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- “I’m tired”: our naïve nostalgia for Madrid’s no-frills bars
  
  Gracias por su visita: A no-frills photography project about the Spanish tortilla
  
  Seven no-frills decades of Estrecho’s Bar Los Pepes
  
  The art of being a Madrid muse
  
  10 Madrid No Frills bar backgrounds for your Zoom get-togethers
Spotlight
- Antonio Castor: el artista fuera del Prado que pinta a las mujeres que ha amado y perdido
  
  20+ local women journalists and photographers you need to follow
  
  How Madrid’s social housing crisis turns paying tenants into “illegal squatters”
  
  The Cañada Real: “Electricity is not a privilege, it’s a right”
  
  The Madrid No Frills Prints Collection
Living Museums
- Woolly mammoths and washerwomen: hidden histories of the Manzanares River
  
  The Korean luthier keeping one of Spain’s disappearing traditions alive
  
  “We owe our success to the Gay community”: Chueca’s Restaurante El Bierzo turns 50 this year
  
  The House of Suitcases
  
  The Madrid No Frills Prints Collection
Lost & Found
- Alcalá No Frills: the side of Alcalá de Henares the tourists never see
  
  Stolpersteine reveal Madrid’s Nazi war camp victims’ last chosen address
  
  Visit Spain in the 1970s via a box of postcards found in El Rastro
  
  Discover the juxtaposed remains of Madrid’s 170-year-old aqueduct
  
  The story of Madrid’s hidden (and noseless) Virgin Mary statue
Let’s talk
- Online harassment towards women is a freedom of expression crisis
  
  Bloggers of the Future! Enrol now!
  
  Mame Mbaye, his disputed cause of death and his anti-racism legacy explained
  
  The fight to save Spain’s public health system explained
  
  The Riders’ Law explained
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You'll find the 'Abuelito de la República' at almost every protest in Madrid, wearing his knitted República beret with his fist raised, and getting stuck in with whatever the cause: migrants rights, #sanidadpública or just straight forward anti-repression ✊🏼

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✊🏾 Today is the one-year anniversary of Spanish anti-racism and anti-colonialism movement @regularizacionya.

Regularización Ya were born out of the Covid-19 crisis during Spain’s deepest lockdown this time last year. Their aim was to pressure the government to fast-track the regularisation of undocumented migrants already living here in order to allow them access to health care, legal rental contracts and state aid.

Due to sudden and extreme confinement from one day to the next, undocumented migrants had no source of income nor access to government aid. They also had no rental security and, following being unable to pay their rent during Phase 1 of lockdown, faced homelessness.

The RY movement also aims to raise awareness of how institutional discrimination and the modern-day backdoor colonialism and exploitation of Africa is deliberately being used to prop up the EU’s economy; with no papers, migrants have no rights, and for as long as they have no rights, they can be exploited as cheap labour (farming, care and factory work), directly benefiting EU economies. Spain is just one brick in the wall of Fortress Europe and so the treatment of immigrants here is particularly brutal.

In one year, RY's awareness campaigns and protests have been pivotal in our understanding and awareness of migrants rights issues in Spain and the EU, and have even influenced government policy discussions and migrant representation in political spaces.

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Not long now until the outdoor @cinemausera reopens for summer!

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