On March 22nd, mobilizations will be held throughout Spain against the policies of the Popular Party's Government, in a national action that has been called the March for Dignity.
The choice of the name as the ultimate goal of what society demands, the greatness of the feeling that millions of citizens claim, the essential dignity of the human being that is being taken away from us, deserve a particular reflection; but today I want to talk about the shirts that will ignite the tides and what each one represents.
Because... what a difficult choice to dye with a certain color the indignation, pain or impotence with which we witness the spectacle of the deterioration of the public sphere and the sustained and constant cut of our rights.
And I say well, we witness, because the citizens of this country have been reduced to the role of mere spectators, if not victims, of the public management of the Rajoy Government. And this, by virtue of an absolute majority that legally protects its actions but in no way justifies them from an ethical point of view.
I return to the shirts. I could wear purple to show my solidarity with so many women who still suffer in their flesh gender violence, inequality, discrimination of all kinds. Or my rejection of a reform of the Abortion Law that will turn women without economic means into potential criminals, even at the risk of their lives.
But I could go in green, which has brought millions of teachers, students and parents out to the streets against a retrograde, unbalanced, unfair Law Wert of Education for the economically weakest, ideologized in pedagogical content and insensitive to what it considers "unproductive" subjects such as music or the humanities.
Or why not choose a white shirt, that serene and calming white of doctors and health assistants of the Public Health, who mitigate pain without calculating the weight of wallets, who demand investments for the benefit of all and who make us equal in health and disease.
Social services, suffering from cuts and reductions in benefits, are demanded in orange. Pensions, dependency, home help, subsidies to families at risk, unemployment benefits... This will also be my color on Saturday.
Red, perhaps because it is the color of fury and indignation, is shared by the unemployed and artists; the former, against a labor reform that cuts rights to the point of strangulation and that has led to the multiplication of unemployed people in Spain. The latter, because Culture, which the PP despises, -cinema, theater, music, dance or the plastic arts- has been punished with a brutal increase in VAT that has led to the closure of dozens of venues, the bankruptcy of producers and other companies and the consequent increase in unemployment in the sector.
I leave for the end the black shirt, the Canary shirt, the shirt that we have been sharing for weeks with the Balearic Islanders, the shirt against dirty, polluting, outdated oil, which threatens to destroy our natural values and our way of life.
Although in reality banners, acronyms or colors do not matter; we have plenty of reasons to take to the streets on Saturday. We will be there. I will be there.
Mª Dolores Corujo, General Secretary of the PSOE of Lanzarote.
