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      The mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, responds to the media at a press conference

      Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau Cuts City's Ties With Israel Over 'Crime of Apartheid'

      "We cannot be silent," said Colau.

      Julia Conley
      Feb 09, 2023

      Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau on Wednesday announced her city is cutting ties with Israel and ending its symbolic 25-year-old "twin cities" relationship with Tel Aviv over the Israeli government's violent anti-Palestinian policies.

      Colau said at a press conference that the city council came to its decision in response to campaigning by more than 100 rights groups and 4,000 residents, who urged her to cut ties with Israel.

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      In Barcelona, Being a Fearless City Mayor Means Letting the People Decide

      In Barcelona, Being a Fearless City Mayor Means Letting the People Decide

      For close to a decade now, Barcelona has become a beacon of possibility for transformative change at the city level

      Laura Flanders
      Jun 17, 2019

      Losing Barcelona. That was the headline on the story in Jacobin this week. A local vote in a far-off city; had I not just returned from Barcelona, I might have left it at that. possibilitiy

      The truth is, US media give us so little coverage of goings-on elsewhere, and so little context as to why Americans should care, there's little incentive to keep up; but Barcelona's different. For close to a decade now, it's been what my friend Sol Trumbo Vila calls a beacon for the possibilities of transformative change at the city level.

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      Reporter in Spain

      Reporter in Spain

      "In the twentieth century, it was monarchy that was crashing. Today, it’s the rule of capital."

      Laura Flanders
      May 31, 2019

      Eighty years ago this April, Spain fell under a thirty-year dictatorship after Right beat Left in a brutal civil war. That history feels acutely alive to me today, and not just because, for the first time in my life, I'm in Spain.

      General Franco's rebels, backed by Mussolini and Hitler and the religious extremists of the day, defeated the Republic and its cobbled-together army of anarchists, communists and internationalists over three years (1936-39). My grandfather, Claud Cockburn, was there with the fighting in Spain's central plains and in the city of Barcelona as it was hanging on, watching bombs hit the northern mountains that I've been looking at for days.

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