50 years under the spotlight of repression

October 20 2014 (12:08 WEST)

When a flag of total popular acceptance has been without official recognition for 50 years, it is making history. While countless people have been buried wrapped in it, the most official people play at not seeing it: at ignoring it.

Indeed, there were almost a dozen years under the Franco regime and widespread political oppression. Also a time of supposed transition to the Spanish way, which one never knows if it really ended, with so many remnants of national Catholicism that we can still appreciate in Spain and its colony. But now, after having invented another one, with the clear intention of replacing the seven-starred tricolor, without having been able to penetrate the popular recognition that is given to our flag in the Canary Islands; we continue to see those inventors and their heirs who no longer know where to get a spare wheel, to pass themselves off as part of this People, senselessly paraphrasing old independentistas and crossing their fingers, when launching accusations of colonialism and caciquismo, with a twisted mouth, as if it costs them a lot, but letting our flag and our feeling of people pass, our real need for independence, possibly in exchange for four pennies.

And maybe it's not four pennies, surely it will be a few more crumbs. But, yes, they are not looking for money for those of us who inhabit the Archipelago, who are in an increasingly worse situation while they increase their salary. They cling to the seat in the houses where the flag of the dogs hangs. The one with the seven limpets, made to disguise themselves as Canarians and present themselves as the government of the Canary Islands, ignoring every October 22, the anniversary of the true Canarian flag, whose stars flood our sky and are increasingly their nightmare. In the end, it is a reality that the dogs and limpets of the political seat no longer represent even those who voted for them, deceived by their appearance, nor colonialist Spain, nor the oil companies that turned their backs on them, while their political apathy and complicit silence betrays them.

Meanwhile, this year we turn 50. Fifty also in letters. Which are years of flag, of those that today without fear take the street, the press, the networks, the computers, the tablets and the mobiles of the young and the oldest, open to the dignity and pride that it means to raise our flag: the white, blue and yellow with seven stars.

The flag that has filled hearts with homeland. Of feeling of the Canary Islands, as others have not been able to do, neither with the money they steal from us nor with what companies or Spain itself spend. Because the feeling of People in the Canary Islands has only one symbol that represents it. A single flag. The one that turns 50 on October 22 and dyes every heart of the Canary Islands Archipelago.

 

Pedro González Cánovas,Member of ANC

 

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