The Declaration of Alpa Clotto Camp Federacio invites us to the main festival of the neighborhood and asserts that “when we are together, we are stronger”, and we must continue to protect our homes, streets and public services. … The neighborhood probably won’t. In detail, the organizations celebrating this festival are Esbalto San Martí, the feminist organization La Luna, and the Khazar independence group Lannonima. All this is done without forgetting the “struggle and unity” of the neighbors, who “stand up” when necessary, because “the city is not a business.”
Struggles and solidarity of an international nature reaching Gaza and the West Bank and “all those who suffer from the oppression of patriarchal, capitalist and colonial systems.” To this end, they declare their “determination to keep fighting, organizing and building our neighborhoods, and building a more dignified, freer and fairer world.”
All this without forgetting that we are participating in a large-scale festival that is “joyful, critical, demanding, and sharing” and, as a result, citizens are invited to participate “with energy, to enjoy each activity, each dance, each concert and, above all, the company of people.”
This is what the Federation of Neighborhood Associations says in a publication distributed on the streets, where the borough councilor “welcomes the festival” and emphasizes “the strength, ambition and great imagination of the neighborhood that has made it a fixture on the city’s festival calendar, until it has become a symbol of the way of life and a much-awaited event for all.” It was achieved through “parades of giants, baton balls, rum-fueled habanera concerts, cholefoques, popular races, and the sharing of vermouth, dinners, snacks, happiness and brotherhood.”
In his inaugural address, the ward councilor invited us to the event with the Vizcarra Festa Major. Like many other festivals celebrated in Catalonia, it gives an image of imaginary citizenship. A typical portrait of progressive neighbors, feminists, environmentalists, pacifists, nationalists, and all the other cool Catechism “ists.” Those who do not agree with it may die of boredom during the festival.
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