Intercepted Transmissions

This Wednesday, I published the first in a series of articles touching on Barcelona's history of civil disobedience, anarchy, and full on dissent against the forces of oppression that have helped to shape the political and cultural "mind" of the city. The series will be appearing at the ultra cool (and very new) ChilliPaprika.com, a new Politics, Art & Culture magazine. 

To learn more about ChilliPaprika, visit them here. 


Here's a little snippet from the article... 


Barcelona: the Revolutionary City

Part One - La Canadenca 

Barcelona’s El Poble-sec barrio sits in the shadow of Montjuic, a large coastal mountain that dominates the skyline when looking southeast toward the Mediterranean Sea. The neighbourhood, whose name means “the dry village” in Catalan, was one of the first new areas developed during the city’s 19^th century expansion, predating the vast Eixample district, which now makes up Barcelona’s central core. The barrio is divided from the neighbouring Sant Antoni area by the famous Avignuda del Paral-lel, a wide street that descends from Placa Espanya, separating the dry village from the city’s other barrios before bleeding out into the port areas at the foot of Las Ramblas... 
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You can also find me posting, not nearly as often as I would like, over at London Progressive Journal, a non-partisan journal of the left. You can devour all sorts of interesting pieces from a wide spectrum of talented writers and, for some reason, me right there with them. 

Now off you go and read.