Camped at the Puerta Del Sol Against the Housing Crisis and Other Images of the Day
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Hundreds of people have slept in a tent in the heart of Madrid. After the big demonstration for the right to the house on September 26, Puerta del Sol has become a camp again, fifteen years after the 15-M. This time in the center of the protest there is a name: Maricarmen. Maricarmen Abascal is 87 years old and [...] L'articolo After Maricarmen's eviction the tents return to the center of Madrid: it is not a new 15-M but something has already ch…
Media from all over the world have echoed the social outrage that is shaking the Spanish capital
"Courage! Fight" Defend what is yours!" It is the message sent by Maricarmen Abascal, 87 years old, the invalid evicted last week from his home in Madrid, to the protesters camped from Saturday evening in Puerta del Sol, in the heart of the capital, against the housing crisis. In a video released in the night by the Union de Inquilinas, promoter of the protest, from the hospital Maricarmen invited the protesters to resist "as long as the body ho…
"They are the same as 15 years ago but older" or "it is the sequel of 15-M but without young people and with Samantha Hudson", are some of the criticisms of the movement that many consider a desperate attempt by the radical left to bring people back together.
Diario de Cádiz
The images of the Puerta del Sol occupied by hundreds of people have inevitably evoked the memory of 15-M. It would be hasty to establish automatic parallelisms. It would also be to ignore a teaching that left that protest: when a social unrest spreads and the institutions do not offer convincing answers, the political consequences can be profound. Maricarmen’s eviction has acted as a trigger for a mobilization that transcends a particular case.…
The protest for access to housing shares prominence with popular celebrations, natural disasters, religious acts and conflict scenarios around the world.
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