Francisca "Paca" Blanco Díaz (born 13 February 1949) is a Spanish feminist, environmentalist, anti-fascist, anti-nuclear, anti-capitalist and pensioner. She was one of the founders of Ecologists in Action and is part of the Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca, amongst others.
Biography
Francisca Blanco Díaz was born in
Madrid
Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ...
on 13 February 1949. Her father was a Republican political prisoner who was in a
concentration camp
A concentration camp is a prison or other facility used for the internment of political prisoners or politically targeted demographics, such as members of national or ethnic minority groups, on the grounds of national security, or for exploitati ...
almost until he died. When he died, she was 16. She graduated from school when she was already the mother of 5 children. For her, life is a university that teaches those who want to learn and she read a lot. In her youth, she went looking for forbidden books by
Karl Marx
Karl Marx (; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, political theorist, economist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. He is best-known for the 1848 pamphlet '' The Communist Manifesto'' (written with Friedrich Engels) ...
Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels ( ;"Engels" ''Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary''. having to work as much as she could, without looking at the quality of the work because she had to support her children.