The eviction, the disappointment, in short, the eviction. Visual material of irregular situations in Spain, this is what we find in the book «To the fucking street«. Stay in this article where you will find very interesting data.
Cristina Fallarás, author of the book.
To the fucking street: Synopsis
In "To the fucking street» Cristina Fallarás, journalist and columnist, tells the story from the stormy day when she was eight months pregnant with her second daughter, she was fired without further ado, from her job as deputy director of DNA, leaving her with one hand in front and the other behind.
But her hell only begins there, which ended after four years, when BBVA sent her to the whore Street.
Summary
In his story he shows us that the dismissal was not the real problem, but rather, that the dismissal is what strips us of our rights and our skin. A crisis that suddenly enveloped Spain and met many people, unfortunately, leaving them without a livelihood.
It is difficult to find a story where we understand what happens when someone suffers from eviction, and it is even more complicated that the people who lived it in the flesh are the ones who tell it. To elaborate this, not only realities and facts are needed, other types of tools are needed.
Cristina Fallarás managed to tell what was happening and what she felt, even on television sets, where she met colleagues who could not believe that her situation was so tragic. Disbelief is a key point «To the fucking street«, is a detailed narration of his experience, highly personal, which delves into loneliness, suffering, anguish, while building an accurate and lucid image of the crisis experienced.
The most important thing apart from who experienced it, was who caused it, who took advantage of it, because we well know that injustice has authors.
The disbelief of those people who could not understand that a renowned journalist and writer had fallen into total poverty, the terrifying side of abandonment. That feeling of someone who not only loses hope, but everything that unites us to the socially usual. Daily activities, such as taking the children to school, friends, work, personal hygiene, meals, short-, medium-, and long-term goals, the family, among others.
All this disintegrates, transforms, disappears. Cristina Fallarás uses a metaphor: The crack. That which separates those who can still support themselves with their lives, even if they lose rights, money, social services; to those who lost everything and find themselves in eviction, expelled from the world, from the other side.
One of the qualities ofto the whore Street", is to help us understand that metaphorical crack. This is something that we can only understand perfectly from the story. From an economic and political point of view, job cuts, strikes and evictions are part of the same phenomenon, a crisis that deteriorates hundreds of lives day after day in various sectors of the population. Taking this analysis as a starting point, we can develop strategies, a collective resistance struggle based on specific tactics.
Fallarás is not only a journalist and writer, she is also a survivor, that is why her narration goes beyond an analysis made from the outside. That is why probablyTo the fucking street» is a success, not only is it a direct criticism of banks and power, but it also helps and accompanies all those who are on the other side of the crack.
At one point in the book, Cristina recounts that she preferred not to go to a demonstration in Madrid even though she planned it, in her words:
“I did not go to the gates of the Congress in Madrid, and I wanted to, because the only thing my children lack is a disabled mother. I didn't go because I wasn't going to stay quiet and still there. How many times have you gone to get the Red Cross family kit? I see a Greek with his head split open. I didn't go to Madrid because so many clubs and fences and so many stupid declarations are fuel for my fury. Not going was the only way I found to avoid physical aggression. Mine, yours."
On the "other side" of the crack, it is so big that it becomes an abyss. When people fall into it, they are plunged into misery, desolation, despair, among many other negative feelings.
Thanks to the talent of Cristina Fallarás who survived the crack, we know of her existence. Thanks to her journalistic precision, we know that there are people, with names and surnames, who, with their power, push us into the crack because their personal benefits are worth more than our lives. We must repress violence before it explodes, but resist with the necessary tools, be resilient.
The story surprises people from the provinces much more than those from the big city. The most common thought among people from small towns or cities is that in big cities everything is much easier, that there are many more opportunities to get ahead.
But the truth is different, there are many just like us, not thousands, but millions, with our same needs, who cling to what they get, and who probably do it better, faster or cheaper than us.
To the fucking street, chronicles of an eviction, is a 160-page book, printed by Editorial Planeta in 2013 and costs approximately 12,90 Euros.
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