Live-Blog: Proteste in Spanien, 18.05.11 [UPDATE]

18.05.2011

Seit dem 15. Mai 2011 gehen die Menschen in vielen Städten Spaniens auf die Straße, um gegen die soziale Ungerechtigkeit und hohe Arbeitslosigkeit zu protestieren. Die Meldungen im Live-Blog [aktualisieren]:

+++ Hier geht’s weiter am Donnerstag +++

23:59 Uhr: Menschenmengen auch in Barcelona: Foto

22:40 Uhr: Neue “Protest-Map” aus Madrid: Google

20:30 Uhr: Dieser Flyer macht die Runde: “Todos A Una, Por Fin”

20:00 Uhr: Neuer Livestream aus Barcelona: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/acampadabarcelona

18:55 Uhr: Democracia real YA hat inzwischen mehr als 108.000 Unterstützer auf Facebook.

18:45 Uhr: ZEIT berichtet: Spaniens Frustrierte begehren auf

18:28 Uhr: Erinnerung: Für 20 Uhr wurde in allen spanischen Städten zu Demonstrationen aufgerufen.

17:26 Uhr: Das Fotoalbum zu den Protesten: Spanish Revolution auf Flickr.

17:00 Uhr: Videos, Protest-Map und Audio-Interview bei on3 (br): #spanishrevolution – Und alle so Revolution!

15:55 Uhr: Langsam kommen nun auch die Berichte der großen Nachrichtenagenturen. Reuters berichtet: Junge Spanier demonstrieren gegen Sparprogramm

15:29 Uhr: Neuer Artikel bei BFP: Spanien: Tausende demonstrieren im “Campa Da Sol” in Madrid

14:30 Uhr: BBC berichtet in einem kurzen Artikel über die Proteste: Spanish youth rally in Madrid echoes Egypt protests

13:17 Uhr: Das Thema wird weiterhin kaum von den Medien aufgenommen; Google News.

12:30 Uhr: Neues Videomaterial von Dienstag aus Madrid:

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12:10 Uhr: Democracia real YA hat inzwischen mehr als 90.000 Unterstützer auf Facebook.

12:00 Uhr: Weiteres Videomaterial von Dienstag aus Madrid:

11:30 Uhr: Es wird aufgerufen zu Protesten in allen spanischen Städten um 20:00 Uhr (@rafaelwv)

10:57 Uhr: Meedia berichtet über “Spanien und die Blindheit der Medien“.

10:47 Uhr: Spanishrevolution Video-Streaming-Site: http://www.spanishrevolution.eu/

09:00 Uhr: Noch ein Video von Dienstag in Madrid:

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08:00 Uhr: Eine Übersetzung des Manifests ins Deutsche bei Metronaut.

07:40 Uhr: Das Manifest von “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.I think I can help.

I know that together we can.