The classrooms of many institutes and faculties have been empty and the centers of the cities of the main Spanish cities have been filled with students this Thursday. The mobilization, convened by the Student Union, has been seconded from third of the ESO (the little ones are not recognized the right to strike, according to the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court) to the University. “In our institute, all students have seconded from third. Some of the second baccalaureate are in class, but they say they will go to the demonstration,” says Toni Solano, director of the Bovalar Public Institute of Castellón. As of 12, marches have been held in tens of cities.
Barcelona – with a special link with the flotilla, since it sailed from this city and in it the former mayor Ada Colau was traveling – has lived one of the most numerous student demonstrations of recent years. Some 6,500 people, according to the Urban Guard, have marched through the center of the Catalan capital – 300 more in Tarragona – to the Sant Jaume square, headquarters of the Generalitat. Donia Armani, of Moroccan origin and FP student, has come accompanied by her mother. “What I can do is be here, with my presence. The more people, the better; so the Palestinians will not be alone,” he said. “The Palestinians are like a brother people, we feel a lot with the absurd images we see,” added their mother.
The march has been starring mainly by students, although more participants have been added along the journey. “The Palestinian cause is the cause of the exploited people in our time. You have to press for a boycott of Israel,” said Sara P., who has encountered the protest when leaving the subway and has joined in her final stretch, in the Plaza Sant Jaume. Before the Government headquarters, the protesters have chanted Boicot’s slogans to Israel and have claimed “the flotilla is not touched.”
In Madrid, some 4,000 students have also taken to the street, who, in addition to the massacre in Palestine, have chanted slogans against Isabel Díaz Ayuso for their support for Israel. “The children there have no classes, no water, no food. We, that we have all the privileges, we have to get up for them,” says Nora, 16, in the demonstration of Madrid. In Valencia, hundreds of students have traveled the streets from Blasco Ibáñez Avenue to the city center chanting messages such as: “No more deaths of innocent children” and “it is not a war, it is a genocide.”
Isabel Saturn, president of the Association of Directors of Murcia, points out that in her center they have strike 80% of the students. And María José Martínez, director of the Maritim Public Institute of Valencia, says that in her center the protest is being followed “massively; from third of the ESO to the second from Baccalaureate there are almost almost students.” This newspaper has proude to a dozen directors and teachers throughout Spain, who generally report significant support for mobilization. From the small tasting, the lowest response is recorded in a public institute in A Coruña, where, despite this, its director, Isabel Russian, affirms that somewhat less than half of the students called on unemployment has not attended class. “It is being noticed, yes, especially in FP, where they have lacked as 75% of the students,” adds Rosa Rocha, president of the Association of Directors of Public Institutes of Madrid on the situation in its center.
“What is happening is very sad”
“It seems very bad to me what is happening. They do not let them get food and also bomb them, which makes them die many, especially young children, I already feel very sorry,” summarizes Ana, a 14 -year -old student, the reasons why he has decided to strike in Valencia, to which they have also added, he says, all her friends.
Many institutes have addressed in recent months the horror that Gaza lives. As the Itaca Public Institute of Zaragoza, where, among other activities, last week two kinds of ESO fourth connected live with one of the ships that has participated in the, the mission that has tried to take help to the strip and has been. The impression of the professor of the Itaca Institute, Susana Lozano, in the absence of more detailed data, is that the strike is having a lot of follow -up in her center. “Of class of 25 we have two or three students.”
“As soon as the call of the Student Union arrived, the students moved. It is also true that in the institutes, there are people who strike only for not coming,” admits Toni Solano. The director of Castellón points out, however, that the kids are very aware of what is happening, and that in the center there have been posted in recent months “posters about genocide and notices of the demonstrations.” And from the Institute’s Master Plan, within the line called cultures of the world, the situation of Palestine is being specifically addressed.
In the Quatre Cantons Institute of Barcelona, the follow -up has also been notorious from 3rd of ESO to 1st Baccalaureate, reports Ivanna Vallespín. “We have not been able to do class, in Baccalaureate I had two students,” explains Alicia Sánchez, of the management team. Of course, the activity in the center has not decreased. “Many students have come, but banks have been made for the demonstration of the 12.
In Quatre Cantons, where there has been the subject, they have treated it widely in the history classes taught by Joseba Martín. “We try to learn from the past to analyze the present and make a better future. And we have compared what happens in Palestine and Ukraine. With the present you get to attract and capture most students, because what is happening in Gaza is something unpublished and historical and that hooks them,” explains the teacher. The cloister will also celebrate an assembly today to organize for the Teachers strike called tomorrow.
At the University of Barcelona, an informative picket of the Student Union has traveled the classrooms of the Faculty of Philosophy informing of the reasons for the protest and a hundred students have celebrated an assembly in the courtyard, prior to the demonstration. “There are already 18,000 murders and know how many more dead for diseases. We cannot be silent,” said David, 21. “We are here to claim the struggle of the Palestinian people and that our European governments stop cooperating with Israel,” added Aqa. Students also claim the UB to break all agreements with Israel and their universities.
The Student Union has summoned demonstrations in 40 Spanish cities at 12.00. “We are not going to look the other way. The Palestinian cause is the cause of youth and the millions that we defend human rights and social justice. That is why we call the general student strike to empty the classrooms and fill the streets of dignity,” said the organization in a statement.
Catalonia hopes to live a new mass strike day this Friday, the day the unemployment has called the majority student union in the community, the SEPC. Also, CGT has summoned the teaching staff and educational personnel.
