We Are Not Puppets of the Bank: Spanish Firefighters Help Block Eviction

Declaring their job is to “serve the public,” not be “puppets of the bank or its servants in the government,” Spanish firefighters joined protesters from Stop Desahucios to halt the eviction of an 85-year-old woman one month behind on her rent. In the wake of demonstrations against hundreds of thousands of eviction orders by banks that have been repeatedly bailed out, firefighters say they reject any action that “contributes to inequalities and miseries suffered by the working class.”

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