From Occupying Banks to City Hall: Meet Barcelona’s New Mayor Adu Colau
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http://www.democracynow.org/2015/6/5/from_occupying_banks_to_city_hall?autostart=true
A longtime anti-eviction activist has just been elected mayor of Barcelona, becoming the city’s first female mayor. Ada Colau co-founded the anti-eviction group Platform for People Affected by Mortgages and was an active member of the Indignados, or 15-M Movement. Colau has vowed to fine banks with empty homes on their books, stop evictions, expand public housing, set a minimum monthly wage of $670, force utility companies to lower prices, and slash the mayoral salary. Colau enjoyed support from the Podemos party, which grew out of the indignados movement that began occupying squares in Spain four years ago. Ada Colau joins us to discuss her victory.
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Spanish quest to identify black soldier who fought against fascism in civil war
• US volunteer in picture killed in civil war battle
• Authorities plan to present image to Obama next year
bu Giles Tremlett in Barcelona
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 20 December 2009 16.50 GMT
As a volunteer in the International Brigades that fought in Spain's civil war, the unidentified black soldier in the photograph was one of the first Americans to die fighting fascism.
Now Spanish authorities want to put a name to him so they can present his picture to President Barack Obama when he visits Spain next year.
The black and white picture of the African American volunteer forms part of an extraordinary collection of civil war photographs that was bought recently by the Spanish state.
"All we know is that he arrived with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade of American volunteers and that he died in the battle at Brunete ," said Sergi Centelles, whose father, Agustí, took the picture.
The soldier is one of more than 90 African-Americans who volunteered to defend Spain's elected Republican government from a 1936 rightwing military uprising that sparked a three-year civil war.
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• If you know who the man in the main photograph is, or can provide any information that might help identify him, please contact giles.tremlett@guardian.co.uk
SOURCE: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/dec/20/spanish-civil-war-black-fighter
History may not know the name, but the universe remembers what was done for it is different as a result of his actions -- better in the case of a soldier fighting fascism and oppression.
