Trump's anti-woke policies threaten library in Spain

Trump's anti-woke policies threaten library in Spain

Barcelona City Council has received a letter from the US Embassy in Spain urging them not to apply diversity policies at a language learning programme for young people run by a local library if they don’t want to have funding withdrawn.

The Embassy sends a request to Barcelona City Council regarding the American Space workshop at the Ignasi Iglesias-Can Fabra library, but the consistory says it will not fulfill what the DEI are, the acronyms that haunt Trump in his conservative crusade in the US The directive promoted by Donald Trump to stop funding policies that promote diversity has arrived in Barcelona. Specifically, to a municipal library, the Ignasi Iglesias-Can Fabra, whi…

Policies against diversity and the inclusion of Donald Trump’s government have reached Barcelona. Specifically, they have impacted a municipal library that since 2016 has developed a project called American Space Barcelona, which promotes cultural exchange between the city and the United States and has hosted some 2,000 activities with more than 77,000 attendees. It is the Ignasi Iglésias-Can Fabra library, in the district of Sant Martí, and tha…

US threatens to cut funding contribution to a Barcelona library over diversity policies - Spain in English

The effects of the United States’ new policies under President Donald Trump, which oppose diversity initiatives, have now reached Barcelona. Barcelona City Council recently received a request from the US Embassy in Madrid, asking them not to apply diversity policies at a cultural and language programme at the Ignasi Iglésias Library in Can Fabra, located in the Sant Martí district of Barcelona. According to Spanish media, the embassy is demandin…

The American Space cultural project of the Can Fabra library of Sant Andreu will lose the grant of the US government of Donald Trump by not complying with the request of the US embassy in Madrid that claims to apply the executive order 14173. It is a federal law that requires that none of the funds they have granted be used for initiatives or programs that promote Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI).

According to the United States, a project that would contravene the guidelines against diversity would be developed at the centre