By CIARÁN GILES and MANU FERNÁNDEZ from apnews.com . Shared with thanks illustrations added

Hunger queue in Cañada, Madrid

As a record snowfall blanketed much of Spain this week and temperatures plunged below zero, few suffered the consequences as severely as the thousands of residents of the La Canada Real Galiana mega shantytown outside Madrid, long a major embarrassment for Spain.

MADRID (AP) — As record snowfall and sub-freezing temperatures enveloped much of normally temperate Spain, few residents suffered as severely as the thousands who live in La Cañada Real Galiana, a mega-shantytown outside Madrid that is ranked as one of the biggest slum areas in Europe.

First person dies for lack of electricity in Cañada Primera denuncia por el fallecimiento de una personja por falta de luz

Much of La Cañada Real had already been without electricity for months before Storm Filomena arrived. Officials claim that’s because marijuana growers in the informal settlement diverted power supplies to indoor plantations that overwhelmed the grid.

The extended outage meant that more than half of the 7,500 residents in the “poblado,” or township, remained without power during brutal weather more suited to Siberia.

“They’re switching us OFF”A protest with candles reading in Spanish: “‘You are extinguishing our lights” in reference to cutting off the electricity at the Cañada Real shanty town, outside Madrid, Spain, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021.(AP Photo/Manu Fernandez) shared with thanks

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EDITH M. LEDERERAP . Thu, January 14, 2021, 9:56 PMUNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. chief and top officials urged the United States on Thursday to reverse its decision to declare Yemen’s Iran-backed rebels a terrorist group to prevent massive famine and death in the conflict-torn Arab nation — but the Trump administration in its […]

US rejects UN plea to reverse Yemen rebel terror designation… — Hagaag.com

by CNT shared with thanks

“They ask the union for almost 600,000 euros and jail sentences for the complainant worker and union members, a total of 8 people,”

Prison sentences for unionism

It all started with different labor irregularities and an alleged sexual harassment at work, a complaint currently filed. A worker went to the union at the beginning of 2017 to comment on what was happening to her at Pastelerías La Suiza, in Gijón. ” ..The union requested additional

information to support the version of the worker, after which, it met with the company to discuss the issue, unsuccessfully which led to the beginning of a union mobilization campaign and several concentrations of complaint were held, “nothing that is not usual in union action,” the unionists declare.

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By Georgia Fort, UNICORN RIOT – Your Alternative MediaU

Louisville, KY – Breonna Taylor’s home was the finish line for a 731 mile walk that ended just days before Christmas. Lavish Mack started the 7-week “Journey to Justice” on Oct. 31 at the intersection where George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis. Providing constant updates on social media throughout his cross-country hike, Lavish says his reason for the walk was to raise awareness about the hundreds of police killings that don’t make national headlines.

“Last year 1,007 people were murdered by police. How many do you know about? 10? Maybe 15? So what about the other 990 you never heard about?”

Lavish Mack, Founder of The Journey To Justice Campaign

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View of a demonstration of those affected by the so-called ‘theft’ of babies.- EFE / Víctor Lerena.

by ANA MARÍA PASCUAL @Anmariapascual

Good news for women who denounce the abduction of their newborns in past decades of democracy and during the dictatorship. The State Attorney General’s Office admits to processing the collective complaint of 56 families, included in half a dozen associations.

It is the first time that a collective complaint has been filed for cases of ‘stolen children’ with a gender perspective. A new approach that, for now, seems to be working. The complainants understand that the crime was perpetrated against women, both single and married, at the time of delivery.

The Public Prosecutor’s Office undertakes to investigate these cases one by one in order to respond to the mothers and families who suspect that they were victims of an abduction of their babies between 1952 and 1987.

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