US threatens to stop funding a Barcelona library over its diversity policies
The mayor, Jaume Collboni, says the city will not end the American Space program: ‘We will not take a single step back in promoting equal opportunities. This order has no legal standing or democratic legitimacy’
The anti-diversity policies of Donald Trump’s administration have reached Barcelona, Spain. Specifically, a municipal library that hosts a project called American Space Barcelona, which promotes cultural exchanges between the capital of the Catalonia region and the United States and which has organized some 2,000 activities with more than 77,000 attendees since 2016.
