[OccupyComms] Fw: [Squares] Spain #F23 reflection: Opening Salvo (by Oscar)

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    Opening Salvo

In #globalrevolution 
<http://spanishrevolution11.wordpress.com/category/globalrevolution/> on 
*24 February 2013* at *10:37*
23F Demonstration in Valencia. Photo via @acampadavlc 
<http://spanishrevolution11.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/130223-valencia-via-acampadavlc.jpg> 


23F Demonstration in Valencia. Photo via @acampadavlc

Dear people,

The start of the revolutionary season has become a success. Yesterday, 
February 23, people all over Spain massively demonstrated against the 
'coup d'état of the markets'.

The date was symbolic. The demos came exactly 32 years after the latest 
attempt of coup d'état. Some of you may remember the pythonesque images 
of army officers storming into parliament without knowing what to do next.

Yesterday, all the different waves have united. Students, teachers, 
miners, doctors, nurses, firefighters, the 15M movement, the platforms 
against mortgage foreclosures, etc. etc.

In Madrid there were over a 100.000 people, in Barcelona over 40.000. In 
every other big city in Spain there have been demonstrations, as well as 
abroad. Solidarity actions were organised in Brussels, London, Paris and 
Amsterdam.

This time, I haven't witnessed it in person. But it has been all the 
more impressive to see the images of the crowds coming in via livestream.

At the Spanish parliament, after the demo, there were speeches by 
representatives of all the waves, and a concert of the Solfonica 
orchestra. All the while, in the crowd, someone walked around with a 
cardboard guillotine...

After the demo there were reports of police firing rubber bullets and 
charging protesters near Atocha railway station. Over thirty people were 
arrested.



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