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Councilman Youth council of Lorca, Augustine Llamas, with Manuel Semitiel, President of Cazalla Intercultural and Ana Garcia, forming the project, presented the campaign "Against Racism No Peros" with which you want to raise ATODA the population, but especially young people about discrimination.

Llamas stressed that "City Hall Cazalla Intercultural and Obra Social La Caixa we launched the Interlocutor Project, which is being developed since March and in which young people from different nationalities aged between 16 and 25 years with the aim of participating perform a awareness campaign that fosters respect for diversity and counteract attitudes of discrimination ".

"Within this initiative we develop now this new campaign that young participants learn through different workshops to work with different audiovisual media addressing communication as a tool for social change. The campaign aims to raise awareness of racist attitudes that exist in everyday life, especially invisible racism, ie, discriminatory attitudes of different types naturalized or socially accepted. "

The mayor has said that "this initiative we want to change our perception of foreigners and immigrants often based on prejudices and stereotypes. We want to create in our city an atmosphere of cultural respect, coexistence and tolerance to combat all those situations that involve discrimination that tolerate or are socially standardized and therefore not perceive as discriminatory: the invisible racism. "

The campaign is aimed at the general population with special attention to the young adult population, since it is to be developed through social networks twitter and facebook.

Thus, between Friday June 10 and until the end of the month are asked who wants to participate send a sentence against discrimination or for diversity or phrase with a photo to #nohayperos hashtag.

Llamas has encouraged "all Lorca to work with this iniciaitva and help break down prejudices and fight the invisible discrimination".

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca