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Maricarmen and The Madrid Encampment: A New Social Movement is Born
In the first episode of The No Frills Podcast, I explore the birth of a new social movement that has culminated in Madrid’s Sol encampment, where thousands bed down in a “tent city” every night in protest against a housing system in crisis.
From a generation of people afraid they will never be able to afford to leave their parents’ homes, to elderly neighbours fighting to stay in theirs, this is a story of grief but also hope, and the extraordinary convergence of circumstances that brought down the Spanish government.
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