{"id":776,"date":"2012-07-11T13:52:42","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T11:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/?p=776"},"modified":"2012-07-11T13:52:42","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T11:52:42","slug":"the-spanish-miners-black-march-reaches-madrid-by-francois-leclerc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/2012\/07\/11\/the-spanish-miners-black-march-reaches-madrid-by-francois-leclerc\/","title":{"rendered":"<b>THE SPANISH MINERS\u2019 \u2018BLACK MARCH\u2019 REACHES MADRID<\/b>, by Fran\u00e7ois Leclerc"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Guest post. Translated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog\/?p=39290\" target=\"_blank\">from the French<\/a> by Tim Gupwell<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ccaa.elpais.com\/ccaa\/imagenes\/2012\/07\/10\/album\/1341935494_039495_1341960711_album_normal.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/> (Copyright Uly Martin)<\/p>\n<p>In their hundreds, the \u2018black march\u2019 of the miners, who have come on foot from the North of Spain, has reached Puerta del Sol, where it was welcomed by thousands of Madrid residents. On strike since last May, they are fighting to prevent their mines from being closed as a result of cuts in government subsidies, something which would result in the devastation of coal basins in the Asturias, Leon and Aragon regions. Passing before Moncloa Palace, Mariano Rajoy\u2019s residence, they chanted \u201cWe are miners, not terrorists\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Guest post. Translated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog\/?p=39290\" target=\"_blank\">from the French<\/a> by Tim Gupwell<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ccaa.elpais.com\/ccaa\/imagenes\/2012\/07\/10\/album\/1341935494_039495_1341960711_album_normal.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/> (Copyright Uly Martin)<\/p>\n<p>In their hundreds, the \u2018black march\u2019 of the miners, who have come on foot from the North of Spain, has reached Puerta del Sol, where it was welcomed by thousands of Madrid residents. On strike since last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-protest-movements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":789,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions\/789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}