Saturday walks through the popular memory of the neighborhoods

  • This Sunday there will be another ten (Re) turns -official name of the initiative- by neighborhoods of Mollet, Rubí, L’Hospitalet and Barcelona

While some walked sheltered by Pere IV, the backbone of Catalan Manchester, others did so under the impressive and sad Venus building, emblem of La Mina forgotten, listening to the stories of the always accurate Paqui Jimenez, its best known and recognized neighborhood leader. This Saturday, Barcelona and several towns in its metropolitan area have celebrated a score of (Re) turns, name with which Omnium, the organizing entity, has named its marathon of protest walks to “recover and revalue the daily and popular history of the collectives, places and protagonists underrepresented in the story and the collective memory“.

On Sant Roc, one of the most vulnerable and stigmatized neighborhoods in Badalona, where power cuts are the daily bread winter after winter and evictions day after day, the route has been guided by the people of the Ateneu de Sant Roc, a leading entity in the enclave, always at the foot of the canyon, whose militants have been fighting for decades the transformation of the neighborhood and, above all, to improve the living conditions of its neighbors.

This Saturday they have also joined the (Re) voltes several neighborhoods of Hospitalet de Llobregat, where a group of neighbors have entered L’Hospitalet of the year 1964 described in the work of Paco Candel ‘The other Catalans’ and they have reflected on what remains in the 21st century of the characters and realities described in the work.

In parallel, other neighbors have walked through Montbau, the Carmel or the Good Shepherd.

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Marathon (Re) turns will continue this Sunday with walks to vindicate the other stories of Catalonia in neighborhoods such as that of Plana Lledó from Mollet, an enclave that many residents of this city of Vallès proudly call the “neighborhood without a mother” or by Ca N’Oriol, on Ruby.

In the Catalan capital, this Sunday will be the turn of the (Re) time for the history of Jupiter Sports Club. History of neighborhood football that is also the history of the neighborhood. Starting from the location of the different fields of the mythical club, the walk will narrate the transformation of the neighborhoods of the Poblenou, La Verneda, La Pau and Besòs Mar; of industrialization and the labor movement and Catalan anarcho-syndicalist, to the neighborhood struggles of the 60s, 70s and 80s to the present day.

Reference-www.elperiodico.com

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