One hundred officers from the Palma Local Police They gathered this Thursday in front of the City Hall to demand that the body management plan promised by the local corporation be implemented.

Neither the cold nor the bad weather forecasts stop the farmers: they begin the tractorsMore than a hundred tractors paraded from Campos to Ariany and drove through the streets of Palma, while another group traveled along the roads of Menorca (in three separate demonstrations) to demand solutions to the current critical situation in the primary sector and the uncertainty surrounding the future of the island's countryside. Specifically, they are protesting against the Mercosur agreement They demand that all products entering the Archipelago have the same conditions as local production and that agriculture not be a bargaining chip in the European Union.

The Plaça de Cort in Palma will host this afternoon's annual rally in support of the Sahrawi people, organized by the Association of Friends of the Sahrawi People of the Balearic Islands. The event will include the lighting of candles in remembrance of political prisoners and the disappeared. As the organization noted in a statement, December 25th marks the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the occupation of Western Sahara. Musicantes, Cor de Cambra, the Orfeó Ramon Llull, and CAUOM will participate in the rally. The event will serve to denounce the forced disappearances, repression, human rights violations in the territory, and the imprisonment of Sahrawis fighting for their freedom. The association points out that there are currently 39 Sahrawi political prisoners serving life sentences or 30- and 25-year terms in Moroccan prisons, under conditions they describe as inhumane. "Each candle we light will be a light against the silence, a cry against impunity, and a tribute to all the victims," the statement affirms. The Association of Friends of the Sahrawi People of the Balearic Islands reiterates its demand for the holding of the self-determination referendum promised to the Sahrawi people and recalls "the political, legal, and moral obligation" of Spain as the administering power of the territory. "This Christmas, we join in their pain, their hope, and their struggle," the organization concludes.

Residents of Palma have called for a pot-banging protest in front of the City Hall to protest the felling of 18 beautiful shade trees in Llorenç Villalonga Square.

Dozens of lifeguards demonstrated simultaneously in Palma and Ibiza to protest against the amendment to Decree 2/2005 regulating their work on beaches. According to the professionals, the proposed amendment establishes a non-preventive lifeguarding model, which contemplates the placement of towers 800 meters from the sidewalk. They also criticize the fact that it leads to increasingly shorter seasons, designed for tourists rather than residents.

On October 15, the UGT and CCOO organized two-hour work stoppages in all workplaces with the aim of "demonstrating that the world of work does not look the other way and also singles out Israel as a genocidal state," explained José Luis García, Secretary General of the Workers' Commissions of the Balearic Islands. Both unions formally registered the call for action in the Islands (which will also be carried out in the rest of Spain) this Tuesday with the Ministry of the Presidency. All employees—both in public and private companies—will be able to show their support for Palestine from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. (morning shifts), from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. if they work in the afternoon, and from 2 a.m. to 4 a.m. if they work at night.

The SATI union has called for a cacerolazo at the Palma Intermodal Station to kick off the eighth day of the strike. The "symbolic, renewed, and forceful" protest, the union reported, will take place starting at 8:30 a.m. this Tuesday.

Workers of companies subcontracted by Aena to provide logistics and ground operations services to aircraft, airlines and passengers (handling) at Son Sant Joan Airport complain of working "among fleas and cockroaches." A worker on the ARA Baleares plane shows off her body "covered in flea bites." In fact, at the workers' demonstration this Friday protesting working conditions, the secretary of the UGT (Union of Workers' Union) for the air sector in the Balearic Islands, José Negreira, denounced that "there's everything in the baggage claim area." "We have workers with many bites all over the place. It's shameful," he reiterated. Along the same lines, he added that passengers, "when they board, they see fireflies running around." "The airport is the gateway for tourism to the Islands. We're the first face they see, and the service isn't very good," he insisted.

Workers at companies subcontracted by Aena to provide logistics and operational services to aircraft, airlines, and passengers at Son Sant Joan Airport threatened this Friday to cause a "total collapse" in August due to the "precariousness of the sector" and the conditions in which they are forced to work. Balearic Islands Minister José Negreira warned that "if the government and Aena do not contact the workers within a week," he announced that they will bring out a hundred cars they have already prepared and begin circling the roundabout with the goal of ensuring that "no one gets through." handling They protested at the airport over the contracts with companies paid by Aena. "They give them 10-hour contracts, and as the season progresses, they increase them and they add a lot of overtime," explained José García, secretary of the Federation of Services, Mobility and Transport of the UGT (General Workers' Union), . "They treat the permanent, discontinuous workers as if they were temporary staff," the workers denounced. "We want them to hire staff and provide us with 100% of the minimum services," Negreira insisted.

The Mallorca Platja Tour organization has formally canceled the gathering planned for this weekend on the Amarador beach in Mondragó, as part of its efforts to raise awareness about overcrowding on the island's beaches.

The government delegation, led by the Director General of Mobility, Lorena del Valle, greeted the townspeople with a surprise tractor parade. They met this Tuesday with the owners of the land affected by the future train line between Sa Pobla and Port d'Alcúdia.

The youth organization Arran has accused the government of criminalizing the grassroots movement, especially in cases where protests go "against its ideals." "Both the current government of Marga Prohens and previous ones, especially those of Pacte, have led us to the current situation, in which we have lost in all areas of our lives to the profits of the tourism sector," Arran said in a statement on Tuesday. The organization ironically emphasized that "on an island full of graffiti of all kinds, the government has strongly condemned the only ones that have directly pointed it out." According to Arran, the government has taken "one more step in its attempt to criminalize the grassroots movement." The organization forcefully stated that the government "persecutes" certain displays of discontent from civil society.

The Establiments neighborhood council held an assembly this past Wednesday to continue organizing opposition to the recently passed Land Liberalization Law, promoted by the PP and Vox parties. Some eighty people, including neighborhood groups and associations, as well as the Palma Residents' Federation and the GOB (Government of the Basque Country), decided to form a platform to organize and unify their opposition to the land liberalization law.

This week, Palma residents began organizing to demonstrate their opposition to the government's law that plans to liberalize thousands of hectares of rural land for housing construction.