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Ángel Sanz Montes

Informático. Gestor de proyectos. Lector, paseante, escritor a ratos y fotógrafo ocasional. Residente en Ferrol (España).

India: 250 million farmers and farm workers on massive strike (I)

This is a “backstory” and gives a wider context for understanding what could be considered one of the largest nonviolent protests the world has seen. After more than a year of sustained and concerted effort, the farmers have succeeded in…

Community of Madrid denies treatment to HIV-positive immigrants

The facts Since mid-November we have known that doctors and NGOs are denouncing that the Community of Madrid (CAM) denies or hinders access to HIV treatment to immigrants in an irregular situation who either have just arrived in Spain (having…

Spain’s right wing goes to mass in memory of Franco – coincidentally?

The media and networks in Spain are hyperventilating because Pablo Casado, president of the Spanish Popular Party, has attended a mass with his family in Granada, held in memory of Francisco Franco, the dictator. To objectify it visually, which helps…

Consideraciones clave para el activismo hoy: charla de apertura para una conferencia nocturna sobre resistencia

  Reproducción de la charla que dio Lieven de Cauter [9] en la apertura del acto “una conferencia nocturna sobre el activismo”.   Tenemos que aprender a mirar la historia de los movimientos de protesta como olas u oleadas. Tenemos…

The BBC and the Holy Inquisition 4.0

BBC director Tim Davie, with his intrusive view of impartiality, forbids his journalists from commenting on social media. An iron hand struck the old lady (98), the BBC. Founded in 1922, it will undergo profound changes under the direction of…

When will there be a peaceful Yom Kippur or Eid al-Adha for Palestinians and Israelis?

When will there be a reconciliation between one and the other? When will there be a Yom Kippur יום כיפור of Palestinians and Israelis? That would truly make Israel strong. Yom Kippur is, for Jews, the holiest day on the…