SCN: Madrid's HiTech Shanty Town

[Brian High]

Madrid's HiTech Shanty Town

Posted by michael on Saturday June 02, @11:04AM
from the hey-buddy-can-you-spare-some-watts? dept.

Alien54 writes: "As reported in CNN, a hi-tech shanty town has arisen 
in Madrid, Spain, complete with pirated utilities and computer access. 
Known locally as El Campamento de Esperanza (The Camp of Hope), it is 
now a village of about 1,200 inhabitants, with libraries, bars, hot 
showers and cafeterias serving daily meals. They are skilled engineers 
and technicians, formerly employed by Sintel Telecommunications, a 
Spanish telecom company that filed for bankruptcy protection in 2000. 
With a mixture of ingenuity and tenacity, the workers have transformed 
their claim to $10 million in unpaid wages and refusal to accept 
forced resignations into a national issue, by squatting on the 
property where they used to work." Such a thing could never exist in 
the U.S. for longer than it took to load up the tear gas grenade 
launchers. 
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