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Dancing the Crisis Away: En Medio Parties in Barcelona’s Unemployment Office

James David Morgan wrote this post at 11:55 am on May 5th, 2009.

Last Thursday at noon, forty revelers invaded Barcelona’s unemployment office.  Members of the Spanish art collective En Medio brought levity to the typically frustrated and forlorn faces of those waiting in line, the victims of capitalism’s latest crisis.

The scene inside En Medio's Crisis Dance Party

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