"Mallorca in Struggle": Aplec Jove announces this year's program

PalmHousing, self-defense, solidarity with the Palestinian people, defense of the territory, and the wave of migration: these are the topics that Aplec Jove 2025 will focus on. Under the title 'Mallorca in Struggle,' the meeting, which will take place on August 30 at the Sineu Teleclub and will be open to the public, will focus on open access. "We have chosen this topic to trace a transversal route through some emerging and other established fronts in Mallorca," the meeting organizers explained in a statement. This is the fifth edition of the event, which has been held on the island every summer since 2021.

The day will begin with a self-defense workshop led by the Jack Contray Popular Gymnasium in Palma. Aplec will then offer three talks, the first of which will be Housing unionism: perspectives from rural and urban areas, on the struggle for housing and the differences between rural and urban areas. The Pallars Sobirà and Jussà Housing Union, the Cerdanya Housing Union, and the Palma Housing Union will participate in this presentation.

Afterwards, Citizens for Palestine will present the exhibition Ten myths about IsraelThe talk will take place at 12:30 p.m. Island city, tourism growth and territory, with Bernat Amorós, a member of the Tot Inclòs collective, and Margalida Mestre, a geographer specializing in land use planning.

The last presentation will be Mallorca, a land of welcome? Migratory movements and social transformations, with Mahecor Mbengue, former member of the Board of Directors of the Obra Cultural Balear (OCB); David Abril, author of the study Migration dynamics in the European Mediterranean islands; and Aina Cassanyes, researcher on migratory movements towards Mallorca.

Finally, the reading of the manifesto and the sounding of The BalangueraThe day will conclude with a grand folk dance by the Rissaga group.