On Sunday the 17th, around a dozen rallies will take place throughout the country called by the Climate Alliance to demand “urgent climate justice” due to the level of catastrophe caused by DANA in our country.
The organizers explain that, at first, it was planned to hold a demonstration to demand attention taking advantage of the celebration of COP29, the Climate Summit in Baku (Azerbaijan), but, due to what happened in Valencia or Malaga, they have decided that the The concentration, which will have the tone of a vigil, will be carried out mainly in solidarity with the people affected by the tragedy, so attendees will be dressed in black and holding candles. The different acts, they explain, will be carried out with the “greatest solemnity and respect” for the victims.
“We seek solidarity, but also for justice to be done. Let it not happen again,” explains Xuan Cadenas, spokesperson for the group. “Thousands of lives, thousands of stories, thousands of families are being lost around the world because politicians are failing to fulfill their commitments. There are people who are being victims of this inaction and this global climate political failure,” he points out, referring to the climate summits.
Precisely since COP29, the Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, stated during his inaugural speech and in reference to the string of climate catastrophes that have occurred this year around the world, that 2024 is being “a master class in destruction.” “Families running for their lives before the next hurricane hits, workers and pilgrims collapsing in unbearable heat, floods devastating communities and demolishing infrastructure, children going to bed hungry while droughts devastate crops.” …All of these catastrophes, and more, are being supercharged by human-caused climate change.”
This is not about environmentalists, but rather about fighting for the rights of everyone.
Xuan Cadenas
— Climate Alliance Spokesperson
“It can be said that DANAS and cold drops have occurred all our lives, but the frequency and intensity is increasing because the water of the Mediterranean has never been so warm. The climate emergency, we have already seen, not only affects those countries that do not have the resources to face it, no: in Spain, which is supposedly a developed and welfare state, we are seeing how people are dying from floods. We refuse to relive the horrors of DANA,” the alliance denounces, and insists that it is not necessary to be purely an environmentalist to attend this vigil: “We encourage any type of person to join. This is not about environmentalists, but rather about fighting for the rights of everyone. The climate crisis affects us all. It is a transversal issue. I hope a lot of people come and the rallies are massive.”
Organizations such as Greenpeace, WWF, Youth for Climate, SEO/BirdLife, Cáritas, Oxfam Intermon, Save The Children, as well as Workers’ Commissions or UGT are expected to attend. The confirmed cities are Malaga (Marqués de Larios Street, at 4:30 p.m.), Madrid (King’s Bridge, at 5:30 p.m.), Barcelona, Saragossa (Plaza de España, at 6:30 p.m.), Arnedo (at Puerta Munillo at 12:00), Segovia (in the Plaza de Azoguejo, at 6:00 p.m.), Gijon (Plaza del Náutico, 12:00), Vigo (Av. Samil, 30, at 5:30 p.m.), Bilbao (Plaza Indautxu, 12:30), Pamplona (Pablo Sarasate Walk, in front of the Parliament of Navarra, at 6:00 p.m.), and Palm (Park of the Stations, at 6:00 p.m.).
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