{"id":1157,"date":"2024-04-11T11:09:41","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T11:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dunaslivres.pt\/?p=1157"},"modified":"2024-09-16T09:58:27","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T09:58:27","slug":"litoral-alentejano-na-marcha-dos-50-anos-do-25-abril-lisboa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dunaslivres.pt\/en\/litoral-alentejano-na-marcha-dos-50-anos-do-25-abril-lisboa\/","title":{"rendered":"Coastal Alentejo in the March of the 50th anniversary of the 25th of April | Lisboa"},"content":{"rendered":"

25 Abril 2024 14h30 – Marqu\u00eas de Pombal, Lisboa<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We want environmental and social justice \nin coastal Alentejo!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2024 we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the revolution that brought democracy to Portugal, after a dictatorship based on a economic model characterized by colonialism, censorship and oppression of society, and without any ecological awareness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Alentejo is intrinsically linked to the time of April 25, 1974, with Gr\u00e2ndola still resting on the laurels of the glory of Zeca Afonso's song. The image of our region before 1974 is characterized by inequality and injustice: while the landowners and other powerful classes got richer, the living conditions of small producers, peasants and wage earners remained difficult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, the Alentejo is once again pierced by this image of inequality: a transnational social layer is appropriating the land for extractive purposes and profit maximization. We see this in industrial export agriculture that does not promote employability and forces migrants to live in undignified conditions, ignoring many national labor laws; in the development of an energy model with unprecedented spatial voracity, imposed by the European Union on behalf of large industrial interests; in the development of a luxury tourism model that excludes the local population from common heritage, such as the beach, which is freely accessible according to the law; in the development of various other extractive activities, such as mining, which are super intensive practices in terms of the use, pollution and depletion of resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These factors have led to various desertification processes which are reflected in scenarios of water stress and resource depletion with unregulated overexploitation and contamination caused by complete negligence, corruption and degenerative land management practices. This exploitation, blind to environmental protection statutes and with the complicity of local governments, is reminiscent of the socio-political dynamics prior to April 25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today we raise our voices to tell you: We are suffocating! The people who live and work here, or who traditionally visit and contribute, are \"left behind\" and are confronted with the environmental, social, demographic, economic and political externalities resulting from a rural development that only benefits a few, but which brings a dramatic exodus and a general ecocide of the Alentejo region. And yet, 50 years on, memory seems to fail us, and we see the same mistakes being repeated, the so-called \"achievements of April\" being shattered by legal incongruities, political negligence and private benefit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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