The camps

It all started as an idea by one of the assistants after the demonstrations were disbanded and the manifest was read. He said something in the lines of "It all begins now, now we have to stay here" (in the Puerta del Sol Square) "and show others our discontent so they can join us".

The camp started after some trouble with the Police as small set of people who held periodic meetings to decide their actions. The idea wasstaying until the ellections or even to an undefined time until things got better. Although the first night was though they kept receiving support and stood up, and eventually more and more people kept joining the camp. The movement also kept getting increasing support from other people on social networks to the point that they decided to call for similar camps in other major cities like Barcelona or Valencia, but around 5 A.M. of the second night they were evicted by Policies following orders of, apparently, the local government which were enforced by the national one. As happened with Sinde's law this eviction, the use of Pacific resistance by the people there, the recording made of how Police tried to evict them and the prosecution that happened to the people in the camp along other streets in the center of Madrid helped light the protesters again which made that the camps in Barcelona and Valencia (which were happening by then) started being taken more seriously by others and more camps started being called.

The news and the videos of the eviction started circulating amongst the people and an activist lawyer (David Bravo) helped by some others made a document and a set of instructions to help people call for their own camps and avoid being lawfully evicted. This helped people to call for even more camps. Also a concentration in Puerta del Sol Square was called for the 17 at 20 to protest against the previous eviction.

And this is mostly all up to today (still need to read some news). There is people who says networks are jammed on Sol's Square, there is lots of people who is concentrating there and on the currently established camps and lots of camps being called for.

EDIT: Pablo attached a link with photos for the press regarding the protests