I couldn’t access any riseup page http://riseup.net using the ADSL provided by PepePhone for two days
Here is a screenshot
I asked both riseup and Pepephone people. On twitter.
In riseup they told me that they saw no problems, and in fact the site was well accessed from other parts of Europe.
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Fifty people from different provinces demonstrated on 28 December outside the gates of the industrial complex of the Maxam-Expal arms factory, formerly known as “Explosivos Riotinto”, now exports arms.
At three o’clock in the morning a group of runners left Santander. So did the group leaving Burgos a little later.
More than 500 people from various cities of Castile and beyond came to Aranda to demonstrate by dancing and singing on Friday 21st December.
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It is a tradition in some parts of the world that families go to the cemetery where their dead rest every first of November, at least to arrange the gravestones and lay flowers.
But some of the dead do not rest in cemeteries, but in mass graves, in the same place where they were gunned down.
Continue readingAbout a hundred people demonstrated in Briviesca (Burgos) on 27 September demanding concrete measures to deal with the climate emergency.
There were also mass demonstrations in other towns in the province of Burgos, including the capital and Vilviestre.
Continue readingMy grandmother used to tell us that when she arrived in the neighbourhood with her mother and her two brothers, there were only two buildings on Lersundi Street: the nuns’ school and the six-storey house where four generations of our family lived, including their own. And everything else was fields.
Continue readingIndymedia was a big, almost world wide project, born in Seattle, VA, USA, in 1999. It was the first ‘place’, the very first internet outlet where any one with a computer and an internet connection could post their own news, their own text and media content. Continue reading
Older people in Briviesca know full well that there was a before and an after the construction of the AP1, which in my home was never called that way, it was always The Motorway. In a town where ‘everyone knows each other’, where when one spoke of someone the name was of little use – if anything, the nickname, inherited from generations, or ” is the son of…” – new people were known, for information purposes, “Mengano, you know, who came to work on The Motorway”. Continue reading
Yesterday we watched this video (link to ibtimes), on tuiter, which today seems to have had an impact on mainstream media (metro, dailymail, mirror mirror, peoplenews, el pais in English). Continue reading
We had five demonstrations. Then we had this one and, yay, it was published by the provincial paper in its local section. Hurray.
Some evil tongues say that the Diario de Burgos published the picture with the least possible amount of people
This is the first picture, before more people joined us. https://indy.im/url/66076
This is the last picture, after people had joined us. https://indy.im/ana
And this is the one the paper published. https://quit.im/attachment/60724
