Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Dignity and employment even in Spain protest grows in Arab style

In the beginning there was indignation. Now keep in balance the movement of young Spaniards Baby M-15, is the regaining of dignity. The mobilization was triggered with the help of social networks, just along the lines of the Arab Revolt. The first event on Sunday, May 15 which gave its name to the initiatives, he counted fifty cities invaded by young people unemployed, low-paid, insecure contracts and decades of mortgage slaves "says Daphne, a student from Granada.

The tam tam on the network is based on the party platform "Real Democracia Ya", which aims to recapture the policy. But the movement does not want to be just a protest against the parties: "We want to reassemble the civil society - explains Fabio Gandara, a spokesman of the movement, unemployed lawyer - it's time to put aside their personal interests or ideologies to focus on aspects of our society that we compel.

We denounce the lack of real democracy and a tendency towards a bipartisan institution where the level of corruption is outrageous. " After having counted in the square, with 50 000 people in Madrid, at least 15 000 in Barcelona and thousands more in every city mobilized the youth of Real Democracia Ya sat in the main urban centers for the physically mark territory.

"The recovery has to be concrete," say the camp tents built by Catalunya square, the heart of the chief town Catalan. Since last Sunday, negotiating daily with the police to obtain permits, hundreds of boys living in the heart of the square, and debating with passers-by, "Who are you?" Asks an elderly woman who receives a simple answer: "Do not we are represented either by the parties nor trade unions.

We are here as citizens. " Joan, clerk, complains that young people choosing to make a protest against the crisis because "it's like fighting a disaster can be as unpredictable as natural disasters." To answer it forms a knot of demonstrators, and depart after a flurry of surveys, such as, "you know that Joan bank Santander has increased profits by 35% since the start of the crisis?" You know that "Telefonica, one of the leading communications companies, has increased revenue by 30% compared to 2010? "or that" Zapatero is the only president of the European Union to pay for the holidays with public funds? "While there are some people compare available in boxes of food and water, many people take in solidarity with the movement.

At the same time self-financing for the youth of M-15 sells t-shirts and stickers. In Madrid, the center of protest always a camp of tents is the Puerta del Sol, where after clearing a few days ago, on the night of Tuesday, the youth movement are back in force, four thousand people. The intention is for young people to continue the protests in the streets until Sunday, the day of elections.

A protest that does not leave indifferent the political landscape that the Spanish election campaign in full view, is taking the first steps to open the box. First of all the PSOE that in commenting on the protests, claims to understand the discontent but calls on protesters to vote. On the other hand, the PP is rubbing its hands: the M-15 movement, stress exponents of the Conservative Party, is composed of left-wing voters, discouraged by now.

It is therefore a new pool of votes for the PSOE, which is going up in smoke. Cristina Artoni

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