Demonstration in Tenerife to “defend the Canary Islands” from “political servility”

under the motto “The Canary Islands are not for sale, the Canary Islands defend themselves”the attendees have made a tour starting in the Weyler square and later ending in front of the doors of the council.

Its objective, “to make the entire population aware that we are experiencing a limit moment on the islands with regard to care of our natural spacesSayo de León, a member of the organization of the march, told Efe.

The call has also sought “to achieve the unity of the entire Archipelago so that the institutions listen to us and take us into account in the decisions they make regarding our territory.” “Canarian politicians do not offer an alternative model and act as servants of large multinationals. That is why we have to defend ourselves,” the spokeswoman concluded.

According to the manifesto read at the conclusion of the demonstration, “concerned citizens” request “the sustainable management of common goodsthe preservation and regeneration of the natural environment and the recovery of sacred spaces”.

Ecotax

Beyond that, they defend the “need” to implement “a ecotax and tourist moratorium, a change in the industrial model and a update of island plans“, both in terms of territorial organization and energy and food management.

The demands conclude with the investment in education on Guanche history, to whom “we owe the natural and cultural heritage that we have today and that we want to protect above all else”.

In this sense, the demonstrators have advanced that from this call all “aggression to nature” that it occurs at any point in the archipelago is going to be taken as an attack on the entire territory, and they warn: “if they touch one island, they touch us all”.

This demonstration has taken place simultaneously with another held in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, called by the Save Chira-Soria platform.