Tag: protest
EXPLAINER: Why victims of a cooking oil poisoning scandal staged a lock-in at Spain’s top museum
SURVIVORS of a cooking oil poisoning scandal locked themselves in for 90 minutes inside a room at Madrid's El Prado museum this Tuesday morning. The...
Residents plan fiesta fundraiser in battle to stop unwanted solar parks in Andalucia valley
RESIDENTS are joining forces to raise money in a campaign to stop one of Andalucia’s most beautiful valleys from being destroyed by solar panel...
Not Backing Down: Activists gather in Spain’s Nerja tomorrow to protest destruction of Andalucian coastline
HUNDREDS of protesters are set to gather tomorrow morning in the centre of the Andalucian town of Nerja against the proposed development of the...
BREAKING: Hospitality workers and business owners protest outside regional government HQ in Valencia
AN estimated 200 employees and business owners within the hospitality sector are at this moment protesting outside the regional government headquarters in Valencia city. Angry...
Spaniards in lockdown in Madrid take to their balconies to bang pots and pans in protest against King Juan...
SPANIARDS in lockdown have taken to their balconies to bang pots and pans in protest against the former King.
Inside the British-organised Extinction Rebellion protest outside Primark on Madrid’s Gran Via for COP25
Wham – we stopped the traffic, made a space and the flash mob hit the street, the samba band thumping
NEVER GONNA GIVE EU UP: Spain political group ‘wants UK back in EU’ even if Brexit happens on October...
“We think Boris Johnson’s deal is a terrible deal and hope for a second referendum"
Thousands of British expats and Spaniards join forces for anti-Brexit protest on Spain-Gibraltar border
“Brexit, it affects Spanish people as much as British people, I just think it's really sad”
WATCH: British expats and Spaniards protest after 3 million fish found dead in Spain’s Mar Menor catastrophe
Local fishermen also wore black, in memory of the fish that perished in the shallow waters
WATCH: Barcelona police throw old lady to ground and punch man in face, while another loses eye in violent...
Shocking footage posted online appears to show police ramming protesters with vehicles, an officer throwing an old woman to the ground, as well as a man already floored being punched in the face by an officer
WATCH: Protests at Barcelona’s airport turn violent cancelling 100 flights after Spain’s Supreme Court jails Catalunya leaders
In total 108 flights were cancelled as Barceclona’s main airport was taken over and at least 56 people were injured, with 10 hospitalised
Residents light fires in homophobic protest at gay cruisers on Spain’s Costa del Sol
The most common form of homophobic protests has been residents setting fires in the woodlands, with the fifth one occurring this week.
Spain’s Supreme Court blocks reburial of General Franco just days before body due to be dug up
The arguments of his family against removing him from the Valley of the Fallen rested on the ‘irreparable’ damage it would cause
Andalucian football players wear shirts printed with racist insults for protest in final game of season
Teammates have, in a tongue-in-cheek way, branded the five-year-old squad ‘the foreigners’
ANOTHER chiringuito in Spain’s Andalucia faces environmental protests just weeks after blue flag losses
Miguel Diaz, the group’s mayoral candidate for Marbella also claimed the blueprints for the beach bar are ‘suspicious’
Climate change activists in Spain joined by those in UK as hundreds arrested
In the UK capital, around 400 activists were arrested, following acts of civil disobedience
Thousands march in Madrid as depopulation rocks rural Spain
MADRID has seen large protests by rural Spaniards who fear their communities are withering away. The movement, labelled the ‘revolt of an empty Spain,’ brought...
FIGHT THE POWER: Olive Press launches campaign to stop network of 352 pylons ‘destroying’ Andalucia’s Lecrin Valley and Alpujarras
Thousands of people are affected and the proposed route, which begins in Conchar in the west and ends at Benahadux in the east, was approved back in 2015
Women across Spain protest on International Women’s Day as political parties clash over feminism
Last year the numbers of women protesting on March 8 in Spain reached 5.3 million, according to unions
Protesters SLAM €1 million relaunch of bullfighting in Marbella as petition reaches 80,000
HUNDREDS are set to protest against the planned €1 million relaunch of bullfighting in Marbella next week. Campaigners will take the streets on January 12...
Judges in Spain let ‘Wolf Pack rapists’ roam free after delaying 9-year sentence for brutal sex attack
THE infamous gang behind the sex attack that rocked Spain has been spared prison. Three of Spain's top judges made the ruling after the five...
STRIKE: 300 Madrid airport workers walk out until New Year after company refuses them warm clothes for winter
AROUND 300 Madrid airport workers have gone on strike because it is too cold, placing thousands of British holidaymakers in jeopardy. As New Year arrives,...
Fascist vandals paint Nazi swastikas on cultural centre in northern Spain
"We will continue to be profoundly antifascist and committed to the rights and freedoms"
OUTRAGE as uncle and nephew cleared of rape after drugging woman in back alley sex attack in Spain
An uncle and nephew were only cleared of the more serious offence of sexual assault - Spain's equivalent to rape
WATCH: Topless female protestors in Madrid kicked and punched by Franco supporters
Bare-breasted Femen activists, who had the slogan 'Legal Fascism, National Shame' painted across their chests, stormed Franco remembrance rally
WATCH: Man defaces General Franco’s tomb in Madrid with red paint and is dragged away by security guards
The protest was sparked by growing tension surrounding the planned exhumation of the remains of General Franco from the Valley of the Fallen
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