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They say that when ants all set in motion, no one has given the order. It is not decided by the queen, as one might suppose, nor by the larger specimens, who usually act as soldiers. Nor is it decided by the worker ants, who carry out many different tasks. They decide to act when certain information has been verified and they clearly see that a joint response is needed.

The new action that has been scheduled for the evening of Saturday 13 June, within the Via Menorca campaign, incorporates the symbolism of ants. Fed up with seeing the setbacks the island is experiencing, the increasing threats and the empty speeches without content, the ants have decided to leave the anthill.

Menorca is threatened by various issues that are key to its immediate future. Excessive human pressure, derived from growing touristification that also requires more labour, is causing devastating effects on housing, water, congestion of spaces, and an increasing economic precariousness.

The much-missed Pere Xerxa left written, in a poem dedicated to the island he so loved: If we are from a dry land, it is not for lack of tears; it is because we know that, by crying, battles are never won.

Let us therefore get moving if we do not want to follow the same paths as the sister islands. Saturday 13 June, at 7:30 p.m., at Plaça Biosfera in Maó. Let us leave the anthill. Help spread the word about the call.