Hazteoir - ‘HO’ to their friends
Hazteoir is a Spanish political movement which basically exists only as a right-wing pressure website. It’s full of petitions which urge the government to do things like ‘Protect the rights of pregnant women’ (i.e. ‘ban abortion’). They apparently turn up at some political events, and have their own banner which proudly proclaims ‘HO’! - Obviously not a logo invented by anyone with a passing knowledge of rap music culture.
Thanks to Graeme at South of Watford for the link.
Last day of posters in the election campaign
Spain is different. The day before each election here is designated a ‘day of reflection’, during which all campaigning is banned. Campaign posters should be removed tomorrow but based on previous experience, some of them will be up for months.
By the way: SyS does not end with this election campaign. If you live in Spain, you’ll already know that many streams of political dialogue are carried out in the streets and on the walls of our towns. SyS will go on and I’ll be adding more content in Spanish and Catalan (who knows, maybe Gallego and Basque too), to encourage non-English-speaking citizens to take part too. Also, I’m working on a post about stickers and their use in political campaigns.
Anyway, here are a few pics from this afternoon in Cerdanyola.
UPyD ‘ID card’ poster
Thanks to Elena for this one!
JERC traffic light poster
This is a poster I’ve seen around a few times. The red light shows a bull (traditionally representing Spain) and the green light, a stylised ‘Estelada’, the flag of Catalan independence.
Thanks to Elena for this one!
Neo-nazi graffiti in Cerdanyola
An ugly sight which unfortunately you can see quite often in the Vallès Occidental:
Note how the symbol started off as a Spanish fascist logo and has since been adapted to an anarchist ‘A’ sign. This is quite a common thing to see as well. I suppose that various groups roam around looking for their opponents’ logos and adapting them.
Catalanist bald-head strategy
I noticed that one road near our house has posters for CiU (conservative Catalan nationalists) on one side of the street and ERC (left-wing republican Catalan nationalists) on the other.
Both candidates, Josep Duran i Lleida of CiU and Joan Ridao of ERC have a degree of baldness (Duran i Lleida) more so, but the designers of the electoral posters decided to approach this in different ways. CiU crops Duran i Lleida’s head, so although you probably already know what he looks like, you still only have the suggestion of baldness. ERC, meanwhile, chose to employ a passport-photograph style format, repeating the bottom of the main photo in a frame above and the top in a frame below, thus offering us two chances to look at Ridao’s head.
To me, there’s no doubt that CiU had the better design on this poster. Even if you don’t care about the bald thing, it’s clear the CiU went for a bolder, stronger picture, while ERC have employed a device (the passport-photo idea) which, apart from anything else, reduces the size of Ridao’s head on the poster itself.
What do you think? Is the baldness even remotely relevant? Do you think it could affect your decision of who to vote for?
Original photos:
PP poster ‘mashup’
Someone took a scalpel and some glue to a PP poster to produce a different campaign message.
Thanks Katie & Julie!
PSOE poster on Gran Via, Madrid
The PSOE has unveiled a huge electoral campaign poster on the side of a building on Gran Via in Madrid. Depicting the ‘front benches’ of the PSOE and the PP, the poster claims to show the differences between the personalities of the two parties. The Socialists, above, look cheerful and relaxed. The PP, meanwhile, appear angry, sullen and lost in thought.
Thanks to Katie at España Profunda for this one.
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Welcome to a new blog from Tom Clarke (thebadrash.com) which is all about the political posters, stickers and graffiti found in Spanish towns and cities. The idea behind the site is to become a repository for electoral and non-electoral campaign material used at all levels, from major political parties to fringe or special interest groups.
As I live in Cerdanyola del Vallès, a suburb of Barcelona, many of the examples I find will be of a particularly local and/or Catalan significance. That’s why I ask anyone who stumbles upon this site and finds it interesting, to send in your pictures (or better still, actual material), so that we can make this collection as complete and varied as possible.
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