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title: "5 October in Lleida: We defend the land, we want living villages!"
url: https://emprius.cat/en/5o-lleida-pobles-vius/
description: "Fundació Emprius has endorsed the manifesto of the call for the big demonstration being organised. You’ll find all the information on the poblesvius.cat…"
datePublished: 2025-09-21T05:56:54.000Z
dateModified: 2026-11-04T01:04:21.634Z
language: en
publisher: "Fundació Emprius"
categories: ["Awareness", "Ruralism"]
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# 5 October in Lleida: We defend the land, we want living villages!

*Published: 2025-09-21 · Updated: 2026-11-04*

![](https://emprius.cat/_emdash/api/media/file/01M6GYPVN26NW818DEV5RSAJ9Z.webp)

Fundació Emprius has endorsed the **manifesto of the call** for the **big demonstration** being organised. You’ll find all the information on the [***poblesvius.cat***](https://poblesvius.cat/) website.

*“We’ve penned our livestock in sheds and believed that a few (and large) operations in each locality could manage an entire territory. We’ve swapped farming for civil-service jobs, hands for machines, villages for megacities, local trades and shops for superstores. Now we’re victims of uncontrollable fires and pests that are hard to manage — with one root cause: the lack of daily presence on the land.”*
We urge all the people of Ponent and the rural regions to attend and take part.

As the manifesto says, *“the time has come to protect all the values and strengths still alive in our regions. It is also time to find new principles and new origins for rural life”*: **ruralism**; **nature and culture**; **recovery of diverse small-scale farming**; **health and quality of life**; **political and economic subsidiarity**; **territorial rebalancing**; **energy, only what’s needed**; **co-operation and community**; **degrowth**.

![Lleida demonstration, 8 October](https://emprius.cat/_emdash/api/media/file/01M6GYPVN26NW818DEV5RSAJ9Z.webp)

## ***Events before the 5 October demonstration:***

![We share the programme of events before the 5 October demonstration. You’ll find more informac](https://emprius.cat/_emdash/api/media/file/01M6GYPVXZ28RVGG1ESMXW7R3F.webp)

[YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Lvns_rHMSdI](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Lvns_rHMSdI)

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Source: https://emprius.cat/en/5o-lleida-pobles-vius/