“There’s no doubt the Spanish health care system has gone from being exemplary to become, in just a few years, a source of business for some.
Since the current government took office, we have suffered, in our own “patient” flesh, several attempts of privatization, some of which have gone from mere attempts to a most shocking reality. They have managed to turn Ebola into a nationwide crisis of embarrassing results. The Mareas Blancas (the White Tides) flood the streets of Spanish cities. Our Health Minister resigned due to her involvement in the Gürtel case. A reform for the Abortion Law was almost passed which would have sent women’s rights back to the cave era. On top of this, the free trade agreement with the United States is looming over us while we have to put up with such indecorous comments from our incoming Health Minister as this one: “It makes no sense for a person who enters this country in an irregular way to be treated to health care by the rest of Spanish citizens…”
Well, we all know what is going on. We just have to check domestic news to see what’s up.
For all these reasons, and some others, we decided some days ago to go just outside the Health Ministry and protest with our lights, as usual. So we arranged a display we called Health-care Light.
For our protest, we made use of 200 illuminated feeding syringes with which we injected light and some transparence into the dark, murky atmosphere of the Ministry.
We don’t know how long the intervention lasted for the area was full of police. Poor people, they have to keep the streets clear of undesirable people like us who dare to go against these neoliberal policies that are so beneficial to all the citizens. We know our leaders don’t like it too much when people gather to express disagreement with their ideas but, of course, we are just a bunch of ignorants who don’t really know what is good for us.
Thanks a lot, Diana and Aliencito, for helping us with the display and thanks also to Guitre and Fue, for providing us with the material to carry it out.”