<![CDATA[Ara Balears in English - mobilizations]]> 10 <![CDATA[Pack suitcases, give food]]> From what we have seen in recent weeks, our rulers (both elected and unelected) are afraid of citizen mobilizations. The shameful episode of the arrest – with shackles and jail and all – of the activists from Santa Maria, the warning – the threat? – from the Civil Guard and the National Police announcing that they will prosecute “delictes contra el turisme” (we must understand that they mean fraudulent tourist offers, because otherwise, we don't know who they are talking about), the attempts from the tribune docile to the Government to disqualify, or directly criminalize, the human chain of last day 5 against the lack of protection of the Trenc – Salobrar de Campos Natural Park, the contradiction of the president of CAEB Carmen Planas applauding the arrest of the young women from Santa Maria and asking to “flee from extremism” (extremism is shackling and arresting innocent citizens, ladies and gentlemen)... All this only serves to demonstrate the nervousness of the Government (Balearic), the government delegation (of Spain), the security forces and bodies, and certain tourism entrepreneurs (who command over the rest). Like all fears, that of these rulers and public powers is emotional. This means that it blinds them and prevents them from making a correct analysis of reality. And it also demonstrates a lack of democratic consistency on their part.To all these timid and unfortunate actions and statements must be added those of the first vice-president and government spokesperson, Antoni Costa. According to him, the application of degrowth policies "would have consequences in terms of employment, there would be people who would have to pack their bags." It seems like a joke, but this was said by a vice-president of the Balearic Government. Probably, even now it has not occurred to him to stop and think about what he said, or where he said it.For a long time, many citizens of the Balearic Islands with higher education have had to leave these islands to seek their working lives, because here they simply have nothing to do. Scientists, researchers, doctors, architects, physicists, musicologists... In all the variety of disciplines and knowledge we can think of, the brain drain from the Balearics, the loss of people who give vitality to a society and can make it progress, is a constant and dramatic fact, for which we pay and will pay (and future generations will pay) a very high price. There are also many people who pack their bags because they cannot buy or rent an apartment or a house on islands where housing has been vampirized by speculators – large, medium, and small – with the enthusiastic applause of our rulers and their propagandists, who claim that all this "feeds us".It is the same paternalistic and condescending vision, according to which we Mallorcans, Minorcans, Ibizans, and Formenterans have no other option than to sell these islands in pieces, and in the meantime, sink them into the degradation of mass tourism and let the last one close the door. The demonstrations this July have been a "enough is enough" that our rulers should listen to. They will be completely mistaken if, instead of listening, they try to present citizen protests as extremism, exaggeration, or even as a crime against we don't know what. They will be so mistaken, if they do that, that they will lose power. Taking things for granted, disregarding the voices that protest, is characteristic of mediocre and arrogant politicians. These are the ones, for the good of all, who we should see pack their bags and never again see them in positions of public responsibility.

]]> <![CDATA[The 0-3 Network will resume mobilizations in September if the negotiation of the autonomous agreement is not opened]]>

The 0-3 Network of the Balearic Islands and the UGT, CCOO, and STEI unions will resume mobilizations in September if the employers' associations continue to refuse to negotiate an autonomous agreement for the nursery school sector.

]]> <![CDATA[The ants' cry]]> While the bricklayer's skin and brain roast in the midday sun, under which he is cementing the tree pit from which the town hall has snatched another tree, the rentier has an overpriced coffee on the terrace that occupies the sidewalk (impassable and with shadows from sponsored umbrellas). Suddenly, she grimaces and, without taking her eyes off her phone, hyperbolically laments the footballers who in a couple of hours, under the scorching star, will have to play a match. This individual of the human species lives an existence so parallel, so separate from ours, that she neither sees nor hears the protest procession (at 49 degrees without shade) of the peregarauinian associations. Nor does the expat from the other bar hear or see it, who, with his gaze fixed on his laptop, his ears plugged with headphones, and his neurons in the paid cloud, inhabits yet another universe.

]]> <![CDATA[The healthcare transport of the Balearic Islands calls for mobilizations to claim pending salaries]]>

Healthcare transport workers in the Balearic Islands have announced new mobilizations during this month of April to demand payment of various pending salary increases and the updating of payrolls. The call comes after the USO union denounced accumulated non-payments at the public company Gestión Sanitaria y Asistencial de las Islas Baleares (GSAIB).

]]> <![CDATA[Veterinarians return to the offensive against the drug law after a year of implementation]]>

The veterinarians of the Balearic Islands They continue to demand changes to the new regulations governing prescription medications. Despite the modifications made by the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, almost a year after the regulations came into effect, the Official College of Veterinarians of the Balearic Islands (COVIB) believes they are "not enough" and that "work must continue to fully adapt the law to the realities of clinical practice." Therefore, COVIB will support the demonstration called for this Wednesday in Madrid by the Veterinary Professional Organization (OCV) to highlight the ongoing discontent within the sector. Attendees will demand a real reduction in the bureaucratic burden of the system that controls veterinary antibiotic prescriptions (Presvet), greater flexibility in the use of antimicrobials based on clinical criteria, and a review of the medication transfer mechanism, among other demands.

]]> <![CDATA[Mallorca will mobilize for peace this Friday at various points across the island.]]>

Palma, Sóller, Artà, and Inca are the locations chosen by the organization to hold rallies against violence as part of the International Day of Peace. The event, organized by Mallorca for Peace, Mallorca for Palestine, Global Movement to Gaza, and the Mallorca Marches for Palestine, will take place this Friday, March 30, at 7:00 p.m.

]]> <![CDATA[The flowery garden that Menorca knows how to preserve]]> Menorca has taught us islanders many lessons. The most important is being able to find a territorial balance that today offers us a landscape, a harmonious economic activity, and a society focused on culture. It hasn't been as easy a path as it may seem, although it's true that maintaining agriculture and industry at higher percentages than the rest of the Balearic Islands, and not blindly embracing the combination of tourism and concrete, have been key. But decades ago, a series of political and social leaders saw that the threat of greed and easy money could send everything spiraling down the drain. And they created a true work of art, the fruit of much prior work: the 2003 Territorial Plan.

]]>