{"id":6532,"date":"2015-03-15T18:45:47","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T23:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6532"},"modified":"2015-03-15T18:45:47","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T23:45:47","slug":"in-its-desperation-scandal-riddled-spanish-government-criminalizes-solidarity-among-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6532","title":{"rendered":"In its Desperation, Scandal-Riddled Spanish Government Criminalizes Solidarity Among Citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wolfstreet.com\/2015\/03\/15\/don-quijones-spain-forced-evictions-criminalize-solidarity-platform-mortgage-victims-pah\/\" target=\"_blank\">In its Desperation, Scandal-Riddled Spanish Government Criminalizes Solidarity Among Citizens<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>On Tuesday, March 10, 19 Spanish citizens were rounded up in dawn raids by the Madrid police. They are accused of committing a crime against the Spanish state. That crime? Trying to prevent, through passive, non-violent resistance, the forced eviction of a local resident. If found guilty, the suspects could face crippling fines.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Rajoy\u2019s Spain, where helping out your neighbor in his or her hour of need is now an administrative crime.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Not-So-Silent Tragedy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In most countries that have experienced foreclosure epidemics, the eviction of neighbors and local residents is usually a quiet, if not silent, tragedy. Often people don\u2019t realize that their neighbors have gone until hours, days or even weeks have passed. Some may never even notice.<\/p>\n<p>In Spain, however, things are different. In recent years foreclosures have become a very explosive public affair, sometimes drawing the participation and attention of scores or even hundreds of people. When a local resident is threatened with eviction word quickly gets out and groups of neighbors and social activists begin forming and offering their support. By the time police officers arrive there is an almost impenetrable wall of protestors between them and the front door of the property to be foreclosed. [To get an idea of what this looks like, enter \u201cdesauhicios\u201d + \u201cespa\u00f1a\u201d in Youtube\u2019s search engine; I can\u2019t add the links here because providing links to images of police officers going about their business is now a chargeable offense in Spain].<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its Desperation, Scandal-Riddled Spanish Government Criminalizes Solidarity Among Citizens On Tuesday, March 10, 19 Spanish citizens were rounded up in dawn raids by the Madrid police. They are accused of committing a crime against the Spanish state. That crime? Trying to prevent, through passive, non-violent resistance, the forced eviction of a local resident. If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3484,4198,2242,379,483,657,993,743,4197,1309],"class_list":["post-6532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-dissent","tag-eviction","tag-foreclosure","tag-government","tag-liberty-2","tag-protests","tag-rajoy","tag-spain","tag-spanish-government","tag-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6533,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6532\/revisions\/6533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}