By Víctor Stanzyk Published on Mar 28, 2021 by Izquierda Diario translation thefreeonline

116 daily evictions, a reality that clashes with the progressive discourse of the Government
The scourge of evictions continues despite electoral promises and inter-party pacts.

The “progressive” government, which boasted they would solve the housing problem, shows once again which side they are on: the banks and vulture funds that take away the right to decent housing. This week in Granada, 2 octogenarians with chronic diseases have been evicted.

The scourge of evictions continues despite electoral promises and inter-party pacts. The “progressive” government, which filled its mouth by saying that they would solve the housing problem, once again shows which side they are on: the banks and vulture funds that take away our right to decent housing. This same week in Granada, 2 octogenarians with chronic diseases have been evicted.

An activist for the right to housing made this reflection on Twitter about the unprecedented news of an eviction in Granada – more than hundreds a week- in which 2 elderly people over 80 years old were thrown out of their house.

“The year we had to stay home. The judges have made it clear for months that the Government Decree does not oblige them to stop evictions. And the worst thing is that the government knows it. Because they told them. “

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‘The spectacle is vulnerable,’ proclaimed the pamphlet Why Miss World? And so it proved to be on 20 November 1970, when activists from the nascent women’s liberation movement deployed rattles, chants, banners, flour, smoke bombs, stink bombs, ripe tomatoes and bundles of cascading leaflets to disrupt the 1970 Miss World pageant at London’s Albert Hall, in front of a global television audience of a hundred million people.

from ·Red Pepper with thanks.. illustrations added

Why Miss World? Misbehaving

A new edited volume emphasises that the personal is political and highlights the power of spectacular direct action, says Alice Robson

Misbehaving: stories of protest against the Miss World contest and the beauty industry tells the stories of those who took part in the action in their own words, but does much more than merely record the night’s events, with writers sharing what brought them to the movement and how it changed their lives. In doing so, it contributes to our understanding of 1970s struggles, and to questions that resonate beyond that historical moment.

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Travellers will be ‘ethnically cleansed’ by the British government’s draconian law proposals that criminalise their way of life

by Chris Sweeney @Writes_Sweeney via RT

Horses graze in a field next to travellers during the horse fair in Appleby in Westmorland, Cumbria

Most of the controversy over the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill has raged around its effect on protests, yet very little attention is being given to how it will decimate a historic way of life for thousands of people.

Britain is more divided than at any other time in living memory. There are protests about protests, exemplified by the wave of reaction following the police action at the public vigil for murder victim Sarah Everard.

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It has also been heightened by a mammoth piece of legislation engineered by Home Secretary Priti Patel, The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill. Predictably, there’s been a backlash, mainly because it allows the police to control the start and end times of demonstrations even if they only have one member, which some feel is an eradication of the right to protest. 

But hidden deeper are less discussed powers that target the Gypsy, Roma and Travelling (GRT) community in Britain. GRT people have been in the UK since 1515 and their numbers are estimated at around 120,000 today, but some put this as high as 300,000. 

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