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      <title><![CDATA[What are the Earth Revolts?]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/opinion/what-are-the-earth-revolts_129_5711212.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/e77fd06a-8a83-4b5a-b47e-44f5608c6bcd_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0_x875y593.jpg" /></p><p>This weekend, while this column is published and read, the second germination of Earth Revolts will take place. Last year, the first one, was in Mont-roig del Camp (Tarragona) against a project that exemplifies the trap that green capitalism proposes to us to reinvent the ways it subjugates and conditions territories. Always under the blackmail of jobs and economic dynamization of the territory, it ends up colonizing them and turning them into sacrifice zones at the mercy of profit generation for large international financial capitals. In the case of Mont-roig it was Lotte, a Korean company that plans to implement an industry for the manufacture of a component for the lithium batteries that power the misguided energy transition of the global north.This year it is in Bages, where the company Israel Chemical Limited (ICL) has been exploiting salt mines for years that contaminate waters and lands with salt dumps and, at the same time, sponsors the genocide in Palestine. A company in whose activity ecocide and genocide go hand in hand.Both one and the other, accompanied in development by the competent institutions in turn and, in the second case, with the complicity and indulgence of the institutions in the face of non-compliance with judgments in which the company has already been convicted for environmental damage.From Mallorca, we have approached the Earth Uprising movements from the beginning. First, in meetings that periodically and for three years have been held on struggles in defense of the territory from all Catalan-speaking regions. These meetings have been the seed for the collective construction of a proposal that does not define itself as a coordinator of collectives, nor as a platform, but as a new dynamic of struggle. A dynamic that aims to spread like a mycelium underground, to nourish it with a common sense and feeling, and to emerge at any point where there is a territory that wishes to be defended against projects that threaten life (human and non-human). It is at these points that the germinations will materialize, where a massive confluence of organizations, collectives, and people are convened to confront the disaster, sharpen the challenges, and reorganize life. All, under other logics for inhabiting the earth without compromising the sustainability of life, and that this, precisely, be the political horizon of the desirable transformation of the way life and societies are organized in the territories that sustain it.This is why we learn together, mobilize together, organize together, to invent and reinvent, without ever losing hope, with other forms of relationship, other forms of resistance, other forms of collective construction and other forms of inhabiting the present and future together. Forms that draw on and recognize the learnings and paths that have preceded us, with a critical gaze that allows them to be transcended rather than fossilized, and that, at the same time, seek to become possibility and dispute the imaginaries of what is to be done, breaking the mental, action and interaction frameworks recognized until now. Forms that recognize the great and small struggles in defense of the territory, the ecological struggles, the conservationist struggles, the workers' struggles, those of popular and communalist organization, those of base communities and infrastructures, the anti-racist and decolonial struggles, the feminist struggles, those from other territories that we find inspiring. The latter range from those of organizations from the global south against global extractivism to the struggles coming from France or Germany, which deal with the occupation of territories, the reappropriation and resignification of what it means to inhabit land, bodies and territories, and which are characterized by massive direct actions that allow for very broad confluences of organized people to claim and defend life, the life of all, in a time of death.It will be an intense weekend to meet each other, recognize each other, organize ourselves, inhabit ourselves and inhabit the territory that welcomes us and that, in its welcome, recognizes us as part and with which we become a whole. A territory defending itself. Before it was Mont-roig, today it is Bages, tomorrow perhaps –and certainly, I would say– it will be Mallorca.Therefore, this year, we return and, in the following, we tell you about it.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Margalida Ramis]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 18 Apr 2026 14:26:12 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[The protesters march against Lotte's battery factory.]]></media:title>
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      <title><![CDATA[Earth Revolutions]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>This weekend, while this column is published and read, the second germination of Revueltas de la Tierra will take place. Last year, the first one, was in Mont-roig del Camp (Tarragona) against a project that exemplifies the trap that green capitalism proposes to us to reinvent the ways it subjugates and conditions territories. Always under the blackmail of jobs and the economic dynamization of the territory, it ends up colonizing them and turning them into sacrifice zones at the mercy of the profit generation of large international financial capitals. In the case of Mont-roig it was Lotte, a Korean company that plans to implement an industry for the manufacture of a component for the lithium batteries that power the misunderstood energy transition of the global north.This year it is in El Bages, where the company Israel Chemical Limited (ICL) has been exploiting salt mines for years that contaminate water and land with saline waste and, at the same time, sponsors the genocide in Palestine. A company in whose activity ecocide and genocide go hand in hand.Both the one and the other, accompanied in their development by the competent institutions of the moment and, in the second case, with the complicity and indulgence of the institutions in the face of non-compliance with rulings in which the company has already been condemned for environmental damage.From Mallorca, we have been involved from the beginning in the Revueltas de la Tierra movements. First, in meetings that have been held periodically for three years on struggles in defense of the territory of all Catalan-speaking regions. These meetings have been the seed for the collective construction of a proposal that is not defined as a coordinator of collectives, nor as a platform, but as a new dynamic of struggle. A dynamic that aims to spread like mycelium underground, to nourish it with a common sense and feeling, and to emerge at any point where there is a territory to defend against projects that attack life (human and non-human). It is at these points that the germinations will materialize, where a massive confluence of organizations, collectives, and individuals will be convened to confront disaster, sharpen challenges, and reorganize life. All, under other logics for inhabiting the earth without compromising the sustainability of life, and for this, precisely, to be the political horizon of the desirable transformation of how life and societies are organized in the territories that sustain it.This is why we learn together, we mobilize together, we organize together, to invent and reinvent, without ever losing hope, with other forms of relationship, other forms of resistance, other forms of collective construction, and other forms of inhabiting the present and the future together. Forms that draw from and recognize the learnings and journeys that have preceded us, with a critical gaze that allows us to transcend them rather than fossilize them, and that, at the same time, want to become a possibility and dispute the imaginaries of what is to be done, breaking the mental, action, and interaction frameworks recognized until now. Forms that recognize the large and small struggles in defense of the territory, the environmentalist struggles, the conservationist ones, the workers' ones, those of popular and communal organization, those of grassroots communities and infrastructures, the anti-racist and decolonial ones, the feminist ones, those from other territories that we find inspiring. The latter range from those of organizations from the global south against global extractivism to struggles coming from France or Germany, which deal with the occupation of territories, the reappropriation and resignification of what it means to inhabit land, bodies, and territories, and which are characterized by massive direct actions that allow for very broad confluences of organized people to claim and defend life, the life of all, in a time of death.It will be an intense weekend to meet, recognize each other, organize ourselves, inhabit ourselves, and inhabit the territory that welcomes us and that, in its welcome, recognizes us as part of it and with which we become a whole. A territory defending itself. Before it was Mont-roig, today it is El Bages, tomorrow perhaps –and for sure, I would say– it will be Mallorca.Therefore, this year, we will return, and next time, we will tell you about it.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Margalida Ramis]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 18 Apr 2026 06:32:00 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Not only the what, but also the how]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://en.arabalears.cat/opinion/beyond-growth_129_5655199.html" target="_blank">In my latest article, 'Beyond Growth',</a> It argued that we live trapped in the capital-life conflict: a structural tension that transforms the economy into a machine of perpetual extraction while eroding the material and social foundations that sustain existence. This is the daily reality of an accelerated, precarious, and ecologically overwhelmed world, in which emergencies become chronic and politics often manages the symptoms while protecting the causes.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Margalida Ramis]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 21 Mar 2026 07:30:27 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Beyond growth]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>We live immersed in the conflict between capital and life. We are condemned to a profound and permanent contradiction that manifests itself in situations of extreme violence, of polarization exacerbated by bewilderment, uncertainty, and fear. And we have the feeling that everything is happening at an ever-increasing pace, and therefore, in a more alienating way. We see a multitude of emergencies erupt, becoming chronic and intensifying, while politics and states are either incapable of confronting them or, directly, operate by intensifying the dynamics of the logic of capitalist accumulation, as if the future were a secondary and even negligible variable.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Margalida Ramis]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 21 Feb 2026 07:30:52 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Desire]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/opinion/desire_129_5627342.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>In this first article of the year, desire compels me to write. At the end of the year, we take stock of life, both our own and that of the world we inhabit. As we begin another, we formulate desires, usually desires for change. Although there can also be desires, immutability, and certainty in reality, the only thing that becomes clear is precisely that the only certainty is uncertainty and change.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Margalida Ramis]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 24 Jan 2026 07:30:51 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The shadow we're missing]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/opinion/the-shadow-we-re-missing_129_5605904.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>In times uncertain in every aspect, the promise of impossible certainties becomes a blinding and addictive opiate. Certainties that function as temporary refuges from a world that is increasingly difficult to digest. But the temporality of these certainties is more ephemeral than ever, laying bare their lack of real substance. They are pseudo-certainties thrust upon us through information overload and technological algorithms, which transform any legitimate concern into an avalanche of easy, conclusive, and reassuring answers. Answers that offer instant comfort, but which then leave a deep void, an absence of meaning that seeks only to be filled with more immediate stimuli, with extreme dogmatism, with simplistic and salvific narratives, with trap-like refuges that promise protection while imprisoning us in a desperate meaninglessness, hunting noise, excess, and emptiness.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Margalida Ramis]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 30 Dec 2025 18:30:11 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The transformation]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/opinion/the-transformation_129_5581119.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>A few weeks ago, GOB Mallorca took advantage of the opportunity afforded to civil society to "occupy" the Parliament building to engage in politics. Yes, to engage in politics, which is what we do every day through our activism, our daily lives, and also, obviously, through grassroots, popular organizations, what are called social movements or organized civil society. Not partisan politics, but politics in the broadest and most social sense of the word, deployed with its full potential.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Margalida Ramis]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 02 Dec 2025 18:30:15 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Neoliberal plunder]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>To welcome tourists to the point of exhaustion and to do business, speculate, and sell off natural, cultural, tangible, intangible, real estate, material, common heritage… whatever it may be, and at whatever social and ecological cost.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Margalida Ramis]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 04 Nov 2025 18:30:10 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Imagine the (im)possible]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/opinion/imagine-the-im-possible_129_5521283.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>These days, when the reality of the era of humanity we have been called to live through far exceeds, and is worse than, the worst scenarios we thought possible regarding the genocidal impunity of the State of Israel against Palestine, are precisely when the (im)possible are in dispute. And this is shown to us by the people of Palestine themselves and the determination of the Global Sumud Flotilla, which, as I write this article, and despite the illegal detention of part of that flotilla, continues its course toward Gaza to break Israel's murderous siege. We need the impossible, now more than ever.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Margalida Ramis]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 07 Oct 2025 17:31:24 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Mallorca to live in]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/opinion/mallorca-to-live-in_129_5506697.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>This is the initial name of the new platform that emerged in Mallorca following the proposed law on urgent actions to obtain land, promoted by the government under the pretext of exploiting the social crisis in housing. "Mallorca for living, not for speculation" makes it clear, just from the name itself, that it is a clear denunciation of the proposed land liberalization for the construction of new homes, with a significant increase in profit margins for developers and builders and putting on the table the reclassification of rural land in areas with a population of 20,000 that the Territorial Plan of Mallorca defined as "transition areas." This clearly speculative operation means that today, even though not all municipalities have expressed their intention to implement this possibility, it has already increased the prices of rural land, as the president of the Association of Real Estate Agents acknowledged this week: rural land in transition areas has been revalued.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Margalida Ramis]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 23 Sep 2025 17:31:05 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Organizing conflict in times of ecosocial crisis]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/opinion/organizing-conflict-in-times-of-ecosocial-crisis_129_5491765.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>The last weekend of August I shared a table, conversation and reflection with my colleagues from Anticapitalistas, at their Summer University. <em>Ecosocial strategies for the end of the old order</em>. The fifteenth edition of a week dedicated to generating a joint space for political reflection and analysis, training, conversation, critical thinking, and enriching, stimulating, and hopeful experiences.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Margalida Ramis]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 09 Sep 2025 17:31:23 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Everything burns]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>These days, while the smoke from the massive wildfires ravaging different parts of Spain worries us, we've also seen the fires affecting the Albufera region once again. This, after a few weeks in which a permanent heat wave seemed to suffocate us and in which the island teems with people and unrest. The fires become a metaphor for the present we are living in. Everything is burning; it's not in vain that we've been playing with gasoline for so long, ignoring the increasingly explicit, violent, evident, and immediate consequences of the disaster we have caused, with irreversible ecological imbalances and growing social inequalities at all levels, both locally and globally.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Margalida Ramis]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 26 Aug 2025 17:30:41 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Empríes]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/opinion/empries_129_5469717.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>In an era marked by chronic ecological emergencies, growing social inequalities and barbarism, and the vulnerability of global production systems and chains, reflection on territory, resource management, and collective sovereignty is urgent and fundamental to charting presents that lead us to more just, desirable, and livable futures, relocated to our own land, the one we walk on, the one that truly sustains us and will be able to sustain us. In this context, lands, values, and communal work require special attention, a look to engender possibilities and revisit collective imaginaries that have been able to function differently.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Margalida Ramis]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 12 Aug 2025 17:30:49 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Making life: conversation between bodies that cultivate]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>Summer is back, and at the gates of August, EiMA is back. The performing arts festival that Maria Antònia Oliver and a wonderful team of people have made possible for 10 years—Maria de la Salut. The essence: culture and rurality, questioned, observed, intervened, enriched through sincerity, firm commitment, honesty, collective inquiry, listening, radicalism, provocation, and assuming the risk that all this entails in the world and times we live in.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Margalida Ramis]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 29 Jul 2025 17:30:37 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The irrational planning of renewables]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>The Balearic Islands, and Mallorca in particular, face a key moment in defining their present and future in terms of energy and land use. The energy transition is an urgent challenge, yes, but what should be an opportunity to democratize energy, reduce emissions, and protect the land is becoming a threat to the very territory they claim to want to preserve. This attack, in short, adds to the disfigurement of rural land, which, through amnesties and reclassifications, is valued more as investment land than as a vital ecological asset, which it is. The proposal to delimit Priority Development Zones (PDZs) by the Mallorcan Council is a clear example of this: irrational planning, disconnected from the island's energy, territorial, and environmental reality.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Margalida Ramis]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 15 Jul 2025 17:31:06 +0000]]></pubDate>
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