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Nottingham Supports the Spanish revolution!

tash@indymedia.org (Tash [Alan Lodge]) | 23.05.2011 14:55

Sunday 22 May

At the Green Festival in the Arbouretum, Spanish Students and residence of Nottingham have been promoting the anti-austerity events in Spain.



People will again be gathering in the Market Square, Notttingham tonight [Monday 23rd] at 7.00pm

http://nottingham.indymedia.org/events/1790

 

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As you know, in Spain we have been having many demonstrations since the 15th of May asking for a real democracy instead of the bipartisanship and corruption.

We are not the pawns of politicians and bankers.

There are also many cities in the world which already support us, and now is Nottingham's turn.

From tomorrow on, 22st of may at 12:00 we will meet in Green Festival en el Arboretum, Arboretum Park, Waverley Street...

We will start our revolution, and we are waiting for your support, as citizens of the world. This is a problem that concerns everybody.

Indignez-vous!

Follow us in #acampadanottingham

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pcb2ehsIGmY

Democracia Real Ya: Spain Manifesto

May 22nd, 2011

By Democracia Real Ya:

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.

http://www.thenewsignificance.com/2011/05/22/democracia-real-ya-spain-manifesto/

 

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Indymedia Madrid

http://madrid.indymedia.org/

 

Photo Selection:

A Defiant 'Spanish Revolution'

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/05/a-defiant-spanish-revolution/100070/

 

15May Revolution

https://15mayrevolution.wordpress.com

 

jointhespanishrevolution

http://jointhespanishrevolution.wordpress.com

 

Facebook: Democracia real YA Nottingham

http://www.facebook.com/democraciarealya.nottingham

 

Spanish Revolution

http://www.facebook.com/SpanishRevolution

 

Twitter: acampadanottingham

http://twitter.com/#!/search/acampadanottingham

#spanishrevolution

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ALAN LODGE 

Photographer - Media: One Eye on the Road. Nottingham.  UK

Email:                 tash@indymedia.org

Web:                   http://digitaljournalist.eu

Member of the National Union of Journalists [NUJ]

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"It is not enough to curse the darkness.

                                   It is also necessary to light a lamp!!"

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tash@indymedia.org (Tash [Alan Lodge])
- http://nottingham.indymedia.org.uk/articles/1792