Today police has violently evicted the squares taken in Lleida and Barcelona.
Regarding Barcelona:
This morning around 7:00 in the morning the Mossos d'Esquadra (the equivalent of the national police) and the Guardia Urbana (the equivalent of the city police) started surronding the square . Their first request were being given all the crystal bottles and the kitchen material which they started doing. After approximately one hour they started evicting the people without identification plates. Around 10:30 they started firing rubber bullets in an attempt to separate the people. Eventually more and more people has come to the square so police had to retreat being completely swamped by the amount of people there. In the end at least 87 campers were wounded and two detained.
According to the informations I got the reason behind this is that they expected violence since tomorrow Barça is playing a football match.
Some multimedia:
http://twitpic.com/536h4v
http://www.flickr.com/photos/acampadabcnfoto/5765018458/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/acampadabcnfoto/5764476979/in/photostream/
http://twitpic.com/534ban
http://www.e-noticies.tv/canales/actualitat/fills-de-puta-fills-de-puta-12936.html
http://www.e-noticies.tv/canales/actualitat/a-bastonades-12937.html
http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2011/05/26/barcelona/1306440444.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Geg_6Xoy04s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzmTAQVXMqs
http://www.flickr.com/photos/acampadabcnfoto/5764124105/in/photostream/
http://yfrog.com/h85iwkuj
http://twitpic.com/532eaq
http://www.designk.es/acampada/general/barcelona.php
Sources:
http://www.telesurtv.net/secciones/noticias/93398-NN/al-menos-87-heridos-deja-ataque-policial-contra-acampada-del-15-m-en-barcelona/
Regarding Lleida:
Around 7:30 operatives from the Mossos d'Esquadra (the equivalent of the national police) and the Guardia Urbana (the equivalent of the city police) have violently forced the eviction of the square even though the demonstrators have acted peacefully the whole time and opposed only non violent resistance. According to reports there have been various wounded campers and two detained ones.
The camps will try to concentrate again at 20 at Ricard Vinyes square.
On their behalf, the Government Representative on Lleida, Ramon Farré, has stated that the reason behind the policial actuation was public higiene. The city major, Àngel Ros, says undefined demonstrations cannot be tolerated and that there were salubrity and order reasons to act.
Some multimedia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz2W1IRjmcc
http://vimeo.com/24312440
http://vimeo.com/24315318
http://vimeo.com/24315994
Sources:
http://www.adn.es/local/lleida/20110527/NWS-0990-Lleida-detenidos-acampada-desalojo-libertad.html
Friday 27 May 2011
Wednesday 25 May 2011
We close the blog (for now)
When I opened this blog the Camps movement was starting. There were lots of chaos and little information available (specially in languages other than Spanish) so I opened this blog to help people from outside understand what was happening in Spain and why.
As time passed the Camps organized well enough to be able to provide their own info without needing us to summarize and explain it to non spanish people and as a result we left this blog unattended.
Right now I'm trying my best to help coordinate the camp support movement in Göteborg which also means I have a little less time and n0p is also doing his best to help in Murcia's camp so we have little spare time for the blog.
This is just a see you though. We will try out best to explain new things haoppening in Spain regarding the camps that can be hard to understand to non Spanish people and also to answer any questions you leave in the comments. But please don't use us as the only source of information since, right now, there are lots of good sources in English.
As time passed the Camps organized well enough to be able to provide their own info without needing us to summarize and explain it to non spanish people and as a result we left this blog unattended.
Right now I'm trying my best to help coordinate the camp support movement in Göteborg which also means I have a little less time and n0p is also doing his best to help in Murcia's camp so we have little spare time for the blog.
This is just a see you though. We will try out best to explain new things haoppening in Spain regarding the camps that can be hard to understand to non Spanish people and also to answer any questions you leave in the comments. But please don't use us as the only source of information since, right now, there are lots of good sources in English.
Saturday 21 May 2011
Introspection day
So, introspection day came.
Far from leaving the camps, the people is more motivated than ever.
No square or camp has been disbanded by the police, and even they joined the demonstration in many cities or at least expresed for our cause.
It has also been extremely motivational knowing that there are many demonstration all around the world in support of our cause. To all of you out there supporting us or even reading this and making the effort to know about us: THANK YOU!
Friday 20 May 2011
Spanish election board final decision
Hi again, writing from Murcia's camp
We received the final decision from the board is to forbid the demonstrations and the constitutional right for free reunion nation-wide the election day and the prior day. They threatened with high fines.
But, meanwhile the nationwide police labour union released a press note supporting our demonstrations.
There's a mix of hope and fear, but hopes are high as no one remembers a political social movement like this since the transition to democracy in the late 70s
Document: "Spanish revolution: What's going on" by Diana Eguía and Esther Alarcón
n0p: This is a copy of a google doc I saw on twitter a while ago, I am copying it here unedited for the sake of completeness and because the original document is unaccesible at the time of this writing
SPANISH REVOLUTION: What’s going on?
On May 15th more than 50,000 people demonstrated in the streets of 50 cities around Spain under one single slogan: “Real democracy now: we aren’t merchandise in the hands of politicians and bankers”. For the first time since the Spanish Transition, the demonstration is not organized by either political parties or trade unions, but by a platform made of citizens, “Democracia real ya”, (Real Democracy Now).
They have both very well founded complaints—more than 21% of the population is unemployed (40% among the youth), the work situation is unstable, social benefits have been dramatically cut in the last year, and political corruption scandals increase every day— and very specific proposals for change. Not one television channel reported on this mass demonstration, just some newspapers told about what was happening. At the end of the day, the police charged and arrested 25 people, some of them, minors. A small spontaneous group decided to spend the night in Puerta del Sol (in center city Madrid), as a way of protest. Meanwhile, a revolution has taken place on the Internet. #15mani has become third most seen Hashtag in the world’s ranking. A never-ending flux of information has crossed the World Wide Web by means of twitter, YouTube, menéame o periodismo humano, partly because the traditional mass media have, simply, ignored the protest. The next morning, all the political parties attempted to discredit the protest, while the number of demonstrators continued to increase. The Spanish public radio labeled the protesters as young bourgeoisie, thus provoking the anger of a listener, Cristina, calling from Burgos, who dedicated to them a series of eloquent words on live radiocast. Then the morning, at 5 a.m., the national police violently cleared the sit-in, formed by pacific people who answered to the police violence screaming “no to violence, no to violence”. The demonstrators, spread out in the adjacent streets, are beaten by the police, charged with 1,500-euro fines, and dispersed by national and regional police.
PSOE, the party that is currently in power, appropriates the same discourse it had previously attempted to repress and uploads on its website the manifesto that had originated the protests. On 17th May at 8 p.m, Puerta del Sol in Madrid is the stage of a really mass audience that it is still alive in this moment. The number of Spanish cities joining to this protest is increasing; moreover, the Spanish embassy in London as well as in other European cities, such as Vic in France or Bologna in Italy, are beginning their protests, too. Yesterday (05/17/2011), they dismantled another sit-in in Granada violently. Madrid city council installed signal-jammers in order to hold up streaming; in addition, public cameras changed their trip to avoid taking any demonstration images. Only the tv channel Al-Jazeera aired this movement from the beginnign, while the Spanish public television showed Pedro Almodovar’s new movie in Cannes Film Festival today. Democracia real ya is a website where you can find the manifesto, proposals, information about the sit-ins and other relevant news, but for unknown reasons people have not been able to access to it for a long time, until 3 am on May 18th. This evening, Esperanza Aguirre’s electoral committee declared the pacific sit-in in Puerta del Sol illegal, although more than 5,000 people are still there fighting for a Real Democracy Now and surrounded by the police. Aguirre argues the sit-in could be damaging for the municipal elections, which are being held this coming Sunday.
Some website for knowing what is happening in Spain since last Sunday:
On Twitter:
· #spanishrevolution, #acampadasol, #democraciarealya #nolesvotes, #europerevolution, #nonosvamos, #acampadabcn, #yeswecamp, #notenemosmiedo, #juntaelectoralfacts
On Facebook:
Streaming from Madrid:
· http://soltv.tv/
Streaming from Barcelona:
Wikipedia:
On youtube:
· 15th May announcement:
· Video summarizing the May 15th demonstration:
· Police violence on May 15th:
· Police clearing pacific sit-in in Madrid, on May 17th at 5 a.m.:
· 17th May at 8 p.m in Puerta del Sol, Madrid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar2nmOQZEjw&feature=youtu.be
· Spanish writer José Luis Sampedro explaining 15 M (May 15th):
· Cristina from Burgos reply spanish public radio:
One of the people under arrest told police’s abuses:
· http://www.rollingstone.es/noticias/view/con-esos-pantalones-de-maricon-como-vas-a-encontrar-trabajo
Diana Eguía and Esther Alarcón
We are organizing a demonstration on Saturday in Washington Square in New York. http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=149960905074861
If you need more information, please, contact with dianaeguia DONOTSPAM gmail or jescourido DONOTSPAM gmail
n0p: I've redacted the email addresses to avoid spambots :)
The Spanish elections regulation board forbids the demonstrations on Saturday
In Spain, the day before the elections is called the "jornada de reflexión" (introspection day) and it is forbidden for political parties to publish or make anything, to respect the population right to freely decide.
This has been used as a tool to forbid the demonstations on the day prior to the elections. The demonstrators are aguing that they do not belong to any political party and that the demonstrations aren't backed by any political means. The demonstration are asking for a better election system, more participation of people in the government, transparency on the government, the repudiation of corruption and the separation of powers.
Tonight at 20.30 (GMT+1) this matter will be discussed and voted upon by the demonstrators to decide what to do, but I personally think this won't stop tonight, this will continue tomorrow and the Sunday (elections day) with even more people backing us up because of the weekend and the reaction of the political parties on these past days.
Wednesday 18 May 2011
Spanish ex-president compares spanish revolution to arab revolutions
Link
Ex president Felipe Gonzalez compares the ongoing spanish revolution to those recently occured on the arab world. He recommends to all parties to "avoid simplistic explanations and endogamy"
He also remarks that this is a "very interesting phenomena" and compares the "we want to vote" message from the arab revolution to the "voting is useless" spanish protester's message.
He recognizes the people below 35 years are fed up and requests for a permanent political implication, and the situation of "the best prepared generation" not having real chances in its own country.
Interactive map of camps
Here you have an updated interactive map of all camps going on right now on Spain
Some free photos for the media
Pablo Sanchez has passed us yet another link with free photos for the Mass Media regarding the protests in Spain Thanks a lot Pablo!
Summary of the last assembly meeting in Madrid
The last assembly meeting in Puerta del Sol has already ended, here are some of the things that were discussed and approved as reported by one of the assistants @llmhurtado (please bear in mind he is not a spokesperson and is not speaking in the name of the assembly, just sharing what happens there).
The Infrastructure Commission has requested space on the center of the square to allow circulation of food and resources.
The Communication Commission has stated that they won't speak until there is a Manifesto available. They also tried to avoid speaking with a cameraman.
The Infrastructure Commission has commented the need of bathrooms, the lack of material to mount a camp and showed a map about what they are doing.
The assembly has rejected any kind of violence be it verbal or physic violence. They will follow a pacifist nonviolence philosophy.
The Action Comission has proposed painting the lema "La revolución empieza aquí 20h Sol" (Revolution begins here at 20 on Sol) the Legal team has given the go ahead. It was discussed
The Comunication Team is very numerous it is divided in various subcomissions: signage, image, translation, social networks, press and spokespersons.
Press is a delicate thing. By unanimity the original manifest from Sunday is being maintained.
The mobility commission states its goal of interconnecting commissions and helping them cooperate.
Threre will be mobilizations each day at 20 in Sol Square.
Derogation of the labour and retirement reforms, participative democracy and bank rationalization where the approved manifest proposals.
The proposal to change the immigration law has also been passed.
Feeding comission asks for help to be kept. "It is not a feast". They also ask for moderation when drinking.
The Law Commission states they will work towards informing the protesters and that there will be a guard lawyer ready to help the whole day.
The proposal to identify by yellow colour was rejected.
Graffitis on walls are rejected. Only on sheets, paper or the floor (where it is legal according to the law Commission).
Communication Commission insists on giving a image of seriousness avoid alcoholism and provocation at all costs.
There will be a concert by songwriters this Friday after the demostration.
Finally wearing t-shirts with a consign is rejected too.
During the assembly there were lots of cleaning trucks doing lots of noise which made it hard to make the assembly.
The Infrastructure Commission has requested space on the center of the square to allow circulation of food and resources.
The Communication Commission has stated that they won't speak until there is a Manifesto available. They also tried to avoid speaking with a cameraman.
The Infrastructure Commission has commented the need of bathrooms, the lack of material to mount a camp and showed a map about what they are doing.
The assembly has rejected any kind of violence be it verbal or physic violence. They will follow a pacifist nonviolence philosophy.
The Action Comission has proposed painting the lema "La revolución empieza aquí 20h Sol" (Revolution begins here at 20 on Sol) the Legal team has given the go ahead. It was discussed
The Comunication Team is very numerous it is divided in various subcomissions: signage, image, translation, social networks, press and spokespersons.
Press is a delicate thing. By unanimity the original manifest from Sunday is being maintained.
The mobility commission states its goal of interconnecting commissions and helping them cooperate.
Threre will be mobilizations each day at 20 in Sol Square.
Derogation of the labour and retirement reforms, participative democracy and bank rationalization where the approved manifest proposals.
The proposal to change the immigration law has also been passed.
Feeding comission asks for help to be kept. "It is not a feast". They also ask for moderation when drinking.
The Law Commission states they will work towards informing the protesters and that there will be a guard lawyer ready to help the whole day.
The proposal to identify by yellow colour was rejected.
Graffitis on walls are rejected. Only on sheets, paper or the floor (where it is legal according to the law Commission).
Communication Commission insists on giving a image of seriousness avoid alcoholism and provocation at all costs.
There will be a concert by songwriters this Friday after the demostration.
Finally wearing t-shirts with a consign is rejected too.
During the assembly there were lots of cleaning trucks doing lots of noise which made it hard to make the assembly.
In #acampadamurcia a library is being mounted
According to the last reports the protesters in Murcia have mounted a small library to provide entertainment to everybody going to the camp. The current titles are "Si esto es un hombre" of Primo Levi "El arte de la guerra" of Sun Tzu and "El Extranjero" of Albert Camus. If you are from Murcia and want to share a book you are very welcome.
There aren't still photos of the library, but there are some of how the night went:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dgcapel/sets/72157626622177315/
Also a video by @DavidCMeier http://yfrog.com/evsq2mz
There aren't still photos of the library, but there are some of how the night went:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dgcapel/sets/72157626622177315/
Also a video by @DavidCMeier http://yfrog.com/evsq2mz
#acampadaalicante stays
Loos like the people of Alicante is by now passing the night without any major incidents. Some photos:
http://www.juliogorge.com/2011/05/first-night-of-acampadaalicante/
http://yfrog.com/gz7ek5j
http://yfrog.com/h8e274j
http://www.juliogorge.com/2011/05/first-night-of-acampadaalicante/
http://yfrog.com/gz7ek5j
http://yfrog.com/h8e274j
#acampadamalaga is standing too
Looks like the protesters in Málaga have also solved the issues with the police and after some dialogue are keeping the spot.
EDIT: Looks like police has left the place since there is no risk of problems arising.
I'll try to keep you informed!
EDIT: Looks like police has left the place since there is no risk of problems arising.
I'll try to keep you informed!
Barcelona is holding the camp and in an assembly, Madrid is in an assembly
Looks like Barcelona protesters have solved any possibly remaining issues with Police and is going to hold the spot. Last new was they were having an assembly to see what actions they'll take next.
In a similar way the campers in Sol (Madrid) are having an assembly and reorganizing again. If any media wants to contact them they should try medios@spanishrevolution.net
Some random photos posted by the assembly:
http://twitpic.com/4z2yjl
http://twitpic.com/4z334b
I will try to keep you updated, as always help and comments are very welcome.
In a similar way the campers in Sol (Madrid) are having an assembly and reorganizing again. If any media wants to contact them they should try medios@spanishrevolution.net
Some random photos posted by the assembly:
http://twitpic.com/4z2yjl
http://twitpic.com/4z334b
I will try to keep you updated, as always help and comments are very welcome.
Police is currently evicting the people in #acampadagranada
Looks like Police is currently evicting people in Granda. Protesters are acting no violently and as of now police doesn't seems to be abusing their force.
http://lockerz.com/s/102548979
http://lockerz.com/s/102550560
(Photos by Javier F. Barrera).
Various accounts say Police is throwing protesters belongings and supplies to the garbage.
Police has already evicted the last protester in the Council Square in Granada
http://lockerz.com/s/102556860
http://lockerz.com/s/102557689
(Photos by Javier F. Barrera).
Video of the eviction:
http://www.ideal.es/videos/granada/noticias/947763689001-policia-nacional-retiro-indignados-plaza-carmen.html
Seems there have been 2 or 3 detained people after the eviction.
Finally people will concentrate again tomorrow at 20:00
http://lockerz.com/s/102548979
http://lockerz.com/s/102550560
(Photos by Javier F. Barrera).
Various accounts say Police is throwing protesters belongings and supplies to the garbage.
Police has already evicted the last protester in the Council Square in Granada
http://lockerz.com/s/102556860
http://lockerz.com/s/102557689
(Photos by Javier F. Barrera).
Video of the eviction:
http://www.ideal.es/videos/granada/noticias/947763689001-policia-nacional-retiro-indignados-plaza-carmen.html
Seems there have been 2 or 3 detained people after the eviction.
Finally people will concentrate again tomorrow at 20:00
News from Valencia and Granada
A few minutes ago I spoke with a friend coming from the camp in Valencia and another coming from Granada, here are the news.
On Valencia:
There has been a meeting at 20:00 with hundreds of people participating. At 23:00 the meeting was still in session.
The council was passing the cleaning machines each 2 hours trying to cause discomfort and evict the protesters. They just took the thing away waited for the floor to dry and kept the position.
They are trying to coordinate and collaborate with other camps.
They are forming groups to distribute tasks, hopefully they will be informing and fully operative by tomorrow.
On Granada:
They moved from Paseo del Salón to the Council Square around 21:00
A meeting and groups have been formed to coordinate tasks.
A stand to inform outside student has been mounted. Information is being provided in various languages.
Police has asked for the people intentions and have asked for the camp to be dissolved. The answer was that this has to be decided in the assembly.
Police has cornered the protesters and threatened to charge.
EDIT: Police hasn't charged against the people in Granada yet.
On Valencia:
There has been a meeting at 20:00 with hundreds of people participating. At 23:00 the meeting was still in session.
The council was passing the cleaning machines each 2 hours trying to cause discomfort and evict the protesters. They just took the thing away waited for the floor to dry and kept the position.
They are trying to coordinate and collaborate with other camps.
They are forming groups to distribute tasks, hopefully they will be informing and fully operative by tomorrow.
On Granada:
They moved from Paseo del Salón to the Council Square around 21:00
A meeting and groups have been formed to coordinate tasks.
A stand to inform outside student has been mounted. Information is being provided in various languages.
Police has asked for the people intentions and have asked for the camp to be dissolved. The answer was that this has to be decided in the assembly.
Police has cornered the protesters and threatened to charge.
EDIT: Police hasn't charged against the people in Granada yet.
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
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
Tuesday 17 May 2011
The snowball gets bigger
The people in the #nolesvotes movement started stirring people so they didn't vote the parties behind Sinde's law, amongst other things by showing the bad things they kept doing. Amongst the events happening here we have Alex de la Iglesia (director of the Spanish Cinema Academy) resignation after changing his mind regarding the law, thing that happened after some meetings with people from the movement, amongst other things.
The movement started getting bigger and bigger and people started realizing of their discontent so eventually they organized a movement called "¡Democracia Real YA!" (Real Democracy Now) who wrote a manifesto which catched most (if not all) of the causes of the society discomfort and showed that the current way of bipartidary (or turnist as it is called by some of us) of democracy was what allowed these things happening.
This movement called for a set of local demonstrations to be held on May the 15 a week prior to the local elections which counted with a lot of assistance (On Madrid at least 10000 participants were counted). The protest was held very calmly although there were some small issues (which are believed by some to have been helped by Police infiltrates).
The movement started getting bigger and bigger and people started realizing of their discontent so eventually they organized a movement called "¡Democracia Real YA!" (Real Democracy Now) who wrote a manifesto which catched most (if not all) of the causes of the society discomfort and showed that the current way of bipartidary (or turnist as it is called by some of us) of democracy was what allowed these things happening.
This movement called for a set of local demonstrations to be held on May the 15 a week prior to the local elections which counted with a lot of assistance (On Madrid at least 10000 participants were counted). The protest was held very calmly although there were some small issues (which are believed by some to have been helped by Police infiltrates).
The crisis and the measures that were taken
As we know on 2009/2010 the real state bubble that was happening in Spain ended blowing up which mean a serious lack of credibility for many banks and company and banks being more restrictive with money lending.
To save some of the banks a rescue was paid by the government. Although this was a reasonably right winded measure most of the people understood it as something necessary and kept on.
After this mass media started attacking the air traffic controllers after some strikes which affected to many people holidays and tourism. Another right winded measure that was still not felt as so bad. "After all they were hurting our holidays and the toursim!" thought many spanish.
Next attack was against the public workers salaries (by cutting them down). Against thanks to the mass media support this measure wasn't seen as so bad by the people. "Public workers? Bah! They are lazy guys doing nothing but talking and taking coffee, they deserve that!" was the common though.
Meanwhile unemployment was rising. Some EREs (company reestructurations to fire employees) happened and eventually a new law making firing easier (based on the lack of benefit of a company) was passed. There was also little concern as most of the public workers didn't support normal workers (after what happened with them) and most workers didn't go to the protests by fear of losing their employment.
In a similar context another bylaw making the retirement age bigger was passed too, again protests were little since there was heavy mass media attacks to discredit syndicates and fear of being fired.
Finally there was a law known as Sinde's law (which was passed as part of the sustainable economy law or LES) this one put several additions to enforce the copyright rights of which the most critized was the ability of a commission to close web sites based on their infringement of copyright. The problem was that the judge there was left to just accept the decision and the commission had heavy representation by the executive power and none of the judicial power so it was seen by most as a way that could be exploited to close web pages against the executive power.
The main issue here was the fact that the law was passed by both big parties (and a small one) in a very dirty set of conditions (after being rejected a few times for example).
This law affecting most of the Internet citizens was heavily criticized and movement by the Internauts started to happen to oppose to it. Amongst them the #nolesvotes movement which proposed not voting in the next local elections to the three parties who passed the law PP, PSOE and CiU.
To save some of the banks a rescue was paid by the government. Although this was a reasonably right winded measure most of the people understood it as something necessary and kept on.
After this mass media started attacking the air traffic controllers after some strikes which affected to many people holidays and tourism. Another right winded measure that was still not felt as so bad. "After all they were hurting our holidays and the toursim!" thought many spanish.
Next attack was against the public workers salaries (by cutting them down). Against thanks to the mass media support this measure wasn't seen as so bad by the people. "Public workers? Bah! They are lazy guys doing nothing but talking and taking coffee, they deserve that!" was the common though.
Meanwhile unemployment was rising. Some EREs (company reestructurations to fire employees) happened and eventually a new law making firing easier (based on the lack of benefit of a company) was passed. There was also little concern as most of the public workers didn't support normal workers (after what happened with them) and most workers didn't go to the protests by fear of losing their employment.
In a similar context another bylaw making the retirement age bigger was passed too, again protests were little since there was heavy mass media attacks to discredit syndicates and fear of being fired.
Finally there was a law known as Sinde's law (which was passed as part of the sustainable economy law or LES) this one put several additions to enforce the copyright rights of which the most critized was the ability of a commission to close web sites based on their infringement of copyright. The problem was that the judge there was left to just accept the decision and the commission had heavy representation by the executive power and none of the judicial power so it was seen by most as a way that could be exploited to close web pages against the executive power.
The main issue here was the fact that the law was passed by both big parties (and a small one) in a very dirty set of conditions (after being rejected a few times for example).
This law affecting most of the Internet citizens was heavily criticized and movement by the Internauts started to happen to oppose to it. Amongst them the #nolesvotes movement which proposed not voting in the next local elections to the three parties who passed the law PP, PSOE and CiU.
The very beginning
We are going back to the 70s, General Franco had been recently deceased and Spanish people didn't know what would come after him. Maybe a new dictator? Maybe it would be the so beloved democracy? After some political movement the first elections were held and eventually UCD won them. The other strong party PSOE was second and there were some minorities who won some representation.
After this we had some time during which UCD governed the country before it lost lots of popularity and eventually disintegrated in 1982, when PSOE won. Around this time AP (which would later become the PP) was acquired most of the rests from UCD (whilst PSOE acquired most of the others). So we now had two majority parties AP and PSOE and some others too. Even then in 1982 as can be seen there were still various minority parties who had a (now smaller) representation in the power most of them which were left winged ended up forming IU. After this we can then see how various local parties (like CIU, PNV, HB, UV etc) keep some power (a fun effect of the regional D'Hondt system used in Spain) .
On next elections there was and adjusted result (and even less local parties with representation) with the PP eventually winning in 1996 after hard negotiations with the local parties (which led to their increase of power after that). Following the events we see how in 2000's election even less local parties had representation and eventually (with Irak's war involved) in 2004 PSOE won again the elections (and kept power until then).
As a funny fact in 2008 IU had a very small representation though it was supported by a 6% of the voters. This was also an effect of the system existing in Spain.
Also during the PP Government, a law was passed making the city councils the responsible of the management of what could be build in their lands which helped the real state based bubble since majors and smaller bureaucrats were easier to corrupt.
On the Internet side during this time we also had a law passed called LSSICE which made it easier for the government to censure pages of their dislike (amongst other things) although it gave some advantages to the service providers too.
Both laws were kept by the PSOE after it was elected.
After this we had some time during which UCD governed the country before it lost lots of popularity and eventually disintegrated in 1982, when PSOE won. Around this time AP (which would later become the PP) was acquired most of the rests from UCD (whilst PSOE acquired most of the others). So we now had two majority parties AP and PSOE and some others too. Even then in 1982 as can be seen there were still various minority parties who had a (now smaller) representation in the power most of them which were left winged ended up forming IU. After this we can then see how various local parties (like CIU, PNV, HB, UV etc) keep some power (a fun effect of the regional D'Hondt system used in Spain) .
On next elections there was and adjusted result (and even less local parties with representation) with the PP eventually winning in 1996 after hard negotiations with the local parties (which led to their increase of power after that). Following the events we see how in 2000's election even less local parties had representation and eventually (with Irak's war involved) in 2004 PSOE won again the elections (and kept power until then).
As a funny fact in 2008 IU had a very small representation though it was supported by a 6% of the voters. This was also an effect of the system existing in Spain.
Also during the PP Government, a law was passed making the city councils the responsible of the management of what could be build in their lands which helped the real state based bubble since majors and smaller bureaucrats were easier to corrupt.
On the Internet side during this time we also had a law passed called LSSICE which made it easier for the government to censure pages of their dislike (amongst other things) although it gave some advantages to the service providers too.
Both laws were kept by the PSOE after it was elected.
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