19 may 2011

Spain takes the streets claiming for TRUE DEMOCRACY



Many thousands of citizens, specially young people, angry over high unemployment, institutional corruption and the lack of authentic Democracy have spent the night camping in a famous square in Madrid as a political protest there grows all over Spain.

A big canvas roof was stretched across Puerta del Sol square, protesters brought mattresses and sleeping bags and volunteers distributed food.

The nature of the peaceful protest, including Twitter messages to alert supporters, echoed the pro-democracy rallies that revolutionised Egypt.

Protests began on Sunday the 15th May in 60 cities of Spain, with a record 1,500.000 protesting.

On the first evening, police dispersed the protesters, but on Tuesday they let them stay overnight.

Spain's 21.3% unemployment rate is the highest in the EU - a record 4.9 million are jobless, many of them young people.

Spanish media say the protesters are attacking the country's political establishment with slogans such as "violence is earning 600 euros", "if you don't let us dream we won't let you sleep" and "the guilty ones should pay for the crisis".

The atmosphere in the square has been quite festive, with the crowd singing songs, playing games and debating.

They are demanding jobs, better living standards and a fairer system of democracy.

... more information in Habeas-Corpus.net

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