The Palma City Council filed an administrative litigation appeal this Friday against the Government Delegation in the Balearic Islands for its actions regarding the new housing protest encampment in Plaza de España. The council has also requested urgent precautionary measures to prohibit the settlement, which had 24 tents as of this Thursday, according to the municipal assessment.

The housing campers will return to Palma's Plaça d'Espanya after the general strike called for this Wednesday, November 11. This was announced by representatives of the collective this Tuesday during the Palma City Council plenary session, one week after the eviction of the protest by the Local Police. "Right now we are focusing all our strength on the strike and on the fact that people organize themselves to exert pressure in the claim for housing as a basic right. After having managed to call this strike, our plan is to return to camping," explained Clara Santano, one of the participants in the camp, to the media.

MÉS per Mallorca will file a complaint with the Public Prosecutor's Office of the Balearic Islands regarding the eviction of the housing encampment in Plaza de España, which the Palma Local Police executed last November 4th. The party considers that the actions of the PP municipal government, led by Jaime Martínez, could have violated the fundamental right to assembly and demands an investigation into whether the City Council acted outside its jurisdiction to end a peaceful protest.

Jaime Martínez has responded to the activists' intention to reorganize and reactivate the housing protest camp at Palma's Plaza de España. The response, just like the dismantling: Local Police. This was confirmed by the mayor, who noted that there will be a special operation to "enforce the civic ordinance and the public space occupation ordinance."

The third attempt has succeeded. Under the cover of darkness and without authorization from the Spanish government delegation in the Balearic Islands, Cort dismantled the housing encampment in Palma late this Wednesday night. According to a statement they issued, they made the decision "due to the lack of action by the government delegation and in compliance with municipal ordinances," a fact that reaffirms, once again, that Martínez did not have the authorization to do so, an authorization that had been requested on two occasions and had been denied.

The Palma City Council will wait for the Spanish government's Delegation in the Balearic Islands to evict the encampment in the event that it considers it is no longer protected by the right to demonstrate before considering whether to open sanctioning proceedings against the participants for a possible breach of municipal ordinances. This was stated this Wednesday by the Mayor of Palma, Jaime Martínez, one day after the Local Police identified those camped out and Emaya workers removed various objects they had installed on public roads.

The Palma Anti-Eviction Platform accuses the City Council and the Local Police of violating the right to peaceful assembly and demonstration following the action taken this Tuesday at the housing encampment in Plaça d'Espanya. The collective denounces that the agents removed the fences, pallets, and other elements that delimited and protected the camp, and warns that it will demand accountability from both municipal officials and the police officers who executed the order.

The encampment for the right to housing in Palma denounced this Wednesday, coinciding with the second day of the general policy debate in Parliament, the distance between institutional discussions and the real needs of the citizenry. "We see a great difference between the political debate that the institutions are having and the needs and concerns of the people on the street," stated Miquel Marc Pou, one of the spokespersons for the social movement, who accuses political leaders of prioritizing the interests of property owners and the real estate sector over the demands of the population that needs to access affordable housing.

The housing encampment in Palma has called for various neighborhood assemblies in the city to prepare for the general housing strike on November 11th. The initiative aims to involve residents in the organization of the day of protest, which is framed as a mobilization "against the housing business." In parallel, Arran and the Student Union of the Catalan Countries (SEPC) have announced three strike committees to begin mobilizing the youth of Mallorca.

The death of Maricarmen has struck the housing encampment in Palma, which this Wednesday received the news in the middle of an assembly at the Plaça d'Espanya. In a statement released after learning of her death, the participants expressed their "anger and pain" and directly accused those responsible for the eviction and the administrations of not having prevented the outcome. "Her death would have been easy to prevent, but they did not want to. Because Maricarmen has not died. Maricarmen has been murdered," the encampment asserts in the statement.

The Flama collective and the people from the encampment for the right to housing in Palma have frontally rejected the Palma City Council's use of the cases of sexism reported within the space to politically justify the eviction of the Plaça d'Espanya. In a statement released this Tuesday, they accuse the mayor, Jaime Martínez, of "instrumentalizing feminism to attack and delegitimize a social movement" that demands the right to decent housing.

The Housing Camp of Mallorca, installed in the Plaça d'Espanya in Palma, faces a new day of mobilization this Thursday marked by the forecast of rain. The participants have maintained the camp and have called on the public to join them and contribute material that allows them to protect themselves from the water during the next few hours.

The encampment for the right to housing at Plaça d'Espanya in Palma woke up this Wednesday with more tents and more people than the night before. The protest, which began in the early hours of Monday to Tuesday following the massive demonstration in support of Maricarmen at Plaça de Cort, thus continues to gain participants and is preparing for a new day of activities.

"You are doing very well, don't give up. If I were younger, I would come too." An eighty-year-old lady approached a group of young people who are maintaining the encampment for the right to housing in Palma's Plaza de España this Tuesday at noon and wanted to convey her support. The scene, explains Albert, one of the spokespersons for the encampment, is not exceptional. Over the last few hours, people of all ages have gone to the tents to encourage them and, in many cases, to bring them food or other products they might need.