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The “Reconquista” of Alcoi (Valencia)
Pedagogy of waters
"I will tell you something about stories - he said They aren't just entertaiment, don't be fooled They are all we have, you see all we have to fight off illness and death You don't have anything if you don't have the stories Their evil is mighty, but it can't stand up to our stories So they try to destroy the stories let the stories be confused or forgotten They would like that. They would be happy because we will be defenseless then". (Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony, 1977)
The “Bachillera” and the struggle against gentrification in Seville
We are not alone in the world: teachings from Paris’ “93”
Links on protests in Maghreb
- José SÁNCHEZ GARCÍA (2011) “La revolución egipcia: jóvenes, política y sociedad“. (also in italian) Download his thesis “Juventud en sociedades árabes: ¿cómo construyen su identidad?” (2009) in PDF: 1-2-3.
- Issandr EL AMRANI "Why Tunis? Why Cairo?", London Review of Books, 4/2/2011
- Santiago ALBA RICO "Y de pronto, la revolución" Gara, 17/1/2011
- Gabriele DEL GRANDE "The dictatorship south of Lampedusa" Peacereporter, 10/11/2008
- “Insurrection in North Africa: the story so far“ Libcom, 17/1/2011 (in spanish in Indymedia Estrecho and Klinamen)
A competition of ideas against the demolition of a popular neighborhood
The quality of life in Naples: between Pomigliano and Posillipo
More on Barcelona’s city center: “The Melody of Raval”, by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
History and its distortions in the center of Barcelona
- Photos (2008-2009) of neighbors under eviction in Calle Robadors. [Album1][Album2]
- Manuel Vázquez Montalbán "The ethnical cleansing of the high classes" in El País, 14/9/1993
- "1988-1991 Crisis of heroin and beginnings of the urbanistic war in the historical center" in Masala, november-december 2009.
December 2010: burning cars
Gentrification: cars burning (2010). “The BRENNENDE-AUTOS.DE webpage is dedicated to the memory of the cars burned in Berlin since 2007. […] During the last three years in Berlin more than 500 cars, mostly big engined, have been burned by night. …
Recipes to eliminate poverty in Buenos Aires
Barcelona: La Perona (1985-1989)
“Esteve Lucerón (Pobla de Segur, 1950), photographer, portrayed the gypsy settlement of La Perona for 10 years, from 1980 until its demolition. His photos are strongly influenced by the american reporters who worked on the Great Depression of 1929, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange and Lewis Hine, especially in the relationship towards the people he portrayed: empathy, self control, he never manipulates his subjects to stress the drama, never breaks the intimacy, doesn’t steal poverty. He doesn’t either have a sweetened merciful attitude: there’s social critique, it’s an anthropological document, historically valuable, since these settlements belong to a time of economical prosperity in Spain, when real estate speculation and conflicts among “lineages” or subgroups of gypsies burst, as the City Council decided to relocate – transfer/deport – some groups from an area to another with no regard except for the number of people. Lucerón gives a personal view of it, with a special attention towards children, and towards gypsy’s typical sense of humor, naughty and defiant“. Froum María José Furio‘s review on her blog. Some photos: [1][2]
- Esteve Lucerón. La Perona (1985-1989). Agenda de la Imatge n. 56 (2010). Xavier Camino and Pili Díaz Giner wrote the text, and Jordi Gratacós, secretary of UPIFC, made the laboratory work on the photo negatives. [Exposition announced in UPIFC webpage]