[OccupyComms] Fwd: [rdwg] Manifesto for anti-government rally in Madrid S25

[Mark Barrett]

FYI posted at
http://www.peoplesassemblies.org/2012/09/manifesto-25s-ocupa-el-congreso/

On 24 September 2012 16:30, <paul.feldman at talktalk.net> wrote:

> **
> *
> Manifesto #25s surround the Congress
>   We, ordinary people are fed up to live with the consequences of a
> system conditioned by and forced to adapt itself to the markets, which is
> in every respect insupportable, and has led us to be victims of a large
> scale scam which has caused this crisis. We unify in order to edit this
> manifesto. We invite every citizen to unify themselves with the claims we
> are making in this manifesto.
>   We perceive that the current situation has exceed all tolerable limits
> and that we are victims of an attack without former precedents from the
> side of economical powers, who are using the crisis as an excuse. This is
> ruining our lives and those to blame are them who present themselves as an
> untouchable oligarchy. This with the complicity of all political forces
> represented in the parliament, who are manipulating the powers of the State
> by maintaining their privileges and excessive and illegitimate enrichment.
>  There is no way to hide that we live in a gigantic social fraud, with
> governments systematically betraying us by doing exactly the opposite as
> promised in their electoral statements, just as there isn’t any justice in
> the tribunals against bankers, politicians and business men who are guilty
> of the current situation. We just have to look in order to see how this
> structure of vicious and immoral power creates policies that end our rights
> and destroy our lives, and in order to see how we are victims of an unfair
> repression when demanding a change of the situation.
>   We believe that the problem is of such a big seize and the roots such
> profound that any solution will not be founded in reforms based in the
> actual political system. Therefore we demand:
>   – The dismissal of the entire government, as well as the dismissal of
> the Court and the Leadership of the State, because of betraying the country
> and the whole community of citizens. This was done in premeditation and is
> leading us to the disaster.
>   – The beginning of a constitutional process in a transparent and
> democratic way, with the goal of composing a new Constitution. We want to
> do this with the participation of the whole community of citizens, in such
> a way that the result will be their own, because we don’t recognize any
> democratic character in the actual constitution and laws. On the contrary
> these are drawn by a selected group behind the people’s back and confirm
> the domination of the heirs of the Franquismo era (the period during
> dictator Franco ruled) and those agreeing with them. It has to be the
> people who determine the model of social organization in whom they desire
> to live – not the opposite way.
>   – The audit and control of the public debt of Spain, with moratorium
> (delay) of debt’s payment until there is a clear demarcation of the parts
> which not have to be paid by the nation, because they have been served
> private interests using the country for their own goals, instead the well
> being of the whole Spanish community. Equally we demand the prosecution of
> all this persons who show and present themselves as suspicious of such
> moves, and we demand that they guarantee and pay with their own goods in
> the case they appear to be guilty.
>   – The reform of the electoral law, with the design of a new electoral
> process, in order to really represent the people’s will before any election
> which will be necessary to supply the development of a constitutional
> process of democracy.
>   – The immediate abolition of all cuts and all reforms taken against the
> well fare state with the excuse of the crisis, which set up limits to the
> population’s rights and freedoms, not only because they mean a disaster for
> the country, but also because they have been consisting out of taxes
> betraying the will of the people.
>   – A profound tax reform, which is making to pay more by those gaining
> more benefits of society. We equally demand the abolition of the fiscal
> amnesty ordered by the government, since these injustice is a real mockery
> for those who pay honestly.
>   – The abolition of all the privileges of those holding a political or
> public position, and the introduction of efficient mechanisms controlling
> the performance of those positions.
>   – The immediate paralysis of all forced evictions (forced leaving of
> homes), and to put at the population’s disposal those houses belonging to
> the banks and companies who have been helped by public funds.
>   – The creation of new jobs, which first premise will be the
> sustainability, and whose goal will be the development of humanity, as well
> as a form of management appropriate and adapted to the disposable jobs such
> that populations can work in order to live – instead of being forced to
> live in order to work. It is a tremendous hoax when over and over saying we
> have to work more, a fallacy supported by the greed of the big interests
> but contrary to the interests of the ordinary people.
>   For all this above explained we make a call to the population on the 25
> of September 2012 to manifest in an undefined form at the gates of the
> Congress in order to obtain the dismissal of the Government and to make the
> beginning of a Constitutional Process, by making this call of unification
> of all the fights, strives and wrestling for a more fair Society.
>   We are the overwhelming majority, we are the people, we are right, we
> will not tolerate this and we will not be walked all over
> *
>



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