Once again organize the race-walk Lluis Companys. Tribute al’Olimpíada People, which aims to add value to a sports project of solidarity and brotherhood, conceived in response to the xenophobic Olympics Berlin 1936.

We believe the best way to remember that this sport was to take place in the city, and that frustrates the beginning of the Civil War, is just doing an activity that could not be carried out: a race.

We hope, therefore, on 1 October al’INEFC Barcelona! You can choose to do the walk or run … However, you should sign up!

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Professor John Chalk was responsible for the presentation of the speakers: Gaspar Llamazares, coordinator and coautorde book, as well as Chairman of the Committee on Health Congress, Joan-Ramon Laporte, professor of pharmacology and director of the Foundation Catalan Institute of Pharmacology ; Angels Castles Martinez, an economist and president of the Association for Public Health Standing.
Llamazares’s intervention focused on the characterization of time cuts affecting our public health system under the false argument of unsustainability – “a strategy of propaganda” – the same as the Spanish government to argue before the system change pension. The Member of IU and doctor by profession he lamented that there was no further reaction to the policy adjustment and explained that the aim of his book is the result of a conference of parliamentary group of IU-ICV which took place at the beginning of the crisis is dismantling the argument of unsustainability of the public health and demonstrate that there are outputs. Thus, the collective work is divided into 3 main parts: the first discusses the privatization of the health system, which was opened by Llamazares step with little resistance, the second part examines specific cases, such as comparative models management in the regions or the case of the Instituto de Salud Carlos III, and the end lies the question about the agreement that state health IU asked Congress to strengthen the public health system and recalled that as his deputy, and then they burst CIU President ‘popular’ Galician, the same but now the demand for change and implement the mixed model as in the Nordic countries, where precisely what has been ‘rescue’ was the private.
Moreover, Llamazares said the funding cut is an autonomous attack because the state seeks to reduce social services. Thus, the deputy left insisted that we have a background attack against the welfare state and a contrary state and federal social adjustment, while “the nationalist parties have put forward for his soul before the neoliberal autonomic heart.”

Now entering the second wave of crop health, Llamazares said that only attaches importance to the cost, nobody cares about the policy because they do not want to touch the income tax policies, and this creates a problem of inequality. Deputy UI resorted to OECD data show that the Spanish health expenditure is sustainable, for example, is expected to spend half that in 2060 the whole of the EU, and also shows that aging population is the last influencing health expenditure, there are over income and health determinants, totaling 75% of spending, then comes the pharmaceutical expenditure and finally aging people.

In conclusion, what is at issue is the false argument of calling the rescue of the health system and raised to be accepting the cuts in fact “amputation of the public health system” in the words of in-Llamazares this alerted the introduction of co-payment, and that aim to make a new model that will be neither universal nor accessible.

The coordinator of ‘The left front of the Privatization of Health’ denounced the “dual system within the system” is intended to impose private fostering mutual – “nitxos business interests who do not want to touch” – when based system should be the primary care and public health.
When the turn of Professor Joan Ramon Laporte, it took the recent debate in the Parliament of Catalonia to charge against the so-called ‘Omnibus Law’ CiU government, which “provides for the fragmentation of the Catalan Institute of Health (ICS) and opens the way towards the elimination of hundreds of small public companies “to introduce private activities in public schools. For Laporte, this will break a basic principle of the public, the universality and equity, will double the waiting lists and also affect the quality standards in care. In short, the effect of the new law al’ICS, where 40,000 people work, is “a breakdown of how democratic and public control,” according to Laporte, for whom the system must be owned by citizens and convinced of this, called to build it.

The third speaker, Angel Martínez Castells, began his speech highlighting that “the health and social services are still the glue that provides cohesion” at a time to attack everything the community. The chairman of the Standing Public Health showed the coincidence with the demands of the health committee of the camping place Catalonia, which has demanded the withdrawal of several articles of the Omnibus Act to allow the privatization of the ICS ( case of Article 233, referring to the use of goods for third-profit).

Thus, Professor of Economics also reported an increase in the single thought and, consequently, the increasing commercialization of the system and the fact that public services are measured by the prices when taxes must be financed. And against this backdrop, Martinez Castles claimed under its protection, ethics, reflection on the year of the everyday, and living with values. ”
Finally, he opened a round of speeches and questions to the speakers where they express the experiences and current problems of workers and professionals in the health sector and reflected on the need to address from civic unity in a new model that wants to take away the rights conquered.

Ties is to work to encourage participation in democratic life and politics of immigrants, which is led by our Foundation, and receives the collaboration of the Catalan Association for Peace and supported by the Foundation of social work of the Fund.

In Catalonia have developed various interventions and projects to encourage participation by newcomers in various fields such as education, employment, cultural, etc.. However, the participation of newcomers to the democratic and basic political rights are long overdue for citizens to become active. Other project objectives are firstly, the identification of various barriers to access to institutions, organizations and mechanisms for participation, and secondly, improving intercultural skills and mediation of different political actors.

Ties is a living project that grows and feeds back with your suggestions, comments, ideas and documentation, is why we encourage you to participate!

First spoke Jemni Aymen, Tunisian student activist, who emphasized the role of youth in revolt in his country and explained that currently the youth, who had no previous education policy is discussed through the network which system then they would have made Ben Ali. According to a survey quoted by Jemni, 61% of the population is optimistic about the future states of Tunisia and stressed that public pressure has been determined that the transitional government there are no collaborators of the former regime. The young Tunisian student recalled that on 24 July will be held the first free elections to choose new cabinet and also approved a new constitution.

The next speaker, vice president of the Egyptian House in Barcelona, ​​Alaa Hamed Amir, stood the reasons for the revolution in their country dating back to 2004, when half of the government of Hosni Mubarak were businessmen and half the young population under 25. The representatives of secular organizations were in prison and oal’exili Islamists had “heard but not nails,” he said Hamed. Regarding the first outburst of protest on 25 January, the Egyptian wanted to make clear that young people came to express their political demands and social after mass communicating through Facebook and Twitter and that “nobody was behind her. There were deaths and injuries, which increased in the following demonstration of 18 February -600 deaths and nearly 5,000 injured, according to Hamed. The demands were also increasing and has already demanded the resignation of Mubarak.

In the case of Libya, the population is suffering the wrath of the dictator Muamar Qaddafi uprisings in demand for freedom and democracy. The exiled Fairies Faiz told the harshness of the situation: the army and the mercenaries hired by the regime and provoke bloodshed after collected the corpses and burn. The cities are closed, no water or electricity, without entry of food or medicine. It gets people to hit the streets. So they controlled Tripoli in a week, according Fairies, adding that this is not a civil war if not to defend people who do not kill. I ended up highlighting that the Libyans want democracy, not an Islamic regime.

The last speech was given by the Lebanese Ghassan Saliba, who made a general analysis of the Arab world by placing input that these revolutions are not spontaneous or sporadic, “the Arabs have not surprised, but the conditions are ripe with rotten regimes, “he said. By Saliba, there are few factors. First, the failure of national sovereignty in terms of defending the unity of Arab countries and control their natural wealth. “Many have gone from being unable to accomplices” and referred to the support of some occupation of Iraq and “betraying the Palestinian cause.” Secondly, popular revolutions attributed to the lack of political economic and social development of democratic freedoms and denounced the repressive apparatus that have kept the regimes of these countries.

Saliba pointed out that Islam has been used against Arabism since the Nasser era and the struggles that have led to revolutions accumulated current, which in his opinion had a decisive role leftist political parties and trade unions “were the fights that have created the conditions for following up and talking to people who have been on the streets,” he said.

As Lebanese union based in Barcelona, ​​this is a complex process with different results depending on who wins the people in each country and what is needed if Europe is to define the left because “the relations between Europe and the Arab world must change, before the expired, the Arab countries want to conquer their national sovereignty, “he said Saliba.

In this first analysis Aymen Jemni (Tunisian activist) will speak on the Tunisian experience, Alaa Hamed Amir (President of the Egyptian House of Barcelona) discussed the recent events in Egypt and Ghassan Saliba (Secretary of the Immigration CONC) address his speech from a global perspective of the region.

We wait!

It entered the field, former Ecuadorian Minister has noted the deteriorating economic, institutional and social Latin American continent has suffered as a result of the process of destruction of the productive apparatus, which has given the weakness of the social and democratic. Against this backdrop, Paez noted the need to debate from the Left, to boost the social energy and creativity of the people and especially young people to advance from the various realities of Latin American countries. This is the first premise of the new Architecture financial enact progressive governments of Ecuador, Bolivia, Venezuela … Build skills to face the crisis generated by neoliberalism and before colonialism.

Break the economic dependency: the Dealer South

Ecuadorian economist argued that dependence to macroeconomic, financial and monetary forces that govern left some Latin American countries have found the key to different responses to the financial oligarchy: building the so-called Bank of the South, an alternative to the IMF with a common currency, sugar.

The efforts of these progressive Latin American governments in recent years have focused on combating poverty and unemployment in the last decade have had consistent social improvements, according to Paez, despite acknowledging that the action has irreversible effects neoliberamisme regarding the destruction of the social, productive and democratic, with consequent changes in the structure of social strata.

In the case of Ecuador, Paez said that the government of Rafael Correa aims to secure the credit necessary to push priority projects, which obviously do not have to be rendables. So, priorities are food sovereignty (create infrastructure to end hunger), an efficient and affordable healthcare system for the majority of Latin Americans (with the production of generic drugs in laboratories), the creation of another system Money that is not speculation plundering vehicle (linking people from complementarity, giving job opportunities and improvement in families and communities) and creating a financial safety net that forcing central banks to operate from a different logic and to ensure macroeconomic stability of member countries.

For the moment, are the 7 countries that have joined the agreement for the construction of Banking and South Ecuador, Bolivia, Cuba and Venezuela already operate with each currency sugar.

Former Ecuadorian Minister concluded his speech, pleasantly received by the competition, which highlighted young people in Europe, warning that they can be applied disastrous recipes dictated by capital: “They want llatinoamericanitzar africanitzar Europe and Latin America,” he said.

See you on 2 February at the house at 18:00 Golferichs.

The event will present the head of the International Space Foundation, Albert Company

19.00 Film Forum, with the documentary “Journalists: A trader of Lying” and the participation of a sociologist and writer Felipe López Aranguren.

Colloquium on the media and manipulation. There will be attended by the hot broth.

22.00 Concert “Miguel Hernandez” the Company “Zahúrda ‘(dramatized poetry of Miguel Hernandez),’ Ke Nunca Más Vale Tarde” (songs reinvindicatives) Trasteando (Version Boikot, repeat …) and DJ Oskiman

Location: Pl. de las Palmeras – Barcelona