Spanish youth resistance and the world's voices
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It is not only North-Africa, Yemen or Syria.<br />Many young people in Europe are fed up with their actual life situation and are meeting in the streets.<br />They are planning their activities in the web and go meet one-on-one and stay there visibly to establishment.<br /><br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=US&v=oBakrZUgbEE<br /><br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlhxdAAH9uo&feature=relmfu<br /><br />
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<br />http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1642361.php/Spanish-protest-movement-vows-to-fight-on<br /><br /><br />For knowing what's going on in the world of bloggers, this is a must watch site that collects blogs and translates them so that news from around the world don't get lost:<br /><br /><br />[size=14pt]Spanish protest movement vows to fight on[/size]<br />May 30, 2011, 11:23 GMT<br />Madrid - The young people's protest movement that has gripped Spain for two weeks remained<br />defiant on Monday, with protesters vowing to continue occupying squares in several cities.<br />Hundreds of people staying at Madrid's central Puerta del Sol square will remain there for the<br />time being, said a spokesman for the movement, known as M-15 (May 15).<br />Madrid's conservative regional authorities and Puerta del Sol shopkeepers have urged Prime<br />Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's Socialist government to disperse the protest camp.<br />Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said he will discuss eventual measures against the<br />camp with police representatives.<br />Police last week temporarily dispersed a similar protest camp in Barcelona. About 100 protesters<br />were injured in the clashes, which sparked a new wave of sympathy for the M-15 movement.<br />Protesters who have returned to Barcelona's Catalonia Square announced over the weekend that<br />they will stay put at least until Tuesday.<br />Demonstrators in Seville, Valencia, Santiago de Compostela and Bilbao also said they would<br />maintain their camps.<br />However, the protest movement was increasingly moving from central squares to neighbourhood<br />assemblies. In the Madrid region, more than 20,000 people attended around 120 weekend<br />assemblies discussing proposals to improve Spain's political system, according to figures given by<br />organizers.<br />The M-15 movement seeks a reform of Spain's democracy, which it sees as corrupt and as serving<br />the interests of financial markets. The movement was sparked partly in reaction to Spain's 20 per<br />cent jobless rate. Among young people, unemployment exceeds 40 per cent.<br />The movement has already collected more than 250,000 signatures from supporters, according to<br />representatives in Madrid. It has also spread around Europe and Latin America, with about 40,000<br />people attending a rally in the Greek capital Athens over the weekend.<br />In Paris, police dispersed about 1,000 people who had gathered on Bastille Square to protest<br />against unemployment and corruption.
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<br />http://globalvoicesonline.org/<br /><br />One of the remarkable signs of spreading love despite hate:<br />a teacher starting to sing with kids during a shooting in Mexico.<br />http://globalvoicesonline.org/2011/05/28/mexico-teacher-sings-with-students-during-shooting/<br /><br />[size=14pt]This[/size] is needed in the world. bearhug <br /><br /><br />Global Voices is an international community of bloggers who report on blogs and citizen media from around the world.