Hello! Inlakesh! My name is Agustin Antunez. I am Associate Professor in Biodiversity and Conservation at the University of Málaga, Andalucia, Southern Spain. I am a defender with my colleagues of the peace, the human rights, the Indigenous cultures and people, and of enviromental sustainability. We have integrated during last years a transdiciplinary not formal research group which recently we have called Simbiodiversity Seminar. But I am writing this letter from Mexico, country to where I have urgently travelled four days ago, escaping from spanish authorities, that tried to imprison me in a psychiatric institution.
Last spring I had already been imprisonned, isolated and incommunicated in a psychiatric institution during a month, and hardly neuromedicated during many months with the evident partial loss of my critical conscience and the surprise and suffering of so many friends and colleagues. The reason: after months in which we have specially shown our opposition to many antienvironmental projects, we have decided to dennounce openly, by means of fliers and alternative internet media, the economic-political system of my country, the Spanish State, that is destroying everyday more and more, the real basis of our possibilities for survival in a everyday more uncertain futur. And, what is the most important thing is that this evergrown destruction is very clearly deliberate, premeditated and conscious.
Following the politically correctness that seems so common in cases like this, the conventional mass media , in spite of our own continuous interest, comdenned our dennounce to the most absolute silence. After to have disseminate, during several weeks, our dennounce by fliers and by alternative internet media (Indymedia...), the authorities imprisoned me in a psichiatric institution. In my absence, the University of Malaga staff disseminate, very efficiently, the wrong opinion that I actually had a mental illness, and little people actually believed the true socio-political reasons of my imprisoning. It is well known that in last years, the psychiatric imprisonning is being more and more frecuent, as a repression tool, against those people that are situated in disidence.
Fortunately, after one month of imprisonning and many months during those I have been hardly neuromedicated, I was regaining more and more my conscience, and with my colleagues began again to join to the fight in the socio-environmental arena.
It must be said that the territory in our region: the province of Malaga and the Costa del Sol, is being transformed at an inusitated and never unknown rate, by means of river channelizations, damns, motorways, high-velocity trains and an overgrown urbanization and economic especulation, that affects Malaga City and all over the coastal line; a proccess which is actually known from many other parts of today rapidly changing world.
Last week, almost 24 hours after to organize, with the Simbiodiversity Seminar, a round table in the University of Malaga about a recent and “technically unexpected” very big ecological disasterthat has been caused in the mountains of El Chorro-Abdalajis, I have suffered a new attempt of pyichiatric imprisonning. And so I urgently decided to exiliate in Mexico, from where I am requesting support for our cause.
I am sending this message for support to many indigenous, social and political organizations, institutions and mass media all over the world.
e-mails may be sent to the chairwoman of the University of Malaga:
delacalle@uma.es and to the Director of the Department of Animal Biology:
sanscoma@uma.es Many thanks for your support (december, 19, 2005)
We just want justice
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