Struggling Between Police and Protesters After the Gran Vía De Madrid Was Cut by Hundreds of People on the General Strike
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In the middle of a day marked by rain, Spain has been going through its first general strike since 2014, a mobilization driven by social unrest in the face of the housing crisis and low wages. Protests have caused road cuts and alterations in transport, especially in Catalonia. In Madrid, groups of strikers went to shops to call for the closure of businesses, while moments of tension were recorded when the police intervened to clear some roads. …
The artist and content creator Samantha Hudson has reported having been sprayed with pepper spray during the mobilizations of the general strike held this Wednesday in Madrid. The incident has occurred on the Gran Vía, where hundreds of people had concentrated to protest the housing situation and claim affordable rents.
They have made the Gran Vía a sentence, populated entirely by stickers in which they pray a «closed by the general strike». It is not usual that in this street, which is no other than the most busy in the capital, most of its shops are closed.But this Wednesday has also been, along with garages and neighborhoods, one of the epicentres of the national strike, and the pressure of a picket forced to many establishments, most of them, to interrupt t…
Spain has experienced again, years later, what is a general strike. The call for this 11th of November, begun by the Trade Union of Tenants and supported by the trade union centers, had a consensus among the organizations that had not been given in the last 14 years. From the first hour news pickets and information about large companies closed or operating half-gas by the strike, as happened at the Navantia shipyard in Ferrol. Also something sim…
The three artists were on the front line of the protesters on the Gran Vía in Madrid
The artist and content creator Samantha Hudson, a companion of journalist María Barrier and Laura Weissmahr, was among the protesters who have cut off the Gran Vía this Wednesday during the protests for the general strike and against those charged by the PoliceThe unions plan legal action for police charges against pickets DIRECTO - Strike general 11N, last hour live The artist and content creator Samantha Hudson has denounced this Wednesday hav…
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