The collective Canary Islands Has a Limit announces new mobilizations for the month of May. "A year after the historic demonstration of 20A —in which hundreds of thousands of people from the eight islands denounced the collapse of the Archipelago—, the institutions continue without assuming their responsibility and the situation has only worsened", they state from the collective.
In a statement they point out that "the economic model that prioritizes mass tourism, destruction and speculation continues to bleed the territory and make the lives of those of us who inhabit these islands more precarious. Despite the massive cry of last April in all the islands, the Government of the Canary Islands has not adopted any adequate measures to face the emergency we are experiencing. Nor has it established real channels of dialogue or shown political will to listen to the citizen movement that promoted the largest demonstration in our recent history."
"Meanwhile, tourist pressure increases, inequality grows, urban speculation continues with impunity, the islands collapse and environmental impacts worsen. Today the dependence on tourism is even greater, housing is more inaccessible than ever, poverty and social exclusion rates continue to rise, we are losing our unique natural heritage in the world at an alarming rate and macro-projects at the service of foreign speculation do not cease. Meanwhile, we still do not have a real change of model that guarantees a decent future for those of us who inhabit these islands," they add from Canary Islands Has A Limit.
“In the Canary Islands, we have exceeded all limits. If the institutions do not act, the people will," they say from the collective. From Canary Islands Has A Limit they state that "faced with an extractivist model that expels us, we defend rootedness, sustainability, care, cooperative solutions and the right to stay. For this reason, we announce that in May we will return to the streets in Tenerife and we call on the rest of the seven islands to join again in this common task."
