Spanish revolution- World Revolution against establishmente
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- SGR78
Spreading worldwide.Nothing can stop us now!
http://english.aljazeera.net/new…
- detritus0
It has to be said, the Spanish are very good at being noisy.
- pero mañana..detritus
- That´s it...OBBTKN
- and what about the English?jadrian_uk
- Where are you from, 'jadrian_uk'?detritus
- Luxembourgjadrian_uk
- Where?detritus
- SGR780
The movement is spreading worldwide. Lots of Americans have complained that there is cyber censoring through emails.
Let the world wake up!
- pinkfloyd0
*yawn
- SGR780
*yawn, that defines the problem...
- utopian0
Congrats!
- utopian0
Spain's population is roughly: 45,957,671 people. And about 20,000 people are protesting in Madrid. Sorry, but I would really not categorize this as a revolution. More people show for a Real Madrid soccer match on any given day.
- That's about 5% of the population that's on the dole...not a revolution, they just want to get busy.
ftravieso
- That's about 5% of the population that's on the dole...not a revolution, they just want to get busy.
- SGR780
Utopian, name me the last revolution that started with 45 million people ;) In Iceland it started with one guy, it went through a slower process then this one. Try reading a little bit. It wont hurt :)
- The Arab Spring started with one crispy fruit vendorTheBlueOne
- "a slower process thAn this one"seeessess
- raf0
What are the protests trying to achieve? No, really, can you outline? Is it jobs, freedom, money, holidays, welfare, peace, more socialism, more capitalism, etc?
- <sea_sea
- Anything but the shit that's happening now apparentlyTheBlueOne
- SGR780
Manifesto (English)
We are ordinary people. We are like you: people, who get up every morning to study, work or find a job, people who have family and friends. People, who work hard every day to provide a better future for those around us.
Some of us consider ourselves progressive, others conservative. Some of us are believers, some not. Some of us have clearly defined ideologies, others are apolitical, but we are all concerned and angry about the political, economic, and social outlook which we see around us: corruption among politicians, businessmen, bankers, leaving us helpless, without a voice.
This situation has become normal, a daily suffering, without hope. But if we join forces, we can change it. It’s time to change things, time to build a better society together. Therefore, we strongly argue that:
The priorities of any advanced society must be equality, progress, solidarity, freedom of culture, sustainability and development, welfare and people’s happiness.
These are inalienable truths that we should abide by in our society: the right to housing, employment, culture, health, education, political participation, free personal development, and consumer rights for a healthy and happy life.
The current status of our government and economic system does not take care of these rights, and in many ways is an obstacle to human progress.
Democracy belongs to the people (demos = people, krátos = government) which means that government is made of every one of us. However, in Spain most of the political class does not even listen to us. Politicians should be bringing our voice to the institutions, facilitating the political participation of citizens through direct channels that provide the greatest benefit to the wider society, not to get rich and prosper at our expense, attending only to the dictatorship of major economic powers and holding them in power through a bipartidism headed by the immovable acronym PP & PSOE.
Lust for power and its accumulation in only a few; create inequality, tension and injustice, which leads to violence, which we reject. The obsolete and unnatural economic model fuels the social machinery in a growing spiral that consumes itself by enriching a few and sends into poverty the rest. Until the collapse.
The will and purpose of the current system is the accumulation of money, not regarding efficiency and the welfare of society. Wasting resources, destroying the planet, creating unemployment and unhappy consumers.
Citizens are the gears of a machine designed to enrich a minority which does not regard our needs. We are anonymous, but without us none of this would exist, because we move the world.
If as a society we learn to not trust our future to an abstract economy, which never returns benefits for the most, we can eliminate the abuse that we are all suffering.
We need an ethical revolution. Instead of placing money above human beings, we shall put it back to our service. We are people, not products. I am not a product of what I buy, why I buy and who I buy from.
For all of the above, I am outraged.
I think I can change it.
I think I can help.
I know that together we can.I think I can help.I know that together we can.
- I blame all these riots on the illuminati clips on youtubepinkfloyd
- http://www.qbn.com/t…lol4lyfe
- lol4lyfe0
Politics thread is that way ----->
- SGR780
@pinkfloyd
I've been in this since it started. Working in the Communications Commission of the movements in Madrid. I've worked my ass here along with my job as a designer and illustrator. People of all creeds, ages, classes have joined as to help the people of every country to think, debate and show their disconformity. A worldwide system that doesn't give a damn about the citizens. Who's the iluminati.
I can't believe that such an ignorant person calls himself "pinkfloyd"
- You never heard of the illuminati? Everyone is ignorant :)pinkfloyd
- lowimpakt0
i say bravo to the youth of spain.
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
- raf0
They're putting "housing" and "employment" among basic rights. It is a fallacy. They are nice to have but are privileges not rights, a common misunderstanding.
- ernexbcn0
I hate to agree with what utopian said, you cannot call this a revolution just yet.
With the amount of people unemployed at the moment in Spain (about 5 million people) we could be able fill all the public squares in the country, but the people are careless or not feel motivated to protest just now, they must be watching TV or something, it's maddening!
- raf0
Actually, employment is just an agreement between someone who needs work done and someone who will do it for agreed money on a regular basis—not even a privilege and certainly not a right.