Ġustizzja għal Artna: Irtirawhom Issa! - PROTESTA NAZZJONALI

A national protest, Ġustizzja għal Artna: Irtirawhom Issa!, is being called for Saturday 4th October at 10am in response to the total assault on our environment and quality of life being pushed through under the guise of a planning “reform”.

The need for action is urgent and dire. Government is intent on forcing through two planning bills and three legal notices that will dismantle existing safeguards, place serious obstacles to effective public appeals, and regularise all kinds of illegalities across the country.

If this legal package is approved, Malta and Gozo will be ruled entirely by the wishes of developers, while the common people will be left under siege from harmful development permitted without even today’s minimal regulatory controls and scrutiny.

This is a grave threat to our country, and only the people’s resistance can fend it off.

Our demands are:

1. The immediate withdrawal of the draft bills and legal notices. Consultation cannot take place on legislation that is fundamentally flawed, malicious in intent, and beyond repair.

2. The urgent introduction of a measure suspending works on developments approved by the Planning Authority while an appeal is ongoing, through an amendment to existing law.

3. The publication of a White Paper to launch a genuine consultation on the broader planning reforms Malta truly needs.

People will gather at the Law Courts at 10am and march to Castille, where speeches will take place.

The national protest is the first action announced as part of the Ġustizzja għal Artna campaign launched last week. Groups across Malta and Gozo, both formal and informal, are invited to join the protest and the campaign by emailing info@gustizzjartna.org.

More information about the campaign and its demands can be found at www.gustizzjartna.org.

BirdLife Malta | Din l-Art Ħelwa | Flimkien għal Ambjent Aħjar | Friends of the Earth Malta | Front Żgħażagħ għall-Ambjent | Għawdix | Moviment Graffitti | Nature Trust – FEE Malta | Ramblers Association | Wirt Għawdex