Thousands of people have gathered here to Barcelona per demand a 50% discount from convertiblesin the most massive mobilization that has taken place in the Catalan capital in defense of the dret a l’habitatge. The protest, called by the Llogateres Union and the entire movement for housing with the support of 4,000 organisations, It has brought together 170,000 people -according to the organizers-says that the Urban Guard has reduced it to 22,000.
With the motto “It’s over: down with the converts!”, the promoters have announced that la marxa is a “point of inflection” of a revolt to guarantee access to habitat which will continue with a group of travelers who plan to start organizing from this date onwards.
The mobilization has started from the Plaça Universitat and has culminated in the Plaça dels Països Catalans, in Sants, after reaching emblematic spaces of the luita per l’habitatge, such as Casa Orsola. Furthermore, this dissappointment has also included demonstrations to demand discounts from tourists in Girona, Lleida and Tarragona, who have gathered hundreds of attendees in each case.
Carme Arcarazo, portaveu of the Llogateres Union: “If we are unim, we have more power than them”
“From now on, we will begin to walk block by block, block by block and city by city, but a reality will follow” the lazy talker, exclaimed the head of the Llogateres Union, Carme Arcarazo, just after the start of the Marxa summoned to the Catalan capital. The promoters of the demonstration have charged against the political leaders for having raised “cosmètique measures” and against the surrenders “for being increasingly richer.” “If we are united, we have more power than them,” Arcarazo reblated.
“A new political cycle begins”has affected the leadership of the Llogateres Union. Arcarazo has lamented that there are “millions of people supporting an unjust and parasitic system” and has decided to donate more money after the protest. They just defended the necessitat of a vagabond, Arcarazo has attacked the rendites, whom they have accused of “stealing the meitat del sou” from the llogaters and to force them to directly or indirectly mark each cop that ends a contract: “It has ended that each cop is richer and not poorer.”
It has also been especially punishable against those responsible for politics, to whom it has demanded “verity policies” to limit the growth of income and guarantee access to housing, “but it is not possible to live with a constant anxiety per se.” “renew the contract every five years.”
“We cannot depend on politics again”
The Socialist Housing Union of Catalonia, for its part, has claimed the leadership of the entities to secure a discount for the drivers. The portaveu, Marina Paréshas demanded not to equate the current revolt of the llogaters to the social and political issues that are going to unleash 2011: “Això cannot be another 15-M because we cannot become dependent on the professional political leaders who have carried this situation”.
Marina Parés: “They are the unions that allow us to advance towards a universal model and finish the real estate business”
Parés has assured that the housing unions are the “only ones” that will be able to execute the changes demanded by the contractors, with a 50% reduction in rents and the recovery of housing that is not residential. “They are the unions that allow us to advance towards a universal model and end the real estate business,” he said.
Al seu torn, the organizers of the II Congress of Habitatge of Catalonia They have specified that the statement of this quest dissabte “només apel·la la classe llogatera.” The seva portaveu, Marta Espriuhas highlighted that the Marx also vindicates the group of entities that since 2008 have been mobilizing against foreclosures, along with the collectives that fight against the limitations of the foreign law “that affect people who suffer from institutional racism, “Those who do not have the right to live as dignified people.”
Four great demands
Broadly speaking, the protest has volgut to pose with the table four “clear and urgent” demands to facilitate access to housing, which the head of the Llogateres Union, Enric Aragonès, will explain in an interview with both Public. You can get a 50% discount for the drivers, which the contracts become indefinite, recover residential, tourist and seasonal habitatsYo prohibit speculative purchasesThat is to say, those who do not follow per a viure-hi.
Those attending the demonstration have arrived from various parts of Catalonia, with approximately thirty columns gathered from various parts of the territory and some 15 more formed in the neighborhoods of Barcelona. Promoted by the entire movement for habitat, The mobilization had the support of more than 4,000 organizations.
Among them there were els labor unions such as the CGT, CCOO, UGT and the members of the Taula Sindicalindependent entities with the ANC and Òmnium Cultural, feminists with Ca la Dona, ecologists with the Catalan Assembly for the Ecosocial Transition, Ecologists in Acció or Greenpeace, and col·lectius with Las Kellys or the Manters Union. The Confederació d’Associacions Veïnals de Catalunya (Confavc), the Taula del Tercer Sector or the Fòrum Català d’Atenció Primària, among many other organisations, have also joined.
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