Francisco Garrido Peña

Francisco de Asís Garrido Peña (Sevilla, March 25, 1958), is a Spanish politician of environmental ideology.

is a doctor in the philosophy of law from the University of Granada and has been a professor at the University of Jaén. Until 2007 he was Confederal spokesman for the Greens.

He was deputy to Congress for the province of Seville in 2004 in the lists of the PSOE, after the PSOE-Verdes agreement. He was also a deputy of the Parliament of Andalusia between 1994 and 1996 in the United Left lists-Los Verdes-Convocatorio by Andalusia. It is currently part of the parallel reflection space 36.

Biography

The agitated activity of Francisco Garrido Peña began very soon, being a student delegate at the San Isidoro Institute in Seville (1973-1976), when he was attending his high school studies, with only fifteen years. Thus their political concerns began to emerge, within the student and youth movements. From that moment on, its evolution was clear and fast: founder of the First Democratic Board of Student Delegates at the San Isidoro Institute (1974), founder of the Youth Association for Democracy (1976) - at the national level -, founder and founder and First Secretary General of the Communist Youth of Andalusia (UJCE), (1978), Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the UJCE (1976-1978) and founder of the Youth Council of Spain (1978). In addition, on behalf of the UJCE, he participated in the negotiations with the Union of the Democratic Center (UCD), to reach the age of 18 and be entitled to vote, and convened the first gay demonstration in Madrid in 1978. Finally, was expelled from the UJCE, together with an important group of militants, for advocating the dissolution of communist organizations and the construction of a new alternative left model.

The most interesting in its history was its revolutionary character, which led him to star in arrests in different parts of the world, in the 1970s. His first detention and processing was by illegal association, in November 1975, by of the public order court. The arrest lasted seven days and probation two and a half years, until the amnesty came. In 1978 he traveled to Berlin to attend a meeting of European Youth Associations, but ended up being detained by the Eastern German Police, in the Berlin wall, for carrying propaganda in favor of the dissidents of communist Germany. He also traveled to Rome, that same year, to attend the foundation of the International Committee of the Polisario Front. There, he participated in the mobilizations of autumn broth, starring operating autonomy (working autonomy). One more arrest took place in Cuba, for support for Cuban dissent and for claiming the rights and freedoms of the country, when he went to the World Youth Festival. He was expelled from Cuba and declared a person not pleasantly, publishing an article against him, in the newspaper Granma .

One of the most convulsive moments of his life came to desert from the Spanish army (Pavia II Regiment, the line of conception), in 1980. With two war councils behind him for insummission, he fled from Spain and was exiled With his wife in Ghent (Belgium), for two years (1980-1982). There he came into contact with Belgian alternative groups (environmentalists, pacifists, among others) and survived making furniture removals, separating organic matter in university cuisine and taking care of children with his wife.

In 1982 he returned to Spain with a new identity: that of Belgian journalist. His name was ron hermans . Thus he remained in hiding, in Andalusia, and with various more identities, also as Francisco Andrade , until he prescribed the crime, after ten years.

One of his latest most outstanding mobilizations was in 1992, declaring himself on hunger strike in the Guernika tree, against ETA violence. Therefore, did Ana Frank receive for the fight? Nonviolence and peace.

Upon returning to Spain, in 1982, his political and environmental career continued: he founded the collective of urban ecology. Alternative City of Granada (1986), was a Andalusian spokesman for the Coordinator of Ecological and Pacifist Organizations of Andalusia (1985-1987), founded the Eco-Pacifista Federation Granada The Presidency of the Government for the Greens (1993) and was deputy of the Greens in the Andalusian Parliament (1994-1996). In addition, he promoted, in the Andalusian Parliament, the Sierra Nevada Declaration Law as National Park. He also signed the agreements between the PSOE and the greens of the 2000s and 2004, achieving the seat of deputy for Seville, in the Congress of Deputies (2004-2008). He was the founder of the Parliamentary Association in Defense of Animal Rights (APDDA) in 2007.

also promoted ecological taxation in Andalusia in 2000.

Deputy in the Congress of Deputies (2004-2008)

The Gran Ape project campaign led to Congress, presenting a non -law proposition. However, despite the fact that the initiative was processed, it never became approved by the socialist group, in which it was attached. Garrido led, during the legislature initiated in 2004, several campaigns in favor of the recognition of animal rights. He presented, among other initiatives, a non -law proposition to prepare a basic state law of animal rights. This one entered process; However, the socialist group did not approve it either.

achieved the A &#34 nomination; punishment for the press, 2007 ", of the parliamentary awards granted by the Association of Parliamentary Journalists (APP). He shared nomination with the spokesmen of parliamentary groups Diego López Garrido, Joan Herrera and Joan Tardà.

Academic Training

He has a degree in Philosophy and Education Sciences. University of Granada. 6.10.88

Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Granada. Thesis title: political ecology as a time policy. April 12, 1996. Cum Lauden. Director of the Thesis: Nicolás María López Calera. He performed the doctoral course at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Philosophy of Sciences in the 1988-90 doctoral program.

Professor added Baccalaureate of Philosophy in Commission of Services at the University of Jaén, in the Department of Philosophy of Law, Moral and Politics. Natural Law Professor at the Faculty of Social and Legal Sciences of the University of Jaén. Since October 1, 1990. Ethics Professor at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Jaén, since October 1993.

From October 1, 1990 Professor of the Department of Criminal Law, Philosophy of Law, Moral and Political, Philosophy, of the University of Jaén. Providing the subjects of:

• Natural Law (old plan)

• Theory of Law (new plan) in the first course of the Bachelor of Law

• Theory of Law in the Diplomacy of Management and Public Administration

• Ethics in the Humanities Degree.

• Legislation and Professional Ethics in Nursing Diplomacy,

• Bioethics at the Nursing Diploma.

Participated in the Doctoral Program of the Department of Criminal Law, Philosophy of Law, Morals and Politics, Philosophy of the University of Jaén on legal and political analysis of the New Penal Code.1996-1998. Two courses: Ethical-political aspects of the new penal code (course 1996-97) (three credits). And Subjects and diffuse interests in the new ecological crime (1997-98) (3 credits).

Positioning on The Greens

According to Francisco Garrido in an interview: "The Greens party always has three main objectives. One is to try to represent what is being produced by consensus in society and to try to transfer to political consciousness what is already in the social, scientific consciousness. A second aspect is to institutionally stand up to political formations that have very different approaches. And a third, which is to achieve ecological political power, until now the models of political power that we have are made on the basis of growth, more or less solidarity, but of growth. What differentiates liberals and socialists from Los Verdes is that both agree to grow and continue consuming, but once we approach them in a more meritocratic way and others in a more supportive way. We propose a different political model with these three objectives; first, to help transfer to the sphere of political consciousness what is already in social consciousness, to equip institutional spaces with other different policies, and third, to change institutional spaces".

To make the change arrive in better conditions, Francisco Garrido considers that "what politics can do is anticipate the benefits, it is a magnificent showcase to demonstrate, for example, that all the people who bet on agriculture ecological is not going to leave it; For example, every street that is pedestrianized does not go back. At first there is rejection and people don't like it but then they see that living without pollution is much better than living with motorization. And the same with renewables, in Spain we are already living with 30% renewable energy consumption, and the people who set up windmills earn money and save. I believe that what politics should do is anticipate the positive effects. But the problem with this is that when they anticipate them, nobody believes them. If I tell you, if you drink sparkling water you won't have a headache but since you haven't had it, that will be the cause or it won't be; but if I tell you, sparkling water is very good, in addition to having a greater tendency to think that this will avoid problems. So I believe that what is fundamental in political action and our ecological action is to anticipate the benefits and promote them".

Posts

• Anarchism and Jornalero Movement in Andalusia. Collective work. Eduardo Sevilla Guzmán and Karl Heisel (eds). Article, "Alternative birth and labor movement." Diaz del Moral Collection. Cordoba,1988..
• Ecology, Peasant and History. Eduardo Sevilla Guzmán. Manuel González de Molina. (eds). "The Jordanian Movement and Political Ecology" (epilot). Editorial La Piqueta. Madrid. 1993.
• Perspectives of socialism today. Vl II. Manuel Monereo (eds). "Three notes on Political Ecology." Marxist Research Foundation. Madrid. 1992.
• Introduction to Political Ecology. Francisco Garrido Peña. (eds). Editorial Comares. Ecorama Collection. Grenada.1993.
• Environmental Impact Assessment. José Luis Serrano and Antonio Peña (eds). "Legal Forum and Political Ecology. The case of the standardization of environmental assessment". Ed. Comares. Ecorama Collection. Grenada, 1994..