"Burn the colonial order" - Anti-racist movement protest against colonial symbols in Madrid
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1562796
"Burn the colonial order" - Anti-racist movement protest against colonial symbols in Madrid
- Title: "Burn the colonial order" - Anti-racist movement protest against colonial symbols in Madrid
- Date: 17th July 2020
- Summary: MADRID, SPAIN (JULY 17, 2020) (REUTERS) PROTESTERS WEARING TRAFFIC VESTS RUNNING DOWN TO CUT OFF ROAD DISGUISE OF LATIN AMERICAN LLAMA PROTESTERS UNDER DISGUISE OF LLAMA CROSSING CUT ROAD VARIOUS OF TRAFFIC CUT PROTESTERS HOLDING SIGNS CHANTING IN SPANISH "Burn the colonial order" UNDER CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS STATUE PROTESTER UNDER CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS STATUE HANDLING BANNER SPANISH FLAG WAVING / SMOKE COMING FROM UNDER STATUE PROTESTERS WITH SIGNS / BANNER READING IN SPANISH "Burn the colonial order" HANGING FROM STATUE COLUMBUS STATUE AND SMOKE PROTESTER WITH DRUM BANNER READING IN SPANISH "Burn the colonial order" HANGING FROM STATUE / WATER REFLECTION RED PAINT IN WATER PROTESTERS HOLDING INDIGENOUS FLAGS AND BANNERS IN FRONT OF COLUMBUS STATUE (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) PROTESTER FROM COLOMBIA, CAMILA, SAYING: "Today we came here to represent the migrant population living in Spain. Each time we have less rights and the migration laws don't treat us as Spanish citizens when we are. So we came here to Columbus square, which is a square that represents the colonization which we consider a genocide." (SOUNBITE) (Spanish) PROTESTER NELIDA SAYING: "Amongst other things, the removal of all the colonial symbols. Mainly October 12 as a militarized day, of the imposition of the Spanish empire over our native cultures." PROTESTER WITH DISGUISE MASK LIFTING ARM VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS HOLDING SIGNS AND WAVING INDIGENOUS FLAGS SIGN IN FORM OF COFFIN READING (Spanish) "Indigenous lives matter" VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS CHANTING SLOGANS TRAFFIC JAM AND PROTEST / SPANISH FLAG
- Embargoed: 31st July 2020 21:26
- Keywords: Christopher Columbus square in Madrid Spain global race protests police traffic
- Location: MADRID, SPAIN
- City: MADRID, SPAIN
- Country: Spain
- Topics: Race Relations / Ethnic Issues,Society/Social Issues
- Reuters ID: LVA001CN78I13
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Members of Madrid's anti-racist movement staged a protest on Friday (July 17) at Christopher Columbus square in the Spanish capital against colonial symbols.
Wearing wigs, masks and holding banners, dozens of protesters under the disguise of the Latin America llama stopped the traffic of Madrid's main boulevard of la Castellana and hung a banner reading "Burn the colonial order".
Anti-racism protests across the United States and around the world had taken place following the death of African American George Floyd on May 25 in Minneapolis police custody.
Several statues of Columbus have been removed across the United States in recent weeks, along with monuments honouring those who fought for the South in the U.S. Civil War.
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