Here’s a feeble attempt to post something after so much time away from blog, life, teaching, and so on–a few images shot from the streets of Madrid on November 14 during the “huelga, huelga, huelga general” [general strike] or to use another chant “Las huelgas no se venden, las huelgas se defienden” [strikes aren’t for sale, strikes are for defending–[better translation out there?]. I wasn’t present for some of the infrequent skirmishes of the day, but a highlight was the manifestation of 6:30 in the afternoon which, as with other protests of the day, drew from a wide cross-section of Madrileñans, both younger and older who gathered in central Madrid from Cibeles up to Plaza Colón and back down to the statue of Neptune by the Prado and of course on the Gran Vía and elsewhere. Television coverage was on the whole slanted toward the PP / Rajoy of course, which might be expected.
More on the T2M conference which I was attending there [in the Museo del Ferrocarril at Delicias] later…
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