Union Organizes Supermarket Raids in Spain, Loots Goods to Give to Poor - WSJ.com
Now that’s social justice unionism!
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A small Spanish union orchestrated raids on two supermarkets in one of the poorest parts of the country earlier this week, in an attempt to draw attention to the problems faced by the unemployed.
On Tuesday, hundreds of members affiliated with the Andalusian Union of Workers, which represents mainly rural laborers in southern Spain, forcibly carted off a dozen shopping carts full of milk, pasta, beans and other food from one supermarket, and pressed a second to donate a similar amount of food the next day. Most was distributed to local food banks.
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Amina Alaoui is a Moroccan-born singer trained in both Moroccan and Western classical music. She lives in Spain now, and her first recording under her own name, Arco Iris, meditates on the ebb and flow of culture between these two Mediterranean lands.
The album spans many musical traditions and centuries. In “Hado,” Alaoui sings an arrangement of a text dating back to Al-Andalus, Moorish Spain six or more centuries ago. It’s the one place on Arco Iris where it feels like Alaoui is trying to conjure the actual sound of that mysterious, unrecorded era.
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