[Chronicle] Self Training Workshop “The danes that will come”

 ECOLOGY, Self Training Workshop
Feb 012025
 

The past 31 of January our union colleagues, Alicia I Raquel, We were put on the table the darkness of unpredictable climate change and legal constructive aberrations in flood areas: To the planet, in the Eastern Valley, In Catalonia and the State.

The talk is part of the self -training workshops between affiliates and affiliates of the union.

We are and we will be what we do ourselves and yourself.

They tell us that in the Vallès Oriental (and to the rest of the state) Most industrial estates are in flood areas, as well as many popular class neighborhoods, With periods of return of well -unpredictable catastrophes. Workers live and work in dangerous areas.

I what, “for whatever”, Politicians and the administration grant without glances and with all the impunity construction licenses in these areas to non -scruples entrepreneurs.

The years pass, but “catastrophes for extreme rainfall” are reproduced in the same places and at the same seasons of the year.

offices “rain” There are never criminal liable, only victims… a bit of media plane… and new “opportunity to reconstruct” With public money tenders. Round business.

At the same time the government is eliminating the subject of geology of ESO school curricula and high school. In practice, If we do not stop it, It can be a future without technicians knowing the stability and danger of surfaces where our homes will be built, bridges, reservoir walls, railway lines, roads. Who will establish and apply the regulations and analyzes of geological risks, Wherever it is safe or not to build and inhabit? "Technicians" of the large construction companies? (As in other times of the "Development"). Put the wolf to take care of the sheep?

Are the public authorities at the service of the security and well -being of the citizenry (that we pay taxes) or of the great business Oligarques?

We stayed in organizing resistance and alternatives: In Mollet del Vallès the Salvem el Calderí platform is stopping the urbanization of “Official protection flats” to an flood zone.

Thanks Alicia, Thank you Raquel for dedicating your time and your knowledge.

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[31-01-2025] TALK "THE DANES THAT WILL COME"

 COMMUNICATIONS, ECOLOGY, Self Training Workshop
Jan 212025
 

Next Friday 31 January at 17:30 we will give a talk on the management of water and geological risks in the region of Vallès Oriental with our colleagues in the union section of Education, Alicia I Raquel.

“The danes that will come”

At 5.30 pm at the union headquarters:

Ronda d'Orient, 6

Mollet del Vallès

The event is part of the CGT Training Workshops in the #Vallèsor Environment

 

CHRONICLE OF THE TALK "IN CATALONIA WE ARE MORE PIGS THAN HUMANS", IN CHARGE OF THE TER DEFENSE GROUP

 Cultural, ECOLOGY
Mar 302024
 

Friday 22 of March of 2024 the colleagues of the Ter Defense Group (GDT) they visited Mollet and we welcomed them to our premises to share their struggle and make visible the state of the waters, of the air and the social injustices of the pig sector in Catalonia.

The GDT is historic for having quarreled, fa 35 years, against the Puigneró textile for the pollution of the river. A historic victory for environmentalism and to defend the health of people and the environment before justice.

With the motto: "There are pigs left over, there is a lack of farmers" in the talk it was made visible that the raising and fattening of pigs has become a sector of speculation by capitalism. What, like everything where it is installed, it leaves negative externalities on the territory while business profits grow by creating a political lobby to keep the scam going. Money for four international vulture funds and as waste in the territory: slurry, disappearance of small farms, contaminated sources, methane emissions, increase in road transport, animal discomfort, exporting virtual water and creating a bubble about to burst.

To enter data, pig fattening means a consumption of 11l/day per pig, daily in Catalonia they stay there 8 millions of pigs. Slaughterhouses must be added to the accounts, on s'hi mates 40.000 pigs per day also from Aragon. It is an industrialized sector, where the feed already includes preventive antibiotics, hence we find both nitrates and antibiotic residues present in bodies of water. This implies that groundwater is no longer potable and increases the risk of bacterial resistance for people's health.

The analyzes carried out in the sources prove it to us and the politicians look the other way in the face of pressure from the business sector to continue growing despite the prevailing drought in Catalonia. The only solutions proposed by the administration are technological ones that are not very efficient in practice. We do not want to deflate a bubble that keeps Osona's economy by a thread dependent on a single sector.

There are alternatives: stop exporting pigs and maintain the sector and water for Catalonia's food sovereignty, compel companies to use their profits to restore Catalonia's bodies of water, to promote ecological and traditional livestock farming that keeps the rural population in dignified working and living conditions and to extend the debate between our spaces.

Fewer pigs and more farmers!!

PROPOSAL FOR THE ALLOCATION OF PLACES IN PUBLIC EDUCATION WITH PROXIMITY AND SUSTAINABILITY CRITERIA

 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, COMMUNICATIONS, ECOLOGY, TEACHING, Prevention of occupational hazards, LABOR SECTORS
Mar 182024
 

Mobility in commuting from home to work and from work to home by private vehicle generates major traffic jams and is one of the major factors contributing to environmental pollution and climate change.

We think that the reduction of a large part of these polluting inputs is necessary, essential for the future of life on the planet. And in our sector it is possible.

With the aim of reducing pollution, the carbon footprint, the pollutant emissions during work journeys from home to work, achieve a supportive planet, sustainable and comply with the Sustainable Development Goals, we propose:

The rationalization of the distribution of the workers of the Generalitat de Catalunya in public children's education, primary, compulsory secondary and high school, taking as a structural criterion the proximity between the place of residence and the place of work.

It is quite common for a primary education teacher resident in Barcelona to commute to Canovelles every day to work, vice versa. And so for all the studies mentioned above. The teaching staff of the Generalitat amounts to more than 80.000 people. The impact of their daily mobility is not residual.

The approximation of distances between places of residence and work also improves the reconciliation of work and family life, the care spaces, saves time, life quality, well-being and health among workers.

We raise these groups of female workers mainly because they are the most abundant and widespread (including secondary education specialties) and more easily interchangeable with mobility criteria.

However, we consider that this should be a structural criterion of all Public Administrations in the allocation of places and competition for transfers.

That this same should be the line of action of the Department of Education of the Generalitat of Catalonia in more specialized studies, as much as possible.

WE PROPOSE:

That transfer competitions be called, offering in a pedagogical way, trunk and priority the practical possibility of bringing the place of work closer to the place of residence.

The allocation of places is the result of a public competition using as a priority the criterion of proximity between the place of residence and the place of work.

[22 MARCH] TALK-DEBATE : IN CATALONIA WE ARE MORE PIGS THAN HUMANS

 COMMUNICATIONS, Conference, ECOLOGY, MISCELLANEOUS
Mar 122024
 

Next Friday 22 from March to 18 hours will be held at the Ronda d'Orient location, 6 Mollet del Vallès, a talk-debate by the Ter Defense Group on the sustainability of the industrial farm model and the effects on environmental pollution, climate change and water pollution.

IN CATALONIA WE ARE MORE PIGS THAN HUMANS!

Industrial farms, Food, Slurry, Nitrates and Water.

Talk and Debate by the Ter Defense Group.

Friday 22 from March to 18 hours.
Ronda d'Orient, 6 (Mollet del Vallès) [in front of the Mollet-Sant Fost train station]