Yesterday I attended the book launch “Barraquisme, the ciutat (in the)possible”, in the magnificent Juan Marse library Hand Luke Carmel neighborhood of the Barcelona.

The sleek horizontal barracks Olympic city is finished wipe the years 90, two days ago, to speak. It erased the physical map of the city but also erased the mental map of the new Barcelona that appeals to hide the misery under the carpet and so I do not believe there. It is now, certainly, wants to eliminate prostitution from the streets. Read it: of the streets. Wants to make prostitution invisible, even.

The event yesterday was not academic. The book launch was the excuse they came together, on a bright spring morning, a group of people to tell stories of life. Bad but real life. To remember that the 7% of this city rose in a self-managed, against the powers they needed to work the mob but they did not want them ensuciase same mob the streets with his ruinous presence.

In that room yesterday showed why the power does not like assemblies. In each hand he lifted the audience showed what happens when people lose their fear review, learn to tell their own story and find that all experiences are valuable.

The big trick is to divide power. Only one thing worse than a person who refuses to be swept under the carpet: a person who learns from the evils of others. The Carmel and neighboring houses have turned into mud and are now struggling to start his memory from oblivion official. But everything is explained happening today. No longer in Andalusia but Senegalese meat, no longer in barracks built on anti-aircraft batteries but in hot beds and rooms realquiladas. But Barcelona is devouring his sons and daughters.

We have all around us lessons. It only remains to learn and a good cause indigestion in this city (this world) cannibal.

When last 14 December I read that the European Parliament voted against the extension of the agreement on fisheries between the European Union and Morocco sought directly from the great compliments Spanish racists on the subject. But, inexplicably, I have not found.

Throw in the thread:

EP says that the agreement leads to overexploitation, is illegal because it interferes with the Saharawi people's resources and is not profitable for the EU, you pay a very high rate to Morocco in exchange for very little fishing licenses (few, add, but that cause overexploitation).

By The Vanguard “requests the Commission to present as soon as a negotiating mandate for a future EU-Morocco fisheries agreement “that is sustainable economic, ecologically and socially. It also asks that the future pact Brussels fits the actual fishing opportunities from scientific studies and consultation with the fishermen. MEPs demanded that the agreement contributes to the development of fisheries in . On respect for the resources of the Western Sahara, resolution, agreed by popular, Socialists and Liberals, calls for respect “international law and the benefits of local population”.

The report of the IOM makes it clear: the only effective formula for returning migrants to their places of origin is to improve living conditions there. White and bottled, to speak.

“(…) Poland's example highlights the effects of the economic performance of a country of origin on return decisions of migrants. From 2008 was an increase in the number of Polish migrants returning, which probably reflects the fact that Poland is the only EU member that has not fallen into recession and continued economic growth”.

Thanks to a future more equitable fishing, therefore, the Mohamed ® Duran i Lleida or Cleries Councillor will return home is not great?

In the case of Morocco, however, There are still a final hurdle. Fisheries agreements (or any other) negotiated with a corrupt regime (muuuyyy corrupt).

And this is where problems come. The corrupt regime lease its territorial waters as if they were personal assets, oblivious to the needs of people. That's good for the “incorruptible” Europe as we are allowed to fish at our ease. However, the people, ruined, migrate to survive. And to get to Europe become the subject of electoral campaigning and political concerns of those same populists who signed fishing agreements with corrupt regimes unjust. We come to steal the work and identity… and we believe what we voted for them to continue signing agreements and filling the same, at the same time, hate our political discourse.

More: 

IOM: Report 2011 Migration

Public: LMEPs to cancel the fishing agreement with Rabat by Sahara

ABC: Moroccan 20F movement hits the streets

Explained in the previous post than looking for an image to portray the real Spain, Spain, which is neither fair nor wants to be, I stumbled upon the entry into Wikipedia  The singer Concha Buika. ¡Horror! It is already happening as we feared: the Spanish and Black Spanish starts calling them Afro-.