the September 10, 2005 showed, along with many others, his rejection of the racist and an event organized xenophobic far-right party by the Democratic National d'Onís Cangas. That day, we all learned to read upside-down world, a world that protects the right of striking manifestation of neo-Nazi groups, arresting and prosecuting those who dream of putting in walls only to the racist ideas, never to individuals.
But 35 does not speak of an isolated case of an action "disproportionate." There is a cry with an expiration date. 35 reminds us that since September 2005 have not stopped raining cases of repression and criminalization of protest: union prison, systematic implementation of laws that say "of exception, "police chase immigrants, fines for participating in neighborhood movements or media harassment for exercising the right to abortion ... All could be black and white owners of the Franco regime, but all this is happening to us here, now in full color.
Who are we behind?
is not easy to give a consistent response because we have many faces, because we hide behind the 35 to show. Separately, we can only participate in the parades of this democracy of cardboard, together we can bring to the guilty and to advance proposals for change of a land as ours, which penalizes non-resignation. Behind the 35 who we think we are all faced with this sentence ... and all the others, who feel hunger and thirst for social justice, those who defend our right to take over, to inaugurate a future that is not repeating this in mind that ranks us, invisible and, ultimately, excludes us.
present, 35 even those who do are no longer with us, because it is the permanent reminder of those who, throughout history, even today, in Asturias and elsewhere, have dreamed and fought for a different world.
What do we want?
But we did not stay here. We are much more ambitious. With 35 we cease to be a number, the official statistics, we want to throw a question, put a mirror in front of a society that does not want to see, who lives self-deception. We wish to be subjected by the inequalities to become subjects of our history, fastened only by our ideas, our feelings and our struggles. We create opportunities for intervention, so that our collective referents beyond ALSA, which opens the doors to emigration, or images of the "blue tide" that played the circuit of capital in the Formula 1 circus.
try to establish political responsibility and sit on the sidelines of society who now accuse us. Without the action of the political class is not understood or the rise of right-wing groups, or extension of his speeches to the whole society (sexism, xenophobia, English ...).
In Asturias, the PSOE has played a fundamental role, without underestimating the responsibility of other formations of the parliamentary spectrum. Rose dropped his fist to slip into a boxing glove hitting one, two and a thousand times against the protesting voices. And is that the figure of the English government delegate in Asturias, Antonio Trevino, synthesizes many of the elements that explain the current situation: patronage, depletion of the political class, real estate speculation ... we do not want
pass up this opportunity to draw the role that media are playing at the time to criminalize the anti-fascist movement, as well as other expressions of protest. We had to read in the newspaper things like "the extreme left is trying to wipe Cangues d'Onís", "attack on a bus from the Guardia Civil", "damage in the urban mobilibario" ... all the sources said they found weapons Iraq nuclear. The owners equate the actions of neo-Nazi groups with the complaint made by associations against racism. But we can say that is not the same.
Finally, we denounce the rise of social fascism. Asturies is presented as a formally democratic society, but is becoming socially fascist cut our freedoms, job insecurity, persecution of immigrants, child removal, urban wild, English chauvinism, expansion of police forces and the presence of Private security companies, linguistic repression, forced migration, violence against women ...
Perhaps we can not nor want to take her power, but we can and we subtract capacity who now hold.
What do you suggest?
also leave us impregnaros of your concerns, know your experiences and give us the opportunity to build with you a new subjectivity to be questioned about tomorrow. No change without sleep, and no dream without hope. Against disillusionment and fatalism that makes levees to the imagination, we have the opportunity to shape the novel, to what until now Asturies not intended ...
May 10, 2008
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