Progressive Spain’s Top Ten Video Posts for 2016
Following are 2016’s ‘Top Ten Videos’ posted at Progressive Spain … for your viewing pleasure over the year-end holidays … See you…
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‘Robin Hood’ restaurant feeds Madrid homeless
• Normal restaurant by day, serves 100 Madrid homeless in two shifts each night • ‘Social restaurants’ concept to open in Toledo, Ciudad…
Iglesias launches Podemos leadership candidacy
• Uneasy truce between ‘Errejónistas’ & ‘Pablistas’ over Vistalegre II conference • Iglesias calls Errejón’s number-two post into question over strategy differences…
More Spaniards leaving legacy gifts to NGOs
• Number of those leaving funds to NGOs, charities triples over past decade •’Legado Solidario’ sees boom in legacy gifts to social-justice…
UGT & CCOO begin rolling labour protests Thursday
• Unions to protest PP ‘intransigence’ in negotiating labour law changes • Three-days of rallies, marches to culminate in Sunday demo in…
#VIDEO: NGO marks 10 yrs fighting for animal rights
• ‘Igualdad Animal’ releases video celebrating decade defending animal rights • Spain-based international NGO works to prevent cruelty to animals in captivity The…
Madrid Socialists want ‘Primaries & Congress Now!’
• PSOE-Madrid president Manuel Robles backs call for Congress on March 21st • Madrid Socialists join growing national push for new party…
Vatican mayors’ summit calls for refugee sanctuary
• European mayors to create ‘network of cities’ for refugee relief, resettlement • Despite Spanish government opposition, ‘Mayors of Change’ pledge support…
#VIDEO: SEO/Birdlife calls for sustainable hunting
• Conservationist NGO begins debate over position on sustainable hunting • Environmentalist group highlights impact of hunting on bird populations SEO/Birdlife, Spain’s…
Barcelona shoppers get naked truth on fur industry
• Nude protest against fur industry staged on Barcelona’s Paseo de Gracia • AnimaNaturalis says ‘fur farms’ persist in Spain, despite bans…
Podemos petition opposing Iglesias gathers steam
• 330 party leaders nationwide sign petition over voting at February congress • Íñigo Errejón takes first public stance against Iglesias in…
Migrants storm Ceuta fence seeking asylum
• Nearly 450 successfully scaled 6-metre, barbed wire fence to request asylum • N. Africa migrant detention centre meant to hold 512,…
Socialist activists organize against Susana Díaz
• ‘Críticos’ movement forms national committee to demand party conference • Rank-and-file dissidents say they’ll rally against Díaz in Sevilla on Dec…
#VIDEO: Amnesty Spain calls out for volunteers
• International Human Rights Day set for Saturday, Dec. 10th • Amnesty calls for volunteers in ‘Gente como tú’ (‘People Like You’)…
Half of Spaniards know someone living in poverty
• Save the Children survey shows 1/3 know someone who can’t heat their home • Six in 10 people say gov’t does little, 54%…
#VIDEO: PAH rallies to protest Barcelona evictions
• Anti-eviction activist group launches week of events, demonstrations • Spain’s anti-eviction activist group PAH (Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca, ‘Platform…
Spanish celebs urge gov’t to combat climate change
• Miguel Bosé joins drive to get Spain to up spending to fight climate change • Spanish celebrities are signing onto a campaign…
Reform to Spain’s ‘Historical Memory’ law proposed
• Proposal bolsters 2007 law, creates ‘Truth Commission’ on Franco-era abuses • Spain may finally get a ‘Truth Commission’ to examine rights…
Iglesias wants Podemos, PP conferences to coincide
• Iglesias preference for Feb 12-14 dates to be decided by ‘Consejo Ciudadano’ • Errejón hopes Dec 17 ‘Consejo’ meeting won’t become…
#VIDEO: Doñana river dredging placed on hold
• Spanish gov’t assures UNESCO that dredging of Guadalquivir will not proceed • WWF España calls for definitive proof, says Doñana wetlands…
Orange to honor ‘Women & Technology’ again in 2017
• Telecoms multinational Orange opens nominations for 2nd annual prize • Award honors women who develop technology solutions to better society Spain’s Fundación…
Nationwide rallies Dec. 12th to protest war in Syria
• Facebook campaign goes viral, anti-war demonstrations to be held in 13 cities • Peaceful rallies to focus on plight of 470,000 war…
PSOE deputy complains of back-room deals with PP
• Robles says Socialists in Congress kept in dark about negotiations with PP • PP-PSOE accords in Congress exclude Podemos, Ciudadanos from…
Spain’s NGO volunteers get #AplausoGlobal today
• Non-governmental groups encourage ‘solidarity’ as response to world’s woes • Volunteering is way to give ‘most valuable resource, your time’ to help others Volunteer workers…
Podemos leaders agree to disagree, again and again
• Iglesias, Errejón engaged in running verbal battle over direction of party • At stake is move farther left or towards disaffected…
PP stalls gender-violence funding increase in Senate
• PP absolute majority blocks opposition move to restore funding to 2010 levels • Party says only that it will assign ‘sufficient’…
ERC deputy thrusts condoms into Congress debate
• ‘You don’t have to be afraid to use the word’, Gabriel Rufián tells PP’s Rajoy • ERC deputy urges more measures…
Amnesty decries migrant treatment at Ceuta, Melilla
• New report condemns Spain’s treatment of migrants at N. African centres • Summary explusions, police abuse, overcrowding violate international accords Amnistía…
#VIDEO: Children’s NGO rooted in Spanish Civil War
• Plan Internacional history began in 1937 during Spain’s bloody civil war • NGO fights child poverty, focus on root causes of…
Greenpeace blockades Fenosa gas plant in Andalucía
• Activists’ early-morning direct action blockades gas production, storage plant • Protesters say plant threatens Doñana wetlands, UNESCO World Heritage Site Some…
Arco Iris files complaint over anti-LGBT campaign
• Andalucian LGBT federation cites anti-LGBT leaflets at schools nationwide • Ultra-right group ‘Hazte Oir’ attack on anti-homophobia laws across Spain Andalucia’s…