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Picapollo – spicy chicken wings

1 May 2017

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Photos 1 & 2 were taken in the 1970s on a quiet ba

Photos 1 & 2 were taken in the 1970s on a quiet bank holiday Rastro – not the usual bustling streets of stall holders, musicians, antiques dealers and tourists we were used to seeing on Sundays.

Until the pandemic, the Rastro has been here every week for more than 400 years come rain, snow and heatwaves – not even the Spanish Civil War interrupted it like the pandemic has. But finally next week, after almost four months of restrictions, the Rastro will return!

However, Europe's biggest street market is set to look a little more like this photograph than the last time we were there. Why?

Madrid's current PP Mayor has permitted just 135 rotating stalls to return per week, out of around 1,000 stalls that would normally set up every Sunday. While shops have been open for weeks and can have up to 60% of their regular licensed capacity inside, the restrictions surrounding the Rastro – an open-air market – appear a little unfair.

And that’s why the Rastro stall holders took to the streets this morning, to request 50% of stalls to return on a bi-monthly rotating basis, for adequate policing to maintain safe capacity and social distancing, and for stall holders to keep the same spot that their family have had for generations.

Will the Madrid City Council listen to the stall holders? Will this 400-year-old market ever resume business as usual? We'll find out more on Sunday next week, when the Rastro, however small it will be, returns! ⚱️🪑⚖️ 🎻💍🖼️ 🕰️

Photos 1 & 2 © Alfoz Madrid and Santos Yubero / ARCM

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Calle de la Escuadra (Right-angle Triangle Street) because it is what it says it is! Can you see? 🏠 📐

🏳️‍🌈 ✊🏽 📢 💕 Today we should h

🏳️‍🌈 ✊🏽 📢 💕 Today we should have been out on Paseo de Castellana marching in Madrid’s 42nd Pride (pictured is the very first Pride and the most recent Pride last year). I love it, over the past four decades, this monumental pageant of self-expression has become one of the city's most diverse calls for action, bringing many marginalised communities across Spain together to fight for freedom.

But there’s a less visible plight hiding within the bigger picture: LGBTQI refugees. “The pandemic hit us hard and we had no choice but to set up a food bank and fund to help our community eat and pay their rent and bills,” explains Marc Cebrián from @kifkif.iguales, a Madrid grass-roots organisation that has spent the past 18 years helping thousands of LGBTQI people seek asylum in Madrid.

Applications for asylum are considered in terms of fleeing war, natural disaster or persecution, or a combination. There are currently 72 countries where being LGBTQI is a punishable crime, yet very few applications based on persecution are accepted here. This means that those fleeing have to return to the country they escaped from, or attempt to live here without papers. And if you have no papers, you can’t work legally, pay taxes and be part of the system, and therefore you can’t access health care or social services, which became particularly critical for this community during State of Emergency.

Marc tells me that more people have come to them for help during this time. "Many lost their source of income and homes, and under lockdown, a lot have suffered domestic violence and also social isolation, which triggers difficult memories. But many of those same people have also become volunteers and our community has become even stronger”.

I wish the city could have marched together today – Madrid’s LGBTQI refugee community have a lot to protest and their visibility is a key part of this, especially during the enduring Covid-19 pandemic.

Today, the protest continues, but online, so here’s my banner and my chants...

"LGBTQI Refugees Welcome!" and "Regularización Ya!"

#orgullo2020 #refugeeswelcome #RegularizacionYa

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