We have to jump
One of the policy managers behind the crisis we are experiencing now said not too much: “In Basque Country, all infrastructure projects have their popular platform”. It represented the fight against the reduction of our environment, the waste of public resources and the service of a few to institutions as an extemporaneous and sterile social ritual.
By the way, it clarified the place that our right to participate in the decisions taken by the institutions in their political model. This is how it should be, both in the CAPV, without any general planning and consensus for the construction of wind farms, as in Navarre, to make them available to private interests by decree, contrary to the opinion of the majority of social and trade union agents.
The climate and social crisis forces us to take decisions, to take steps, to act responsibly, to the detriment of the people in the management being carried out, because our interests and rights do not take place. It would be irresponsible to leave our future in their hands, and that is precisely the essence of popular initiatives: making it possible and channelling the possibility of political participation that the institutions deny us at the initiative of citizens and social partners. It has always been necessary and is now essential. The political, the social, the trade union, the strength of the initiative is multiplied when the actions are understood
without an explanation. And this has certainly been the case with the presentation of the popular initiative Ecosocial Jump. We have all understood that it is up to us all to make the leap.
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