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Manuel and Felipe left their town on foot with almost everything they were wearing, a backpack with a little food, a change of clothes and little else. They were 12 and 14 years old respectively and very eager to earn their future. They fled from the poverty and lack of expectations offered by their town, Andújar, in 1920. It took them several months to reach their destination, Madrid, supporting themselves thanks to occasional jobs on farms and farmhouses. When they arrived in the capital they found work as laborers, laying rows of brick in the Plaza de Toros de las Ventas. They joined the UGT and learned to read, write and account. The union was his mother, his father and his school. Manuel and Felipe were two unaccompanied minors from the 1920s. I know this story because Manuel was my grandfather, an anti-fascist fighter until the last breath of his life. My grandfather knew very well who he was and where he came from.
He never forgot it. When I saw the poster of the fascists of the vomit green party pointing out the migrant boys and girls, I felt an indignation of upset stomachs and my grandfather Manuel lodged in my head. I saw his smiling child's eyes again inside his old man's face when he recounted that vital adventure that brought him to settle in Madrid. In this place that he worked so much with his hands, that he gave so much to and that he loved so Belgium Mobile Number List much. I related his experience to that of all those children who come looking for a present and a future, who come to work in peace and make this city great with their hands, just like my grandfather and millions of people who have come here, precisely here, where he loses his It makes sense to be from here, because in Madrid everyone who has arrived is always from here. We cannot allow them to rob us of the decency of being the capital of solidarity.
I told myself that this poster, which targeted children, had exceeded all the limits that can be tolerated in a democracy. Pablo Iglesias pointed out that poster as an atrocity, which stains and threatens democracy, from minute one of this campaign. Pablo Iglesias never fails me. And neither can Unidas Podemos. The coalition denounced it, but we have judges in Spain who consider rampant fascism a valid political opinion in democracy, instead of a hate crime, which is what it is, as history shows and European memory teaches us. This complaint placed the situation of the campaign in Madrid right in the dramatic place in which we live. When Pablo Iglesias and Unidas Podemos denounced that poster, they put things in their proper terms, and placed themselves on the right side of history, which is none other than respect for human rights as the number one mandate of democracy, as well as of the recognition of the labor and work to build the world, country and city of all migrants in History, whether minors, elderly or middle-aged.
He never forgot it. When I saw the poster of the fascists of the vomit green party pointing out the migrant boys and girls, I felt an indignation of upset stomachs and my grandfather Manuel lodged in my head. I saw his smiling child's eyes again inside his old man's face when he recounted that vital adventure that brought him to settle in Madrid. In this place that he worked so much with his hands, that he gave so much to and that he loved so Belgium Mobile Number List much. I related his experience to that of all those children who come looking for a present and a future, who come to work in peace and make this city great with their hands, just like my grandfather and millions of people who have come here, precisely here, where he loses his It makes sense to be from here, because in Madrid everyone who has arrived is always from here. We cannot allow them to rob us of the decency of being the capital of solidarity.
I told myself that this poster, which targeted children, had exceeded all the limits that can be tolerated in a democracy. Pablo Iglesias pointed out that poster as an atrocity, which stains and threatens democracy, from minute one of this campaign. Pablo Iglesias never fails me. And neither can Unidas Podemos. The coalition denounced it, but we have judges in Spain who consider rampant fascism a valid political opinion in democracy, instead of a hate crime, which is what it is, as history shows and European memory teaches us. This complaint placed the situation of the campaign in Madrid right in the dramatic place in which we live. When Pablo Iglesias and Unidas Podemos denounced that poster, they put things in their proper terms, and placed themselves on the right side of history, which is none other than respect for human rights as the number one mandate of democracy, as well as of the recognition of the labor and work to build the world, country and city of all migrants in History, whether minors, elderly or middle-aged.