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WORD: WE'LL TRY AND FORWARD MORE INFO IN ENGLISH AS IT COMES OR
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<div style="margin: 0px; font: 12px Helvetica;">about on SPAIN:</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font: 12px Helvetica;">The Movement of the
'outraged'</div>
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#spanishrevolution</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font: 12px Helvetica;"> It is really
impressive what's going on in Spanish main plazas right now.
Just two weeks ago there were these 'calls' to do marches on the
15th of May: "TOMA LA CALLE" (take the street) with no organizing
signature. We saw the flyers a while back and sort of marked it
off, it was totally unclear who or what was pushing for it but it
sounded legit: mainly a critic of the political system and their
management of the crisis. As the time got closer there was a lot
of buzz (talk of a new generation of mobilizing beyond
organizations, crisis of two party system, fed up with 40% youth
unemployment, etc...). On the 15th we went to the march locally
in Zaragoza- which was lively, and sizeable, mostly noteworthy
because it seemed to 'come from nowhere' or from no one...Up to
that point no big deal. We left for a work trip, and missed the
first week- which apparently started with a plaza sit-in, eviction
and then a massive country-wide (and beyond) response. We found
out about it because it made the front page of the Herald Tribune
and people were reading those news in Amsterdam. </div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font: 12px Helvetica;">Some of the keywords
are: direct democracy and precarity, but the overarching term that
has coined the name of the movement is "el movimiento de los
indignad@s" (outraged) the term inspired in the 30-page book with
a similar title by Stephane Hessel (Time for Outrage in English),
just released in Spain and top-seller in France, is a call of
attention to overcome indifference and engage in active response
against the current state of things: <a rel="nofollow"
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf1RGoHOJ_M"
target="_blank">http://www.youtube.<wbr>com/watch?v=zf1RGoHOJ_M</a></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font: 12px Helvetica;">The call for 'real
democracy' has made explicit connections with the revolts in the
arab world and actually Tahrir plaza of El Cairo is taken as an
inspiring reference for the movement. </div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font: 12px Helvetica;">Every city in Spain
(all provincial capitals and some others) have tent cities set-up,
and they've been going for two weeks now. Since we got back we've
been going to ours in Zaragoza where the tents are being added to
everyday. There are assemblies, workshops and actions daily,
almost continuously- and this is repeating itself all over the
country. There is an update calendar in-situ and on-line for
every specific sit-in where you can check the activities for a
week: </div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font: 12px Helvetica;">9am yoga</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font: 12px Helvetica;">10am legal info</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font: 12px Helvetica;">12am workshop on
civil disobedience</div>
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2pm lunch </div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font: 12px Helvetica;">5pm kid's activities
(including assemblies for children)</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font: 12px Helvetica;">7pm protest action</div>
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8pm political assambly</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font: 12px Helvetica;">11pm logistical
meeting</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font: 12px Helvetica;">Its mostly youth,
mostly 'nationals' (as in the migrant presence is limited it seems
thus far) but it is massive. It has to be kept in mind that the
squatting of the plazas was ocurring during municipal and regional
elections (May 22)- thus in and of itslef doing public acts like
that is a form of civil disobedience (it is illegal to do
'political acts' the day before and election). While there are a
lot of question marks as to what happens now after the elections,
thus far, one week after and counting, its still going strong with
actions diversifying. They have space for kids here in zgz, and
they put together "asambleas infantiles" so we are enjoying that
part too : )</div>
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On May 27 , the police tried to evict plaza Catalunya in
Barcelona (eviction attempts also occurred in two other Catalan
citites), the repression and the video-taped conversations among
the police were so intense that the response in solidarity was
country-wide: caceroladas in every plaza (inspired by the
argentine political repertoire of banging pats and pots during
dictatorships and economic crisis). </div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font: 12px Helvetica;">15 days after the
first sit-in there has been a call to make a symbolic and
generalized action calling attention to the involvement of banks
in the crisis and the power of response by the population:
withdrawing 150Euros from the ATMs</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font: 12px Helvetica;">Our friend Liz
together with others are translating texts into English:</div>
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168);">
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a rel="nofollow"
href="http://www.edu-factory.org/wp/spanishrevolution/"
target="_blank">http://www.edu-factory.org/wp/<wbr>spanishrevolution/</a></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font: 12px Helvetica;">Please spread the
word!! Its very inspiring, people randomly walking by and
intermignling with big assemblies in the street, kids messing
around in protest play areas, people commenting and conversing in
the street, the energy of a tense protest ebbing and waving,
moving. We shouldn't over romanticize, there definitely things
to point out, improve, etc. but its is impressive and very
generalized.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font: 12px Helvetica;">MAP of the camps-
including international solidarity camps:</div>
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168);"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a rel="nofollow"
href="http://www.ikimap.com/map/2CYF" target="_blank">http://www.ikimap.com/map/2CYF</a></span><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><wbr>.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font: 12px Helvetica;">General website
"take the plaza", including links to specific cities and
reflections:</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font: 12px Helvetica;"><a rel="nofollow"
href="http://tomalaplaza.net/" target="_blank">http://tomalaplaza.net</a> </div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font: 12px Helvetica;">Camp in Zaragoza
& a few of our pictures</div>
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<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a rel="nofollow"
href="http://www.acampadazgz.org/" target="_blank">http://www.acampadazgz.org/</a></span></div>
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168);"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a rel="nofollow"
href="http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/3149011/1/acampada%20zgz?h=ccb06a"
target="_blank">http://www.dropbox.com/<wbr>gallery/3149011/1/acampada%<wbr>20zgz?h=ccb06a</a></span></div>
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