Since last Wednesday, if Txema Escorsa, 34 years old and a struggling secondary school teacher, is still in his home, at Sant Agustí street in Vila de Gràcia, it is because that day, very early, an anonymous crowd, shoulder to shoulder, prevented the judicial procession and judicial device from carrying out the task of kicking him out of his home. Everything stopped at street level and via a human wall, and this is called social unionism, civil disobedience, and community defense. The undeniable evidence clarifies, with lights and shorthand, that the eviction was only blocked by the massive mobilization of the people. That is to say, Txema was saved by the popular initiative of the Tenants Union and not by any calm and severe political, judicial, or police decision. And that the president of the Generalitat even sent a tweet of support – although it will take more than a tweet. The battle against the global market is always local and the image showed hundreds of neighbors against a foreign vulture fund located in New York, which violates and breaks current legislation and which is impudently making prohibited colivings for room rentals, to which it already charges per room much more than Txema pays for an entire apartment. Paradoxically, the main representatives of the speculators were, last Wednesday, the judge and the police – that is, the institutional system – who came to accelerate the expulsion of residents. And from here the creature cries. The judicial procession has left in writing that it will try again on April 15th. The people, undoubtedly, will too. The same day that Txema was resisting at his home thanks to active neighborhood solidarity, Barcelona City Council decided to take advantage of it to evict 130 impoverished people from a vacant lot in La Sagrera. Without any prior notice and without offering them any alternative other than to get out and disperse them throughout the city. Everything happened –words and deeds of urban eloquence, in which the name never makes the thing– under the protection of the alleged Pla Endreça and next to, wouldn't you know it, the Pont del Treball Digne, which the expelled do not have in the open. However, the Quart Món entity was there supporting them. These days a municipal campaign supposedly denounces the uncivil "scoundrels". But what is "shameful" is that the shantytown returns to the city –53 settlements with 299 people as of December 2025– and that so "little" is done to reverse it. Or that the little that is done is to drive them away to an even worse place. Scoundrels, indeed. After all, here in Barcelona as in Badalona, we should insist much more that the different management and narratives –the packaging and propaganda– in no case alter the final product: the abandonment of the kick in the backside. The effect ends up being the same, whether with Albiol's aporophobic shouting, or with Collboni's apparently sanitizing neutrality. One and the other confuse the fight against extreme poverty with the fight against the poor. And that's how we are. Thanks to all the entities involved for years in the fight for the eradication of homelessness, from the Fundació Arrels to the Hospital de Campanya of the parish of Santa Anna. A civil network that has been crying out for years for a law of transitional and urgent measures, still in infinite process and pending approval.

The polarization of society is no longer a theoretical construct that sociologists warn about. It is a palpable and seemingly undeniable reality. We have to grapple with it every day to swallow the information bombardment we are subjected to and avoid dying of indigestion. The dialectical battle between different political families—not ideological ones—makes sensible dialogue seem impossible, almost a relic of the past. Collaboration? Unthinkable. And solidarity between strangers? Science fiction.

Unfortunately, cancer is a disease that affects most of the population very closely, as it is a group of conditions with a high incidence. This year, La Marató, celebrating its 34th edition, wanted to give a new boost to cancer research and, for the sixth time, joined forces to raise funds to strengthen research that could ultimately be essential to saving patients and improving their quality of life. The final tally of the night was revealed after 2:00 a.m., at the end of the gala presented by Ramon Pellicer. The amount raised up to that point was €9,741,627.

"This Christmas, every piece counts." With this motto, the fifteenth annual Espai Gironès Christmas charity campaign aims to support the projects of the Friends of the Elderly Foundation, which offers companionship, emotional support, and social integration to senior citizens in Girona, helping to combat isolation and unwanted loneliness. The campaign was presented by the shopping center's manager, Pau Jordà; the Foundation's director, Laura López; and the initiative's patrons: Marc Gasol, president of Bàsquet Girona; Pep Busquets, a player for Bàsquet Girona; and Ainhoa ​​López, a player for Spar Girona. Espai Gironès has created a giant jigsaw puzzle, located in the food court. To participate in the campaign, simply fit one of the thousands of puzzle pieces together to complete a very special image. Each piece will be donated to the Amics de la Gent Gran Foundation and will provide companionship and well-being to elderly people in the Girona region who suffer from loneliness and need support.

The first agreements are being discussed Last Christmas Wham! and the nearly 1,000 attendees occupy the 90 tables that fill the main hall of the Museu Marítim de Barcelona. Just a few minutes later, the light dims and illuminated dancers stroll among the tables while a choir sings thePirates' Anthem from the musical Sea and skyWith this melody so fitting for the setting, the 4th Almendro Origen Charity Christmas Dinner began with a clear objective: to raise funds for a charitable cause. This year, the organization raised €80,500 for the Sant Joan de Déu Hospital, specifically for the SJD Pediatric Cancer Center Barcelona project. The dinner centered around a story that connects the hospital with the Catalan food chain. The protagonist is Aina, daughter of an Almendro Origen employee, who was diagnosed with cancer at age 14. Both she and her family are familiar with the work carried out by the professionals at Sant Joan de Déu Hospital, and although the SJD Pediatric Cancer Center Barcelona wasn't yet a reality when she was diagnosed, she recognizes the center as a valuable resource for children currently battling the disease.

Except for the Gran Recapte (Great Food Drive) by the Banc dels Aliments (Food Bank), which aims to collect donations at various municipal markets and supermarkets across the country between Friday and Saturday. Symbolically, this solidarity event began Friday morning at the Mercat del Ninot in Barcelona, ​​in an event that kicks off a campaign that this year will have 15,800 volunteers spread across 2,000 donation points. The hybrid format remains, with both in-person collection of products and monetary donations earmarked for the purchase and subsequent distribution of food. Besides in-person donations at supermarkets, donations can also be made... through the Gran Recapte website until November 23.

A sunny Sunday of rice with local produce, vermouth, snacks, and dessert. All of this, with solidarity as the focus. This was the plan that, last Sunday, brought together more than 1,200 people at El Xampany in Cervelló, in Baix Llobregat. They didn't want to miss the first Bonpreu and Esclat Solidarity Rice Festival, a festive and family-friendly event organized with a clear objective: to raise funds for one of the most ambitious initiatives the Catalan supermarket chain has underway: the lunch scholarship project.

Without losing glamour or its power to attract attendees, the People in Red gala reached its fifteenth edition this Monday, a remarkable milestone that was once again celebrated by bringing together a long list of celebrities for dinner in the Oval Room of the MNAC (National Museum of Contemporary Art). Coming from all walks of life, the nearly 800 attendees—many well known to the general public—wanted to collaborate with Dr. Bonaventura Clotet in his annual fundraiser to finance research projects against infectious diseases, which are currently the fourth leading cause of death from disease worldwide. Over the course of these fifteen years, Dr. Clotet's gala has evolved from raising funds solely for AIDS to focusing on the wide range of conditions that fall under the heading of infectious diseases. The gala raised nearly one million euros. The final tally was €978,456, a figure that exceeds last year's collection of €815,000.

There are many ways to ride a bike, and pedaling can also become a driving force for change. After a weekend in which the world's largest gravel cycling event, The Traka, debuted in Girona with the grand challenge of measuring 560 km and almost 10,000 meters of elevation gain in just over a day, a 28-year-old Valencian novel editor living in Girona is setting out to take on a similar challenge this weekend. Álvaro Muñoz will exchange his editing skills for his great hobby: road cycling. On May 9, he will leave Girona and ride 600 km in two days to his hometown of Torrent (Valencian Country) to raise funds for an organization that works with young people at risk of social exclusion and is still affected by the consequences of the DANA (Driving Disability Act).

Except for the fifth edition of the Vallviva festival, a very special one because it will be the first without its founder, Eudald Morera, who passed away last November at the age of 59. Morera decided to organize this festival At a time when her life was going through a very difficult time, diagnosed with advanced cancer and against the wishes of her family and close friends. Ten weeks passed from the moment she proposed it to the first edition. "Obviously it will be a very, very special edition. You have a bittersweet feeling, you are happy to see that his project, the legacy he has left us, continues forward, but we are still missing a lot. The figure of the director who ended up making the decisions... Well, assuming this role means taking on more responsibilities and more emotional burden, but very happy and happy to continue," says the eldest daughter of the founder, who at 27 years old is leading the project.

It sounds like a joke, but it's not. The toxic mold that appeared in the homes Brad Pitt's NGO built in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina will take the actor to court. Despite the fact that Angelina Jolie's ex-husband has done everything he could to turn himself in, this week we learned that this will not be possible and that he will have to testify in a case in which the plaintiffs are demanding more than $20 million from him and his charitable organization for the adverse health effects these houses have caused them. from all over the world in 2006. When the controversy began, it seemed that everything would be completely diluted by the passage of time and by good lawyers, but as Mateu Montsolís said to his unforgettable sister Eulalia in Nizaga of power: "The past always comes back, Eulalia."

An old acquaintance of the far right will become the head of Vox's union, Solidaridad, starting this Saturday. Jordi de la Fuente (Barcelona, ​​​​1986), a politician with a past in the neo-Nazi party Republican Social Movement (MSR), dissolved in 2018, with which he was the head of the list in the 2010 Parliamentary elections, and who also ended up in Platform for Catalonia (PxC) and was secretary of organization in 2016, when Josep was the secretary of organization in 2016. A regular at protests in front of centers for immigrant minors – he still has a pending trial for an assault on El Masnou in 2019 –, he is also controversial for his former support for the Russian ultra-right ideologue Alexander Dugin, and for his anti-Semitic past. He has been a protagonist of Islamophobic protests such as the 2017 one against a mosque in Nou Barris, after having held the position of advisor to the secretary general of Vox. He is now a councilor for the far-right party in Sant Adrià de Besòs and a provincial deputy in the Barcelona Provincial Council. Like him, other PxC officials turned to Vox following the dissolution of the far-right party. Who is he and what is the union?

Albert Viñas is a 62-year-old from Sabadell who has been working as an emergency coordinator for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) for two decades. The compilation of the 48 missions in which he has participated is a compendium of the worst humanitarian disasters that the world has suffered since the turn of the century: famine in Kenya, war in Angola, massacres in Darfur, an earthquake in Haiti, the latest jihadist offensive in Mozambique or the current crisis in the Ethiopian region of Tigray. Next week he will travel to South Sudan. He could explain a thousand terrible situations that he has lived in his own skin, but instead would rather tell a positive story: "In 2003, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, there was a little girl who had lost her speech after her parents were killed. I was going from here to there and one day when I was taking her there she said to me muzungu, which means white man, and that's how she started speaking again.

"They're evicting you next Tuesday", the court-appointed lawyer told her. It was Friday, May 21. Ahead, Sara Sherem (66 years old) had three days, two of which were holidays (Monday was a day off in Barcelona), to pack up an entire flat and find an alternative. Behind, fourteen years paying rent for the same flat on Gran Via in Barcelona, although only two with a contract. She had never imagined herself in this situation. Because of the pandemic and kidney cancer, she had had to close her business on Consell de Cent with Muntaner street. It was a cosmetics shop that she had opened in February 2020 with great enthusiasm, thanks to a loan from a bank. She had been working for years in the sector and considered it was time to go freelance. But everything went wrong. A month after opening the shop, the pandemic closed everyone at home and five months, and later she found out she had a tumour between her bronchial tubes and lungs. The two unforeseen events put her out of business. She was able to negotiate a discount with the shop premises, but she had no luck with the flat. "No money was coming in for me... It was just going out", she explains. She stopped paying rent on the flat for five months, but there was enough to start the eviction process. "When the flat passed from the mother to the son, two years ago, he asked me to regularise it and so we did", recalls Sara. She was paying 700 euros a month. When unforeseen circumstances arose, she tried to negotiate a reduction, but it was not possible. Sara asked the social services and the Municipal Housing Board for help, but there are no places for her for two years. At best, a pension where to stay and a place to temporarily leave her furniture.