Overview
- After roughly one month in Puerta del Sol, camp participants have started removing tents from commercial streets such as Arenal and Preciados as the movement prepares a planned, consensual 'desacampada'.
- Camp assemblies are drafting a common manifesto to guide a phased exit that aims to keep pressure on housing policy by shifting mobilization into neighbourhoods and workplaces.
- Organizers remain split over whether to keep a visible occupation through the Nov. 11 general strike or to disperse early to focus on strike organization from the barrios.
- Authorities have kept legal and administrative pressure on the encampment, with the Comunidad de Madrid seeking eviction at the TSJM and a temporary closure of Sol metro cited for sanitation concerns.
- The protest, sparked by the eviction and later death of 87‑year‑old Maricarmen, has grown into a self‑organized settlement with committees and cultural spaces and is now testing whether mass visibility in Sol or decentralized neighbourhood work will better secure long‑term housing gains.