Selection- Inquiry Journal #2

Location: Plaza del Sol

Time: 7:30PM

October 19 

Unstructured Interview with research student- 

While Razi and I were standing in the heart of the protests, a young woman came up to us and she wanted to interview us for her research topic of young people participating in the Total Amnesty protests for the day. She asked if she could record us for her research and we said yes. She asked us one question regarding what we thought of the topic of the protests for today which were primarily the state of Democray as well as people expressing their voices in support for the state of Cataluña. Leaders of protests were arrested and violently responded to in Barcelona and so the chasm between Cataluña and others who believe Cataluña should stay as a part of Spain continued to grow and grow, and the protests in Barcelona found its way to Madrid. 

After she was done interviewing us, I asked her if I could interview her as well for my research topic of Nadie Sin Hogar. As we began talking, I asked her if I could record the conversation as well. Due to the anti- fascists protests as well as the other topics of Cataluña, many people throughout the protests were protecting their identities by covering the rests of their faces from the eyes down. 

Due to many people hiding their identity, the young woman interviewing us didn’t ask our names, ages, or anything relating to our demographics. In return, once I interviewed her, I responded with the same courtesy of not asking her identity and such. 

After we both agreed to recording each other, I began to record our conversation that was an unstructured interview. I didn’t have any questions prepared, instead I asked her questions that were relevant to the current protests as well as the huge problem of undomiciled people and in a sense, they were related due to the current conversation of the protests which were human rights—- and in return, the rate of undomiciled people is a violation of human rights. 

Our conversation is below: 

You live in Madrid, yes? Do you know about the Nadie Sin Hogar movement? If so, what do you think about it? – Vivas en Madrid, Verdad? Sabes sobre de el movimiento se llama Nadie Sin Hogar? Que piensas de el movimiento?

• Spanish:
  • Research student: Si, actualmente en el Estado español hay un problema real con la cuestión de la vivienda hay muchas personas que no tienen acceso a una vivienda digna y muchas caritas siquiera tienen vivienda es algo que no es residual qué es cada vez más general y y entiendo que es un problema de que generan las autoridades porque la verdadera situación este que existen muchos pitos muchas viviendas que hoy en día están vacíos que son propiedad de los bancos que los tienen porque han expulsado a sus inquilinos que no podían pagar la renta o hipoteca que eran realmente abusivas y es una cuestión de práctica de que existen viviendas vacías y personas en casa y reparto de sus espacios para todas las personas y luego además hay otros problemas ligados a las personas que no tienen vivienda qué es el desempleo la falta de servicios sociales y demás y creo que es un problema muy genial que se expresa por eso sabía pero que bueno. 
• English translation: 
  • Yes. Currently in the Spanish State there is a real problem with the issue of housing. There are many people who do not have access to decent housing and many who do not even have housing is something that is not residential and is becoming more general. The authorities generate because the real situation is that there are many apartments, many houses that today are empty that are owned by the banks that have them because they have expelled their tenants who could not pay the rent and other mortgages that were really abusive and is a matter of practice that there are empty homes and people at home and the most normal thing would be that there could be a distribution of these spaces for all people and then there are other problems related to people who do not have housing. There is unemployment and the  lack of social services and others and I think it is a very signal problem. 

Do you think it is a bigger problem of human rights and democracy? – Piensas que hay un gran problema de los derechos humanos y democracia? 

• Spanish: 
  • Research student: Si es un gran problema de los derechos democráticos porque no sé todo el mundo tendría que tener un lugar donde poder dormir para poder desarrollarme como persona como trabajador ciudadanos 
• English translation:
  • People throughout the world need a place to sleep and have a home to then work as a person as a worker as a citizen.

Do you know what happened last week with the people of Nadie Sin Hogar and the violence from the police? – Sabéis que paso la última semana con la gente de Nadie Sin Hogar y la violencia de las policías? 

• Spanish: 
  • Research student: Ver es que en los últimos meses un sector organizado de las personas sin techo habían organizado como acto de protesta una acampada en frente al Ministerio de Asuntos Sociales y con el nuevo cambio de gobierno también la situación se vuelve un poco más virulenta para los que luchamos y el nuevo Gobierno ha decidido desalojar desalojar a esas personas que hay están acampadas sin dar ningún tipo de salida habitacional no hay ningún tipo de opción B para aquellos que viven en la calle. 
• English translation: 
  • See, in the last months an organized sector of the homeless had organized as an act of protest a camp in front of the Ministry of Social Affairs and with the new change of government also the situation becomes a bit more virulent for those of us who fight  and the new government has decided to evict evicting those people who are there are camping without giving any type of housing exit there is no type of option B for those who live in the street. 

In general, like you and your friends and family, do you believe there are a lot of support for the Nadie Sin Hogar movement? – En generalmente, como usted y tus amigos y familia, pienses que hay muchos apoyo para Nadie Sin Hogar? 

• Spanish: 
  • Research student: Es un movimiento que a nivel organizado no tiene una gran tradición porque hay como en los últimos años en España se desarrolló mucho el movimiento en contra de los desahucios qué es un tipo de organización que luchaba para qué es muy lindo que organizativamente mucho más reciente creo que en ese sentido menos visible las personas lo conocemos poco y por ello hay menos apoyo pero que creo que una de las crías tendría que ser que ambos movimientos pudieran tener algún tipo de vínculo
• English: 
  • It is a movement that at the organized level does not have a great tradition because in recent years in Spain the movement against evictions developed a lot which is a type of organization that fought so that people that do not have a home. it is much more recent I think in that less visible sense we know little and therefore there is less support but that I think one of the ways would have to be that both movements could have some  type of link.