The camping out for the right to housing in Valencia criticizes the “inaction” of institutions, such as the City hallthe Generalitat and the Ministry. Demands that its representatives meet with the people camping and the platform Valencia is not for salemade up of groups, associations and organizations that “have been working together for years in neighborhoods and towns.”
In a statement, they recall that last Saturday, October 19, a large demonstration took place for the right to housingthe defense of territory and in against tourism. A mobilization that they describe as “historic” and that, at the end of the tour, continued with the camping in the Town Hall square of the capital of the Turia.
In this sense, they emphasize that “the main objective of the camping is to give continuity to the demands of the demonstration”. They also warn that “the solutions proposed by the central government and the Valencian public institutions in terms of housing, tourism and territory are not useful nor do they truly solve the problems.”
Furthermore, they add that “continuing to build without rehabilitating or giving a decent access to housingmake the city a tourist showcase and destroy the territory with urban macroprojects and speculative, they are not solutions.
For the campers, in the current context “of environmental and social crisis are firm actions necessarys to reverse the speculative processes that affect the lives of all the people who live in the Valencian Country, especially those vulnerable due to the capitalist system“. That is why they maintain that “the occupation of the square is a blow to the table. “We cannot allow them to buy our life, culture, daily life and memory.”
Along the same lines, they emphasize the need to “urgently recover the social function of housing and stop understanding it as a commodity.” Therefore, they point out: “If we do not have a home, we will not be able to build other lives, nor guarantee a worthy future for us and the next generations.
Citizens are fed up
Likewise, they point out that the “camping is growing every day” because “citizens are fed up” and both València and the entire Community “he has spoken, and he has said enough”.
“Day by day we work, with the mutual support and the solidarity of the neighborhood, to build a political strategy that articulates the energies collected from the demonstration and that guarantees the continuity of the struggle beyond the occupation of the square,” assures the group, which has called for this Friday a press conference in order to specify their demands and the next steps they will follow.
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