DANA Victims Association Strengthens Mobilizations and Demands Mazón's Resignation

The entity holds local assemblies to discuss strategies and actions following the climate emergency management, seeking truth and justice.

Generic image of a local assembly in a plenary hall.
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Generic image of a local assembly in a plenary hall.

The DANA Victims Association October 29, 2024 held a local assembly in the Plenary Hall of the Benetússer City Council, with nearly a hundred people, to strengthen mobilizations and demand the resignation of Carlos Mazón.

This meeting is part of a series of local assemblies that the association has successfully initiated to conduct a collective review prior to the annual assembly. The objective is to create spaces for active listening, analysis, and debate to jointly prepare and design, with members and collaborators, the association's lines of action and upcoming initiatives.
The cycle of local assemblies will soon continue in municipalities such as Catarroja, Massanassa, and Paiporta, reinforcing local implementation as a key tool to decide the collective strategy and work project. The association seeks truth, justice, memory, and security for the future, with the aim of preventing such negligent management of an emergency from recurring.
The local assembly also served to gather proposals and concerns from participating members and collaborators. Among them, the association has noted the need to strengthen mobilizations through a network of alliances and promote new actions. In this regard, it has been announced that a motion will be sent to all city councils, through the different political groups, to demand the resignation of Carlos Mazón and the implementation of active protection policies against emergencies.

"We are observing with concern that no real change is occurring in public policies after what happened on October 29. We are not seeing a thorough review of emergency systems, nor serious planning for adaptation to extreme phenomena, nor structural measures that guarantee this will not happen again."

the association's president
Furthermore, at the request of the attending members and collaborators, the association will study the situation of rental aid linked to the DANA for the year 2026 and will organize a new meeting focused on the territory and the taxation of aid in income tax returns.
The meeting, which had the collaboration of the Fundació Horta Sud, the Benetússer City Council, Ecos del Agua, Guaix – Coordinadora pel Valencià de l’Horta Sud, and the CLER de Benetússer, brought together more than fifty members and collaborators in a space for dialogue, information, and direct participation.