Gema Palomo, an activist of the Mortgage Victims' Platform (PAH), talks to people seeking help during...
Gema Palomo, an activist of the Mortgage Victims' Platform (PAH), talks to people seeking help during an informative meeting in Valencia June 8, 2013. Palomo, a jobless mother of a 9-year-old boy, reached an agreement with savings bank Cajamar on Thursday, in which she looses her home but is in return free of her remaining debt of 56,000 Euros ($72,592), after a year of activism. The European Parliament gave the European Citizens 2013 award to the PAH on June 6, 2013 for the anti-evictions lobby group's work in "fighting for European values". The award was harshly criticized by top members from Spain's ruling People's Party (Partido Popular), who labelled the members in the platform as "radical and violent extremists", according to local media. REUTERS/Heino Kalis (SPAIN - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY BUSINESS)