For the sixth consecutive year, within the solidarity days ‘Here we just want to be human’, framed in the program Cartagena Think carried out by the Department of Culture of the City of Cartagena, there will be a concentration in the Port of Cartagena, in the dock of the whale tail, to honor the memory of migrants whose bodies were sunk in the sea or fallen in the different migration routes, This Sunday, February 9, at 12:00 noon.
The event is scheduled to attend the councilor for Social Services of the Cartagena City Council, Mercedes García.
The concentration is organized by the Círculo de Silencio, Accem, Cruz Roja, Murcia Acoge, Alraso, Fund associations. Cepaim, La Huertecica, Rascasa, Asoc. Ghaneses, Asoc. Malienses, Columbares, Collective for Adult Education Carmen Conde and Department of Social Services and Culture. In addition, the Department of Sociology of the University of Murcia, the Friends of Ritsona and Cartagena Piensa Association collaborate with the support of the Cartagena City Council.
In the presentation text of the concentration, it is indicated that these deceased migrants in the Mediterranean “risked their lives and lost it when they were looking for something as legitimate and just as peace, freedom, work and a decent life for themselves and their families. We do not want, in any way, to accept as normal the tragic end of so many innocent lives. We will assume our responsibility as human beings, honoring and dignifying their memory, their lives and their truncated dreams “.
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