Today 70 years ago, on the 26th of april 1937, the basque town of Guernica, a town living its own life away from the civil war at that moment and got  bombed by italian fascists and german nazi troops resulting in hundred deaths.

Farmers got to town to sell their products, as a market day it was, the streets where full of people.

All of the sudden the noise from the planes arrived. It was the German Luftwaffe "Condor Legion" and subordinate Italian Fascist "Corpo Truppe Volontarie".

Guernica, Basque Gernika, and officially Gernika-Lumo since 1983, was a centre of great significance to the Basque people both before, during and after the air raid which made it notorious. Traditionally, the important administrative body, the Biscayne assembly, had met in the town under an oak tree, the Gernikako Arbola, and in more recent years the assembly has continued to meet in Guernica at the Casa de Juntas— house of the historical archive of the Basque Country.

Advances by National troops led by Generalísimo Francisco Franco had eaten into the territory controlled by the Republican Government. The Basque Government, an autonomous regional administrative body formed by Basque nationalists and leftists, sought to defend Biscay and parts of Guipuzcoa with its own Basque army.

Guernica had a nominal population of around five thousand and the town is thought to have housed numerous refugees fleeing into Republican controlled territory. The raid also took place on a Monday, ordinarily a market day in Guernica. Generally speaking a market day would have attracted people from the surrounding areas to Guernica wishing to conduct business.

Gruntufuck mentioned the Azores Photo here is a small gallery.
This comes from the thread on:
 
http://www.woyano.com/view/2115/We-have-never-seen-Iraq-as-part-of-the-war-on-terrorism---Helen-Liddell

Escanda is a collective gathering young people from different countries and working to create alternative ways we live, taking into account renewable energy use to fight global warming and petrol (war) based consumption, better use of resources.

Situated in Asturias (north of the iberian peninsula between Galicia and Cantabria) the collective made an agreement with a local foundation to be able to use the site and develop their projects.

ESCANDA IS A SELF ORGANISED COLLECTIVE

Decisions are taken by consensus on a weekly assembly and the project gets shaped and defined once a year. It is possible to form part of the project as long as the group accepts you in after a trial period. Visiting it is also possible for a couple of weeks. No fee is required but donations are highly welcome (maybe woyano could add this project to foundable organisations :-)), and of course, visitors must participate in all the tasks in the house and collaborate with the projects.

WORKSHOPS AND GATHERINGS

Soon a workshop will be organised to teach people how to adapt their diesel engine in order to consume only vegetable oil.

There is an organic garden that is used mainly to cover the needs of the members and visitors.
Escanda aims at soustainable living although this is a difficult thing still in today's society. An other number of iniciatives for a freer world are happening there:
- gatherings on gender, queer theory, women, popular education, renewable energies, free independent media
- infonights on different issues: movements for social justice and protests around the globe, queer theory, social economy, is it possible to build alternatives to capitalism?
- Open days for visits

Escanda is also part of WWOOF (World-Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms (also known as Willing Workers on Organic Farms)) and dozes of wwoof volunteers also known as "Wwoofers" visit the site specially over the summer.

Here we can find how an alternative is tried to be built thanks to good work from their members and gaining more and more legitimacy
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Escanda Website

Hello everybody

Sorry for my short and brief presentation. I did not want to be rude but I was looking for a different feature and fell here, as it seems to be a nice atmosphere here at woyano I decide to stay. Thanks to those who got in touch with me.

OK Presentation. I am 33 years old male, from the basque country, I work on a radio station and I do some webdesign, at uni I studied Chemistry till PhD., but left it behind.

I have been living in england for 4 years.

My hobbies, are walking, riding on bike, see good movies, and belong to a group on humanist psicology where I learn a lot about human behavior and myself.

I hope this pleases those curious to know who I am.

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