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Andalusia: “We need to continue reproducing an alternative common sense”

Teresa Rodriguez — 2018-09-08T17:27:32Z

For Teresa Rodriguez, the last few weeks [interview originally published 20 July 2018] have been ones of intense activity: presentation of the project “Adelante AndalucÃa” in different provinces, primary elections within Podemos Andalusia which finally confirmed her as the leader of this formation and the closure of the period of activity of the Andalusian Parliament. Paco Aguaza inteviewed Teresa for the publication El Salto.

- IV524 - September 2018 / Spanish state

Two Years of Podemos

Miguel Urbán Crespo, Teresa Rodriguez — 2016-01-23T09:58:34Z

This Sunday (17 January 2016) we celebrate the anniversary of our first public act: the press conference at the Lavapiés Theater District in Madrid in which we were lucky to participate. We have built a great organization which has managed in two years of history to produce a storm of enthusiasm for change and has become a reliable electoral tool. We have helped to open a new cycle in which public life is no longer split in two and, above all, we have repoliticized society in a moment in which possible responses to the suffering of the people might have been resignation, apathy, or even hatred. And we have done it fundamentally by articulating a new and terrible sense of reality in material terms (the crisis and its effects) and in subjective ones (outrage at the socioeconomic reality and the corruption in government).

- IV492 - January 2016 / Spanish state, New parties of the left

”Perhaps with unstable governments the citizens will win”

Teresa Rodriguez — 2015-06-06T08:03:55Z

Teresa Rodriguez is the general secretary of Podemos in Andalusia. She was interviewed by Carmen Torres for El Mundo on May 30 2015. Hurrying to take the C1 bus which takes her to the Santa Justa station in Seville to go by train to Cadiz. Teresa Rodriguez, secretary general of Podemos in Andalusia and spokesperson of its parliamentary group, has given up the official car. “If you live in a housing estate and you are going in an official car to Parliament and then back home, I imagine that you don't feel the pressure from the street” she explains. Of the 4,254 Euros which correspond to her post she takes only 1,730, the salary she had as a teacher. The rest is donated to social causes. The carpets of the Parliament are trodden with care, to prevent the “seduction of the institutions” from trapping Podemos.

- IV485 - June 2015 / Spanish state

Podemos – governmental force or framework of struggle?

Teresa Rodriguez — 2014-09-16T07:54:38Z

An activist of Izquierda Anticapitalista, Teresa Rodriguez was elected as a member of the European parliament (MEP) for Podemos in May 2014. This interview was given to Manu Bichindaritz of the NPA's newspaper l'Anticapitaliste in late August 2014.

- IV476 - September 2014 / Spanish state, New parties of the left

“We will not really change things in the European Parliament”

Teresa Rodriguez — 2014-07-03T09:22:30Z

Teresa Rodriguez is a member of Izquierda Anticapitalista (IA), the section of the Fourth International in the Spanish State, who was number 2 on the radical left list Podemos which had five deputies elected at the European parliamentary elections of May 25, 2014. This interview was conducted by Francisco Artacho and is translated from the online periodical Andaluces Diario.

- IV474 - July 2014 / Spanish state, New parties of the left, European Union