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Furious protesters in a popular Spanish city are demanding access to affordable housing and an end to the touristification of their city. A rally attended by tens of thousands of people was held a week ago in Valencia under the slogan “Valencia is drowning” (València s’ofega). Organisers want the city to be declared a stressed […]
On 18 May 1871, Chicago attorney J.W. Boyden sat down to pen a letter for illiterate Irish emigrant Jane Murphy. “She is in my office today,” he began, “debilitated by having borne 13 children, by prolapsus uteri, and by a 6-inch tumour on back of her neck; and in tears, having walked four miles, from […]