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Protesters in Las Palmas vow to stay until Sunday
Protesters camped in the Plaza de la Feria in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria have decided to remain outside the Government Delegation until this Sunday, 4 October. Just hours after votes from the PP, Vox and Junts brought down the housing decrees put to an urgent vote in Congress this Friday, spirits in the Feria are far from defeatist. “We see this camp as one more step in the process of struggle and as that moment where we come together to prepare ourselves to fight,” a spokesperson for Derecho al Techo told Canarias Ahora.
Eyes on Saturday’s march and a general housing strike
Attention is now focused on this Saturday’s demonstration, which will set off from the Plaza de la Feria to the headquarters of the Canary Islands Government, and on the assembly on 8 October, where the various collectives will exchange new proposals on the path towards calling a general housing strike. “We have no interest in falling into monotony or losing the direction of the struggle. Now it is time to work with the unions on the next steps,” they explained.
For the collective, social pressure and mobilisation in the streets has succeeded in placing the housing emergency at the centre of the political debate. “And we want to celebrate the fact that Coalición Canaria has been forced to come out in favour of the decree that included protection against certain evictions. For us this demonstrates something very simple: that when people organise and take to the streets, people’s problems stop being hidden.”
The fight continues, say campaigners
The collective stresses that the struggle does not end here and insists it will continue organising and fighting for the right to decent housing. “If the voices of the collectives have not been heard in Congress, they will be heard in the streets.”
The Government had negotiated the text with Junts and incorporated a good part of its demands in order to secure its approval. However, the Catalan independence party maintained the decision it had taken late on Thursday and voted against both decrees. That being so, the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, has given himself the weekend to decide whether to call a general election in November, according to government sources quoted by elDiario.es.
Eviction freeze failure leaves families in limbo
Of the measures that fell this Friday, the failure to freeze evictions until 2030 is the one that most disappoints the collectives. The threat of eviction is keeping many of the families they work with on tenterhooks, families who had seen in the decrees a possible route to relief. “Families are not going to have any vision of the future, because the only thing they can think about is that next month a landlord is going to throw them out of their home and there is nobody who is going to stop them,” Derecho al Techo concludes.
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