No Job Land: a bleak reminder of Spain's unemployment crisis

[umbertino]

No Job Land video a poignant reminder of the economic difficulties many families are suffering in Spain

 

 

By Fiona Govan

11:29AM GMT 20 Dec 2013

 

 

 

 

A video highlighting the plight of Spain’s unemployed is spreading across social networks and fast becoming the antidote to cheesy Christmas adverts that promote consumer spending.

 

The seven-minute clip follows the journey of three unemployed families in a suburb of Madrid over last the summer as they face the prospect of continued joblessness and become involved in a local protest movement.

 

Titled No Job Land, the video by three young freelance journalists based in Madrid has been shared on social network platforms thousands of times since being published a week ago.

 

In the opening scene Fernando Mora, 44, an unemployed carpenter, explains how all four adults in his family are unemployed and having to not survive on handouts after their benefits were cut.

 

Another father of two young children, unemployed welder Enrique Gonzalez, 37, complains that he and his wife are struggling to meet mortgage payments of 905 euros a month plus bills after receiving monthly benefits of 820 euros.

 

 

The video includes a clip of Mariano Rajoy, the Spanish Prime Minister making a speech in which he insists the worst of the economic crisis is over. “Dear friends, this year will be better than last but worse than the following, and pessimism is in retreat in our nation.”

 

His words are interspersed with images of people sleeping in the streets and scavenging from rubbish bins.

 

Spain’s unemployment rate currently stands at 26 per cent with nearly six million of the workforce looking for jobs. The rate rises to a staggering 55 per cent of people aged 16-25 who are currently out of work.

 

 

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/10530021/No-Job-Land-a-bleak-reminder-of-Spains-unemployment-crisis.html

 

[nowhammies]

So what are you going to do about this travesty?

[umbertino]

So what are you going to do about this travesty?

If you are asking me... Not much.. I don't live in Spain.