Marienia doesn't get excited!
The last column I wrote was the weekly, a year ago. The earthquake had just passed in the occupied lands of Arbona. Thanks to the mobilization of the Urkoida, a large real estate company refused a large housing program. And as a result of the microoccupations of the Alda association, the multinational Airbnb regularized various illegal situations.
When I write these lines, the occupation of the climb to Marienia in Cambo (Lapurdi) has just ended. For three days and three nights, hundreds of people have mobilized to defend 3.5 hectares of land. In these high-quality farmland, Bouygues wants to build a set of houses, once again by artificializing land and diverting farmland. Our rulers remain, to the detriment of a majority, attentive to the economic interests of the few.
Unfortunately, recent months have shown us that Cambo's is not an isolated case. Azkarate, Lekarroz, Angelu, Irisarri, Maule, Jaizkibel, Senpere, Baiona… Every year the crop loses hundreds of hectares of land forever, at the same time as the housing increase has exceeded a record. This capitalist and speculative logic generates anguish and anxiety in a large part of the population of the northern Basque Country. High, when it comes to mobilizing for the land, they are always in the barricades.
Does this mean that nothing is being brought forward? That nothing has been achieved in recent months? That the effect of these occupations is only media? The system before us is strong, and all the instruments are in favor: laws, elected offices, rules, prisoners… But after Arbonaz something has happened. That is not a naive optimism. The 120-day occupation has sent a clear message to speculators. These people get rich because they have no morals, because they look long term and they're calculators. They're very pragmatic people, their investment has to bring benefits, and if you enter the equation, the mobilization of people who disagree, who can take the form of occupation, they can do it to the liver. That's happened in Arbona, because two buyers have done it.
There is a great diversity in these struggles: peasants, young citizens, precarious workers, toilets, experienced militants or humble citizens concerned about the problem. He doesn't always agree, but we go ahead. Things have to be said as they are: the battle against speculation is not a triumph, but popular mobilisations are taking steps.
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