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).

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