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It´s January 2026. It´s cold, and people are freezing. I´m writing this because it´s a real situation that needs to change. I cannot observe how people are just freezing, so I take them hot tea, warm food, home-made soup, as much as I can, to bring a little comfort.
Being outside, in the cold, without a roof, reduces all possibilities of taking care of yourself, and survival depends on creativity and continuous adaptation.
I sip from the tea with my friends. They compliment the soup, which warms them up, and the Transilvanian pies, which I managed to bake at minimum of budget. I´m amazed by their resistance and tranquility, how they use humor to overcome the slightest difficulty, how they wash the clothes with their hands, and try to maintain hygiene, even in such a situation. To resist, they use auto-regulation techniques like praying, meditation, exercise, reading, or dancing. The amount of effort on an empty stomach is gigantic. Each of them needs constant food to recuperate; they are underweight as a consequence of the imposed poverty, but nobody cares. For each of them, someone is responsible for taking care of them, yet it's just me checking if they are fine for the past 2 months.
The skills most migrants have are impressive. The mental strength is admirable, the culture is absolutely interesting, and yet they are mainly told they do not count, or even called stupid or crazy, as it happened in the last 2 months while searching for help.
What I see happening in Spain, Catalunya, where I have observed the migration phenomenon around international conflicts, is a very dangerous lack of seriousness. This is not any place; it is a place where immigrants all over the world are intersecting. The people arriving here have each a story to make a film or series about; they are survivors, yet have to face systemic racism and xenophobia.
The social support, terribly coordinated and corrupt, results in imposed vulnerability. Each inadequate response to a cry for help is a criminal act.
For years, I have written about what´s happening and how institutional racism is manifesting. Once more, the issue persists, even if the year has changed. This is an open call for action.
As adults, we don´t play with human rights; we apply them!
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By Cap de MeteoritIt´s January 2026. It´s cold, and people are freezing. I´m writing this because it´s a real situation that needs to change. I cannot observe how people are just freezing, so I take them hot tea, warm food, home-made soup, as much as I can, to bring a little comfort.
Being outside, in the cold, without a roof, reduces all possibilities of taking care of yourself, and survival depends on creativity and continuous adaptation.
I sip from the tea with my friends. They compliment the soup, which warms them up, and the Transilvanian pies, which I managed to bake at minimum of budget. I´m amazed by their resistance and tranquility, how they use humor to overcome the slightest difficulty, how they wash the clothes with their hands, and try to maintain hygiene, even in such a situation. To resist, they use auto-regulation techniques like praying, meditation, exercise, reading, or dancing. The amount of effort on an empty stomach is gigantic. Each of them needs constant food to recuperate; they are underweight as a consequence of the imposed poverty, but nobody cares. For each of them, someone is responsible for taking care of them, yet it's just me checking if they are fine for the past 2 months.
The skills most migrants have are impressive. The mental strength is admirable, the culture is absolutely interesting, and yet they are mainly told they do not count, or even called stupid or crazy, as it happened in the last 2 months while searching for help.
What I see happening in Spain, Catalunya, where I have observed the migration phenomenon around international conflicts, is a very dangerous lack of seriousness. This is not any place; it is a place where immigrants all over the world are intersecting. The people arriving here have each a story to make a film or series about; they are survivors, yet have to face systemic racism and xenophobia.
The social support, terribly coordinated and corrupt, results in imposed vulnerability. Each inadequate response to a cry for help is a criminal act.
For years, I have written about what´s happening and how institutional racism is manifesting. Once more, the issue persists, even if the year has changed. This is an open call for action.
As adults, we don´t play with human rights; we apply them!